Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-11-17
THE WAR IN EUROPE
News Paragraphs Telling Of Happen
ings at the Front.

Thousands Of Belgian refugees in
| England, and hundreds or Woundeu
| Delslan soldiers pelng treated in Eng
| usn and french hospitals, on saturday
| enthusiastically celebrated the tete
uay OF hlng albert, who with Queen
! Elizabeth, remains with the Belgian
| army. high mass was celebrated IN
westminster Abbey, London, Sunday,
III nonor OF the occasion. More tnan
5000 people attended the service
among them being three children or
the belgian king.
british cruisers thought to be the
suffolk, Berwick ana Lancaster are
| lyIng off Colon with the possible in
tentlon Of passing through the Pana-
ma canal to join the japanese squa-
aron OFF the west coast Of South
America.
A Basel, Switzerland dispatch says
| the German emperor whose move
ments OIL late have peen somewhat elu-
| sIve, appeared on Friday, at koimar,
forty miles southwest Of Strassburg.
Lieutenant Mors, a German onIcer,
has been sentenced to lite imprison-
ment at Alexandria, Egypt, following
court martial on charge of espion-
age At his trial Mors is alleged to
have confessed that his business was
TO blow up a snip in the Suez canal
and thus block the canal for trans
portation, and that he was to receive
$4,000 for the feat.
1t is stated from Brussels that 26
trains, filled with German cavalry,
passed through that city last week, en-
route to the Russian frontier.
A traveller arriving at San Francis
co, states that $4,000 troops, conveyed
by fourteen cruisers, sailed from Aus
tralian ports on October "a. Their
destination was given as Egypt
The crown prince Of Germany Is to
be commander-in-chiefo Of the German
armies now battling with the Rus
slams.
Cholera Is said to be steadily in
creasing in Vienna. AS many as twen-
ty-nine new cases were reported in
one day last week.
The Russki Invalid, the newspaper
organ of the Russian ministry of war.
predicts that operations against Aus
tria will be completed before winter
sets in. 1t considers the German cam
paign as more serious, and says that
final success may not come before
next summer.
A correspondent sends the following
from Belgium: THE character Of the
fighting in Flanders does not permit OF
detailed description. There is moth
ing to reveal in the way Of heroic
charges by cavalry, dashing bayonet
charges or rapid counter-movements
by infantry in mass Such things are
not happening just now. What is hap
pening is bowling gale shrieking
across the dunes and swirling up the
sands into binding clouds and tearing
across the fiat marshlands as though
all the invisible gods Of the old ghost
in, hai
The cost of the war to France in
money, during November. totaled
$1S2,154,504, an averag ge OF little
more than $6,000,000 day.
German officers, captured by the al
lies are alleged to have estimated Ger
man losses on the User, at 80, 900 men.
One regiment went in the battles with
1900 men, and had only so men left.
The Germans and allies in West
Flanders continue to hammer at each
other. Soldiers fighting in the trenches
are knee deep in water, and continue
to be swept by driving rains.
Austrian troops invading Servta
continue to meet with strong resis-
tance, but along the river Save, are
making progress.
A dispatch from Thielt, Belgium.
says the troops of both the allies and
Germans are exhausted. and the battle
continues to be chiefly an artillery
duel, which owing to heavy fogs, is Of
a desultory character Military men
expect no decision for several days.
Scandinavian countries and Holland
are much exercised over the sowing OF
mines where they endanger neutral
vessels. That the mines are in great
number Is shown by the fact that doz-
ems Of ships are being driven on the
Dutch coast.