The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-12-17
7I|Rk BATTL ESHIP
IS DESTROYED BY
British Torpedo
Marina Feat Executed BY SUBS
marine Which Owed Under
six Rows of mines TO
Reach Fee.
MAKES GOOD HER ESCAPE
snItan's Army Also Beaten
Pnssians Claim Victory In
poland-Allies Prepare
For Blow In West.

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London, Dec. 15.-The first serloua
b,ovc inflicted on the Turkish navy
since the entrance of the Porte into inc
,,ar-tbe t~orpeaoing of the Turkisn
boI+t1eshin Nf~esseduieh, by q Brltlsls
sI15r,orine in the DardaneIles-SaVs
naval color to today's war news -
N,as in fact the only striking occufN
renee. =, tha
~o1Icoel1s reDort that the Turks, WIoss
strong resistance to the "
the north compelled them y d ~ re- rs
now have repulsed eNeryWHeLG - 80
1efne pursued beyond the
siver suffering severe losses. me 6fis-
Oh admiralty thar lhe olG
Turkish battleship. MesSeQ04sh -.
carried 600 men, has been deStLTsSo ~
Pritish submarine. To accomplish the
soa+ the submarine penetrated the
SUPPOSEDLY ~impregnable Dardaneles.
Sinking Of The Mo~ssedGieh'
THO h,,rear,s statement is as fol-
'o% .yesterdav submarine Bill, In
charge of Lieut.. Commander .. ft9i-
brook, of the royal navy, entered ~
Dardanelles and in spite OF ule uAa
6cut current dived under I'VE rows OF
mines and ~torpedoed the Turkish pay"
.leship. Messudieh, which was suafN~
ing the mine fields.
"Although pursued by gun hro ana
sornado boats the Bill returned safely
after being submerged one occasion
FOR nine hours. 80,
sinking by the stern" -
The Messudieh was a very old poas
having been built at Blackweu, hhos
land, in 1874, and reconstructed ~
Genoa in 1903. She was 332 feet long,
50 feet beam and of about $1,000 lolis
burden. She had a speed OF If12 hliots
and her main battery consisted or TWO
p.2-inch gums in currents and ~ 6-inch
gums in battery. In the war with Greece
In 1912 the Messudieh was reported
badly damaged in a naval battle IN ING
Dardanelles. She carried q crew OF oVo
men.
The feat of Lieutenant Commander
Holbrook in diving under five rows or
mines in the Dardanelles and torpedo
ing the Turkish battleships IS de-
scribed here as the boldest marine ex-
plot of the war. The submarine pre-
sumably was not scratched. she es-
capped gunfire and he pursuit of tor
pedo boats in a manner truly
able.
Russian gun have from time to
time inflicted some damage on Turk
ish warships ~bombarding Russian
ports, but the disaster reported today
: robs the porte of It's first big snip.
, The loss of life is not estimated in the
brief announcement of the episode
given out by the British admiralty, but
If the Messudieh was manned as other
Turkish ships have been, then there
| We're a number of German officers on
r board.
: Russians Claim Victory.
q A dispatch from Petrograd today
says:
Reports reaching here today from
a the front state that operations of Rus
sian forces north of Warsaw, partial
9 success Of which was announced last
, week, have now resulted in q decisive
victory, after having pierced the Ger
= man front beyond Ciechanow and
= Przasnysz.
THE Russian success on this front,
= according to these advices. has been
clinched by a wide swinging movement
q of the advancing Russian left on the
+ main highway from Plock to Mlawa,
concluding in a heavy cavalry engage
ment at Jurominetna, seven miles
southeast of Mlawa.
h Russian success of this nature
d would have three important results.
g The immediate pressure north of War
] saw would be relieved and the German
threat against the railroad lines. lead
Ing east from the city. would be an
swered. Russian troops on the right
OF the V1stula river would be freed ia
seeek a crossing and endanger the po-
sition of the left wing of the German
IL army in the region of LODI.
1T is said here that the Russians will
now be able to straighten their entire
front, running to the Mazurian lakes
u english and french observers are
~ united in declaring that the time is
drawing close for a general adyance
OF allies through France and Belgium
ana some official reports claim this
move Is about to be undertaken. if i,
mas not actually begun. Progress nee
y essar1ly would be inch by inch and
as even the most optimistic of the British
observers, assuming that a general
forward movement Of the allies is q
De essayed, eortend that it win be
tn spring before an appreciable eastern
Elk change would be made.
an Serbs Press Forward.
he The recent successes of the Seryians
RI partly confirmed from Berlin, are SAID
at Nlsh to have been EXTENDED. II is
a asserted that the Austrians have heer
nd unable to check their retreat before
re ene advancing Servians, who are
sweeping them out of their. country
n "a statement attributed to Tr;elf
ed Marshal von Der Gotz, who was SEM
x py the German government to Con.
en- stantinople to direct the T,,rlsisr
*. 1oIces, indicates that in the opjnion q,
I'm lnls man, one of the LEADING Germar
military authorities, the war NAV dras
on Tor a long time. He is auoted e
o. sang mat Germany is prepared r.
tanay on the war for years, but is Ger.