Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-05
Real Admiral May Have
Gone Down With Flag
ship, Good Hope.
SUNK BY THE GERMANS
Cruiser Koenigsberg Said to
Have Been Sent to Bottom
of Indian Ocean.
THE WAR TODAY.

The fate of three British cruisers
that engaged five German warships on
the coast of Chile Sunday and a trans
port that accompanied them remains
a mystery.
There has been no word of the Brit
isl battleship Canopus sent to
strengthen Admiral Cradock's squad
ron. There is nothing to indicate that
she arrived in time to participate in
the fight Only three of the German
vessels. the Schamhorst, Gneiseni>
and Nurnberg, have been definitely
accounted for. After coming to Var
paraiso they again sailed. No British
warships are in Chilean ports.
Heavily reinforced German forces
in Belgium have been met by counter
offensive of also augmented armies oil
the allies in the vicinity of Ypres
The Franco-British lines have at no
point drawn back" says a French CT
ficial report.
Persia is excited over the clash OF
the Turks and Russians. Sailor ed
Dowles has proclaimed himself the
Germans candidate for the throne. The
Russian war Office announced the Rus
SLAMS have entered Turkish Armenia
and defeated the Turks
Cape Town reports the rebel move
ment in the Union of South Africa has
been crushed.
The Novoe Vremya at Petrograd
says a Turkish army 10000 strong, is
massed along the Caucasian frontier
The Turks have occupied many vii
lagos.
London, Nov. 5.-The great anxiety
concerning Read Admiral Cradock,
whose fate probably will not be known
until it is definitely determined what
has become of his flagship Good Hope,
one of the cruisers which participated
in the battle with German warship
on the coast of Chile last Sunday
Sunday, it is officially admitted in
Berlin, the cruiser Yorck was blown
up by mine near one of the outlying
defenses of Wilhemshaven. Shipping
circles in London declared the career
of the German cruiser Koenigsberg in
the Indian ocean has been ended.
Sir Perry Scott, England's greatest
gunnery expert and champion of sub
marines as against dreadnoughts, has
returned to the admiralty. The opin-
ion of English observers is that a
forward movement of the Russians has
became general. Even the Russian
left, held stubbornly by the Austrians
for weeks past, has Joined in the ad
vance.
Petrograd asserts the Austrian
amounts to a rout and that
the Russians have taken many pris-
oners and much booty.
Hindenberg, German commander is
his retiring movement in
Russian Poland, while desperate fight
ing enables the Russians to cross the
border at several points, according to
A significant phase is a report from
that the Ninth German
army corps has been transferred from
Belgium to East Prussia.
England and Turkey at War.
London, Nov. Sit is officially an 4,
in London that a state of
war exists between Great Britain and !
Turkey.
Paris, Nov. 5.-The war will end in |
three months, says General Berthaut.
He argues that Germany, forced to
place enormous forces on the two
fronts, will be exhausted before France
DR. Russia.
Berlin. Nov. 5.-An official state
ment says: Russian troops on the
eastern front have not been success
'ul in taking prisoners. Nor has any
IF the German wounded fallen into
heir hands. German machine guns
we're lost to the Russians"
Toxic, Nov. Sit is officially an
lounced the bombardment of Tsing-
rau continues vigorously. Attacking
orces are gradually closing in. Shells
struck and burned Bismarck barracks.
German losses Claimed.
Paris, Nov. 5.-A news dispatch says
{ is officially stated at Petrograd that
he Germans sustained considerable
osses on the east Prussian front.
Paris, Nov. 5.-The French official
this afternoon says the
lilies made but slight progress east OF
Gieuport on the right bank of the
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