Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-11-11
FAD IS OCCUPIED
BY THE BRITISH;
FORTS SHELLED
Turkish Port Is Captured by In
dams and Sailors.
RUSS BUSY IN BLACK SEA
Cars Fleet Eonlbards Towns on
Coast and Four OF SuItan's Trans
ports Are Destroyed-Envoys
Reported Held by Russ.

London, Nov 9.-The admiralty an
nOunces the occC patton of Fac, a port
of Asiatic Turkey at the mouth of the
River Shat-el-Arab. in the Persian gulf.
A military force from India, covered
by the sloop Odin, landed with naval
detachment after the Turkish guns had
nouncement. There were no British
casualties. Fac is the terminus of the
submarine telegraph to India.
Forts Reported Demolished.
A Daily Mail dispatch from Athens
says that an American ship which lay
within the entrance of the Dardanelles
reported to the British admiral on leav-
ing that the forts on both sides had
been completely demolished by the
bombardment.
Russ Hold Foes ENJOYS.
Telegraphing from Amsterdam, the
correspondent of Reuters Telegraph
company says a message received
there from Vienna says that the Aus
tro-Hungarian consulgeneral and the
Turkish diplomatic representative at
Tabriz, Persia, have been taken pris-
oners by the Russians and transported
to Tifis.
The Persian government and the
American minister at Teheran-John
L. Caldwell-have protested to Russia,
according to the correspondent,
against this alleged infraction of inter
national law.
Russians Active in Black Sea.
Another dispatch to the Reuter- Tele-
graph company from Amsterdam
brings the following statement by. the
Turkish army headquarters, received
from ConstantinOple by way Of Ber-
lin:
THE Russian army showed no &C
tivity on Friday.
"This morning the Russian fleet
bombarded the Black sea ports Zun-
guldiak and Kuzlu for two hours. Four
Turkish transports were sunk, AT
Zunguldiak the French church and the
French consulate were destroyed" +
Another dispatch received by the
Marconi Wireless Telegraph company
says:
In the roads of Smyrna three large
English ships and several English and
French steamers have been seized"
Confiscate Allies Steamers.
In dispatch from Athens the CORE
spondent of the Exchange Telegraph
company says the authorities of Smyr-
ma, in Asiatic Turkey, have confiscated
all the British, Belgian and Russian
steamers lying in the port.
The public treasury has been trans
ferred from Smyrna to the interior, the
correspondent continues, and the trans
mission of cipher messages between
neutral consulates and legations has
been forbidden by the Porte
Armenians Against Turkey
Petrograd, Nov. 9.-The most sig
nificant development of late of the
Russo-Turkish war is the announce
ment that the Armenians are rising
against Turkey. Realizing that the
present is an opportune time to throw
off the Turkish yoke and to get re-
venge for pait outrages, the Armeni-
Russian Caucasian army which has in
vaded Turkey.
The Russian forces have already pro-
ceeded westward from Passine, Dead
inc and Barazet, where the first actual
fighting of the war took place.
Despite the mobility of the advanced
columns progress must be slow be-
cause of the nature of the territory
to be traversed. The roads are little
more than bride paths and the coun-
try is mountainous.
The only thing which can make
progress faster will be success for the
allied fleet, which is bombarding the
/ 'rdanelles. If they can reduce the
forts that command the entrance then
it may be possible for the fleet to
sweep the harbor clear of mines and
get through to attack the Turkish
fleet.
But until the Turkish fleet is de-
stroyed it will be impossible to ferry
Russian troops across the Black sea.