Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-08
THE WAR IN EUROPE
News Paragraphs Cleaned From Dis
matches From the Front.

News Paragraphs Sleaneo from LIS
patches From the Front.
The passenger liner RunO with 500
passengers on board, struck a mine in
the North Sea, Saturday afternoon ana
sunk in a few minutes. All on poaru
with the exception Of twenty Russian
refugees were saved.
Jules Vedrines, the famous French
aviator, is finding the service monoto-
nous because he is not allowed more
activity. He says: If only they would
let me go and leave my visiting caro-
with Emperor William!
Paris police on Sunday surprised
three spies who were exchanging H.
Illuminated signals from the banks OF
the Seine to the eastern quarter OF
i-ariS.
The Russian embassy in Washington
on Sunday gave out an official state
ment characteriZing as grossly eXag-
gerated" the recent announcement by
the Germans that many thousand Rus
sian prisoners had been captured In
the fighting around Ortelsburg ana
East Prussia.
According to a London report, the
Germans lost 5000 men killed, wound
ed or captured in battle near Ihis-
self, Belgium, on Saturday.
The province of Alsace is now lree
of both German and French troops eA-
cept patrols The French and Germans
are now engaged in exchanging prls-
onerS.
Advance lines of the Allies defending
Paris had a sharp engagement with
the right wing of the German army on
Saturday. According to dispatches the
Allies got the better of the Germans.
A dispatch from Toxic says the
British destroyer Welland has sunk
several German torpedo boats during
the past week.
German aeroplanes in the vicinity or
Antwerp are quite active and II is De
leved the Germans intend attacking
the city in a few days. Many wealthy
people are leaving Antwerp and Ghent
for English ports.
OF the 500 patients in the Netley
hospital in London, less than 1O0 were
wounded by rifle fire. Shrapnel Dull
lets account for nearly all the wound
ed.
Bordeaux, France, has doubled in
Dopulation since the French capital
was moved there last week. Hotels are
overfiowing and spirit OF galety thaI
characterized the capital seems 10 nave
entered the new seat or government.
Cafes and boulevards are crowded
and all the residents conduct thetn
selves as though their country were
not engaged in war. A majority OF the
members of the senate and the cham
ber of deputies are in Bordeaux. Presl-
dent Poincare meets with his caplnet
each day and discusses diplomatic rela-
tions, the military situation and the
question of food supplies.
The first concerted proposal ror d
plan to bring about international peace
i'm Europe was announced in New York
last Saturday by Mrs. Rosika Schwim-
mer Of Budapest, who comes to Amer
lea, representing the allied women
organizations of Europe to urge Presl-
dent Wilson to take definite steps TO-
ward mediation. Mrs. Schwimmer Will
visit President Wilson this week ana
will urge him either TO set out himsen
at once for Europe or send as his per-
sonal representative Secretary Bryan,
eX-Presdent Taft or eX-Preslueht
Roosevelt.
1t is reported in London that an ul-
timatum has been sent to the govern
ment of Holland by Germany. Inc
terms Of the ultimatum are not KNOWN
The story of Germany's demand on
Brussels for a war tax of $4O,OOO,OOO
and upwards, is denied as being pre-
mature. The amount has not been
fixed.
A German girl spy was captured at
Lacroix, France, last week. She had
plans of all the forts and bridges
around Paris.
Seven German warships all more or
less seriously damaged, have arrived
at Kiel, Germany.
A dispatch from Rome says that the
secret Servian society, "Naroda OBJ
rama" is preparing revolutionary
movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Austrian provinces, which will break
out simultaneously with similar move
ments in Bohemia and Hungaria.
The car Of Russia has written a
friend in Copenhagen, that all the
money that Belgium has been forced
to pay Germany, the latter country Will
have to pay with interest in East Prus-
sia TO Russia
1t is reported that from $4,000 to
100000 Russian soldiers have been
sent from Archangel on the Russian
Arctic coast, to France to assist the
Allies.
1t is predicted in London that Lord
Kitchener will soon have the 100000
recruits that he asked for the British
army.
President Wilson has issued an exc
cutive order directing the navy de-
partment to take charge of the wire
less station at Tuckerton, y. j., and
operate it for the benefit of the en-
bassies and legations of the various
terms to all.
The British cruiser Bristol is re-
ported to have been badly damaged
off the coast of Haiti by the German
cruiser Karlsruhe. The German
cruiser is also reported to have sunk
the British cruiser Glasgow off the
coast of Colombia.
a dispatch of Saturday from Ant
werp, says that the Belgians opened
the dikes and drove the Germans out
of the city of Termonde shortly after
il had been taken by the invaders.
A high German officer, lying wound
ed in q Brussels hospital, is quoted as
saying that Germany would, In ms
opinion, lose three-fourths of its fight
ing forces before Paris is taken.
Representatives of the British army
are inspecting horses at Kansas City,
Mo-, for the cavalry and artillery SER
vice of the British army.
The Austrians are reported to have
left $4,000 dead on the battlefield
near Lemberg including the COM
mander- in-chief of the Austrian
army; 200 cannon, flags, ammunition
carriages and thousands of horses.
A London Daily Mail correspondent
at Gisors. France, says that the losses
Of the five German army corps cannot
be less than 1000. and that the loss
10000.
King Albert of Belgium was slight
~ wounded by a splinter OF shrap-
mel shell on the retreat of the Belgian
troops to Antwerp.
A Rome dispatch Of saturday, says
that 100000 German troops have been
transferred from Belgium and the
north of France to eastern Prussia,
TO assist in the fighting against the
Russians.
Conditions are getting to be very
bad in Vienna. y dispatch says that
100000 persons are without work, and
the number is increasing rapidly.
Food supplies are becoming scarce
and a famine is feared within two
weeks.
A Copenhagen dispatch of Saturday.
says: Private letters show that owing
TO the fact that many German doctors
are at the front. Berlin is finding 1t