The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-10-23
ARMY AND FLEET
IN COAST FIGHT
FRENCH CLAIM GERMANS RE
PULSED BY BELGlANS-
WARSHIPS AIDING.
ASSERT BIG GUNS FAILED
GeEmans Report British Ship Triumph
Damaged While Bombarding
'Tsins-tao-Jap Ship Sunk
by German Mine.

Paris, Oct. 20.-The official COM
inunication issued by the war Office
Monday night says:
"In Belgium attacks by the Ger
mans between Newport and Dixmude
have been repulsed by the Belgian
army, effectually aided by the British
feet.
Between Arras and Roye slight
progress has been made at several
points. Troops have reached as far
as the wire networks of the defense.
Gin tho neighborhood of st. Mihiel
we have gained some ground on the
right bank of the Meuse.
mo news of importa ice has been
received regarding the remainder Of
the front.
"The effort of the Germans to uti-
lie their heavy artillery at the front
at NieupOrt-Vladsloe and east OF Dix
nude failed. The allied forces, and
notably the Belgians, have repulsed
all of the new German attacks and
} have themselves advanced to Roalors,
twenty-five miles from the coast
= "On our left wing between the Lys
and the canal of La Bassee, we have
now advanced in the direction of
Lille. Extremely obstinate conflicts
are taking place on the front of La
Bassee-Ablain-St. Nazaire. We are
advancing house by house in these
two localities to the north and south
of Arras.
"Our troops have been fighting
without respite for more than ten
days with a courage and persever-
ance which has not given way at any
time.
Elm the region of Chaulnes we have
repulsed a strong counter attack by
the enemy and have gained some
ground.
cat the center conditions continue
unchanged and there is nothing to
report. On our right wing, in AL
SAGE, and to the west of Colmar, our
advance guards are on the line Of
Bonhomme-Sulzern and farther to
the south we still hold our previously
reported positions"
Damage British Ship.
Washington, Oct. 20.-The Ger
man embassy gave out this statement
last night:
Reliable news from San Francis
co-British battleship Triumph heav-
lily damaged whilst bombarding
,Tsing-tao, together with Japanese
ships, by shell fire from howitzers of
the fortress. Had to withdraw I'M
mediately."
Toxic, Oct. 20-It is officially an
nounced that the Japanese cruiser
Takachiho was sunk in Kiau-Chau
bay by German mine. OF the crew
of 357 only ten, the captain and nine
members of the crew, were saved.
1t is announced that typhoon has
struck Kiau-Chau, destroying the
landing pier. Twenty Japanese sail
ors drowned.
The Japanese cruiser Takachiho
was built in 1885 and refitted in
1900. She was vessel of $500 tons
and was 800 feet long and had 46
feet beam. Her main battery con-
sisted of eight 6inch guns and her
speed was about eighteen knots.
Austrian Fleet Bottled Up.
:. London, Oct. 20.-The Austrian
fleet attempted to escape from the
lharbor of Cattaro, Delmatia, Sunday
and break through the French fleet
Iblockading the port, but was driven
back promptly, according to advices
from Cettinje, Montenegro, forward
ed from Rome to the Exchange Tele-
graph.
Proclaim Turk Heir.
London, Oct. 20.-Prince Yussof
1zzedin, eldest son of the late Sultan
Abdul Aziz of Turkey, was proclaim
ed by the sultan on Monday heir pre-
sumptive to the Turkish throne as
,generalissimo of the army and navy,
according to dispatch to the Reuter-
Telegram company from Petrograd.
The announcement was made unex-
pectedly at a family council, says the
Constantinople correspondent, in or
der to combat the dictatorship of En-
yer Pasha and German influence.
War Material Seized.
London, Oct. 20.-A news agency
dispatch from Rome says it is report
ed there that the Roumanian govern
ment has seized quantity of war
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