The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-09-25

coming from more distant regions and
will reach the front in October 1t
is said Russia will soon have 1000
900 men on the move
Britain Out s166,5oo.ooo.
Calculations based on official re-
turns show that the cost to Britain
of 43 days of war; continuing from
August l, when disbursements began.
has been about S166,500,000, or at the
rate of $3,S70,OOO per day.
Announce Fall of Maubeuge.
Berlin has officially announced that
the fall of Maubeuge took place on
September 8, with 400 guns and 10000
prisoners.
Three Nations May Join War.
Dispatches from Europe received In
official quarters at Washington contain
information indicating that the great
struggle in the eastern hemisphere is
entering upon a new and much more
serious phase.
Italy has decided to join the fray
on the side of the allies at the moment
deemed most opportune for striking
decisive blow and in preparation for
the movement is rapidly mobilizing it's
army.
Turkish officials are in Berlin ne
gotiating the terms upon which the
Ottoman empire will throw its support
TO Germany and Austria.
Roumania has given an official re-
ply to Turkey, which indicates that 1t
is likely to get into the fight on the
side of the triple entente.
Battle on the Ocean.
There has not been gun fired in the
North sea for days, SO far as the Brit
ish public knows, but the admiralty
tiers in far off waters. Successes and
misfortunes were both chronicled i'm
partially.
The German protected cruiser Koe-
nigsberg caught the British light cruis-
er Pegasus overhauling its machinery
In Zanzibar harbor and attacked and
completely disabled it. The British
lost heavily and the Koenigsberg was
able to steam away.
The British loss is given at % killed
and so wounded.
The German cruiser Emden cap
tured six British merchant steamers
IL the Bay of Bengal in six days and
sank five of them. The Emden reap
peared at Rangoon, possibly having
taken part in other exploits, as yet not
known.
On the British side of the score
was the sinking of German merchant
cruiser, believed to have been the
Cap Trafalgar, by the former Cunard
liner Carmania. The British loss was
small-nine killed and "a wounded.
The German loss is unkpc wn, but the
survivors were rescued.
German Losses Are Heavy.
A casualty list, made UP largely of
the losses of a few regiments. was
made public in Berlin. OF the 6,126
casualties reported, 1876 of them fall
:, to Is battalions OF eight regiments
The One Hundred and Thirty-first reg
iment reported LA casualties Six
of its officers were killed and % wound.
ed. The One Hundred and Thirty-sec-
ond infantry reported 80 officers and
SCI men killed, wounded or missing.
The Tenth Grenadiers lost 90 officers
and $50 men, and one battalion of the
One Hundred and Fifty-seventh infan-
try had eight officers killed and five
wounded.
Ulster Volunteers Enlist.
The London Morning Post CORE.
spondent at Belfast wires: The flow
Of recruits from the Ulster volunteer
force TO the new army continued last
week, the total for two weeks I'D to
last night being in round figures over
nine thousand. Belfast naturally con
tributed the larger portion. recruits
from the city numbering about $500
Russians Advance in GaIicia.
In a dispatch TO the London Times
: a correspondent at Petrograd says:
Near Sandomir, Russian Poland
tie Russians have again defeated the
; broken remnants of the Second Ger
man landwehr corps under General
Woirsch Here, evidently. the Aus
a TRANS had prepared to cross the Wis
: lula river"
Famed Cathedral Raced.
The French minister of the interior
a Louis ]. Malvy. announced today that
:. the famous cathedral OF Notre Dame
n at Reims had been destroyed and al
8 tie other historic and public buildings
T. either laid in ruins or seriously dam
d aged during the bombardmert o.
. Reims by the German artillery.