Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-12-18
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munger, circuit JuuSe.
Forty men from the German cruis-
er Emden, who were left on the Cocos
island when the Australian cruiser
sydney forced the Emden ashore and
destroyed her. have captured collier
mounted two maxims on her and now
are raiding commerce in the Pacific,
according to q report received at Ma
nila. The report came through the
officers Of the British steamer Malac-
ca, Just arrived at Jolo, and has not
been confirmed officially. The men OF
the Emden had gone ashore on Cocos
island to dismantle the wireless and
fled when the Emden was destroyed
Headed by Lieut. Won Mueck, they left
Cocos island with a Communicated
schooner and plenty Of provisions, to-
gether with their own armed launch
and two boats, according to report.
When they captured the collier Is not
stated. The Malacca reports that she
steamed to Jolo without showing
lights at night
Dispatches to the German embassy
at Washington, from the German min
lister at Santiago. Chile on "Wednesday
announced that the British fleet whicn
sank the cruisers Scharnhorst, Gnei-
senau and Leipzig off the coast OF
Chile recently. was badly damaged
and that one British ship apparently
was sunk. A statement issued Wed
nesday night at the embassy at WASH
ington, said: According to informa-
tion received by the German embassy
from Chile the battle off the Falkland
islands lasted from 8 o'clock In the
morning until in the evening On
the British side the 1nvincible. In
flexible, Canopus. Carnarvern, Corn
wall, Kent, Glasgow and Bristol were
engaged. Many German officers ana
men were saved but lack OF boats pre-
vented the number from being larger.
The British cruiser Defense old not
take part and has been seen aground
at port Stanley. Only seven English
cruisers left the scene OF battle, so
that one must have been sunk. the
others were badly damaged.
-Brigadier General Bliss, command
ing the United States troops on the
Mexican border, reported to the war
department, yesterday, that he con-
ferred at Naco on Wednesday, with
Gen. Ramirez, military secretary TO
Maytorena, the Villa commander. IA.
mirez was told what was expected OF
the Maytorena troops in shaping ope-
rations against the CarranZa garrison
SO as to avoid firing across the border.
Ramirez undertook to communicate
the representations to Maytorena. OF
ficials in Washington expect FRO
yisional President Gutierrezs order TO
Maytorena to re-arrange his rorces' IL
necessary, to stop the fire into Arl-
zona, will bear fruit before all the
American forces ordered to Naco get
into position. No predictions are be-
ing made in official quarters as 10
what course the United States Will
pursue, but 1t Is generally understood
that after General Scott arrives al
Naco, tomorrow, and conducts MS
negotiations with both the Mexican
factions, further firing into American
territory will mean that the American
troops fire on the belligerents.
king George on yesterday, pro-
claimed Egypt as q British protector
ate and appointed Lieutenant Colonel
Sir Arthur Mcmahon to be his high
commissioner for that territory. The
proclamation Of Egypt as a British
protectorate was foreshadowed In
recent dispatches. On November s,
Egypt was placed under martial law
and Mai. Gen. Sir Grenfell Maxwell,
commander of the forces in Egypt,
was placed in military control. Ad-
vices from Constaninople have re-
ported the Khedive Abbas Hilmid-
exiled from Egypt on account OF his
pro-Turkish attitude-as having gone
to Vienna to confer with the Austrian
authorities. Previously the kheolVe
had been reported preparing to lead
an army into Egypt to wrest controi
from the British. Egypt, while nomi-
nally forming part Of the TURKISH
empire, had been virtually Brtlsn
dependency. The administration rs
mi Snh1eCt
to the ruling Of the khedive. Since
1883. England has been represented
in the government. On the abolition
of the Joint Anglo-French control IN
that year, the khedive, on the rec
ommendation Of England, appointed
an English financial adviser without
whose consent no financial decision
can be taken.
Only letters that are devoid OF all
gloomy news or utterances, are per
mitted to reach the hands Of French
soldiers, according to the Paris cor
respondence of the Associated Press
This is in accord with an irrevocabie
rule Of the military authorities. Ihey
also insist that all communications
must be either unsealed, or written on
postcards. One family compliance
that 1t received letters from son al
most daily, but after a month Of war
he had not received single word from
home. Investigation showed thai
each one Of the letters written by the
boys mother contained such words
as "desolation' and despair" She
was told that her son was seeing
enough desolation at the front and DID
not need to hear about the despair at
home. The style OF the letters chang
ed and now they are arriving prompt
ly. Cold weather and the shipment
Of warm clothing and other comforts
to the soldiers tended to delay the de-
livery Of letters. The automobile club
volunteered it's services and hundreds
Of automobiles carried packages to
the trenches, until the Germans be-
came aware Of the arrangement. They
captured ten motor cars filled with
packages Of heavy underwear, jerseys,
sweaters, tobacco, cigarettes. cigars,
pipes and cigarette lighters. Some
four mothers sent preserves. cakes
cold chicken and pate e-de-fois-sras.
One package that met with an acci-
dent en- route was found to contain
even a bottle Of perfume.
London, December Is: The first
serious blow inflicted on the Turkish
navy since the entrance of the Porte
into the war-the sinking of the Turk
iSh battleShip MeSSudleh by the Brit
ish submarine Bill in the Dardanel-
les-gave naval color to yesterday S
war news. The feat Of Lieutenant
Commander Holbrook. of the Bill, in
diving under the five rows Of mines
in the Dardanelles and sending tor
pedo against the Turkish battleship is
described here as perhaps the boldest
marine exploit of the war. The sub
marine presumably was not scratched.
She escaped gun fire ard the pursuit
Of torpedo boats in a manner truly re-
markable, and 1t was necessary for
her crew to endure the ordeal Of re-
naming under water for nine hours on
a stretch. Russian guns have from
time to time inflicted some damage on
Turkish warships bombarding Russian
ports, including the German-Turkish
battle cruiser Goeben. but the disas-
ter reported today robs the Porte OF
his first big ship. The loss of life is
not estimated in the brief announce
ment by the official press bureau,
which says: Yesterday submarine B.
IL. in charge of Lieut.. Commander
Norman B. Holbrook. of the Royal
Navy, entered the Dardanelles, and. in
spite of the difficult current, dived un-
der five rows of mines and torpedoed
the Turkish battleship Messudieh,
which was guarding the mine fields.