Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-11-27
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
News Paragraphs Telling Of Happen
inas at the Front.

News paragraphs IeIlIn9 OF T'dppS"
ines at the Front.
The British official press bureau
under date of November %, an
nounces the sinking Of the German
submarine U-1S, on the north coast
of Scotland, by being rammed oy
patroling vessel A dispatch from Co
penhagen also announces that the Ger {,
man torpedo boat destroyer S-lz4, hau
been sunk by collision with the Dan :
ish ship Anglo-Dane.
The Krupp baby howitZer' is the
latest terror that the allies are called
upon to face in the trenches. The
calibre of the little howitzer is less
than three inches; 1t throws shell
whose diameter is more than foot'
weighing with it's charge of high eX-
plosive, nearly 200 pounds. This Is
done by the simple eXpedient OF at
taching a small "adapter" to the SMELL
while the shell itself rests on the
mouth of the gun in sort OF cup.
Captain Aye of the auxiliary cruls-
er Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, Which
was sunk off the west coast OF AFRICA
by a British cruiser, the latter part
of August, has reached Berlin, as
guised as a stoker on neutral vessel
The captain has been decorated WIFI
the Iron Cross. .o,.
All German names have been struck
from the French Legion or Honor, ps
order of President Poincare, VINO says
that the Germans in conouctihs tiiH
yyar are Systematically violating al!
rrias of international law by acts OF
cruelty and barbarism without pre-
cedent in the history Of humanity.
Emperor William has sent message
to the crown prince, in which he as
serts that the "Sheik- islam mas
nublished a fetina declaration OF
sacred law), according to which every
Mussulman must, as a renslous uuIS'
fight to the utterp.os against Ehslaiiu:
Russia and France oppressors Vi
Islam" C,onen-
hagen dispatch, has become so scarce
IN Germany. on account of no imports
from Russia. that orders prohibiting
the use of oil for any other purpose
than light, have been issued. IL is
criminal offense to have even lew
hotties of oil without special ponce
license. , o,,.borized
,as week has already been taken up
according to reports of English bank
orc The loan is for over Sl,OOO.OOo,-
400 and is the largest in Great BTU
German war script is now quoted al
o. cents on the dollar at Copenhagen.
The interest rate is per cent.
Oficial announcement has peen
made of the death Of Maj. Gen. Won
Voughts- -Rhetz, quarter-master geneI
al of the German army, oeath result
ing from heart failure.
canada expects to send 1900 more
soldiers to the battle front in Europe,
December /. This will bring Canaoa
quota to 100000. , .. 30
crossties for war purposes, mas oeen
received by a Selma, Ala, luinDeI
comnany. An agent Of the Brltlsh
government made the deal.
A German statement is 70 tne el
feet that the French lost 2O'oOo kille9
in the fighting around DlXmu9e ann Inn
Riychoote, and the Engllsh hau LOW
rnen drowned in the User canal.
The British battleship Bulwark was
DESTROYED by an explosion, as she lay
off Sheerness. England, YESTERDAY.
There are only Il survivors of the crew
Of more than 700. Naval men express
the opinion that the catastrophe was
the result of an internal explosion
POSSIBLY the dropping of a l2-lnch
lyddite shell in her magazine
Both the Russians and Germans are
claiming victory in the fighting IN the
vicinity of Warsaw in Poland. Petro-
grad advices claim that the Russians
have put the Germans to rout anu
taken $4,000 prisoners Berlin semi
official announcement says, News
from the east and west is tending 10
show that the German advance is pro-
ceeding slowly though steadily.
According to stories Of refugees VINO
have arrived at Lemberg, Galicia, there
has been a clash between German anu
Austrian soldiers holding the fortress
of Przemysl 1t is said that the Ger
mans hanged the Austrian COMMANDER
of the fortress because he wanted 10
surrender. The Austrians resented TINS
and as a result pitched battle enSueC
Every report from Belgium says the
Germans are bringing up reinforce
ments and guns, but there is no lndl-
cation as to where they expect 10 de-
liver a crushing blow.
A report to the English colonial OF
flee in London says German MISSION
arv recently tried to blow up the Brit
ish gunboat Dwarf, in a West African
harbor. When asked how he found
the action compatible with his profes-
sion," says the report, he replied ne
was a soldier first and a missionary al
terward."
The first graduate of an American
college to be a victim OF the war Is
Lieut.. George Williamson, who belong
ed TO the Duke of Wellingtons reGl-
ment. Mr. Williamson's name appear
ed in Tuesdays English casualty list
as among those dying from the result
of wounds. He was graduated from
Harvard in the class of 1905.