The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-03
sultan's Efforts to Avoid War Through Exchange of Diplomatic Notes Comes to Naught- Battles Al ready Underway Along Turkish Frontier

Sea Port and Occupies
 City Germans Reported
 to Have Withdrawn From
 Belgium Front to Point
 South.
 The apology of the Turk for the assaults of his fleet on Rus sian ports on the Black Sea has not accomplished it's purpose Both Russia and Great Britain have undertaken active mili-. tary measures against him and hostilities have begun on the Red Sea.
 Tn France, the troops of Elm peror William, frustrated in their persistent endeavors to advance along the coast, are now seeking a route more to the south and the fighting in Flanders is going on with de- termination on the part of the allies and heavy onsIaughts from the enemy. A group of incidents shows that Turkeys leffort to hold aloof from the general warfare came too late. Gonstantinople reports official ly that Russian troops have at lacked her frontier.
 Flanders still shows a con tinuance of hard fighting, all ways attended with heavy loss es on both sides as the allies
 maintain their apparently sue cessful resistance to the Ger man efforts to advance toward French ports on the English channel. The French official announcement given out in Paris this afternoon said that the Germans evidently had abandoned the bank of the Yser below Dixmude where cross ings could be mades
 l The French report bears out news despatches that the Ger mans are seeking route through the allies lines further. to the south than any they have attempted in the past two weeks.
 l Lord Kitchener. the British secretary for war, was in Dun kirk Sunday night, doubtless for the purpose of supervising the operations of the allied I forces. He crossed from Eng Hand and was in conference with President Poincare of France and M. DeBrocqueville, 1 the prime minister of Belgium.
 Make Supreme Effort
 The Gernans last Sunday, ascording Ito news despatches, made a supreme effort to capture Ypres. Lives without number were sacrificed in an endeaxor which apparently resulted in failure for today there are said to be cOncen- ttrating their efforts at 9 point well I to the south of this l9attIe-scarred lo- 1 cality Emperor William himself was present according to despahches, at the latest attempt to capture this DO sition. The German forces have left Bruges for Courtrai 25 miles to the south and IS miles east of Ypres l where the British hold the line. This lis taken to indicate the selection Of another way to reach Calais.
 | President Poincare of France, and King Albert of Belgium, have review I ed French and Belgian forces. 1 The White Star Iineer Olympic, after lanchoring in Lough Swilly, landed her passengers at Belfast today. During the stay in Lough SwiIly, Charles M. lSchwa.b, president of the Bethlehem Steel company. was allowed to land and proceed to London.
 The German government is ready that the world at large should know how it is caring for the prisoners of war in it's hands. Convinced thaz they are well treated, the authorities court investigation. Consequently they are giving facilities to American and other neutral consuIs to visit the [ internment camps.