The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1914-10-24
Waships and Troops Of Allies
Hammer TeutOnS.
GERMANS DRIVEN FROMOSTEND


Cars Men Saves Warsaw From
Capture.
The oHcsII announcement Issued by
the French war office says the posi-
tons occupied by the allies In Bel
sium and northern France have been
maintained In spite OF the violent
attacks Of the enemy.
German re-enforcements, mainly ma
rlnes, with two 17lnch howitzers,
have arrived In Antwerp from Liege,
according to a Rotterdam dispatch
10 the Daily Mail. The reinforce
ments are going In the direction Of
Bruges.
The Copenhagen correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph reports a German
fleet off Falsterbo, Sweden, on the
Baltic Sea.
A dispatch 10 the Mail from France
says coutraI was occupied by tho
allies.
LONDON Reports that the
Germans had evacuated Ostend and
were retreating toward Bruges and
that their West Flanders army, from
the vicinity of the coast south to
Courtrari, was being hammered into
a zigzag line by the combined efforts
OF the British navy and the British,
French and Belgium troops, seemed to
coincide at SO many points that In the
absence of claims OF any advances
from Berlin opinion here was that the
fighting along the canals OF North
Belgium, which followed the German
rush from Antwerp, had been general
ly against the invaders.
At any rate the Germans at one
as Thourout. and some dispatches say
that their communications in the mid
die OF West Flanders have beer so dis
organized that troops from Client are
marching direct to Coutari rather than
joni their comrades to the north. who
are tin danger OF being cut OF.
Fleet Shells ostend.
The evacuation OF Ostend was not
confirmed, but from Berlin itself came
a report that British ships were she'll
ing that town, while another dispatch
said that the guns of the war vessels
had destroyed the village OF Slype on
the canal between ostend and Bruges,
where II Is said the Germans have
their headquarters.
At Sluis, only a few miles northeast
OF Slpe, in 1910 a British feet achieved
a victory over the French.
A dispatch to tho Daily Mail from
Dunkirk says that the British naval
bombardment has utterly destroyed
the town Of Seyre, Witch the Germans
held in force. The house occupied by
the German h@oadayrrtors stan was
blown to bits. "a tsh seral mant
in a stationary helloea Nas shot by
the Germans.
j. Is clear now that ship8 have been
playing an important part Ia the war
fare along the coast, The admiralty
officially announces that the monitors
Severn, Humber and Mersey not only
bombarded the German position south
OF Ostend but landed detachments OF
marines with machine guns. II is re-
poIted from other sources that eleven
war vessels in all are taking part In
hte operations, but what they are is
not announced.
Austrians Sent Into Belgium.
MILAN, via London The
Socolo's Venice correspondent says
Austrian troops are being removed
from the Austro-Italian frontier and
sent into Belgium TO strengthen the
German right wing in the neighbor-
hood OF the North Sea.
Russ Driven From Hungary-vienna.
LONDON ENG.-An official state
merit gwen out at the Austrian general
Headquarters regarding the fighting In
Calicia is contained In q dispatch 10
Reuters Telegram company from
Vienna by way OF Amsterdam. IL says:
we have gained ground in several
spots in a heavy stubborn attack on
the fortified positions OF the enemy
from Plotzyn TO the highroad east Of
Medyka, while the Russian count
er attack could nowhere penetrate.
Last night our troops captured the
heights north OF Nizankowice, which
followed in the capture of the villages
located against the heights. In the
southern wing the main battle was
10y ght by artillery. The modern field
fcrtihcation system being literally APP
piled. the battle takes greatly the
character OF a fortress war.
Yesterday we captured. in the Car
~patAians, the Jablonki Pass, the last
point held there by the Russians.
There is now no enemy left on Hun
garian soil.
In Bpkowina we advanced as far
as th6fGreat Sereth."
Russ Troops Save Warsaw.
PETROGRAD. - In a statement