The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-12-17
Daring Feat Executed BY Sub
marine Which Owed Under
six Rows Of Mines to
Reach Fee.
MAKES GOOD HER ESCAPE
sultan's Army Also Beaten
Russians Claim Victory In
Poland-Allies Prepare
For Blow In West

London, Dec. 15.-The first serious
blow inflicted on the Turkish navy
since the entrance of the Porte into the
war--tho torpedoing Of the Turkish
ho+tIesbip NTcsseduieh. by q BRUSH
submarine in the Dardanelles-saNs
naval color to today's war news anu
was in fact the only striking occur
renee. +Ls
raucasus report thai the Turks, whose
strong resistance to the invaders rom
the north compelled them TO feIreas
now have ~repulsed everywhere ana are
being pursued beyond the EuphTaseS
riyer suffering severe losses. me BTU
lsh admiralty ~nnounceS that the Ola
Turkish battleship, Messeduieh Whlch
carried 600 men, has been DESTROYED by
4 British submarine. To accomplish the
feat, the submarine penetrated the
supposedly i~mpregnable D~a"aanel4es.
Sinking Of The M~csssduieh.
The bureaus statement is as fol-
lows: 49,
charge of Lieut.. Commander 3. Hol-
brook, of the royal navy, entered the
Dardanelles and in spite of the dill
fcut current dived under I'VE rows OF
mines and torpedoed the Turkish bat~
tleship, Messudieh, which was guard
ing the mine fields.
"AlthouRh pursued by gun fire ana
torpedo boats the Bill returned safely
after being submerged II occasion
FOR nine hours.
'When last seer the Messudieh was
sinking by the stern"
The Messudieh was a very old boat
having been built at Blackwell, End
land, in 1874. and reconstructed al
Genoa in 1908. She was 332 feet long,
80 feet beam and of about 10000 tons
burden. She had a speed of l7R knots
and her main battery consisted of two
a.2-inch guns in currents ana ~ linen
guns in battery. In the war with Greece
In 1912 the Messudieh was reported
badly damaged in a naval battle in the
Oardanelles. h carried d crew of 600
men.
The feat of Lieutenant Commander
Holbrook in diving under five rows of
mines in the Dardanelles and torpedo
ing the Turkish battleships is de-
scribed here as the boldest marine ex-
plot of the war. The submarine pre-
sumably was not scratched. She es-
capped gunfire and the pursuit of tor
pedo boats in a truly remark
able.
Russian guns have from time to
time inflicted some damage on Turk
ish warships b~ombarding Russian
ports, but the disaster reported today
robs the porte of it's first big ship.
LIT loSS III IllS is ilOl tSlllIlalGu IN IuS
brief announcement of the episode
given out by the British admiralty, but
If the MeSsudieh was manned as other
Turkish ships have been, then there
We're a number Of German officers on
board.
Russians Claim Victory.
A dispatch from Petrograd today
says:
Reports reaching here today from
rho TrnNf $40 ko flr+ TO-.
sian forces north of Warsaw, partial
success Of which was announced last
week, awe now resulted in g. decisive
victory, after having pierced the Ger
man front beyond Ciechanow and
Przasnysz.
THE Russian success on this front.
according to these advices, has been
clinched by a wide swinging movement
OF the advancing Russian left on the
main highway from Flock to Mlawa,
concluding in a heavy cavalry engag
ment at Jurominetna, seven miles
southeast of Mlawa.
Russian success of this nature
would have three important results.
Inc immediate pressure north of War
saw would be relieved and the German
threat against the railroad lines, lead
ing east from the city, would be an
sWered. Russian troops on the right
of the Vistula river would be freed to
OSS'iS III SIlutiliScI IIlc DO-
sltlon OF the left wing of the German
army In the region of LODI.
1t Is said here that the Russians will
now be able to straighten their entire
front. running to the Mazurian lakes
English and French observers arc
united in declaring that the time ia
oraWlng close for a general advance
or allies through France and Belgium
ana some official reports claim this
move Is about to be undertaken. if IL
mas not actually begun. Progress nee
would be inch by inch and
even the most optimistic of the British
observers, assuming that a general
orWard movement of the allies is to
essayed, contend that it will be
spring before an appreciable eastern
would be made.
Serbs Press Forward.
me recent successes of the Seryians.
partly confirmed from Berlin, are said
ae Nish to have been extended. 1t is
asserted that the Austrians have been
unable to check their retreat before
tne advancing Servians. who are
sweeping them out of their country.
a statement attributed to Field
Nidrshal Won Der Gotz, who was sent
~ the German government TO Con-
stantlnople to direct the Turkish
t ICES. indicates that in the opinion of
lntS man, one of the leading German
authorities, the war may drag
~ LOT a long time. He is quoted as
saying that Germany is prepared To
carry on the war For .-ao y, I.4