The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-09-25
War Notes

Bordeaux, Sept. 25.-One of the last
acts of the late Pope Plus, says La
Liberte, was to give his blessing to the
Capuchin monks who are fighting in
the ranks of the French army. The
superior general of. the monks. who
obtained the blessing of the pope, is
Dodo. an old schoolmate Of President
PoincaTe at the Nancy high school.
London. Sept. 25.--Lieut. Col A.
Grant-Duff of the Black Watch was
killed in action. Lieut.. Col c.. Dalton
and Lieut.. Col. l. G, Hogg died in q
hospital of wounds; Brig. Gen. Rich
ard g. B. Haking is among the
wounded. g.
These names appear in the official
casualty list issued last night. OF nine
Officers killed, five died of wounds in
hospitals and one was drowned
The list included twenty-one wound
ed, among them Lieut. G. M. NayIor-
Leyland of the Royal Horse guards,
who is the second son of the late sir
Herbert s. Naylor -Leyland, whose
wife was Miss zelah Chamberlain of
Cleveland, o.
Lieut.. Col. A. Grant Duff was the
third son OF the late Right Hon. Sir
Mount Stuart Grant-Duff, and served
in India and South Africa. He was at
one time assistant secretary OF the
committee of imperial defense.
Lieut.. Col. Tan Graham Hogg served
in South and West Africa, where he
rendered distinguished services.
Brigadier General Haking won the
queens medal in South Africa.
Yonkers. NJ. r., Sept. 25.--A letter
received here from Albert Van Hour-
en-. recently appointed. American vice
consul at Kehl, Baden, Germany, stat
ed that he had reached his post safely
after being arrested three times by
German authorities on suspicious that
he was a British spy. g .,r
Bari, Italy, Wit Paris, Sept. 25.-The
vessels which have arrived from the
Dalmatian coast report that the bonn
bardment of Cattaro by the French
ships and by the guns on Mount
Lovchen has begun.
Paris, Sept 25.-The brief official
Communication issued last night an
/ nounced that on the left wing the bat
| tie continued to develop; that a Iull
had occurred In the fighting in the
center, and that on the right wing the
German attacks apparently have been
checked. pr
| Paris, Sept. 25.-The correspondent
/ of the Italian newspaper Corriere Della
Sierra telegraphs from Trieste that two
Austrian torpedo boats and one torpedo
boat destroyer were sunk by floating
mines last Friday on the coast OF
Dalmatia,, according to a Rome dis
! patch to the Havas News agency.
| London, Sept 25.-An official Ger
| man dispatch received this evening by
the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co.
from Berlin says: NS
"It is officially reported from Vienna
! that the Austrian forces now have been
concentrated in their new position foI
several days, but have waited in vain
for any serious Russian attack
j Berlin, Sept. rs, via The Hague to
Il London, 10:45 p. m.-The announce
lment was made here that Lieutenant
jGeneraI won Busse wa4 -iiled in an-
ttiof SeptembersS. Thus -1ar 3Ss 900 per-
lsors have been decorated with the
Iron Cross. .
New York, Sept. 25.-Count Won
lBurnstoroff, the German ambassador
Ito the United States, last night an
IAlOdAlCCu Ill1L Ileiu LSSSINSu ny WAiS-
Hess by way of Sayville an official
statement from the general staff in
Berlin, as follows: .rr
"On the right wing of the German
army beyond the Disc. the battle has
come to a standstill. F1anking move
lments of the French army have had no
Isuccess. Between there and the for
lest of Argonne no serious fighting
took place. To the east of the Ar
Igonne, Varennes was taken by the
IGermans.
Their advance, is continuing. The
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