Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-10-08
European War News

cided. Neither the Germans nor the
allies claim any decisive victory, al
though the French and British troops
have advanced beyond the Aisne. On
the other hand, the Germans contend
that the great battle remains draw.
The left wing attachments that
reached Arras moved out to meet the
invaders and after severe engage
ment, fell back to the east and to the
north of Arras.
French official circles are claiming
the battle of the Aisne as a decisive
French and British victory, although
the war office of the republic refrains
from announcing it as such, because,
1t is explained. 1t does not wish to be
placed in the position of making any
premature claims.
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The thirty-eighth German casualty
list, made public in Berlin, contains
about eight thousand names. 1t in
cludes three major generals. one killed
and two wounded. Major General
Schermening was killed, while Mai.
Gen. Emil Henigst was slightly and
Maj. Gen. Oskar Reuter- was danger
ously wounded.
According to dispatches received
In London, within a week a new Rus
sian army, 100000 strong, will join
the present armies in Poland and Ga
licia for "Russia's principal attack on
Germany" When this army is mobil-
lied it will mean a force of S,000.0
men to invade Germany.
The German crown princess, ac-
companied by her two eldest sons. has
left Berlin to join the crown prince at
his headquarters in France. She pur-
poses personally to bestow decorations
upon officers Of her dragon regiment.
The British oil ship Elsinor, carry
ing 10000 barrels of oil, was sunk by
the German cruiser Leipzig of the
coast OF Chile on September 15, and
her crew were landed on Galapagos
islands.
The Germans are desperately at
lacking Fort Vaelhem, the key to
Flanders, and the magazine of the fort
has blown up. Fort Vaelhem is one
of the strongest forts of the outer
chain surrounding Antwerp
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Vienna is being FASTENED. Asiatic
cholera has broken out.
Germans retiring through Angus
| towo forests west of Grodno after
failing to force passage of Niemen
river. Russians seek to cut their com.
munications. Russians capture German
position near Koptzyewo.
Announcement in London of the loss
of another British steamer was made
by the government press bureau in the
following statement: THE owners of
the trawler st. Cuthbert of Grimsby
have been informed that the ship was
sunk In the North sea on August q
by a German torpedo boat.
A demand to know II Great Britain
is interfering with shipments of cop
| per from the United States to Rotter-
dam, lin neutral bottoms, was made on
the secretary of state by unanimous
vote of the senate at Washington in a
resolution introduced by Senator
SmOot of Utah.
Col. Frederick Gordon of the Cor
don Highlanders, who was reported to
have been killed in action on the conti-
nent, is a prisoner in Germany. James
w. Gerard, the American ambassador
| in Berlin, sent word to the Gordon
family that Colonel Gordon is alive,
but is prisoner in the German hands.
That the German cruiser Dresden
had been sunk by the British cruisers
Glasgow and Goodhope was told in
New York by passengers on the steam
er Japanese Prince, which arrived
from South American ports.
The battle OF Cracow is on. The
Russians in force have arrived before
the city, and the fighting around the
outer forts is begun in earnest. The
prospect is for the most stubbornly
fought conflict OF all the campaign In
Austria.
In retaliation for losses inflicted on
British ships by German mines, the
British government has decided to
adopt similar methods. Official an
nouncement was made by the ad-
miralty that mines would be haid In
certain portions of the North sea.
The Holland-America line steam
ship Potsdam. which left New York
on September 20 with first and second
class and steerage passengers on
board for Rotterdam. was brought into
Falmouth, England, by a British
| cruiser.
One European. one Punjab police
man and 16 Sikhs were killed. and
many persons were wounded in a riot
| among number OF East Indians
who returned to Calcutta recently
after having been refused admittance
into British Columbia.
The British government notified the
United States that 1t would not inter
| fere with the shipment Of foodetusfs
to Holland in neutral bottoms. Cecil