The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1914-12-10
KAISER ILLNESS
NOT DANGEROUS
Most Reliable Information Indicates
Ruler Is Recovering From Attack
Of Influenza.


London, Dec lO-The British pub
liz In manifeAting fully M keen an in
terest In the reports Of the German
emperors Illness As In the news Of the
naval victory. From late dispatches
received here II appears that Emper-
o. William was seized with an at
tack OF influenza while on secret
visit TO Emperor Francis Joseph The
most reliable sources 0f information,
by way Of Holland and Copenhagen
Indicate that he now u making pro
gress toward recovery.
German newspapers which have
Just arrived here. make no mention "
the name beyond brief announcement
that he had returned 10 Berlin This
apparently indicates that the news Of
his illness was suppressed until dan
ger was passed.
The admiralty has preserved 81
lence Rs TO the make up Of the squad
ron that sent the German cruisers
ScharnhOrst, Gneisenau and Leipsig
to the bottom off Falkland Islands
and news of the progress Of the pur-
suit Of the cruisers Dresden and Nurn-
berg is awaited anxiously. A dis
patch from Toxic intimated that the
squadron that defeated the Germans
was all British and that II was great
er In numbers and equipment than
the Germans -
Paris, Dec. i0.-An official state
ment issued by the war department
today SAYS:
THE day ~ December Q passed
quietly in Belgium and the Arras re
gion
"In the region of IelueSnoy. and
around Andechy we advanced from
two hundred 10 six hundred yards.
"In the Aisne region in Champagne
there was no change. German artil-
lery Yesterday evidenced increased ac-
tivitv hut was agnin mastered by
ours. In the environs ot Rheims the
heavy FrpnCh pieces compelled the
Germans to evacuate several trenches.
an the Perthes region the enemy
pndeavorcd 10 recapture the intrench-
ments he lost December 2 hut was Ne
pulsed
"In all the Argonne region we con
tinurd To make progress We have oy-
cupled new trenches there and re-
pulsed sIN counter attacks
"On the heights Of Meuse we have
n distinct advantage In an artillery
duel
"In the forest of Inpretre we have
taken new trenches"
Petrograd. Dec. 9-CDelayed Am
: official communication today says
. ON the left bank OF the Fstula on
the evening Of December the Ger
mans began stubborn offensive
movement along the entire front IRON
How to Glowno The attack was ne
heated again and again, the Germans
advancing In solid columns,
aided by searchllghts, our fire
: decimated the enemy who was every
where rcpulsed.
next day desperate fighting was
b resumed ON the LOwiCZ How line with
out success 10 the enemy
The lighting south Of Cragow has
continued In alternate offensive and
defrnsiv. movements Two attempts
of the Germans TO break through
were repulsed"
Berlin. Dec i0-TodayS offlcl"
communication Gays
' an the district ~ Saualn IN,
French yesterday confined themselves
TO heavy artillery firing.
"A renewed French attack on Re
crd and Courcullies did not make
progress. The attack broke down IN
der the fire Of our artillery, the enc
! my suffering heavy loss.
Yesterday three Of the enemy
|, aviators dropped ten bombs on Fr''
, hurg i'm Baden outside the range oi
, operationS. No damage was done Th'
, incident shows again that open town
! not situated within range Of opera
, t,ons have been attacked with bomb'
by the enemy.
Near the Mazurian lakes, only ar
filler, encounters are taking place
"In northern Poland our columns
advancing on the right bank OF TN
? Vistula took Prxnsnysz by storm ~
: hundred prisoners and some machine
uIns were captured our attack alon'
; the yistula In being continued.
, "In southern Poland, Russian at
.