Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-09
THE WAR IN EUROPE
News Paragraphs Telling of Happen
inos at the Front

News Paragraphs Telling OF Happen
ings at the Front.
The following cablegram from Berlin,
Ontario, was sent to Lord Kitchiner
on Tuesday: Berlin, Ontario, with
$4,000 population, of which 10000 are
German or Of German descent, proposes
to raise on october and Z, $4,000 or
more for the national patriotic fund"
A second eXpeditionary force of 2O,-
900 and 10 per cent additional for re-
enforcement for the first force, $4,000
in all, is being raised in Canada for
the allied forces.
The German cavalry has again made
it's appearance in force along the bat
tie lines of the Aisne. disproving the
reports that all it's horses had been
rendered useless by an epidemic Of
glanders.
Whether it can be accepted as true
or not, a Bordeaux special dispatch re-
ports a general shakeup in German
army command following, but not
necessarily the result of the reported
removal of Gen. Won Moltke as chief
of the general staff. The most impor-
tant of the changes is the shifting of
Gen. Hindenburg from east Prussia to
assume command at Cracow. He is
succeeded in the field, where he scored
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Gen. Curt Won Morgen.
The British government has put an
embargo against the shipment Of wool
from England to any country.
The seat of government of France,
moved to Bordeaux several weeks ago,
is soon to be removed to Paris, ac-
cording to French advices.
Because the Austrian navy laid great
numbers of mines in the Adriatic sea,
the French navy has found it neces-
sary to do likewise as a measure of
self protection.
A Berlin dispatch says that the
Germans now hold 100000 prisoners, OF
whom 100000 are Russians, 10000 Bel
gians, 1000 British and the balance
French.
The Matin of Paris, prints dispatch
from Petrograd, which says that the
Germans lost $4,000 men killed, wound
ed and captured in the fighting in the
Augustowo and Marrampol districts.
Nieman and other rivers were choked
with the dead.
The Frankfurter Zeitung, one of
Germanys most influential papers, has
published q bitter attack against eX-
President Roosevelt and advises Ger
man Americans against voting for him
for president.
A Berlin dispatch says that Russia
has lately issued $375,000,000 Of unse-
cured notes for war purposes.
Says a Rome dispatch Of Monday:
Communications from Russia describe
that the Muscovite empire Is in such
ferment that those knowing the Slav
spirit think the war now headed by the
cZar will assume the character of q
holy crusade, to be like an immense
flood, which, breaking all dykes, will
inundate and eXterminate everything.
A dispatch from Petrogard says the
volunteers who have offered to leave
for the front already number 5,O0O,-
600. General Soukhomlinoff, minister
Of war, declared if the arms factories
haven't time to provide rifles for all,
they will take them from the Ger
mans and Austrians.
The relief fund being raised by the
Prince of Wales, now totals $15,OOO,-
900.
A British ship, from Galveston, Tex,
was sunk by a German mine off the
coast Of Holland, Monday. Her crew
of 35 were rescued.
Col. Hayes, Of the United States
army, who returned this week from
the scene of the fighting, expressed
the opinion that the war will continue
An official dispatch from Berlin,
Wednesday, says the capture of Ant
werp is a certainty. The outer forti-
fications have already been taken.
The German fortress of Kiao Chow,
China, continues to Withstand the as
saults Of the japanese. A report on
Wednesday stated that German un-
protected cruiser, and two gunboats
were so badly damaged by the Jap
anese fleet that they were beached TO
prevent sinking.
A correspondent with the French
army estimates that the fugitive civil
ian population in northern France,
numbers 100000. Many of these
persons are in great distress, 1t Is said:
The following has been sent out
from the German headquarters in
Berlin: Surprise in Germany is eX-
pressed at the amazing activity or the
German cruisers stationed abroad.
Though it was generally expected that
the vessels would fall easy victims TO
British warships within a fortnight
after the declaration Of war, Germans
now are astonished to learn Of the re-
ports in the British and French press
of the damage they are doing to the
merchant marine of the enemy
Army chaplains with the Allies ana
the Germans accompany their troops
right up to the firing lines and are
even holding prayer services in the
trenches.
The seat of the Belgian government
has been removed from Antwerp to
Ostend. Antwerp must soon give way
to the German attack.
The second son Of Emperor William
Prince Eitel Frederick, is reported to
have been injured by fall from his
horse in a recent battle. Already TWO
other sons of the emperor, the Princes
Joachim and Oscar, have suffered
physical ailments as a result or thelr
arduous campaigns.
The forty-third German casualty
list issued in Berlin, Wednesday, con,
tains 1O.600 names of dead, wounded
and missing.
A Vienna dispatch confirms pre-
vious report that the Austrian army
in Galacia, has been placed under the
control of the German staff. despite
the opposition of Emperor Francis
Joseph.