The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-30
CRUISERS FIRE
ON UNDEFENDED
SEAPORT TOWNS
Theodosia and Novorossysk
Bombarded Simultaneous
ly, According to Report.
NOTHING TO INDICATE
FORENARNING TO PEOPLE
Long-Sustained Neutrality of OF
toman Empire Finally
Breaks.
YIELDS TO GERMAN PRESSURE
Marks Entry OF Ninth Nation
Into Great European
Struggle.
Attitude Of turkey
Long Subject old Doubt

HE OutstnndinE features OF the
grcnt war urc entrance OF
Turkey into the struggle, MS re-
ported from Pctrogrnd nnd Tokyo,
md Prince Louis OF BattenberE's re-
tirement ns the First Sen Lord OF
the british Admiralty.
Ever since the war bcEnn the at
.titudc OtTmrkey hns been tho sub
Ject OF doubt. 1t has bccn reported
n number of times that TurltSy wns
rend> to Join forces with Germany,
nnd 1t WINS even snid that Germany
hal supplied the Ottoman govern
meDt with large sums OF money.
Great Britain warned Turkey to
keep OF, and recent ndvices from
Constnntinoplc Indicated that Tur-5
key intended to maintain her neu-
trnlity.
Now comes word that n Turkish
cruiser has bombnrtled the Russian
senport Of Theoil osin, In Crimcn, mud
TINT another Turkish cruiser Inns
thrcnteHedt the seaport of Nov-'
...orossysk, On the, Rinck Sea,
Under stress OF pursuit iby british
Warships, the German cruisers Goe.
hen aud Brcslau curly In the war
took refuge Mt Constantinople.
They were purchased by Turkey,
hut the German officers and crews
were retained. later they sailed
forth. and n warning WINS issacd by
Russia That should the Russian
wnrships meet these two cruisers
they would open IRE. The former
German warships have proved
cause of Irritation throughout the
Inst few weeks to the Miles, md
~ nj hn
government TO remove the Germans
from the vessels, bat Turkey replied
TINT II WINS n domestic question.
Meanwhile, Turkey hns bccn under
surveillance by the Miles. Her ne
tiOn In the present attack on Rus
sim scnaorts hnS not been explained,
hut 1t Is possible her Injection into
the war may bring to nrms some of
the BaiInn states, which up to the
present have remnincd quiescent,
The retirement of Prince Louis of
Dnttcnherg from the British nd
Htirnlty will be learned with no snr-
prise. for the British admiral, who
held the post of First Sea Lord, has
hccn the subject of newspaper
campaign because of his Austrian
birth nnd his German connections.
III tCtteT OF FcStEnHtlOn, t'FlnCe
Louis says he Inns been driven TO
the pninrul conclusion thnt his
birth and pnrentaRr hnve impaired
his usefulness on the Board OF tho
Admiralty, and TINT he withdrew.
hoping to- facilitate the task OF nd
minfstrntion TO which he Inns de-
voted his life.
Along the battle fronts, both In
belgium and the north of France
mud In the eastern arena, the same
story LIS being told of inlctcrmInnte
actions. The British admiralty
continues to call attention to the
effective scrvice rendered by the
warships of tho North Sen coDst:
the French tell of German repuIncs
and French progress; the Germans.
spenkinE OF the bnttIcs In France
and belgium. declare their progress
tx entirely satisfactory.
The Russian hosts, according 10
ndriccs, arc pushing the Germans
and Austrians hack. This. to n ccr-
tain extent. Germany has admitted,
but the Austrinna aver they nre
holding their own.