The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-11-13

London, Nov. 1.-THE German
cruiser Emden, terror of the Indian
and Pacific oceans, whose sensational
raids upon British shipping and even
upon allied warships, have been CON
slant source of humiliation to the
British admiralty, is no more.
Finally forced into battle by the
Australian cruised Sydney, the EN-.
den was sent ashore, on fire from
stem to stern. Its grave is on one OF
the Keeling, or Cocos, islands, in the
Indian ocean, 500 miles southwest of
Java, where it was driven by the Sgd.
ney after sharp fight.
konigsberg Bottled Up.
The news of the destruction of the
Emden was announced by the admir-
atty. Almost at the same time came
word of another British victory on the
sea, when it was announced that the
German protected cruiser Konigsberg,
which some weeks ago disabled the
British cruiser Pegasus, is bottled up
in the Ruff river opposite Malta
island, on the German East African
coast south of Dar-es-Salaam.
The British cruiser Chatham, a ship
of exactly the same type as the sgd.
ney, which accounted for the Emden,
found the German warship hiding in
the mouth of the Ruff. There the
British man-o'war blocked the Ko-
nigsberg's way out by sinking several
vessels in the river channel.
At Each Others Threats.
London, Nov. 12.-Claims of the
contending armies in the eastern and
western theaters of war, especially as
concerns the situation in West
Flanders, is detailed i'm so few re-
spects as to leave but one big fact on
land or sea undisputed. That is
the destruction of the German raider
Emden and the trapping of the Ger
man cruiser Koenigsberg. The British
marine insurance rate was cut in half
almost instantly.
Yet all the armies of warning ma
tons were at each others threats
the Germans and Russians clashing
in cavalry engagements along the
German frontiers, the Russians still
harassing the Austrians in Galicia,
and the French, British and Belgians
uniting to hold back what still ap-
pears to be a tremendous German at
tempt to break through the allied line
in the vicinity of Ypres.
Many dispatches speak of the move
ment of German troops eastward from
Belgium as forecasting the necessity
of reinforcements along the eastern
frontier, but neither the French nor
German official statements indicate
any slackening in the violence of the
German attack in west Flanders. In
fact, the French statement says that
between the sea and Armentieres the
opposing forces were both acting on
the offensive.
A Double Offensive.
AS to the outcome of this double
offensive, the rival contentious are alb
solutely contradictory, the Germans
claiming slow progress near Ypres and
the French asserting that the German
attack was beaten back.
In view of what seems to be sus-
tanned and concerted German effort
in this region the reports of the Ger
man retirement are hardly borne out,
although it is said they have moved
their headquarters still further east,
this time from Client to Alost.
No Marked Change.
The situation along the battle line
in France proper, from the standpoint
of the allies, was summed up in a dis
patch from an observer" with the
Indian corps, who says there has been
no marked change anywhere, though
he processes to see gradual weak
ening of the German attacks.
Aside from the military aspects of
the war, what stood out boldest was
Germany's reported threat to cut of
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