The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-12-18
GERMANS ROUTE RUSSIANS
IN POLAND; FOUR SHIPS Are
SUNK OFF ENGLISH COAST
Admiralty Orders All Traffic Stopped Between Marlborough
Head and Newcastle Indefinitely; Passenger Vessel
Among Those Destroyed in the North Sea.
BRAVERY OF PRUSSIAN REGIMENTS WINS DAY
OF BITTER FIGHTING FOR TEUTONS IN POLAND
Berlin War Office Claims Three Attacks by French the West
Front Have Been Repulsed; No News from the East
and West Prussian Frontiers.
(BY ASSOCIATED PREss)

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BERLIN, Dec. 17.-Army head
quarters today issued the following
statement: yesterday the French
continued their attacks at Nieuport
without success. Attacks were at
tempted at Saillebecke and LaBassee
but were repulsed with heavy losses
to the enemy. The intention Of tho
French to throw a bridge over the
Aisne at scissors was prevented by
our artillery. French earthworks to
the east Of Rheims were destroyed.
There is no news on the east and west
Prussian frontiers. The Russian Of
fensive against Silesia and Posen has
completely broken down. In the whole
Of Poland the enemy was forced to re-
treat after fierce and stubborn
frontal battles and is being pursued
everywhere. During the fighting in
northern Poland yesterday and the
previous day the bravery of the west
Prussian regiments gained victory.
The effect of this victory cannot yet
be estimated.'
Mines Sink Three Ships.
SOUTH SHIELDS, England, Dec.
17.-Three steamers, one believed to
be a passenger ship, were sunk by
mines in the North Sea off Flam-
borough Head, last night. Only one
of these three vessels has so far been
identified. This steamer was the z -
terwater. Twelve of her crew were
saved and seven lost their lives. The
casualties on other ships are not yet
determined, but it is reported that the
crew and passengers Of the passenger
vessel were seen taking to their boats.
The admiralty has announced that all
traffic between Marlborough and
Newcastle has been stopped indefin-
itely.
Ship Sunk Near Scarborough.
SCARBOROUGH, Dec. 17-The
steamer Princess Olga bound for
Aberdeen, Scotland, struck mine off
here last night and went down. The
crew of 18 men landed in their boats.
Great Battle in Progress.
WARSAW, Dec. 17.-A great battle
is in progress at Sochachew, 80 miles
west of Warsaw. The German wedge
is proceeding in a southwesterly di-
rection and with heavy fighting and
great losses has managed to establish
itself a quarter Of mile west of
Sochachew.
Fifty-fve Dead at Hartlepool.
LONDON, Dec. 17.-The Gripping
Of telephone and telegraph wires by
the bombardment yesterday of three
ports on the east coast of England by
German cruisers, together with the
precautions thrown about these towns
by the police and military authorities
made it impossible even today, more
than "a hours after the shelling Of
Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby,
to obtain more than an approximate
estimate of the civilian dead and
wounded. According to the official
statement IS persons met death in
Hartlepool and under Is were wound
ed. At Scarborough the toll was II
dead and 80 wounded. Both official
and unofficial estimates place the num-
Der of casualties at Whitby at two
dead and two wounded. Of the Hartle-
pool casualties seven of the dead were
soldiers while of the wounded ID were
soldiers. The maximum number Of
the wounded is close to $50 persons
This does not include wounded civil
ians who bandaged their own injuries
and left town on the first train to leave
for Hull:
British Bombard Turks.
ATHENS, Dec. TIA British
squadron bombarded the Turkish
troops who concentrated Sunday on
the coast of the Gulf of Saras, in the
north of the Dardanelles. This in
formation was received by cable from
Mytilene. Details are lacking.