Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-12-16
The European War Day by Day.
Turks Beaten, Land and Sea-

dispatches. Russian army head
quarters in the Caucasus reports the
Turks, whose strong resistance to the
invaders from the North compelled
them to retreat, have now been re-
pulsed everywhere and are being pur-
sued beyond the Euphrates river,
suffering heavy losses.
The British admiralty announced
the old Turkish battleship Messu-
dieh, which carried 600 men, had
been destroyed by British subma-
rine. To accomplish the feat the
submarine penetrated the supposedly
impregnable Dardanelles.
The Official Statement.
The official bureaus statement is
as follows: ....:'..
Yesterday submarine Bill, in
charge Of Lieut.. Commander N. B.
Holbrook, Of the royal navy, entered
the Dardanelles and in spite of the
difficult current dived under five
rows Of mines and torpedoed the
Turkish Messudieh, which was guard
ing the mine fields. Although pur-
sued by gun-fire and torpedo boats,
the Bill returned safely after being
submerged, on one occasion, for nine
hours.
when last seen the Messudieh
was sinking by the stern.'
Lieut.. Commander Holbrook is
one Of five brothers, all serving with
| the colors, the sons of Col. Arthur
Holbrook, newspaper owner of
| Portsmouth.
The Latest Reports.
| London, Dec. 15.-British mill
tary authorities announced to-day
fighting in northern France had re-
commenced, and that a combined at
tack by the allies in Belgium, south
of Ypres, had resulted in the capture
Of German trenches and substantial
progress.
This is the first occasion in several
weeks on which the British authori-
ties have considered the day-to-day
activities of the allies Of sufficient
Importance to issue such a statement
| London suggests it may mean the
allies have at last begun a general
offensive movement.
German Gain i'm Alsace.
The French war office admits that
q In,
infantry gained a foothold." Bonn
bardment of st. Leonard and of Com
mercy by the Germans also has been
mentioned in the last two official
! French statements.
Such confiden. claims have been
made by the allies during the last
week concerning the success of their
new movement against the German
line that the Berlin military authori-
ties have issued a special statement
to contradict them.
The definite statement is made in
Rotterdam that the Germans have
begun a retreat, falling back in Bel
gium toward a prepared line farther
from the coast Official confirmation
was lacking, however.
Germany has shifted so many of
her troops to the eastern arena that
the allies must now clearly outnum-
Der them in France and FLANDERS.
This condition, taken together with
the fact of French and British rein
forcements, is leading Berlin, accord
ing to report, to expect pronounced
activity by the allies at any moment.
Battles Rage on East Front.
Bloody struggles continue in Po-
land and Galicia between the Rus
SLAMS and the Austro Germans.
North OF the Vistula, along the
MlaWa front, the struggle seems to
be favoring the Russians, but nei-
ther side claims a decisive victory
anywhere along the western front.
The final engagement still remains
to be fought out between Lodz and
the Vistula
Austrians Quit Belgrade.
Vienna, Dec. 15.-The abandon
ment Of Belgrade by the Austrians Is
acknowledged in an official statement
given out at army headquarters to-
day. The statement follows:
'In the southern theatre OF wal
the retirement Of our right wing in.
volved a change in the military situ-
alton which made it advisable for us
to abandon Belgrade, which was
evacuated without fighting.
! "Our trOons have foup,ht Ionp n