The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-12
FRENCH RETAIN HOLD ON
LONG LINE Of POSITIONS
Continued From First Page.
engagement worthy of being
called real battle.
German Fleet Held in Check.

4 ScTntdU Ticot r1oiu III SHcSN
London. Aug. u, $40 a. m.-One
salient point energies from the latest
news of the great war. 1t is what Is
described here as the silent victory"
This applies to the fact that the North
Sea, over which almost absolute ST.
| lence has prevailed SO long, is now
open to shipping without serious dan
ger, except that from mines. The
steamship services from Denmark To
London and from Newcastle to Nor
| way are being resumed.
! These facts. in the opinion OF the
authorities here, imply that the Ger
man fleet for the time being is safely
held In check.
German Cruiser Forced to Flee.
/ Boston, Aug. IA battle at sea
| between "A British cruiser and Ger
man cruiser about $50 miles north OF
San Salvador was reported by Captain
Terjesen of the Norwegian fruit
steamer I>ovland, which arrived last
night from Cuba. The German war
ship finally was forced to flee before
the broadsides OF the British cruiser,
| according to the captain, who said sew
eral shots fell near his ship.
The battle, he reported, occurred
| Tuesday night, August 6. When the
German cruiser moved away the Brit
ish warship gave pursuit, Smelling the
fleeing vessel with her forward guns.
while the German ship fired its after
| batteries Whether either ship was
seriously damaged could not be learn
ed.
Describes Attack by Submarines.
Edinburgh. Aug. 12.-The Scotsman
today prints the story Of an eye-wit-
ness OF the naval battle between Brit
ish cruisers and German submarines
in which the submarine ''U-15" was
lost.
| THE cruiser squadron on Sunday,
the story ran, suddenly became aware
of the approach of the submarine fiot-
| lila. The enemy was submerged,
only the periscopes showing above the
surface Of the water. The attitude OF
| the British in the face OF this attack
was cool and the enemy was utterly
msled when suddenly the cruiser Bir-
mingham. steaming at full speed, fred
the first shot. This shot was care
fully aimed, not at the submerged
body of a submarine but at the thin
line of the periscope.
THE gunner was superbly accurate
and shattered the periscope. There
upon. the submarine, now a blinded
thing, rushed along under water in
imminent danger of self-destruction
from collision with the cruisers.
"The sightless submarine was then
forced to come to the surface. where
upon a Birmingham gunner fired the
second shot of the fight. This shot
struck at the base of the coming
tower, ripping the whole of the upper
structure and the "U-t5" sank like a
stone. The remainder of the submar-
inc fiotilla fled"
German Cruisers in Dardanelles.
London Aug 1.-THE admiralty
and war Office information bureau
gave out the following last night:
There is good reason to believe
that the German cruisers Breslau and
Goeben have taken refuge in the OAR
ing to international usage.
According to international custom
in time OF war, If the Breslau and
| Goeben have taken refuge In the Oar
danelles they will be compelled to coal
within "a hours and put to sea or else
be interned until the end OF the war.
These two cruisers we're reported from
Athens as rounding the southern ex-
tremity Of Moreya, Greece, at full speed
yesterday morning In what direc-
ton they were headed was not stat
ed.
4 Russians Take German Vessels.
i London. Aug. IL. 2:55 a. ma st.
Petersburg dispatch to the Post says
the Russian fleet is actively securing
the Baltic sea. Twenty captured mer-
chant vessels have been taken to Cron-
stadt and their crew will be removed
TO the interior as prisoners of war.
Protest on Cable Cutting.
Washington, Aug. 12.-Secretary
Bryan has transmitted to Great Brit
ain formal representations made by
Germany on tho subject of cable and
wireless communication to and from
a neutral country such as the United
States to belligerent countries.
Should Great Britain continue to
prevent Germany from sending cable
messages through London TO the Unit
ed States IL is believed Germany will
make a vigorous effort TO have the
United States remove it's censorship
on German owned wireless stations.
The Hague convention expressly
states that it is not obligatory upon n
neutral power to exercise censorship
over either wireless or cable commu-
nication.