The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1914-11-26
TUETONIC HOSTS
MEET RUSSIANS
Germans And Austrians Throw Strength
Against The Invading SIaVs
In East
Three BIG BATTLES RAGING
Austria lnvades Servia-French
Claim Successes

Alarmed by the rapid advancement
of the Russians in the east and the
peril to which Berlin is threatened,
the kaiser has thrown the strength Of
his east German army and large
portion Of the Austrian troops on the
czar's forces to check their lnva.
sion. That the Germans have been
successful in impeding the enemy's
progress is admitted in Petrograd.
However, the Russians are optimistic
and point to the hasty defense that
is being made at Kustrin to protect
Berlin as one of the telling points OF
their achievements. Kustrin is only
fifty miles away from the capital,
which has been seriously threatened
in the last few days by the army Of
Grand Duke Nicholas.
Austrian troops have started anoth-
er attack on Servia, much to the alarm
Of Bulgaria and the other Balkan
states. Petrograd advices state that
the Turkish fort at the entrance of
the port Of Khopa in Armenia has
been destroyed by the Russian army of
the Caucasus. The Russian Black sea
| fleet, on the other hand, is said to
have been seriously worsted by Turk
ish ships in the harbor of Sebastopol.
The French lines claim successes
in Argonne. The Italian government
is deeply concerned over the Austrian
invasion Of Seryia, and the govern
ment at Rome has called home all her
ambassadors to European capitals to
confer with the Italian cabinet.
Inclement weather conditions
throughout the war zone prevented
fighting to any considerable extent
during the past week, but the attacks
are beginning to be renewed on both
sides of the empire.
Little significance is being attached
by the officials at Washington to the
firing on naval launch from the Unit
ed States cruiser Tennessee in the
gulf of Smyrna by Turkish guns. The
navy department is inclined to the
belief that the shot was but friend
ly warning against the mined area
of the gulf President Wilson is de-
termined that the United States shall
not engage in war with Turkey, par
ticularly at this time Of the European
crisis
German pluck and determination
was marked to a high degree during
the last week when, despite their
many setbacks, they persisted in their
attacks on the Angio-French lines.
Each time they were repulsed.
The Russian invasion of East Prus-
sia has caused some alarm and divert
ed the attention to that direction. For
more than four days hard fighting has
been reported around Soldau. The
Austrains have also turned their fore
es on the Russians north and east Of
Cracow, the Galician capital which
the cars forces recently captured
and burned.
Despite the severity of the weather
in all sections of Europe and in
face of overwhelming obstacles the
Germans have persisted in their at
tacks on the allies, both to the east
and west.
Gradually, however, they have been
beaten back and have lost ground on
both sides. On the Franco-Belgian
frontier, the allies have driven them
back across the User, and in the east
they have been repulsed by the invad-
ing Russians, who now advise their
war chiefs at Petrograd that they are
withing 1S9 miles of Berlin.
It has been a week Of German ad-
versities, but the Teutonic spirit is in
domitable and the kaiser's forces have
shown the greatest contempt for death
in their unsuccessful onslaughts made
on the British and French. French
successes have been reported south
of Verdun.
The first check upon the various
campaigns along the different battle
lines since the opening of the war
was marked by the blizzards which
swept down from western Poland
across the entire northern portion OF
the German empire and far into Bel
GUM and northern France.