The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-10-23

of unbiased observers to gauge the
actual situation.
A runnor comes from Ostend by way
of Holland that the allies nave sue
ceeded in blowing up the railroad be-
tween Burgess and Client. 1t is quite
possible, it is stated here, that cavalry
scouts already are IN that vicinity
Stories differ as to the fate Of Prince
Mixmillian of Hesse, whose body is
reported to have been found in North
ern France by French troops. A later
report from Berlin says that the
prince was wounded.
EXECUTE NATIVE CHIEF.
A despatch to the Exchange TcIe-
graph Co., from The Hague, says that
Magma Bell. the native chief Of the
German Kamerun, has been executed
because he attempted to foment anon g
the natives rebellion against Ger
many. The announcement of this is
credited by the correspondent to Herr
Ebermayer, German governor of Kan
erun.
Kamerop Is a German colony of
western equatorial Africa with an area
estimated at 1884, 900 square miles. It
has a population estimated at $780,
900 of whom less~than 1000 are whites
The administration of the colony is
by an imperial governor whose seat
is at Buea.
EVAcUATE osTEND.
Reports that the Germans had evac-
uated Ostend and were retreating
toward Bruges and that their West
Flanders army from the vicinity of the
coast south to Courtrai was being
hammered into a zig-zag line by the
combined efforts of the British navy
and the British, French and Belgian
troops, seemed to coincide at so many
points today that, in the absence OF
claims of any advances from Berlin
opinion here was that the fighting
among tthe canals Of North Belgium
had been generally against the in
vaders.
At any rate the Germans at one
point have been driven pack as far o 8
Thourout and some dispatches say
that their communications in the mid
die of West Flanders have been SO
dtsorganized that troops from Client
are marching direct to Courtrai rather
than join their comrades to the north
who are in danger of being cut off.
The evacuation of Ostend was not
confirmed this morning, but from Ber-
q
were Smelling that town while another
messags says that the guns of the
war vessels had destroyed the village
of SIype on the canal between Ostend
and Bruges, where 1t Is said the Ger
mans have their headquarters. At
Sluis, only a few miles northeast Of
Slype in 1910 a British fleet achieved
a. victory over the French. 1t is clear
now that ships have been playing an
important part in the warfare along
the ocast The admiralty officially an
nounced that the monitors Severn,
Humber and Mersey not only bonn
barded the German position south OF
Ostend but landed detacaments of ma
rines with machine guns.
It is reported from other sources
that eleven war vessels took part in
the operations but they are not named.
CuriousIy enough the monitors re-
tain that title from "Lincoln's cheese
box" of civil war fame, and so far
apparently they have been able to
dodge submarine attacks. How the
German submarines got to Ostend is
unknown. With the fighting along
the Belgian coast hardly more than
seventy miles from Dover that area
Of hostilities necessarily holds chief
interest with the British public, though
according to last nights Paris Official
communication there violent actions
here and there along the To-Rnile front,
extending almost due north and south
from Newport to La Bassee. Every
where the allies claimed to be holding
their positions.
Reinforcements for the German
right have been spoken of daily since
Ostend was taken and today comes, a
report that Austrian forces were be-
ing transferred from the Italian from
tier for this purpose
Runors that Emperor William is
seriously i'll are coming in here via
Paris and this with a report that
German f1eet is of Faisterbo. Sweden,
are among the usual crop Of uncon-