Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-12
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European War News


mans, the allies have crossed the User
river. according to official statement
issued at Paris 1t states that they
have advanced slightly to the east of
Newport on the right bank of the User.
The Russian admiralty announced
officially at Petrograd that the Turkish
fleet has been driven from the Black
sea and is now effectively bottled up
in the Bosporus, with the Russian
Black sea feet standing guard at the
entrance.
The correspondent of the Milan Cor
riere Della Sera, who visited Baden,
denies that the crown prince of Ger
many was at the royal palace at
Strassburg wounded. Duke Ernst Au-
gust of MISUNDERSTANDING. the
kaiser's son-in-law, is being treated for
wound at the palace.
France has followed the lead of
Great Britain and declared war on Tur-
key.
A private telegram received at &C.
neva from wealthy American, states
that Americans in Constantinople are
in great danger. Chaos reigns, he
says Americans are considered Eng
fish by the populace, and he expresses
the hope that American warships will
arrive In time to rescue the refugees.
1t is reported that q great battle
has been fought in the North sea be-
tween the British and German fleets.
and that II ships have sunk. No con-
firmation can be obtained.
The Germans are in full retreat
along the entire Belgian front, extend
ing from Thielt to Bruges, according
to a dispatch to London from Amster-
dam. An almost unbroken line of the
Germans, however, was seen going
eastward, extending from Leke to
Thourout
Two British ships were sunk In ad-
dition to the submarine DIS when the
German squadron of eight ships came
out from Kiel with the evident inten-
ton of bombarding the English coast.
and engaged British ships of Var
mouth. The sunken ships were mine
drifters.
An American warship has arrived
at Beirut, Syria, to protect the Chris
tian population there in case OF an
attack by the Mohammedans.
The Berlin press says that eight
German princes have been killed In
the war. six of them aged between
eighteen and twenty.
Bulgaria's entrance into the war as
an ally of Germany and Austria was
foreshadowed by advices received In
Berlin that railroad communication
between the Bulgar kingdom and Ser
via had been broken off.
The Japanese admiralty announced
at Tokyo, that the Austrian cruiser
Kaiserin Elizabeth had been sunk In
the bay of Kiauchau, that Fort Iltis,
the principal point of defense at
Using Tao, has been silenced. and
that Gov. Meyer-Waldeck, the Ger
man commando there. Is reported
to have been Wounded.
On the Russian-Turkish frontier
near Trebizond battles have COM
menced between Russian and Turkish
troops.
1t is reported In Rome that 100000
Turks are massed on the Caucasus
border anC that 100000 are waiting at
Beirut, Jaffa and Syrian ports for
transportation to the Sinai peninsula
The general attack by the Japanese
and British Oh the German fortress
at Using Tao continues.
Four officers of the German gun
boat Geier, now at Honolulu, we're TAX
en- of the liner Korea at San Fran
cisco by Lieutenant Howard of U. 8.
cruiser Cleveland. and will be held as
military prisoners, charged with vio-
lating this country's neutrality.
Thousands OF the kaisers soldiers
have been drowned In the flooded
trenches at Ypres, for the sea has
been let in by the Belgians upon miles
Of beet land. reclaimed and below
high tide.
Battleships and battlecruisers. de-
tached from the British grand fleet.
are searching the North sea for Ger
man squadron of four battleships and
four cruisers which slipped from VIII
helmshaven for a raid on the English
coast
Fierce fighting continues between
the allies and the Germans along the
battle lines In France and Belgium
and between the Germans, Austrians
and Russians in the east. No decisive
engagements have occurred at any
place.
The British admiralty announces
that the entire North sea has been
declared a military area. and that ves-
sells plying its waters will be in grave
danger from mines which 1t has
planted, unless they obey the rules
laid down by the admiralty.
The German cruiser York is report
ed to have struck a mine and was