The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-11-13


prizes that the Germans had conveyed
into the Kiauchau harbor early in thu
war. The German prisoners who were
taken when the fortress SURRENDERED
have been placed on transports an(
will be interned in southern Japan.
Ten aeroplanes, four German anC
six French, engaged in an air battle
over Reims. The engagement ended
in French victory.
The cars troops are reported tt
have routed the Germans from Wir
ballen. osen, entered by the Rus
slams for the first time, is one of the
richest districts in West Prussia.
A dispatch to the Times from Rot
terdam says it is reported that the
Germans fighting in South Belgium
are chiefly volunteers and that 5000,
900 volunteers between the ages OF
nineteen and twenty-one years are
drilling in Germany.
The British admiralty announces in
London the occupation of Fac. a port
of Asiatic Turkey at the mouth of the
River Shat-el-Arab, in the Persian gulf
There were nc British casualties.
Advices from German sources by
wireless to London say that the Sheik
ul-Islam, ecclesiastical head of the 220,
100000 Mohammedans in the world
has proclaimed a holy war of Islam
against the enemies of Turkey.
The bloody battle between the Ger
mans and the allies in the region be-
tween Dixmude and the River Lys is
still undecided, according to an OIL
cial announcement issued at Paris
Neither of the contestants have been
able to break the mighty deadlock.
The greatest success gained on the
side of the allies since the beginning
of the war has been the complete vic
tory of the Russian army against the
Germans in Poland, East Prussia and
Galicia. This was the word conveyed
to General Joffre and Lord Kitchener
In kilograms by Grand Duke Nicholas
of Russia, commander of the cars
army.
1t is officially announced at Tokyo
that Using Tao has fallen. The Ger
man fortress surrendered to the An.
glo-Japanese forces after the besieg
ers, in desperate infantry charge
had captured the middle fort of the
first line of defense while the Teutons'
eyes were blinded by powerful search
lights.
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 Brunswick-Lunebourg the
kaiser's son-in-law, Is at the palace
being treated for a wound.
MOSCOW newspapers report that the
new king of Roumania has decided to
his encourage: 1--WE shall certainly
have to go to war;"
A private telegram received at &c.
neva from wealthy American states
that Americans in Constantinople are
I'm great danger. Chaos reigns, he
says. Americans are considered Eng.
lish by the populace, and he expresses
the hope that American warships will
arrive in time to rescue the refugees.
1t is reported that 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 dispatch to London from Amster-
dam. An almost unbroken line of the
Germans, however, was seen going
eastward, extending from Leke to
Thourout.
Taking the offensive against the
Germans, the allies have crossed the
User river. according to official state.
ment 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 Turk.
ish fleet has been driven from the
Black sea and is now effectively bot.
tied up in the Bosporus, with the Rus.
sian Black sea fleet standing guard al
the entrance
France has followed the lead al
Great Britain and declared war on
Turkey.
The German cruiser Karlsruhe has
captured three more British steam
ers in the south Atlantic.
Battleships and battlecruisers, de
tached from the British grand fleet
are searching the North sea for Ger
man quadron of four battleships and
four. cruisers which slipped from vii
helmshaven for a raid on the English
coast.