Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-23
THE WAR IN EUROPE
News Paragraphs Telling Of Happen
inus at the Front.

ings at the Front.
The German cruiser Emden has been
busy this week in Far Eastern waters.
She has sunk four British steamers
and a dredger, and captured two other
vessels-the steamers EXford ana
Saint Egbert.
Austrian submarines have raided
Antivari. Montenegro. and destroyed
several submarines.
Italy has decided not to engage in
the war. She has notified the Powers
she may find it necessary to occupy
Avalona, Albania, owing to chaotic
conditions in that country.
According to the dispatches Belgian
refugees are beginning to return to
their homes from Holland. German
military authorities have ordered all
German civilians to leave Brussels ow-
ing to a shortage Of supplies.
Land battles in West Flanders and
northern France are being contested
with a fury and tenacity that would
indicate that strategic importance is
attached to the positions held by the
opposing armies. When town is
reached, street fighting generally de-
velops. One side gains an advantage
only to lose it when the other SIDE
brings up reinforcements.
An engagement between torpedo
boat destroyers and submarines is re-
ported to have taken place in the Bal
tic sea, this week.
A revolutionary outbreak in Portu-
gal Wednesday was promptly sup
pressed. It was learned from an au-
thoritative Portuguese source in Lon :
don that the Portuguese government
had been in close communication with
Great Britain and was prepared TO
Ill l. loh hla fnrNpS the
side of the Allies. The Portuguese
congress met yesterday and 1t is eX-
pected will take some action on this
subject.
Great Britain is adopting stricter
measures against Germans and Austrl-
ans in England Hundreds Of men are
being held in the detention camps.
The opposing armies at Roulers ap-
pear to be playing game OF you let
me in this time, I'll let you IN next.
A correspondent says 10000 Germans
last week occupied Roulers and later
moved on to reinforce the army near
Nieuport and DiXmude, leaving only
about 100 men to hold Roulers. On
Sunday 200 French dragons from
Ypres routed this guard and took pos
session. Several thousand reinforce
ments soon came up and pullt parrl-
cades in the streets and posted artll-
lery A German force hastily deSpatch- :
ed from Bruges and Client later swept
down on the town and, supported Dy
artillery, gained an entrance. flerce
street lighting followed, the French be-
ing forced to retreat. Once again the
Germans occupied the town and burn
ed down many buildings to open way
for their artillery. Many Of the inhab- =
itants, the correspondent says, must
have lost their lives In the celiars
where they sought refuge. ON Tues
day reinforcements for the allies ar
rived with heavy guns, and after an
all-night bombardment recaptured the
city. ..
the Prussian diet will today accept an
emergency bill for a war credit OF
1915, 600. 900 of which $100,000,000 will
be for the relief Of East Prussia.
A new Belgium army, including the
1914 conscripts, as we'll as thousands
of volunteers, is said to be in training
in France This new army hopes TO
do much toward winning Belgium
from the Germans.
An official report by General French,
commanding the British expeditionary
force, says that from September IL, 10
October s, British losses in killed
wounded and missing was 56l ohcers
and 1880 men.
An Amsterdam newspaper says that
the German commanders are deter
mined to end drunkenness among offi-
GERS and men, much Of which has been
reported from various places in Bel
gium. Orders have been issued for
bidding the sale of liquors and officers
are ordered not to drink any liquors In
the houses where they are billeted:
A Pekin dispatch says that the Ger
man charge d'affaires there, has re.
ceived a dispatch which, 1t is believed
sanctions the capitulation OF Using
Tau, the German protectorate In Chl-
ma, 10 the Japanese, under certain con-
ditions.
A dispatch from Odessa says that
great packs of wolves are infesting the
battlefields in Galacia, and even pur-
sue the living whose boots ana clothes
are encrusted with blood. 1t is otten
necessary at night to fire volleys to
drive the brutes away.
The Austrian Hungarian govern
ment has decided to summon TO the
colors all men between "a and SO years
of age for service in the Lundstrum,
who have hitherto not been serving on
account of physical disabilities.
The government of Denmark is ask
ing prices on 1000 rifles of American
make.
1t has developed that Winston
Churchill, first lord of the British ad-
miralty, was with the British naval
brigade in the trenches before Ant
werp. He reconnoitered the German
position in an aeroplane, and just be-
fore the order was given to retire, ne
urged the marines to hold out twenty
four hours longer, until big guns coulu
arrive from England.
Yesterdays dispatches reported lit
tie change in the situation along the
line of battle. The contending armies
seemingly are so nearly equal in
strength that neither can force the
other back, pierce the front or get
around the wings.
The battle around the fortress OF
Prazempl is still raging furiously.
The fortress still holds out and there
is no indication of its early surrender.
In Poland. the preliminary battle,
at least, has moved little more
swiftly. The Russians report that
they have driven back the first German
offensive move against Warsaw, the
Polish capital, and the fortress of
Ivangorod. All the Russian accounts
refer to this as a great victory. They
declare the Germans, besides losing
many prisoners and guns, have left
large quantities of ammunition ano
provisions in the trenches they had
prepared for their defense.
The English Indian troops III
France have not yet taken part in any
of the fighting.
AS though the Belgians already had
not suffered sufficiently from the war,
villages along the coast north of Os-
tend are suffering severely from shell
fire. Lying, as they do, between the
German and British warships off the
coast of each, some are reported wipec
out and others badly damaged. 1t Is
believed virtually all the inhabitants
fled when the Belgian army retired
behind the User river
A private letter received in Am
sterdam from high official in Ber-
lin. says that General Count Won
Matlke. chief of the German staff, is
dying as the result of an affection OF
the liver. Everything possible is be-
ing done to keep Won Moltke'S con-
dition secret from the German army
the letter says.
1t is reported that Italy has land
ed marines at Avalona, Albina.
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