The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27
ITALY DECLARES
WAR ON TURKEY
GERMAN FLEET LEAVES GULF OF
RIGA AFTER SEVERE DEFEAT
IN FIERCE NAVAL BATTLE.
RUSSIANSSIAk II SHIPS
BATTLESHIP MOLTKE WITH 1,1o7
MEN AND TEN OTHER SHIPS
LOST BY THE KAISER

Western Newspaper Union News Services.
Amsterdam Russian claims of
great German losses in the naval bat
tie in the gulf of Riga are repudiated
in semi-official telegram received
from Berlin, which says that no dread
nought or cruisers were sunk or dam
aged.
London, Aug 25.-A dispatch from
Rome to the Daily Telegraph says the
Balkan league is to be reconstructed
with provision for putting "a com
bined army of 100000 men in the
field. This will be put at the disposal
paign.
London, Aug. 24.-Italy has declared
war on Turkey.
Marquis di Garroni. Italian ambas-
sador to Turkey, Saturday handed to
the Porte note declaring Italy con-
sidered herself in a state of war with
Turkey and demanded his passports,
according to an official telegram from
dam and transmitted to the Central
News. The reasons given in the note
for Italy's declaration of war were
the support given by Turkey to the re-
volt in Libya and the prevention of
the departure Of Italian residents
from Syria. The declaration of hos
tilities by Italy has been expected for
several days, the immediate cause be-
ing Turkeys recent refusal to permit
thousands of Italian subjects to leave
Turkish territory. Protests we're sent
from Rome and the matter was the
subject of diplomatic negotiations the
past week. Italy, it is reported, has
been holding a large squadron in read
mess to sail for Turkish points. Sew
eral army corps also have been in
readiness for several days to move to
a secret destination.
A dispatch to the Central News from
Petrograd says:
The President of the Duma has an
nounced that the Germans lost the
battleship Moltke, three cruisers and
seven torpedo boats in the Riga bat
tle." fS a. hs
An official communication issued In
Petrograd says:
THE German fleet has left the gulf
Our destroyers in the Black sea have
sunk over 100 Turkish boats. The
German battle-cruiser Moltke, which
was of the dreadnought style, was
vessel of $4,000 tons and carried in
ordinary times complement of 1,107
men. 1t was a sister ship of the fam
Gus Goeben which became part of
the Turkish navy after the commence
ment of the war and was re-christened
Sultan Selim."
The correspondent adds that British
submarines aided the Russian fleet.
London.-Fourteen steamers, with a
total gross tonnage of 1883 were
sunk in forty-eight hours by German
submarines. This toll, which estab-
fishes record for so short period.
was more than twice as heavy as that
levied by underwater craft in the
preceding week Three other vessels
reported torpedoed may. add another
26,965 tons to the aggregate destroyed
in two days.
| London.-The big White Star line
steamer Arabic, formerly a favorite
ship of the Liverpool Boston service,
but which on her present trip was on
the way to New York, was torpedoed
and sunk by a German submarine on
the 18th, southeast of Fastnet There
were 423 persons on board = ISL
passengers and 242 members of
the crew. White Star line Of
ficials report that five of the passen-
gers of the liner. two of them Ameri
cans. are dead nine others missing.
and believed to have perisbed; and
forty members of the crew dead.
Official announcement was received
in London from Berlin of the capture
of the important Russian fortress of
Novogeorgievsk and more than 20, 900
men. AS the Austrians and Germans
press on to the last of the outlying
fortresses standing between the Rus
sian capital and the invaders, Petro-
grad is discussing the advisability of
removing the government to its an
cient seat at Moscow, always consid-
cred the heart of the nation. Kovno
is now definitely in the hands of the
Germans.
Daniels viii Ask 81, 100000.