The Elbert County tribune., 1915-02-05
UNDERWATER RAIDERS TOR
PEDo STEAMERS IN CHANNEL
NEAR HAvRE.
LONDON AWAITS BOMBS
LOSS OF THREE BRITISH SHIPS
IN THE IRISH SEA NEAR
LIVERPOOL CONFIRMED.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
London, Feb. 3.-During the last
few days the Germans have been
making desperate efforts to break the
deadlock which has existed for SO
long on both the eastern and western
fronts. They have delivered series
OF attacks. always preceded by artil-
lery activity, on the allied lines in
Flanders and France. and while In al
most every case they have thus won
preliminary advantage, before the
fighting was concluded the French,
British or Belgians have been able to
regain the trenches temporarily lost,
and, in some cases, to occupy the Ger
man positions. In these attacks, ac-
cording to the reports of the British
and French general staffs, the Ger
mans have suffered severe losses.
The German artillery has been sub
jecting the Belgian position in Elan
ders to severe bombardment. which
suggests that the moment has arrived
for another effort to get across the
User, and thence to the French coast
ports. In return the French have
bombarded the railway station at Noy-
on, one of the German military cen
ters behind their advanced lines.
London.-Special orders issued by
the police Monday night caused blinds
to be whsked down all over London
and reports spread that five Zeppelin
dirigibe balloons sighted over Dover
and presumably making inland, had
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the city of London waited for more
than two hours with blinds drawn,
but nothing happened.
Inquiries elected from the police
the information that orders to pre-
pare for an air raid had been issued
! by the war office.
One message from Dover reported
that the raiders had been driven off
by gun fire, but no details were forth
coming.
The batteries at Dover opened fire
on what is thought to have been an
other German raid, but whether by
Zeppelins or submarines, or both, has
not been ascertained.
An early report from Dover said
that five hostile airships were OBJ
served over that town, while later
report announced that they had been
driven off by the gun fire of the forts.
| The German submarine attacks on
British merchant ships continue to be
the paramount topic of discussion,
and predictions are made that food
prices, which are already soaring,
will go still higher II many more
| raids are accomplished.
Paris, Feb. 1.-The French minister
of marine said yesterday that two
British ships had been torpedoed in
the English channel off Havre by
German submarine. They were the
steamers Toku Maru and Icaria. The
Toku Maru was bound from New Zea-
land to England. Her crew was res
cued by the trawler Semper. Her
cargo consisted in part of clothing and
a contribution of 1900 pounds (s7.500),
New Zealand's gift to Belgian refu-
gees. No details are available con
cerning the torpedoing of the Icara
London.-The toll taken by the Ger
man submarine U-21 in its raid Satur-
day afternoon in the Irish sea in the
vicinity of Liverpool still stands at
three ships-the steamers Ber Cru
achen, Linda Blanche and the Kilcoan,
the latter small vessel The crew
of the Kilcoan was landed on the Isle
of Man Sunday by coastwise
steamer.
This underwater Emden is the same
vessel which last September tor
pedoed in the North sea. the British
cruiser Pathfinder with loss of 246
lives, and later destroyed two British
steamers off Havre.
She found numerous vessels in the
waters to which she has centered her
activities. In addition to the three
vessels she is known to have sunk.
at least five other steamers have been
chased by her.
These include the steamer Graphic,
with 100 passengers and crew OF
forty, and the smaller boats Atreus,
Ava, Kathleen and Endymion All
these vessels escaped in zig-zaG flight.