Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-04-07
The European War Day by Day.
German Shin DESTROYED


Stockholm says the German steamer
Crete Hemsoth struck a mine in the
| Baltic and sank and that 25 MEM
bers of her crew we're drowned.
The Crete Hemsoth was a vessel
of 1854 tons. She was engaged in
traffic between Sweden and Ger
many.
Germans Sending Reinforcements.
| London, April 3.-The Germans
are pouring reinforcements into Hun
gary to support the Austrian armies,
| which arc hard pressed by the Rus
slams in the passes Of the Carpa-
| thians, and are also, according to dis
| patches from Holland, again sending
| men from Belgium to strengthen
their eastern front, where the Rus
slams have taken the offensive.
The battle in the Carpathians con-
| tinues by night and day. The Rus
| slams, continually reinforced, are
desperately trying to force Lzsok
| and Lupkow Passes, and upon the
success of these operations their
army, on the Hungarian side Of the
| Dukla, is waiting before continuing
| it's advance.
On April ! the Russians claim to
have taken prisoner 100 officers and
1000 men and to have captured ten
machine guns.
Austrian correspondents view the
onslaught with misgiving, and in
their dispatches give it precedence
over the battle in Bukowina, where
the Austrians few days ago took
the offensive and penetrated into
BesSarabia, but have since, according
to Russian reports. been defeated.
There is no change in Poland, but
the movement Of German troops from
Belgium eastward indicates the gen.
eral stan are uneasy over the Rus
slams activity along the East Prus-
sian frontier and in the central por-
ton of the old kingdom. Having
fortified the whole Of Belgium and
having recently opened the sluices,
extending the floods in Flanders, it
is possible they feel secure or do not
anticipate that the allies will make
their effort for several weeks vet.
At any rate they have, according
! to Dutch correspondents, depleted
the garrison in Belgium and have ac-
tually Withdrawn men from the User
front
Beyond this there is little news
from the western theatre of opera
tlons. The French, however, con-
tinue their attempt to dislodge the
Germans from the forest of LIE Pretre
in the hope that this will compel
them to evacuate ST. Mihiel.
Austrians Swept Out Russian Fort.
London, April "a Petrograd
correspondent sends the following:
"A dispatch from the commander
in-chief, received tonight (Sunday)
says:
In the region of Zaleszitrow,
! during the night of Saturday the
Austrians violently bombarded one
OF our Notifications with heavy guns.
their fire killing almost all the de-
| tenders. The Austrian infantry at
tackled and occupied our positions,
but they almost Immediately were
dislodged by a counter-attack made
! by Russian company.
The Russians found in trench
one of their comrades named Ma
kuksa, whom the Austrians had cap
! tured and horribly mutilated. Ma
kuksa had been acting as a telephone
operator and having refused to give
the enemy information, his tongue
was cut out.
The commander-in-chief pro-
noted MakukSa on the spot to rank
| as on-commissioned officer and
conferred on him the Cross Of st.
George, first-class. He also COM
mended Makuksa's case to the at
tention Of the Emperor for double
rate Of pay"
Submarines Sink Two.
London, April 5.-The Glasgow
steamer Olivine and the Russian
Dark Hermes were sunk by a German
submarine Sunday afternoon off the
Isle or Wight. The crews of the two
vessels took to their boats and were
rescued by British torpedo boat
| destroyer.