Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-02-04
THE EUROPEAN WAR
Accounts Of Battles and Attempted
Raids as Affecting all War Angles.
Germans Sink Two Vessels.

IL ~ Ia
and the Lima Blanche, whose sinking.
was reported last night. This waf
made known in the following official
statement given out here today by the
ministry of marine:
asThe British steamer Tokomaru has,
been sunk by a torpedo from a Ger
Imam submarine. The English vessel
Icarfa also was torpedoed in the same
locality. In the Irish sea the English.
steamer Linda Blanche and Ben Crua-
chem we're ~torpedoed."
Pitched Battle Again Raging.
London. Jan. 31.-FoF the fourth
ftime since the war began the Carpa-.
fthian mountains between Dukla and
WyszkoW passes, is the scene of pitch
! ed battle
The previous clashes wer between
Russians and Austro-Hungarians. but
now the Austrians and H~ungarians.
have the assistance of the German
armies and are taking a vigorous Of
fensiye. Despite this, Russian reports
assert that the preliminary fighting
has turned to the advantage of Russia
and the prisoners and guns have been
captured.
O1u4ulCdACOu04I IN Au0SA AAbAS
are concentrating armies between Blu
kowina and TransyTvania to prevent a
Russian attempt to outfiank them, and
on the Roumania and Serbian from
tiers, to check any effort of the armies
of those countries to take a hand in
the fighting, on the result of which
Austria stakes much.
The Russians are pushing their Of
fensiVe in east Prussia while the Ger
mans continue their attack in Central
Poland. These operations, however,
are secondary to the battle in the Car
pathians, the outcome of which is like
~ to have q marked effect on future
operations of the war.
After Six MOnths.
London. Jan. 80. 9:55 p. m--The
end of the sixth month of Europe's
great war finds the belligerent armies
completing preparations for or actual
rly engaged in operations of an extent
hardly anticipated when the declara-
stions Of hostilities were made.
In Flanders, France, and Central
Poland q deadlock still exists. but
largely because of Russia's tremen-
dous resources and Turkeys action
the sphere of operations has been
widely extended. Russia, alone is en-
gagged in fighting hostile armies from
-Filsit, far in the north of East Prussia,
to- Tabriz, in Persia, a distance of oyer
li500 miles. Only that portion of her
territory bordering Roumania is free !
from menaeec but her reports declare
all of her immense armies are sue
cessful.
The Russian outfanking movement
II northern East Prussia is said to be
gaining momentum. The armies on
either side of Tilsit have cut the Ger
nan railway between that city and Me-
mel. on the Baltic.
On the southern front, in East Prus
sia, another army is advancing to-
ward the German fortress OF Thorn
while still another is holding a line of
entertainments which protects Warsaw
and which General ron Hindenburg
has been trying to batter through for
three months. Other armies are again
preparing to meet q big Austro-Ger-
man force attempting to regain Cali
ella and Bukowfna.
Preparing for Air Raid
London, Feb. Especial orders is
sued by the police early tonight caused
blinds to be whisked down all over
London, and reports spread that I'VE
Zeppelin dirigible balloons, sighted over
Dover and presumable flying inland,
had been fired on by the forts.
Parts of the city of London waited
for more than two hours with blinds il
drawn, but nothing happened. In-
quiries ELECTED from the police that
orders to prepare for an air raid had
been issued by the war Office, but
whether because aircraft really had
been sight or as a rehearsal it was inn
possible to ascertain.
One message from Dove reported
that the raiders had been driven on,
but no details we're forthcoming.
This furry broke the monotony OF
from battle fronts, where none
Of the armies, either in the east or the
west had delivered a blow sufficient to
cause any shift in their alignment.
London, Jan. 26-The Germans, who
are reported from Holland to be max
ing preparations for q big military
venture to celebrate the emperer's
birthday tomorrow, already have made
! more determined effort than usual
the French and British lines
a Flanders and northern France.
fhey have attacked the French to the
east Of Ypres and have made no less
han five attacks on the first division =
the British force on either side OF
La Bassee canal.
London, Jan. 25:-The eleventh hour
,taffening OF the Austrian front to
the Russian invasion OF Hun
gary as the natural sequence of the I
occupation of Bukowina, seems for !
present to be the event of chief mill
ary importance. The Russians recog- 7
lie this and all recent dispatches !
rom Pctrograd have emphasized the
Anstro-Germau offensive in the SOUTH
theatre. !
Second in importance, perhaps, are J
he Russian movements near the East
West Prussian frontiers OF which T