Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-09
#iseellaneuus Reaaing.
EIGHT MONTHS OF WAR
Sees the End of the Old Rules Of
Warfare.

AAe IN
tons was intensified.
In retaliation for the allies block
/ ade Of Germany, the German subma'
rines began sinking the merchantmen
Of enemy countries, without warning
drowning non-combatant crews ano
passengers irrespective Of sex, with
the declaration, You starve u non
| combatants, we will drown yours
Asserting the Russians had burned
| German towns, the Germans destroy
| ed towns and villages Of sore strick-
en- Poland by wholesale. There were
fights without quarter in the Carpa-
thians, aerial bombardments Of French
and Belgian towns, entailing much
loss Of life to non-combatants.
This strangling Of German trade
and German submarine activity as a
| sequel, the progress Of the attack on
the Dardanelles, the fall Of Permysl
followed by the beginning Of the bat
tie Of the Carpathians, which has fol
it's object the Russian invasion Of the
plains Of Hungary; and the almost
spontaneous uprising in England
agaist the liquor traffic were the
principal developments Of the four
weeks.
Operations in Caucasus.
Secondary in interest were the dead
lock on the western battle front,
where the armies await the spring,
and the arrival Of Britain's new army,
the Russian operations in Caucasus
and Persia, the incident of the Ger
man auxiliary cruiser Prinz Elite
Friedrich, which crept into Newport
News, creating another diplomatic
complication for the United States.
The allies answer to the declara-
ton of a German maritime zone of
danger around the British Isles and
the northern coast of Francs came on
March 2, when France and England
by a joint note in council decreed that
all the world must cease directly or
indirectly to trade with Germany.
They reserved the right to seize all
ships under any flag which might be
conveying a cargo for Germany, Aus
tria or Turkey, no matter to what
neutral country this cargo was con-
signed. Legally, it was MOI a block
ade, according to international law. In
effect, it was, and joint protests were
formulated by the United States,
the Scandinavian countries and Hol-
land. The protests have availed moth
ing.
On the following day Germany Of
fered to modify her danger zone de-
cree if the United States could per-
suade England to permit cargoes of
food to go into the country. This
failed. Diplomatic negotiations are
still pending.
Germany's answer came in the last
week Of the month, when the passen-
ger steamer Falaba, bound for the
west coast Of Africa, was sunk, fol-
lowed quickly by the Aguila, the loss
Of life in the two chips being liz pas
sengers and crew. March 80, saw the
sinking of the Emma, a French ship,
with her crew, and on March 81, the
Seven Seas was sunk, thirty non-com-
batants losing their lives. The Unit
ed States was again involved when it
was discovered that n of the pas
sengers on the Falaba was Leon
Chester Thrasher, American by birth,
n o;xy;l arninaar on hic UNIV IN the
Gold Coast.
ReprisaIs to Continue.
There was every Indication as the
month ended that the reprisal OF
drowning and starvation would con-
tinue on a larger scale.
Progress in the Dardanelles by the
allied fleets was not so swift as 1t
was thought it would be when the
bombardment was begun in the lat
ter part of February. The forts prov
ed stronger than was believed, the
artillerymen showed the result of
teaching by German officers and the
forts were just a little stronger thar
had been estimated. There is nc
doubt that the principal forts at the
entrance to the straits were either
destroyed or crippled, but further on
the success was not so great.
1t was realized on March II, when
the British cruiser Amethyst tried to
dash trough the mine fields that it
was not a target practice. The cruis-
er came back hit hard, with twenty
eight of her men dead and thirty in
jured. Three days later the British
admiralty announced that the British
battleships Irresistible and Ocean and
the French %battleship Bouvet had been
sunk with great loss of life. The In
flexible, the flagship Of Admiral Car
den, and the Gaulois, were crippled
There was great encouragement when
the Russian Black sea fleet appeared
at the mouth of the Bosporus; signal
izing her advent by bombarding Turk
ish coal supplies in villages nearby
Reports of landing forces which should
go overland to Constantinople, were
frequent but were not confirmed. II
was reported in the last days Of the
month that France would send ar
ARM of 100, 900 to help out.
The battle Of the Carpathians was
accepted at the outset as n of the
decisive actions of the war, so pro.
claimed by military observers of the
allied nations and conceded by the
Austrians. 1t will decide whether the
millions of Russian soldiers car
sweep over the mountains and into
the plains Of Hungary to Budapest
perhaps even to Vienna itself. The
strong Russian offensive where the
days routine is the taking of pre-.
cipitous heights was made possibl,
by the fall of Premysl.
Held out Four Months.
The strongly fortified city fell, af
ter a heroic defence of four months
on March %, and 10000 soldiers
eight generals. 5000 officers and {
vast amount of ammunition and stores
fell into the hands Of the victors. II
addition, the fall Of the city released
for other operations a greater par