Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-01
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European war News
The German torpedo-boat destroy
ers attempted to raid the British cross
channel transport service, but the at
tempt failed, says an official statement
issued by the British admiralty at
London. Two Of the German Destroy
ers were sunk. One British destroyer,
the Flirt, is missing and another de-
stroyer, the Nubian, was disabled and
ran aground. The German destroyers
destroyed an empty transport.
King Ferdinand dispatched personal
appeals to the rulers of allied nations
to save Roumania from disaster after
the fall of COnStanza, according to
Budapest dispatches to Berlin. Rou-
manian military leaders declared the
ROumanian defeat was due to the fact
that Russia had failed to supply the
artillery and munitions she had prom
Used.
The French authorities at Athens
have arrested M. ChristocOs who is
the head of more than 10000 reservists
and rOyalists throughout Greece.
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A new war credit bill for 12,O00,000,-
600 marks was submitted to the
reichstag at Berlin by Count Won
Roerdern, secretary of the imperial
treasury, who also reviewed the sue
cesses of the German war frances and
compared them with the practices fol-
lowed by the countries opposed to Ger
many,
According to a wireless dispatch to
London from Zurich q German official
note announces that the German naval
authorities have decided to regard as
prisoners all captains of enemy mer
chant vessels.
Won Mackensen's forces, pursuing
the retreating Russo-ROumanian armies
in Dobrudja, have reached the district
of Hirsoya, approximately 40 miles
north of Czernavoda, the Berlin war
office announced.
ID. M. Lebard, formerly professor OF
romance languages at the University
of Wisconsin at Madison, Wis, has been
decorated with the French war cross
for bravery. Professor Lebard was in
charge of artillery on the Somme front.
The British mine-sweeper Genisba
has been tOrpedOed and SUNK it was
announced at London. All officers and
% men lost their lives. Only II men
were saved.
Bucharest announces that ROuma-
nian troops have stopped Won Falken-
hayn's advance and driven him across
the Pennsylvania border. In the Do
brudja, Petrograd reports, the advance
of Won MackenSen'S forces toward the
north has been slowed up. The bridge
across the Danube at CzernavOda has
been blown up by the Roumanians.
The bridge is twelve miles long, the
largest in all Europe.
A new type Of warfare has developed
on the Somme front. The French war
office cOmmunique issued at Paris said
that q French aviator flew over the
German trenches at st. Pierre Vaast
wood and when above them opened fire
upon the German soldiers with q ma.
chine gun.
In a powerful series Of attacks on
the Verdun front the French have cap
tured the village and fort of Douau-
mont, advanced beyond the Thiau-
mont work and farm, and occupied
also the HaudromOnt quarries, north
of Verdun, according to the bulletin
issued by the Paris war office. Thirty.
five hundred prisoners were taken.
The ROumanian Danube town of
ResOva has been captured by Field
Marshal Won Mackensens left wing in
the Dobrudja, the German war office
announced at Berlin. Seventy-five off,
GERS and 6,693 men were captured. The
town of Medjidie also was occupied by
Mackensen's army. The ROumanian
town of Predeal has been captured by
General Won Falkenhayn's army.
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