The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-11-09
Happenings
Of the World
Tersely Told
European War News

The steady advances of General Won
Falkenhayn's forces toward Buchar-
est has resulted in victory northeast
OF Campulung in which 1000 Rouman-
ians were killed outright and large
numbers wounded and captured, ac-
cordlng 70 Berlin. Southeast of Roth
enthu~m pass and west of Syurduk
pass, Roumanians who had advanced
were thrown back and $50 captured.
In the Clabaucetel region 1,147 Rou-
manians were captured.
Paris says the great French drive
beyond Fort VauX swept through the
village of Damloup, adding n wide
area east of Fort Vaux to the gains
already made.
1t is reported unOfilcIally at Berlin
that the Russian dreadnaught Sevasto-
pol struck a mine several days ago
and was badly DANCED. The report
was received by the Overseas News
agency from Stockholm.
Proclamations re-establlshlng the
right of the Polish nation to control
its own destinies were read at War
saw and at Lublln. General Won Bese-
Ter OBLIGATED at Warsaw and General
Kuk at Lublin. The event was the
cOnsummation of joint action of the
German emperor and the emperor of
Austria. The form of government es-
tablShed by the proclamation is de-
scribed as an autonomous hereditary
monarchy.
Italian troops fighting on the Aus
tro-Italian front in four days have TAX
en- prisoner 270 Austro- Hungarian Of
6cers and S,722 men, says the state
ment issued by the war department
at Rome.
A German submarine operating on
the west coast of Ireland destroyed, on
October %. small English cruiser of
the Elber type, according to an official
statement given out by the admiralty
at Berlin.
A raid was made by German naval
small craft on the shipping route be-
tween the mouth OF the Thames and
Holland at night the German admiral
ty announced at Berlin. Two steamers
were brought into a German port. The
raiders were fruitlessly shelled by four
British cruisers.
The Wireless Press in London has
received dispatch from Bucharest
saying that Lieutenant General Vladi-
mir Sakharoff, commander of the Rus
sian forces in Galicla, arrived in Blu
eharest and will take command of
the army in Dobrudja.
EGOrts of the Roumanians to force
back Austro-German troops which
have invaded their country failed, the
Berlin war office announces. South
east of Rothenthurm pass the invaders
are making further progress.
Fort Vaux on the Verdun front has
been evacuated by the Germans, ii was
officially announced by the German
war office at Berlin. Following vio-
lent bombardment the Germans with
drew.
German troops captured advanced
Russian trenches on the western bank
OF the Stokhod river, south of
Witoniez, in Volhynia, after the Rus
SLAMS had repealed three previous at
tacks, says the announcement of the
war office at Petrograd.
A new offensive was opened against
the Austrians by the Italian forces, the
war office announced at Rome. Ad-
vances have been scored at some
points, and so far Abb prisoners have
been taken.
Strong efforts were made by the Rus
SLAMS to recapture positions taken by
the Austro-German forces on the Nara
yuvka river in Galicia, southeast or
Lemberg. The Russians charged five
times, says the official statement is
sued at Berlin, but were defeated with
heavy losses.
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