The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-11-03
Observation-Disclosures.
Important
News Events
of the World
Summarized
European War News
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volunteers to Saloniki, has been torpe
doed at Fleves, says a Reuter- dispatch
to London from Athens.
The offensive which was opened b,
the AustrO-German forces on the Rus
so-Roumanian lines near the junction
of the frontiers of Bukowina. Transyl
vania and Roumania has been checked
the Petrograd war Office announced.
Captain Boelke, the famous German
aviator, during an air fight came into
collision with another aeroplane and
was killed, according to Il Berlin dis
company at London, by way of Am
sterdam. His machine landed within
the German lines. Captain BOelke shot
down his fortieth aeroplane.
Heavy attacks were launched by the
British between GuedecOurt and Les
Boeufs ON the Somme front. These
were repressed, says the Berlin war
office. A later attack east of Les
Boeufs resulted in the penetration of
German advanced trenches, where
fighting is still in progress. Two more
of Haig's armOred tanks" were de-
stroyed by German artillery.
The reichstag at Berlin passed the
bill for new war credit of $4,000, OOO,-
600 asked by Count Won ROedern, the
Imperial treasurer.
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 Roumani from disaster after
the fall of Constanza, according to
Budapest dispatches to Berlin. ROu-
manan military leaders declared the
Roumapian defeat was due to the fact
that Russia had failed to supply the
artillery and munitions she had prom
tsed.
The French authorities at Athens
have arrested NJ. ChriStOcOS, who Is
the head of more than 10000 reservists
and royalists throughout Greece.
A new war credit bill for 1900 ,OOO,-
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 fiances and
compared them with the practices fol-
lowed by the countries opposed to Ger
many.
According to a wireless dispatch to
London from Zurich a 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 usso-Roumanian armies
In DObrudja, have reached the district
of HirsOva, approximately 40 miles
north Of Czernavoda, the Berlin war
Office announced.
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 chat 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.