The Yale expositor., 1916-11-02
Important
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of the World
Summarized
European War News

European Var 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 ana
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-
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
ised.
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 100000
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 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 Russo-Roumanian armies
in Dobrudja, have reached the district
of Hirsova, approximately 40 miles
north of Czernavoda, the Berlin war
office announced.
E. NJ. 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-sweener Genisba
has been torpedoed and sunk, it was
announced at London. All officers and
73 men lost their lives. Only u men
were saved.
Bucharest announces that Rouma-
MAN troops have stopped Won Falken'
hayns 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 wal
office communique issued at Paris salt
German trenches at st. Pierre Vaas
wood and when above them opened fir,
upon the German soldiers with ma
chine gun.
In q powerful series of attacks Of
The Verdun front the French have CAP
tured the village and fort of Douau
mont, advanced beyond the Thiau
mont work and farm, and occupie
also the Haudromont quarries, mort
of Verdun, according to the Bullet
issued by the Paris war Office. Thirty
five hundred prisoners were taken.
The Roumanian Danube town {
Resova has been captured by Fiel
Marshal Won Mackensens left wing
the Dobrudja, the German war offic
announced at Berlin. Seventy-five of
GERS and 6,693 men were captured. TIL
town of Medjidie also was occupied b
Mackensen's army. The Roumania
town of Predeal has been captured b
General Won Falkenhayn's army.