Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-01-24
European War

European War
Throughout Sunday, January p,
thousands of persons f1ccked to East
London (England) hoping to satisfy
their curiosity as to the effect of an
explosion in the munitions factory
there. None of them, however, was
able to obtain a near view of the
scene, owing to rigid police regula-
lions, and could only wander through
the outlying streets where most of the
windows were shattered by the con-
cussion.
Newspaper reporters who were al
lowed to approach lear the scene of
the explosion in London describe what
was formerly the site of the explosive
store as a hole a hundred yards across
and eighty feet deep with masses Of
earth. iron and all sorts of wreckage
covering an area of about six acres
around the hole.
On the whole, anent the explosions
in East London, one is struck by the
number of people killed. Judging
from the fact that most of the fac
tories were nearly empty and from the
known proportion of casualties in GER
tain houses, it does not appear that the
death roll will exceed 300.
The British and Turks in Mesopo-
tamia have been engaged in vigorous
fighting along the Tig1is river in the
vicinity of Kut-elAmara Garden Of
Eden. Both London and Constan-
tinople war offices make claims TO
successes for their troops.
A British official communication an
nounces that northeast of Kut, Brit
ish troops have driven the Turks from
a small strip of land they were hold
ing on the right bank of the Tigris
and that King Georges men are now
in control of an entire trench section
on a front of $500 yards to a depth
Of loo yards.
In the capture of Nanesti. on the
Sereth river. in Roumania, hard fight
ing of a hand-to-hand character took
place in the streets. In Withdrawing
from the village German batteries rak-
ed the Russians as they made their
way across the bridges over the Ser
eth. inficting heavy losses on them.
On the line in France near Loose
the British. in a daylight raid blew up
German dugouts, causing many cas-
ualties among the occupants.
Artillery duelS are reported to be
violent in the Eerdun sector.
The minister of tie BI"Z;lian marine
has received a telegram from the cap
tain of the port of P~ernambuco, Bra
Zil, declaring the previously report
ed declaration of the commander of
the Brazilian steamer Maranhao that
he encountered two cargo vessels ac-
companied by two auxiliary ships, be-
lieved to Germans, all flying the Amer
lean flag. is true.
George Bernard. the middleweight
champion pugilist of France. was kill
ed while making a flight. He enlist
ed at the beginning of the war when
10 years of age.
The Greek cabinet has discussed at
length a British proposal to lease the
Greek merchant marine. II was de-
cided to take measures to assure the
retention of the number of ships nee
esaary to provide the foodStuffs which
Greece requires.
The Russians announce the follow
ing captures during 1916: Officers s.
ITO; men, APO, 600; guns, 525; machine
guns, 1861; trench mortars and mine
throwers, 421. This shows a total
of 42S, 600 officers and men.
A Berlin dispatch that
a British steamer, the Yarrowdale,
was taken into a harbor (name of the
harbor not given) on December 81
as a prize by a prize crew of sixteen
men. The Yarrowdale carried 469
prisoners, the crews of steamers cap
tured by a German auxiliary cruiser
in the Atlantic.
The cargoes of the captured YES
sells December 81 by the Germans
consisted of foodstuffs, including 5000
tons of wheat, 1000 tons of -four and
1900 horses.
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the latest capture of vessels in the
Atlantic. The Yarrowdale had on
board III motor %lorries, one motor car
$500 cases or rife cartridges, 10000
rolls of barbed wire and 1880 tons
of steel bars, besides a quantity of
bacon and sausage.
The British troops in France have
hit the German line hard at two places
and have succeeded in making slight
gains.
The Germens O. that the tax
ing of the Yarrowdale into a harbor
81 has been kept secret for
military reasons purely, and is only
made public because of the statement
made by the British admiralty on Jan
uary II.
Great Britain's reply to President
Wilson's peace note includes this SEN
tence: so long as Germany remains
the Germany which without a shadow
of justification overran and ba%rbarous-
ly ill-treated a country it was pledged
to defend, no state can regard its
as secure if they have no bet
ter protection than a solmen treaty"
The allies say that International
as it is now interpreted can never
prevent war, and hat some form of
international sanction must be devils
ed which does not now exist which
would give any pause to aggressors.
These are the ships that the en-
admit have been sunk, captured
or destroyed by the Germans in the
recent past: Butish-Dramatist, Rad
n%orshire, Minieh, Netherbyhall. Mount