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Germans and Allies Remain
Locked in Fierce Conflict
Without Decisive Results.
SINK A BRITISH CRUISER
Hawke Destroyed, With More Than
Three Hundred Men—English Re
! taliate With the Destruction of
. Four Torpedo-Boat Destroy
ers—Minor News of
the War,
Dunkirk, Oct. 2C.—Severe fighting
has taken place near Nieuport. The
report is curreat ‘n northwest
ern France that the Germans are re
tiring from Ostend and its neighbor
hood. It is added that the town was
mot occupied in great force. It is im
possible to obtain verification of this
report, which, however, was from a re
liable source, .
From Dunkirk to Belfort the great
battle upon which hangs the fate of
the Germans’ second drive on Paris
raged during the day with undimin
ished fury.
On the French left the allles are
said to have driven back the invaders
& distance of ten miles, and have as
sumed new positions in front of
Givenchy and Fromelles. Also they
have retaken Armentieres, one of the
most {mportant cities near the Bel
gian border, and a railroad center of
great strategic value.
To the north of Arras the French
and British troops succeeded in break
ing through the German cordon estab
lished there for the purpose of control
ling the lines of railway stretching to
the east, and so far have been able
to hold the ground thus gained. Also
between Arras and the River Oise the
allled armies have been advanced per
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. President Poincare paid a visit to his army on the battle front recently and is here shown (bearded man
with soft hat) inspecting some of the hard-fighting soldiers of France.
Recognition of the active co-opera
tion of the Belgians in the fighting
on the border was contained for the
first time in official dispatches when
their success in repulsing repeated
attacks directed by the Germans
against the crossings of the River
Yser was recorded.
The following official press bulletin
i{ssued at Berlin has been received in
London by wireless:
“The main headquarters of the army
reports under date of October 17 that
immense quantities of war material
were captured at Bruges and Ostend,
including many rifles with ammunition
and 200 locuomotives quite ready for
use.
“In the French theater of war no ac
tual successes can be reported.”
A Marconi wireless dispatch from
Berlin says:
“German forces have reached the
mneighborhood of Dunkirk. Heavy
fighting is taking place at Dizxmude
and Roulers. The inhabitants of
Dunkirk and Boulogne are in flight.’
The Belgian lightship off Zee
brugge, the port of Bruges; has been
shelled by a German battery from
shore and the crew has been forced
to flee. This also is confirmatory of
the belief that the German® intend to
be active at the southern end of the
North sea. :
Kaiser Loses Four Warships. .
London, Oct. 19.—Four German tor-
Kdobont destroyers were sunk off
e Dutch coast by ships from the
ißritish fleet. The names of the ill-
'NO MORE PERMANENT FORTS
iFrench Military Expert Gives Reasons
for Asserting They Must
Be Abandoned.
Paris.—The military consequences
of the fall of Antwerp are not as
great as the lesson to be learned
therefrom of the futility of permanent
fortifications. This opinion is ex
pressed by Lieutenant Colohel Rous
set, who says it will be necessary to
abandon entirely this sort of de
fated craft are not known. The Ger
man crews, totaling about four hun
dred men, with the exseption of 31
made prisoners of war, were lost, the
war press bureau announces. -The
British loss was only one officer and
four men slightly wounded.
The damage to the British craft was
slight. ~
The light cruiser Undaunted, com
manded by Capt. Cecil H. Fox, who
was in charge of the cruiser Amphion,
which, after sinking the German ar
mored cruiser Koenigin Luise, was it
self destroyed by a German mine on
August 26, won the signal victory and
avenged himself for the catastrophe
which overtook him in the North sea.
Captain Fox had as a convoy during
his raid on the German ships the tor
pedo-boat destroyers Lance, Lennox,
Legion and Loyal.
British Cruiser Is Torpedoed.
London, Oct. 18.—A German torpe
do cost England her seventh cruiser
and 330 men, the British admiralty
officially announeed. The cruiser
Hawke was struck by a torpedo from !
a German submarine and sunk in the
northern waters of the North sea.
The cruiser Theseus was attacked, but
the torpedo missed its mark.
The press bureau issued a list of
71 survivors of the 400 officers and
men on the Hawke. Lieutenant Com
mander Rossman and 20 men were
picked up from a raft and 50 of the
crew were landed at Aberdeen.
British patrol ships located a Ger
man submarine off the east coast of
Holland and sunk her. :
The Hawke wae commanded by
Capt. P. E. T. Williams, and he and
the chief officers o 1 the cruiser are
believed lost.
MINOR NOTES OF THE WAR.
London, Oct. 19.—An official report‘
by General French, commanding the
British expeditionary force, gives the
total of British killed, wounded and
missing from September 12 to October
8 as 661 officers and 12,980 men.
The war office tonight issued anoth
er casualty list received from head
quarters under date of September \:56(1
It gives 51 noncommissioned officers
and men as having been Kkilled, 149{
PRESIDENT POINCARE VISITS HIS TROOPS
men wounded and 555 men missing.
Those of the killed belonged entire
ly to the Royal Scots, the Royal Irish
and:the East Surrey regiments. The
East Surreys, the King’s Own Scottish
borderers and the Somerset Light in
fantry figure largely in the-missing
list.
Of commissioned -officers the list
gives four killed and five wounded.
Mine Sinks Jap Cruiser.
Tokyo, Oct. 20.—Only 12 of the
crew of 284 men aboard the Japanese
light cruiser Takachiho were rescued
after she struck a German floating
mine in Kiauchau bay at nigat, it was
officlally annov.nced here. The Taka
chiho ‘was doing patrol duty outside
Tsing Tao when she fouled the mine.
Japanese destroyers heard the explo
sion and saw the flames that resulted.
They hurried to assist the cruiser,
but she disappeared quickly.
The German embassy at Washing
ton received from a reliable source
in San Francisco the news that the
British battleship Triumph had been
80 heavily damaged by the fire from
howitzers in the Tsing Tao forts that
it had to withdraw immediately" dur
ing a bombardment it was conducting
with the aid of Japanese ships.
Claim Russ Lost 40,000 in Fight.
Vienna, Oct. 20, via Berlin and Ams
terdam.—An official statement issued
here estimates the Russian losses at
Przemysl at 40,000 The statement
follows: ‘
“Our attack in the battle on both
flanks of the Stryj river, south of
fense and replace it with rude works
of easy and quick construction ‘which
can be placed anywhere accerding to
‘the need of the hour. ,
Then, he says, shells, because of
the absence of resistance would cause,
only small damage. Never, he de
clares, has a country been saved by
its fortifications while there are those.
whose fortresses have been their ruin.
“To speak only of that which con
cerns us, it is permissible to affirm
that if Metz had been in 1870 an open
city Bazaine would not have sent |
_PAGLE RIVER REVIEW, EAGLE RIVER, WIS.
NAVAL LOSSES TO DATE
° The following losses have been
sustained by the British and Ger
man fighting navies in less than
three months:
GREAT BRITAIN.
Cruisers (eight). £
By submarine—Cressy, Hogue,
Abroukir, Pathfinder, Hawke.
By mine—Amphion.
By gun fire—Pagasus.
By grounding—Warrior.
Torpedo gunhoat (one).
By mine—Speedy.
Submarine (one).
By grounding—E 1.
GERMANY. S
Cruisers (seven),
by submarine—Helo.
By gun fire—Madgeburg, Mainz,
Coeln, Ariadne, Augsperg, Panther.
Auxiliary cruisers (two).
By gun fire—Cap Trafalgar,
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.
Submarines (two).
By gun fire—U 15; one, designa
tion unknown.
Destroyers (seven).
By gun fire—Designation un
known.
Mine-layer (one).
By gun fire—Kcenigin Luise.
Przemysl, was continued, and our
troops succeeded in getting close to
the enemy. At several points our
troops were advancing as against a
fortress. Several night attacks of the
Russians were repulsed with heavy
losses for the enemy.”
May Ship Food to Belgium.
Washington, Oct. ,20.—Ambassador
Gerard at Berlin notified the state de
partment that the German foreign of
fice has given its consent for the
transmission of the American food
supplies to Brussels. The food will
be sent by way of London, and will
be distributed all over Belgium under
the direction of Minister Whitlock.
Kaiser to Surrender Tsing Tao?
London, Oct. 18.—The Peking cor
respondent of the Exchange Tele
graph company has sent the followkag
dispatch:
“The German charge d’affaires here
has received from Berlin a long dis
patch which, it is believed, sanctions
the capitulation of Tsing Tao (seat of
government of the German protector
ate of Kiauchau), under certain con
ditions.”
$375,000,000 for War.
London, Oct. 19.—A Reuter dispatch
from Amsterdam says that German
newspapers received there state that
the Prussian diet next Friday will ac
cept an emergency bill asking for a
credit of $375,000,000, of which SIOO,-
000,000 will be allotted to the provi
sional assistance of East Prussia.
British Seize U. S. Ship.
Halifax, N. S., Oct. 20.—The British
auxiliary Caronia arrived in port with
the American oil tank steamer Brin
dilla, formerly the German steamship
Washington, as a prize of war. It is
claimed the Brindilla carried a cargo
of contraband. A prize crew had
boarded her. The capture was rhade
by a British cruiser off the port of
New York. The commandar of the
cruiser designated the Caronia to
bring the ship to Halifax.
Austria Gives Out Losses.
Rome, Oct. 19.—Austrian losses in
the actions against Russia, Servia and
Montenegro until October 6 are ap
proximately estimated as follows:
Officers killed, 435; wounded, 1,5639;
men killed, 4.334; wounded, 23,272.
Total 4,769 killed and 24,811 wounded.
Only eight officers and 132 men are
state to be missing. The numbers
who have been taken prisoners are
not given. :
forth from there his magnificent army
[tor the subsequent loss of which he
was condemned to death and did ac
;tually suffer imprisonment.
~ “Belgium believed itself protected
’ by its triple barrier of Liege, Namur
and Antwerp. Alas! It was not. No
more are we with Maubeuge or the
' Austrians with J.emberg and Prize-
Emys_l. The real safeguard of a nation
is in an effective military force that
’ can stay an army of invasion.”
The observations of Rousset haye
aroused special interest. .
DIARY TELLS OF GERMAN ADVANCE
ON AND CAPTURE OF ANTWERP
London.—ln the form of a diary, the
Btory of the siege of Antwerp and the
German plan of attack are given in
the following dispatch received by the
Central News from its Ostend corre
spondent:
“Saturday, Sept. 26.—The Belgians
retired from their positions east, south
and west of Malines to the line of out
er forts.
“Sept. 27.—The Germans bombarded
and occupied Malines. :
“Sept. 28.—Bombardment of Forts
De Waelhem, De Wavre-St. Catherine
and other forts on the southern line
by 11-inch howitzers.
“Sept. 29.—Magazine of Fort De
Waelhem blown up by shell fire. Fort
De Wavre-St.. Catherine put out of
action. Forts at Lierre bombarded.
Forts Are Destroyed:
“Sept. 30.—Forts De Waelhem and
Wavre-St. Catherine are completely de
stroyed. Waterworks behind Fort De
Waelhem blown up. The Belgian in
fantry continued to hold their in
trenchments in the face of a veritable
hell of shell fire. The water supply
in Antwerp is greatly curtailed.
“QOct. I.—The Lierre forts destroyed.
The German infantry attac’ s were re
pulsed with heavy losses.
“QOct. 2.—There was a heavy bom
bardment of the Belgian trenches. The
Belgians retired at night in good or
der and lined the River Nethe. The
Germans began to occupy the outer
ring of forts. A German aeroplane
flew over the city and dropped pamph
lets urging the inhabitants to surren
der and save themselves suffering.
British Troops Arrive.
“Oct. 3.—Arrival of fresh British
troops, who relieved fatigued Belgians
on the southeastern section. Here the
Germans concentrated their attack,
which is now almost exclusively an ar
tillery attack.
“Oct. 4—Quiet until evening, when
the Germans began a furious bom
bardment of Lirre and the river bank
trenches.
“Qct. s—The Germans cross the riv
er and occupy Lierre and Duffel. The
main Belgian army began retirement
westward.
“Oct. 6.—Departure of King Albert,
the government, and the foreign min
isters. Heavy bombardment of the al
lied position. The allied troops retired
during the night on the second line
of forts.
City Is Occupied.
“QOct. T—Governor General de Guise
announces that a bombardment of the
DEFEND UNTIL FIRE
BECOMES MASSACRE
By F. BANISTER.
International News Service.
Ostend.—l was right up on the firing
line near Lokeren when the Belgians
were ordered to retreat from the
trenches and was carried along in the
frantic rush for shelter beyond the
range of German shells. Infantrymen,
jaded, heavily weighted by accouter
ments, stumbled across the fields,sweat
pouring from their faces, and sank, ex
hausted, to lie for a few moments and
then scramble to their feet and stag
ger forward again as shells continued
bursting around them. ~
They fought bravely and well. The
trenches were not vacated anywhere
till the rain of German shells meant
sheer massacre if the defenders re
mained.
In the retreat of the field army
which had been defending Antwerp,
along the one road still kept open to
the west, were many soldiers who had
been fighting continually 14 days,
snatching hurried sleep on the bare
earth or pavement. Hundreds col
lapsed on the march and had to be
left behind at various points, to fol
low on after treatment and rest. The
Germans have not yet reached Ostend.
Horse meat has been substituted for
beef at most of the hotels and restau
rants. Otherwise there is no lack of
food at normal prices.
Every day, spies are arrested in and
mear Ostend. On® man was scized
after chalking in a corner of the vil
lage railway station some figures the
interpreters supposed indicated the
strength of the allies in the neighbor
hood. He was dressed as a simple
peasant and showed evidence of be
ing a man of superior education, which,
with the incriminating memoranda and
the chalk marks at the station, sealed
his doom.
A German officer was arrested in the
main street of Ostend yesterday wear
ing a Belgian officer’'s uniform. He
was nearly torn to pieces by the huge
crowd before he got to the police sta
tion.
The only route out of Antwerp af
ter the bombardment began Wednes
day was the River Scheldt. The peo
ple would not stay in the cellars of
the houses, as.-advised by the author
ities, when they found the shells from
the great German guns often fell right
TRAPPED IN SWAMP,
GERMAN BATTERY LOST
Rome.—An incident of the battle
between the French and Germans
pear Esternay and Sezanna is thus de
scribed in a Paris dispatch.
“A German battery, which had been
caught in a swamp, and which for this
reason had been cut off from the main
force, managed finally to free itseif
from the mud. Instead of surrender
ing it continued single-handed the
fight agaiast the advancing French.
city is imminent. The Germans em
place batteries for their purpose and
at midnight a heavy bombardment
begins.
“Oct. B.—Exodus of the population.
The bombardment of the town is con
tinued with violence. The petrol tanks
are ablaze. Berchem, a southern sub
urb, is in flames, as also are many
houses in the city. The defending
troops on the southwest section are
offering violent resistanee. It is de
cided to evacuate the city, and the
British and Belgian forces leave dur
ing the night.
“Oct. 9.—The fall and occupation of
Antwerp.
pY ~._Took Two Weeks.
“It will thus be seen that the Ger
mans took a fortnight to drive their
wedge into the southeastern section of
the defenses,” the correspondent con
tinues, “and this speaks volumes for
the stubbornness of the defense. Brit
ish marines were hurried across last
Sunday and conveyed to Antwerp with
all speed. They came without over
coats or kits, but cheerfully endured
the cold and rain as well as the pulver
izing fire.
“After Monday it was merely a ques
tion of enduring the terrible fire as
long as possible. A large proportion
of the Belgian troops went westward
on Monday and Tuesday to insure an
eventual line of retreat. A large ad
ditional force of British marines ar
rived Tuesday morning.
Mount Their Big Guns.
“Eventually the Germans mounted
their 42-centimeter guns. They were
enabled to fire with great accuracy,
thanks to their observation balloons,
although owing to the cold and heavy
rain their operations were sometimes
suspended. The British gunners
brought one balloon down with a round
of lyddite, after shrapnel had proved
ineffective.
“Ability to hit back weight for.
weight was the one crying need at
Antwerp, whose fate points to one ir
resistible conclusion—that the day of
forts is over. The supposed impreg
nable forts proved broken reeds
against the giant howitzers.
“One of Brialmont’'s great works
sank almost bodily from sight in con
sequence of the cavities made all
around its foundations by the terrific
explosions. The others are shattered
beyond recognition. i
“I understand that the British naval
force saved all its wounded and guns.
The Belgian army is still intact.”
through the houses and exploded in
the cellars.
Trains and barges, perilously over
loaded, till Friday bore the people to
Holland. It is clear that a vast ma
jority of the population of Antwerp did
not believe till the very last minute
that the city would be*bombarded.
One shell shattered like a house of
cards the Hospital of St. Camille, bury
ing all the nurses and wounded in the
pile of ruins.
GERMAN LOSS AT .
ANTWERP IS HEAVY
Paris.—The Germans lost 40,000
men in the capture of Antwerp, ac
cording to Paul Erio, special corre
spondent of the Journal, who writes:
“The heroic Belgian defense of forts
Waelhem, Wavre and Lierre, forming
the outer ring, cost the Germans very
dear. General von Beseler threw com
pact masses of troops into the inter
walls, where the Belgians poured a
withering infantry fire on the assail
ants,
“South of the third line of defenses
German bodies are now piled in heaps.
This happened at the beginning of the
assault. South of Fort Bornheim the
Belgians interred 3,200 German
corpses.
“When Von Beseler managed to
cross the Nethe and install 16%%-inch
guns on the north banks, shells fell
in Antwerp like hailstones. Most of
the remaining population then retired
to cellars with food, p.acing mat
tredses and sacks filled with earth
against the doors and window grat
ings.
“As soon as Antwerp was occupied
the Germans began to fortify it. If
given a little time they will, with the
help of their heavy artiilery, make it
practically impregnable.”
- Kaiser’'s Cattle Captured.
London.—A dispatch to the Star
from Petrograd says that among the
remarkable war trophies arriving at
Smolensk is the entire stock of Em
peror William’s famous pedigreed cat
tle and horses, captured by the Rus
sians from the emperor's estate at
Rominten, East Prussia. They were
taken to Moscow and presented to the
Russian Agricultural institute for dis
tribution among agricultural breeding
associations. .
The German artillerymen beat their
assailants off with a hellish fire, which
the. French artiilery tried in vain to
silence. Until iate in the evening the
battery eontinued its deadly work un
til its ammunition became exhausted
and the men were either dead or
wounded. oo +
“When I arrived the brave crew had
already been buried, and the guns
still rested on trees which the men
had placed under the wheels in order
that the pieces might not disappear
in the mud.”
ALLIES FAIL Iy
E
GERMAN FORCES HALT ASSAUL
UPON THEIR STRONg !‘
POSITION,
—-—\
CLAIM VERDUN IS pggyg
-'—_—“*
Berlin Announces Break i, First |
of Defenses—Claim Capty 3
apture of
Several Forts in Oute, Ring
of For.tifications. "
London, Oct. 2L.—Fightine
most desperate character 1: sOf O
ress in west Flanders ang norré Dvmg‘
ern France. The Belgian arm fmes"
ported by the allies, {s ’;;,oz(;i;‘ft“sul}
bornly to the line of e m\; o
and thus far has SUCCUSSK‘L‘PVJ" E'ser
determined efforts of the'uxp:m.uaned
advance along the coast e
N e e Frua g
C ISsued Tyegg
afternoon and is admitted i ¢ .
port of German genera] headquaretm
Which says fighting has beey goin .
since Sunday in the vicinity of \gion
port, which stands at the c.ro<si‘ o
the river near the sea. o
A little further t
lies are nti:emptingotou;.e;vs:ril S Sy
2 ce towarq
Lille for the relief of that city, wp
has been in German hang. for S
time. They also are pusfiin e
the north and south of Ar g
AITAS. Thefp
efiort_s on Monday to advance on Li}}
where the Germans hold strong pos?
tions, were repulsed, according ‘m m'
German report. 3 ;
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| lue 10 maka
furious out futile attempts to hregg
;the French line. Along the Meuse iy
;the east, according to the Frnnc!; o
count, the Germans have failed to re
‘ bulse the French troops, who debouchs
; ed along the territory in which is situe
~ated the camp des Romaines, now in
the hands of the Germans, in g ab
tempt to cut out that portion of the
German army which is thrust towarg
St. Mihiel.
Claim Verdun Doomed.
London, Oct. 21.—Verdun appears to
be doomed. The French fortified posis
tion, which is the main support * the
French right wing army and from
which the offensive operations of the
defenders of France have been carried
on along the Meuse and in the diree
tion of Metz, has been under constant
bombardment for over three weeks
and today several of the forts in the
outer ring of the city’s defenses are
reported in official dispatches from
Berlin to have been reduced
Credence is given the German clain
because it has been known from other
sources for the week past that the ouf
‘r,edoubts which had been bearing the
brunt of the German shell fire had
been seriously damaged and that the
French commander was contemplating
their abandonment and withdrawal of
the best batteries to the inner circle,
where the main resistance upon whic
will hang the fate of the stronghold is
to be fought.
Release Swedish Ships.
London, Oct. 21.—Telegraphing from
Stockholm the Morning Post's corres
pondent says:
“The Germans have released nine of
the ten Swedish steamers they cap
tured last week off Falsterbo, Sweden.
Seizures of vessels continue, however,
and are causing a stir in Sweden a
the whole lumber shipping industry is
threatened.
“Plans are being made to give ves
sels an armed escort.”
England May Take Cotton.
Washington, Oct. 21.—Sir Georg
Paish, special adviser to the English
exchequer, thinks a scheme can
worked out that will make the export
of $200,000,000 of gold, representing
American debts in England, unneces
sary. He said that Englich manufa
turers wanted cotton badly if they cal
be assyred that it has reached its JF
tom price.
Report Potsdam Safe.
London,Oct. 21.—Holland-Americad
line officials at Amsterdam say th
steamer Potsdam, reported to 0a
struck a mine in the North sea, is 54
in the harbor at Rotterdam. accordinf
to a Reuter dispatch, which adds te
they deny knowledge of any accilér*
to the steamer.
Chicago Packers Busy.
Chicago, Oet. 21.—For the first t
in sixteen years, the meat packers &
the Chicago stock yards are workié
iay and night in the canned meat and
hide departments in order (0 fill o
fers. The unusual activity has D¢
saused by the large orders receiveh
is a result of the European warl.
Germans In Command.
Paris,Oct. 21.—With the excep®
>t one army, commanded by Gen. D%
gl, an Austrian, all the Austro-Germss
irmies are under German Commafi
10w, says a dispatch from Belgrad®
Echo de Paris.
e
_ Receive Red Cross Appedls: .
Washington, D. C., Oct. 21—C
'or additional medical and SUE
supplies reached the state depa”fw,
Tuesday from American Red (™%
Jffieers in France, Russia and SeV e