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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-11-19, Page 3TF OF LORMOBFRTS Had Gone on a Brief Visit to FranCe to. Greet the Indian Troops A despatch from London says :i with his programme on time Ooatin- The Official Press Bureau issued ent. In fact, he war about to re - the following announcement: turn 'h•em • wthe`11 hi-: death occurred "Lord Kitchener aiMounees•+wit i Earl lBoberts bad motored to'the; deep regret, which. he knows will British bases a.nd camps, had re - be e be shared by the whole army, tha.t viewed the Indian •troeps and .had he received the following tel conferred with the leading -officers. from Sir John French, the corn- It was nob until abeet dinner time: wander of the British forces in Friday evening, that he complained France; ofa slight chill. As he was subject ti " I deeply regret to tell youth that to more or less a.„:fting chest Lord Roberts died .at 8 o'clock this (Saturday) evening.' "Lord Roberts was on a brief visit to France in order to greet the Indian troops, of which he is col onel-in-chief. He .contracted achill on Thursday, and succumbed after a short illness to an attack ofpneu- monia," Age a Contributory Cause. His age—he was,82 on last Sep- tember 30e -was a contributory cause of death, although he had been in his usual health lately, 'Which was exceptionally good for a man of his age,' l�• despatch from Paris ,says : It is learned here that theend of Lord Roberts was '21orions, that, ,al- though he had oon.tracted oar .chill al - Mott immediately •after his arrival in France, he insisted on .going ho the front to see the troops, He shook hands with the men, and in moving ,about or-osseacl what is now averitable bog. , An .affection of the lungs developed, and Lord Roberts returned to Boulogne._ "I don't ' ea e.ct 'to recover," he is .quoted as 'saying after his arrival at Bou- logne, "but I am glad to •die near many of my old comrade.s." When the news of his death reached the trenches many of -the veterans sob- bed. The French nation regards Lord Roberts' end as the •most in- spiring historic incident of this war. Was about to Reborn. Lord Roberts left England on Wednesday of last week with his daughter, Lady ,Aileen Roberts, and his son-in-law, .Major Lewin. The party bad a rough trip crossing the 'Channel, but the aged •General. felt no ill-effects and went through troubles, he fulluwqed his usual course and went to bed early. As his temperature incr: es••d, medical men were called in and pronounced his condition 'er?tical: They reliev- ed the General of what pain he was suffering, and he fell asleep. His death occurred during sleep, The passing of the great warrior has created profound grief through- out 'tire country. At all churches, and in the camps, where the .sol- d.iers are training, touching refer- ences were made to his death, and the ":Dead March in Seal" was played. Loral Roberts' Life in Brief. - Born at Ca'wiipore, India, Sep- tember 30, 1832; entered Bengal ar- tillery September 12, 1851; commis e signed- Lieutenant (at relief of Lucknow).• June 3 1857; married in Ireland, May 17, 1859; promoted. to Captain, Nov. 2,, 1860; breveted 'PRE LATE LO RD ROBERTS. M•a1 or, November 13, 1860 ; brevetedTiS "$$ZE Lieutenant-Colonel, Auguat 15, 1868; Senior Staff Officer, Lushai oaaripaign, 1871-18'72; breveted Ma- Tt1RKISR FORTS jor-General, December 31, 1878; commanded Kuram Field Force, Af- ghanistan, 1878-1879; commanded Kabul Field Force, September, 1879-1880; commanded in Southern Afghanistan, October, 1880; receiv- ed thanks o:£ Parliament, May 5, 1881; Commander in 'Chief, NLadras, November, 1881-1885; Commander- in-Ohier, India,1885-April, 1893; created Baron Roberts of Kanda- har, 1893; created Field Marshal, May 25, 1895; .Commander-in-chief, Ireland, October 1, 1895; Command- er-in-chief, South ; Africa,, 1899- 1800; Commander-in-chief of Brit- ish Army, 1801-1904; 'Chairman Im- perial Defence Committee, 1905. FORCING A WAY INTOGERMANY Russians Wearing 1Ponii the De - P. ; , fences of East and West Prussia. A despatch from London says: f A general engagement, on • which -the fate of German's eastern front- ier provinces .may depend, is rapid- ly developing .all along the extend- ed, line from Stalluponen to Ora- -cow, where the advancing forces of the Czar have come into contact with the .ariniee. of the. Kaiser, the latter evidently being. determined at last to offer a stubborn resist- ance to the Russian progrees. Al- ready the whole eastern and south- ern 1border land of East:Prussia ringing with conflict, 'particulaml5 id the region of the Mazur Lakes, where 'Slav and Teuton are . strng- .giing for the possession of passes, whose relinquishment by either .army means .s,exious defeat owing - to the winng-to'the nature o'f, he country•. The Germans faitlecF in a vigorous offensive up the Vistula. into Rus- sian Poland !from ;the ,stronghold of Thorn. According to official state- ment from Petrograd, the Germans souglit,to reach Wloclawek, 30,miles 'front Thorn. by a simultaneous ad= vance,ou;iboth sides of the river, but were >;epulsed. Eby the Russians. The :German force in this direction is. said, to have ibeen: strengthened by troops .hurriedly t'>;ansferved from L ok, where no effort .Was made to check the •Russian ,aclvance. some. days 'ago • • Otf`the fighting on the Posen and, Silesia fronts ,the Russian general .staff merely slays: that "in the Czen- stechowga region •the Germans .are :t moving gradually to • the Silesian frontier." Unofficial reports pass- ed by the.censor and printed in the Petrograd .,.newspapers, however; state that severe• defeat has been. inflicted on the Germans near Kat- isz, and than the enemy has retreatt. ad into his own` cotsntry after losing •twelve heavy guns and leaving many dead on the field, ANTI-BRITISH PA1'.F Order•.i>t.Couneil lViatkesyit a Crimi- nal Offence to Posseas Tliein A despatch from Ottawa says:. Phe. order -in -Council, making it az. `* pimiaal offence to oirculate •or pos- fess'te"l°iiitions, anti-British and Ger- i an kpapers, which are coming'leto anada from. American cities, will e rigidlyenforced. The matter is be taken tip by the Postlnastee- neral, and special o1feers -ap- ointed to enforce the -,law. The e.a I•• nl, is�'S 0 0O or v �two i `s ian- . y' risontnerit. There is said to be a.. heavy oire I atao rf such ,papers in • .(german Crowwn. Prince's Mother -in- - Law Has Iteiaennecd Germany. The Grand Duchess Anastasia of Mecldenbourg-Schwerin, another -in- law of the Crown Prince Frederick William, has renounced her Ger- man nationality and resumed the nationality of her birth, which is Russian. $eDeafter she will be known as the Grand Duohess Mika- levitssh. She is' the Czar's cousin and sister of the `Grand .Duke Nich otos and, Mictha,el . She, has given her beautiful villa en ; the Riyiera for. the use of the wounded soldiers. B11 ®jj1TI II �jjj .� S OFFICER GWEN ESI � If RU' N CROSS Re Saved a Wounded Ger:nan and Tine' Received. a.MortYal Hurt Himself. A despatch, from London says; A Paris despatch to the.Oentral News, says: During the recent fighting, the .German 'troops, after a fierce charge, retreated, carrying all their wounded exbept. one mean. A Bri- lash ofiicr.;• .who went oait to bring tri the Wounded soldier was himself wounded,' boot inanaged to drag the German soldier to shelter; where later both . were pinked up by a G•erma . ' rl ambulance. AS a reward for his bravery and humanity, the Ileitisih. officer re- ceived the Iron Or•o.ss froom the German cetornanding ofi`icer. .Ile was sent biale to his own for where.; he was re.comatendcd .ox the Victoria Cross, but suctsumbed td his injuries, Sheikh Said, at Entrance of Red Sea, Occupied by 'Marine Force. A despatch from. London says: The secretary of the Admiralty an- nounces the su0cess of operations against the, Turkish forts at ' Sheikh Saad, on the Strait of Bab el Mara- deb, at the entrance: •of the Gulf ,of Aden, and of the occupation of the Turkish forts atNein, by Indian Troops, assisted by ache British cruiser Duke of Edinburgh. "The Turkish fort of Turbo," says the Admiralty report, "is'situ- ated on the rocky heights :olo•se to the boundary of Tarkieh territory and the Aden protectorate. , The guns of the fort command the isth- mus connecting the peninsula lof { Sheikh Said with time mainland. "Three battalions of troops were ; landed in the face of oppositio:e, but under cover of the Duke „of Edinb•urgh'e fire, which had previ- ously disabled the Turba.felt The Indians -attacked the enemy's posi- tions, being, opposed, by well con- ' pealed artillery and infantry -fire. "When the hills commanding Menheli were occupied, the opposi- tion weakened and 8.00 of the enemy escaped over the isthmus: on camels or by boats;. Six Turks were• killed, the remainder being wounded or taken prisoners. "The fort was occupied. and a Large ,amount of munitions of war and six field. guns: were captured: The Indian casualties were one offm- cer and fifteen men wounded, and four men killed. There were no casualties on the cruiser." The Sultan has• refused to pro- claim a holy war, but .at the urgent =requestef Enver Pasha, Minister of War, signed a proclamation ad- dressed to the army and navy in which he exhorted all Moslems to fight Turkey's enemies., especially the English, who, it .says, aim at the annexation of Persia and'Arabia. The proclamation ' declare,s that the English • attempted tocorrupt the Arab °hit s but failed, and everybody is now united under the Caliph's flag. SPREADS TO CHILDREN. Several Living Near Infected Cat- tle 'Found at-tle'Found with Sore Mouths. A despatch from Providence, •R.I. says: Fear that the foot and mouth disease had spread to human beings was expressed by. Federal and `State authorities. Four chil- dren of a Providence than who owned infected cattle were found to have sores in their mouths. A boy of fourteen who had taken Dare of the sows had the most pro- nounced symptoms. The children have been exanxined by several doc- tors, but the nature of the disease has not been determined definitely, Loss of Monmouth "Presumed." A despatch from: London stye: T'he Admiralty, published the names of 52 officers and warrant ollicere who were aboard the• British crui- ser Good hope when : it was ;sunk with the cruiser Monmouth by the German• squadron off the coast of. Chile, The names include that of Rear -Admiral Sir Cikzristroplier, Ora -1 dock, commander of the British ships. The Monmouth had aboard 42 officers. The captain of the Good Hope was Philip Franeklin, The CA ;, captain of time lrloirr t1 p zno tth wasFrank Brandt, The Admiralty announces that in 'the absence of further infor- mation the loss of the Monmouth is now "officially presumed," EDEN PARTY STILL AT IARGE Three Officers and Forty hien, with Four. Guns, Escaped in Schooners.. A despatch from. Sydney, N.S.W., says : The -Naval Board here has received details of the fight in, which the German cruiser Emden was put out of commission. The Emden ar- rived at Cocos Island and sent armed launches towing two boats ashore. Forty men with three .offi- cers :andfourmaxims were landed in fifteen minutes, and the landing party smashed the wireless instru- ments .and the engines of the plant. In the meantime the Australian cruiser Sydney was sighted on the horizon and the Emden irim:mediate- ly put out to +sea, leaving the land- ing party, both boats and men, be- hind. The Emden started the fir- ing, her practice at first being' ex- cellent, ..but afterwards it fell off. She lost :two funnels and took fire atthe stern within an hour, while the Sydney was _scarcely touched., The, landing party, having com- mandeered two months' supplies, left on schooners belonging to bhe owner of the islands. It .appears that the presence of the Emden was made known to the Sydney by wireless from the East- ern. Cable Company's staff on Co- cos Island. •Commande e, of Submarine Operating the, •: Periscope, the . Eyes of,His, Ship, While; His', Boat is Under Water. TIM "EYE OF SEA BRITISH LOSSES 57,000. A despatch froan London says The British casualties in the war up October 31 were approximately to pp a.telay 57,000 men of all ranks, This esti, mate, awns given by Premier Asquith in the House cif Commons iti reply to a questioxi by Edward P, ;John, member of, the House from East s t " Premier ., rm r Denbighshire. P A r t. gave te British casualties, and acid_ the a as no trit ed that w a position :o t p t estimate' the lossesof the other allied powers or. .those of the enemy. 3 WEEKS RAIN OF SIIELLSI Defence of Ypres Will Rank as One Greatest Episodes A despatch from London says: The Official Press Bureau issued the following statement: "The operations during the last few days have eorisisted mainly of fighting to the north of the Lys, where the points of interest were at first on the line of Hollebecke, Wytsohaeto and Messines. There have also been severe encounters on the line from Zanvoorde to Frelinnhein. "The character of the fighting has been oue of frequent and vigor. 011S infantry attacks from the Ger- mans, a000mpanied by heavy shell fire, alternating with equa1'ly vigor- ous counter-attacks, the general re- sult being the maintenance of our line, not without considerable lasses on our side, but with still heavier losses on the other. Six machine guns and over one hundred prison- ers were taken by us in one day. "The German artillery Are was practically a .continual bombard- meet, intended to pulverize the de- fence preparatory to the advance' of the infantry. In the centre the, struggle has been at Ypres, the de- fence of -which. will certainly be reckoned in history as one of the most 'striking episodes of the Bri- tish army. "For more than three weeks: the position, which: projects like ,a bas- tion into the enemy's lines, has been held under a rain of shells which has hardly oeased by•.day or night. During 'this time the enemy has poured successive waves of infantry of History's against " it, only to see them break to piece -s, one after the tither;" The ibembarcimeat of Ynres serv- ed to absolve the allies of the ebli- gatieresof looking after neatly one 'thousand German prisoners, The German shells fell ,ori the railway station, where they evidently hop- eel to blow up one .of the armored trains. At the :moment prisoners were awaiting the arrival of a •spe- cial train to oonvey them to the south of France. They were killed mn yxppalling xresuaber,s, only 284 sur- viving unscathed. One hundred and sixty-one were wounded and conveyed to the British base hoapit- •als. The others are still unburied' at the railway station. The Gex: mans began a night atbu k and they were well on toward Bethune. The town' seemed to be;:at;their mercy. They had met little apposition, for the thin line of khaki had retreated before them and occupied a posi- tion on the slopes of a: hill. The British .infantry opened a terrify- ing rifle fire which decimated the Germans In the meantime the latter had brought their artillery forward and in the .stampede that ensued after the British fire opened their gun crews' and infantry be- came a panic-stricken mass of, hu- manity. The British guns did their work mercilessly. The Germans' were driven back helter-skelter, leaving piles of dead. Their guns were also abandoned, with several rounds 'of ammunition. BUCKNAM PASHA, 4dmiral Bansford D. Bucknam, born to Nova. Scotia, who is now in supreme command of the. Turkish iavy, which is operating against Russia. FAIL TO BLOCK RUSSIANS. German Defence Already Has Been Pierced in 'Three Provinces. A despatch from London says: The situation in the eastern theatre •of war is ,summarized by military critios as more favorable. to Russia, than at.any time since: the. outbreak of hosrtili'ties• .over three an!onths ago. Germany and Austria have foaled twice in powerful offensive move- ments, .and are now entirely con- cerned with the problem of bilock- ingthe Russians from German ter-. 1 ritory. In this they have' not been wholly successful, since Russian troops are further within East Prussia than ever before, and have even broken through they Warthe line in West Poland, and gained wa foothold at various points in Posen and Silesia. This appears to be due not so much to the weakness of the German re- sistance, but to. the constantly growing power of the Russian at- tack, .anal to the superior general- ship of the Russian commander-in- ehief. Russia has been able not merely to repair losses, but to add at: least 200,000 trained troops to her first line a•rniies every month. Seven Russian ;armies, estimated as numbering 2,400,000 men, are now ,attempting to close in on .Ger- rea.•ny, On the Russian right wing two armies are .advancing toward the East Prussian defene;e line of Danzig -Thorn with the obvious purpose of holding the River Vis- tula from the Baltic to Thorn, and making any turning movement by the Germans in the north impossi- ble when the ,central :armies, now advancing in West Poland against Breslau, are ready to strike with full force, No man ever did to a evil.z'., ChCr without doing a greater evil fo self. BRITAIN HAS • LOST GREAT LAMtiSHIP• The Audacious Conies in Contact with a Mine Oft'. the Irish Coast. A despatch from New York says :' Absolute oonfirmation that .the Bri- tish .super-Drnaclnought Audacious was sunk twenty anil.ess off the coast' of Ireland on October 27 has been received in .this city in letters from English corree.po,ndexits. As the, Audacious 'was.going down she flashed a; wireless call that was taught by the Olympic, whieh was steaming cautiously toward the coast of Irei.ancl, only a few miles Almost at the noon en•t that the wireless message .was : caught the. hazy outline" of the battleship was seen by .all the passengers on the Olympic's deck. Full steam was put on, despite the fact -that the captain of the Olympic :had been warned to look out for mines, and. the race to rescue fthe crew of the Audacious was begun. Half .an hour later the. Olympic was standing by and the Audacious was rapidly ,settling. A -very rough sea was running. Despite this fact the Olympic's captain ordered life- boats manned and dowered, calling for volunteer's. Twice as 'many men responded an were needed,. The work of rescue went on with- out a hitch. although aeveral times .cane of the small beats were sap - sized. Before the, ,Crewof the. Au- •dacious was trans -shipped 'several vessels of the English squadron in the Irielt sea came up and aided in the work. The crew was transferred to irhe Olympic at neon, three hours after. the •accident:1 The Audacious did not go down just after an accidental expioseou in her stern, but was diiberatele blown up ,b37 tate, mem of the cruiser Liverpool to remove her from. the: track of navigation.. The Liverpool had taken off her oommander and those of the crew who had remained aboard •after the Olympic had to abandon her effort to tow her into shoal waiter. Turks Sent to .Fort Henry. Bound for Fort Henry as prison, ers of war a train load of Turks passed through the, Toronto termi- nals from Brantford, This was the first occasion that any citizens of the Ottoman Empire hove been Placed an custody, and the arrival of the train in Toronto created a great decal of interest., The train was composed of two coaches and a baggage car, which Was filled with the effects of the prisoners. The total number of Turks arrested was 120; A full company of.. the local militia was placed in charge of the prisoners, and while ten men were placed upon the platforms ivith. loaded rifles as guards the remain• der were seated in, the catches be: tween"their charges, Born-. For Enver ver Kills 5 Germans A. dee patch tc h fr m Petr €rad say s : Tiler e has boon a revolt of the Con- s{amtmnoplc ga iaom. Five German oICmoers were killed by n bomb in the palate of Enver Pasha, the Min - o. a Enver fo '� m. J-nver I'.ashFa,inims'cl3 was unhur •, t. :k letter, wvltic.lm wee found declared that the bomwmb wee meant for the man who sold Turkey: to Germany.