The Orlando Clipper (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, October 2, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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ORLANDO. OKLA. CLIPPER
DISASTER II
GERMAN SUBMARINES SUCCEED
IN SENDING THREE CRUIS-
ERS TO THE BOTTOM
21.000 MEN IN THE THREE CREWS
Of Whom Le68 Than Five Hundred
Are Reported Among the Res-
cued—Two of the Subma-
rines Are Sunk
London.—The silence of the British
authorities regarding naval opera-
tions in the North Sea was suddenly
broken by announcement of a disas-
ter to the British navy which, accord-
ing to official information, has suffer-
ed the loss of three cruisers, sunk by
German submarines.
The victims of this briliant stroke
on the part of the German fleet are
the Cressy, Aboukir and the Hogue,
sister ships.
The loss of life among the crews of
these three vesels probably will be
heavy, although a considerable num-
ber of men were picked up by the
cruisers Lowesteof, a division of tor-
pedo boat destroyers and some traw-
lers.
Neither the time nor the scene of
the disaster is given in the official re-
port.
The Aboukir was torpedoed first.
The Hogue and the Cressy drew in
close to her and were standing by to
save her crew when they were tor-
pedoed.
Two of five German submarine
boats were sent to the bottom by the
British ships, according to survivors.
Wounded on Dutch Ship
A dispatch received from the Hook
of Holland says the Dutch steamer
Titon has arrived there, bringing
twenty British wounded and some
dead, picked up in the North Sea after
the sinking of the British cruisers
Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy.
The Titon picked up 114 survivors,
most of whom were transferred to
British torpedo boats.
The steamer Flores arrived at
Ymulden, Holland, with 287 surviv-
ors from the British cruisers sunk by
German submarines. One dead and a
few wounded also were aboard.
The list of the casualties among the
crews will be published as soon as
they are known.
The Cressy, Captain Robert W.
Johnson; the Aboukir, Captain John
E, Drummond, and the Hogue, Cap-
tain Wilmot S. Nicholson, were sister
ships. They were armored cruisers of
a comparatively obsolete type and
were built fourteen years ago.
These vessels had a displacement
of 12,000 tons, were 440 feet long, 69.5
feet wide, and drew twenty-six feet of
water. Each one had a complement
of 755 men including officers and crew.
These three cruisers had arma-
ments consisting of two 9.2 inch guns,
twelve 6 inch guns, twelve 12 pound-
ers and five 3 pounders. The Abou-
kir and the Cressy were built at Go-
van in 1900 and the Hogue was built
at Barrow in the same year.
This was one of the things the Brit-
ish navy had been led to expect for
t tie Germans frankly had avowed that
their plan was to reduce British naval
superiority by submarining raids and
the sowing of mines and they have
been training their young officers for
sallies of this kind.
Nevertheless it came as a shock to
Englishmen that big ships such as
those sunk could so easily be attacked
and destroyed while the German fleet
has remained safely in its mine and
fortress protected harbors.
BIG BATTLE LASTS A FORTNIGHT
ARTILLERY NOW IN ACTION ON
THE AISNE
Germans Slowly Being Driven Back
In Greatest Battle of
History.
London.—Heavy artillery continues
to play a leading part in the battle of
the Aisne, which lias been in progress
nearly a fortnight. The opposing
forces continue to hammer away at
each other from their well entrenched
and strongly fortified positions with
the greatest stubbornness but without
decision.
Almost without a lull great shells
are being hurled across the rivers, val-
leys and plains stretching from the
river Oise in the west to the Meuse
in the east, and thence southward
along the whole Franco-German bord-
er, while the lighter guns play on the
infantry lying in the trenches await-
ing an opportunity to deliver attacks
and counter attacks, or as the French
official communication says, “retire-
ments on certain positions and ad-
vances on others.”
The battle line has stretched out
further westward, the French left
wing having made some progress in
the direction of Noye, northwest of
Noyon. The latter place a few days
ago was the allies’ extreme left. A de-
tachment has occupied Peronne. still
further north.
A report from German headquarters
dated September 23, says, however,
that the efforts of the French to en-
circle the German right have had no
result.
The French also claim to have
made an advance northwest of Berry-
Au-Bac, which is about the point
where the German line crosses the
Aisne, continuing southeast to Bri-
mont, which has been the center of
many vigorous attacks.
Along the rest of the line, although
there have been fierce engagements
in which both sides claim victories,
the situation is unchanged except
that, according to German reports,
the German troops have recaptured
Varennes, department of Meuse, which
the French took a few days ago.
The French account of the battle
compares it with the Mudken. In the
latter case the tide of battle was
turned by the arrival on the Russian
right of Nogi’s army froiy Port Arthur,
and the Russian left also was en-
veloped, when General Kuropatkin
withdrew the great bulk of his army
northward, leaving the rear guard to
fall into the hands of the Japanese.
The Austrian general staff denies
reports of Russian victories and the
defeat of General Dankl’s army. The
Austrian forces, the report says, “have
been concentrated in a new position
for several days, but have waited in
vain for any serious Russian attack.”
From other sources, however, it is
reported that the Russians have sur-
rounded Przemysl and are between
that fortress and Cracow.
It may be some days before an-
other big battle is fought here, as one
Austrian army is behind the forts of
Przemysl and the other is making its
way to the remaining fortress of Cra-
cow, while the Russians are taking
the smaller towns in Galacia under
their wing.
A report, which lacks confirmation,
says that General Rennenkampf, who
withdrew over the east Prussian fron-
tier, when German reinforcements ar-
rived, has received more men and
again has taken the offensive and com-
pelled the Germans to withdraw.
It is considered probable that the
fall of Jaroslau and the isolation of
Przemysl has compelled the Germans
to look more closely to the protection
of their line from Thorn to Kalicz,
which guards Posen, as the Russians
now are able to release a large num-
ber of men for the invasion of that
part of Germany.
The Servian and Montenegrin arm
ies are before Sarajovo, capital of Bos-
nia, flushed with victory and prepar-
ing to take this latest acquisition of
the dual monarchy.
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Admiral Sir George Callaghan, com-
mander-in-chief of the British home
fleets In the North sea.
JAPANESE BUILDING A RAILROAD
To Assist In Operations Against
Kaio Chow.
AUSTRAINS CONTINUE TO LOSE
Russians Take Jaroslau, While Serv-
ians Occupy Sarajevo.
Petrograd.—Russian troops have oc-
cupied the fortified Austrian position
of Jaroslau. The Russian flag is fly-
ing over the town.
Jaroslau is an important railroad
center. A bridge near the town
crosses the San and commands the
passage of that river. The town is
located seventeen miles northwest of
Przemysl and is on the railroad line
between Lemberg and Cracow.
Sarajevo Captured
London.—In a dispatch from Rome,
it is gaid that Servian and Montene-
grin forces have occupied Sarajevo,
capital of Bosnia, which was aban-
doned by the Austrians after an over-
whelming defeat.
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fighting in Lorraine. Inset la Gen. Peal Fau, commander of the French
troops In that vicinity.
Pekin.—Japan, if it has not already
begun, evidently intends building a
narrow-gauge railway from the sea-
port of Lungow, on the northern coast
of Shantung, to Kaio Chow, the Ger-
man concession on the Shan Tung
peninsula.
Considerable suspicion has been
aroused among the Chinese of the sup-
posed intentions of Japan because of
the precedent of the Antung-Mukden
railway, which became ultimately a
permanent broad-gauge line.
Reports received at the capital from
Lungow say that the Japanese landed
the railway material from the trans-
ports which brought the Japanese
army to the Chinese coast.
Eki Hioki, Japanese minister at Pe-
kin, intimated to the Chinese foreign
office a few days ago the necessity of
Japan constructing such a railway, the
minister explaining that siege artil-
lery could not be transported over the
Chinese roads. The foreign office re-
plied that the government hoped the
Japanese would respect the sover-
eignty of China.
Reports received here from Canton
say that the Chinese there desire to
invite a boycott against Japanese
goods but that the government, which
already has suppressed a newspaper,
is capable of preventing the boycott.
There have been, extensive move-
ments of Chinese troops in the coast
provinces, but the war department
announces they are designed only
against possible revolutionary out-
breaks and to prevent anti-foreign
demonstrations. ,
From the province of Shantung it
Is reported that the Chinese are assoc-
iating all foreigners with Japanese
because they learn that the British,
French and Russians are their allies.
The government is restricting the
travel of foreigners in the interior of
China and is especially instructing
the provincial authorities to protect
missionaries and other aliens estab-
lished in the interior.
STRAY SHOTS.
A news agency dispatch reports se-
vere fighting south of Antwerp and
says a force of 2,000 Germans has
been routed with heavy losses by Bel-
gians at some unnamed place.
In the far east a British force of
1,200 men has landed at Lao Shan,
China, and is expected shortly to at-
tack the outer defenses of Tsing Tau
in conjunction with the .Tannneso
Cettinje announces that the Mon-
tenegrins defeated the Austrians, cap-
turing Pratzho, a town near Sarajevo,
the capital of the Austrian province
of Bosnia.
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Lanter, W. L. The Orlando Clipper (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, October 2, 1914, newspaper, October 2, 1914; Orlando, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc910791/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.