Sherbrooke daily record, 15 octobre 1914, jeudi 15 octobre 1914

[" * Sherbrooke Daily Record.Established 1897 SHERBROOKE, QUE., THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 1914 ONE CENT German Clash at Calais Met Staggering Repulse; Are Also Thrown Back 30 Miles From Warsaw RIGHT WING OF ALLIES AGAIN ACTIVE; ENEMY DRIVEN RACK TOWARD MUELHAUSEN; FALL OF PRZEMYSL SAID WORLD'S MOST TERRIBLE EXPLOSIVE AND THE MAN WHO INVENTED IT TO BE IMMINENT ACTIVITY ON RIGHT WING ALLIES.Paris, Oct.15.\u2014 (Special) \u2014 The night wing of the Allies is now beginning to show activity, according Fto reports reaching Paris this morn-Üng.There was yesterday an almost tcontinuous firing of heavy artillery jalong the frontier, A force of Ger-bnans delivered a spirited attack on IFrench troops, in which a number Jwere wounded.As night closed this iforce of the enemy was driven hack an the direction of Muelhausen.REPORTS LACK CLEARNESS.Lt.-Ool, Rousset, the French military critic, in his article to-day, de-I dares that the recent official commu-inications are lacking in clearness and that it is impossible to find in them (any indication, even an absolutely lharmless one, of the present military leltuation.GERMAN STEAMERS SEIZED.London, Oct.15.\u2014 (Special) \u2014Ath-;ens newspapers assert that the Rus-jsian fleet in the Black Sea has seized OF cupied Ypres.This is a very distinct gain for the Allies and shows that the German attempt to work around their left has failed, the German right being bent back toward Lille and Courtrai, botn of which places the invaders hold with strong forces.It is here that the heavy blows, that both sides hope will bring about a decisive result in the long-drawn-out battle will be struck, and it is for this reason that the Germans 'two German steamers loaded with Kus- ; cereals, bound from Galatz for itendje, Roumanla.GERMANS THROWN BACK AT WARSAW.London, Oct.15.\u2014 (Special) \u2014 1 ed and manned by Germans, and have been cruising off the Rumanian and Bulgarian coasts of the Black Sea, where the Russian Black Sea fleet has been for some days, and should the Russian warships sight the Goeben and Breslau an engagement would be possible.SOUTH AFRICAN REBELT,ION NOT SERIOUS.General Botha, the Premier of the; .\t.\t.\t,\t\u201e Union of South Africa, has sent a wiil be able to make their way to Os- f t d > with Col.Merits and the W\t°U!.»\tT/: f the«e c Te rebels under his command.Accord- troops have been eft to inflict what tQ an official telegraln from the Tr^er6!\t1,efor® ]ominS the : South African Government the rebel- a g body further south.\ti lion ig not aS serious as was feared.SMASHING BLOW PREPARwD.j js said that the men under Maritz The censorship has prohibited any do not exceed 500, including Ger-mention.of the operations to the' mans, and that as the Dutch farmers north of Arras, which is probably re- are flocking to Gen.Botha's standard, Maritz is not likely to receive any large acquisitions.sponsible for the belief that the Allies have prepared what one military critic declares is \u201ca smashing blow, which the longer it is delayed will be the more crushing in its effect.\u201d Of the recent fighting elsewhere, the French communication simply says that the operations are proceeding normally on the left wing as far as i MET WITH the Oise ; that the Allies\u2019 progress in the Berry-Au-Bac regian is confirmed, and that on the right wing there is nothing new.DENIER GERMAN CLAIMS.For the first time GERMANS MADE DASH ON CALAIS' STAGGBRING BLOW WHEN THEY ADVANCED ON POSITION Calais, October 15\u2014(Dispatch\tto the London Daily Chronicle)\u2014 The .position of the left wing, which is _______ ______, however, the I now by far the most important sec- ! French General Staff takes notice of : tion of the gigantic battle line, grows i and denies some claims put fort.h by ! flay by day more satisfactory from leU.n,\u2014 TA\ta,._l\t* ! avorxr Tinlnt\" r,F view.The G I the Germans.It is denied that French Cavalry divisions have 'I t wo ' every point of view.The Germans teen have bean pushed back as far as (cen- \\ were thrown back to a thirty miles,\u201d says the Times\u2019 Fetro-fjrad correspondent.«\u2019ALL OF PRZEMYSL IMMINENT.\u201cThe fall of Przemysl is imminent.'The garrison there is being decimated by cholera.Private advices received here say that the main forts ¦already have been taken by the Rus-taians.\" MUST WORK AT FORTIFICATIONS.Vienna, Oct.16, via Peris.\u2014(Spe-,cial) \u2014It is reported from Trieste, v i destroyed, and it is asserted, on the *ore«), where they are entrenching frear that the enemy approached to i 0^her band that the aviators v.ith!arid ^ appears that in this particular Svithin ten miles of Warsaw, but ; the French cavalry inflicted heavy\t*-he war area they will make distance of j losses on the German cavalry.It is\tto hold the also declared that the Germans have Blankendurge, Bruges and Courtrai inot come into touch with the for-:Ther(> can now be little doubt that it ; tress of Verdun and that attempts to!™?.the,r lnten\u201c1°?to\t0t\" ; do SO have failed, while in their ef-iCalals\u2019 a move which was timed to : fort to traverse the Meuse at St.Mi- be vColn\u201c,lent.^ t f\tit ' iGni\tT, ,,4-rt\ti werp.They intended to score a sec- : Mel they were outflanked.\tond -blow at English prestige\u201d by CAN CALL 5,000,060 MEN.| planting the German flag within sight German reports coming through ^le shores of Great Britain.I hey Rome say that the\treal\tstruggle\tis\tadvanced in considerable force on only just beginning\tand\tthat, if\tne-\tHarzebrouck,\tMontcassel and St.cessary, 5,000,000 men can be called : ®Iler' ®ur Kuns\u2019 however, were ad-upon for compulsory service, while vantageously placed on an eminence many volunteers are also available.!Montcassel and almost before the T¦ j,.vrizq TevAPiTATinN niT\u2019 T eat : enemy was aware of the serious na DENIES EVACUATION OF LEM- j ture of ¦ the opposition they were T\u2019\tmeeting with\tthe Allies were working Vienna makes the\tclaim that\tthe\tmost serious\thavoc on tht oncoming Austria, that all able-bodied men in Russiaus have evacuated Lemberg, 1 German ranks.[Austria are being forcibly compelled while the Russians denied a similar A considerable force of Germans ad-'to assist in constructing fortifica-\treport that they had\tgiven up the'vanced,\tand while well forward were lions.Any man refusing to do this\tsieee of Przemysl.It\twould not sur-\tamazed\tat being met by the raking J\t6\t, prise military men if the Russians side-fire from the trenches on their i-work is arrested.The people arc ex-\tv^thdrew from Galicia\tto concentrate\tright,\twhich they had not noticed, pressing indignation because of this,\tall their forces for the\tsupreme strug-\tThe execution was deadly, and the -; gle which, with the advance of the enemy fell back with many hundreds Austro-German armies into Poland, is billed and wounded and in some dis-novr upon them along the Vistula order.The advantage gained was fol- AT F 1KD FORGE Hrier from south of Warsaw to their lowed up during the two following!\t_____ ^ southern boundary.\t; flays, the result being that the Ger-1 mK,nRMATTnN Tn GERMANS MAY REACH ORTEND, N0 NBWS FROM EAST PRUSSIA.back orer the1^^1 border.\t' BUT WILL MEET WITH STUB- ; lnfbattle oTthe EaM Prussian'\tUTldouMedly takcn ^ i BORN RESISTANCE.\tfrontier, but the activity of the Ger-|______________________ is man fleet in the Baltic and the Gulf Jgfl .; Ù/ CANADIANS AT PLYMOUTH Contingent For Great Britain\u2019s Expeditionary Force Reaches Britain .WERE GREETED WITH ENTHUSIASM BY CROWDS OVERLOOKING THE SOUND.Plymouth, via London, Oct.15, 3.40 a.m.\u2014To Plymouth, with Its wonderful history, has fallen the honor of welcoming the Canadian volunteer contingent for Great Britain\u2019s expeditionary force.As soon as it was known on Wednesday morning that the transports were arriving, great crowds hurried to all points overlooking Plymouth Sound and greeted the men swarming the decks with enthusiastic cheers, ! to which the Canadians heartily responded.The vessels anchored off Devon-port.The bands aboard played lively tunes and sounds of merriment carfle across the water all day long as the succeeding ships came to anchor.The last of the transports arrived at nine o'clock at night.The voyage was safely accomplished, and the officers and men are in excellent health.As the ships entered the harbor, the Royal Garrison Artillery Band played \u201cThe Red, White and Blue,\u201d and \u201cThe Maple Leaf Forever,\u201d while the skirl of th?bag I pipes was much in evidence.A few jof the officers came ashore last night i for a short time.The whole of the 'troops will be landed to-day, part at Plymouth, and the remainder at GERMAN SPIES ARRESTED Were on Board launch Filled With Provision on B.C.Coast WIRELESS EQUIPMENT INTERCEPTED MESSAGES FROM THE CAPE LAZO STATION.Nanaimo, B.O., Oct.15.\u2014 (Special) \u2014The ninety-ton gasoline launch Empress was captured by Canadian authorities yesterday at Comox Spit, in Union Bay.The crew, two men and a woman giving the name of Kohfe, were taken into custody.The launch had about nine months\u2019 provisions and supplies aboard, carried three auxiliary engines, and was equipped with wireless apparatus.It is supposed that the crew' were intercepting messages from the wireless station at Cape Lazo.Two other men, also named Kohfe, were arrested at Campbell River.They are charged with being German spies.Both parties wore sent to Nanaimo to wait further instructions.The launch left Victoria a few days ago without clearance papers.JAPAI M.Turpine, the French chemist-inventor, and the tur-janother P°rt not yet announced, pinite shell which is said to strike dead every living thing within 400 yards of where it explodes ATTEMPT ON LIFE I0HANGES IN OF PRES.POINCARE THE CABINET -+\u2014 EXPORTATION OF PETROLEUM FORBIDDEN.London, Oct.15.\u2014 (Special)\u2014A Reuter despatch from Amsterdam 'says the exportation of petroleum jfrom the Netherlands- has been for-: bidden by royal decree.- RUSSIAN ALLIANCE London, Oct.15.\u2014 (Special) \u2014General Oba, the Japanese military attache' with the commander-in-chief, says the Times' Pctrograd correspondent, after an imperial audience at Tsarkoe Selo, gave a statement to the Bourse Gazette- frankly expressing his earnest wish to convert the Russo-Japanese entente into a formal alliance.Such an alliance, General Oba said, would be warmly welcomed by the Japanese government and people.VALE BEFORE German Aviator Dropped Bomb on Headquarters of French Staff Certain That T.Chase Casgrain î .l\\ Will be ' ' ' to a Portfolio ASSUITH\u2019S SON IS SAFE London, October 15\u2014The Daily Express understands that Arthur M.Asquith, one of the sons of the Pre-.mier, was in the naval division which Moderate winds ; fair and a T ! took part in the defence of Antwerp.VISIT OF | HON.BRUNO NANTEL MAY BE PRESIDENT WAS FURNISHED | APPOINTED TO THE RAIL-BY A SPY.\tWAY COMMISSION London, Oct.15, 2.40 a.m \u2014The\tBOARD.London October 15.\u2014While it is man fleet in the Baltic and the Gulf _\ti r, .\t__ fully expected that the Germans will of Finland may presage the arrival op GERMANS\t.corresponde nt of the Exchange j Ottawa, Oct.15.-Rumors of nun- reach Ostend and other ports in the German reinforcements, which it was\t.\t^\tTelegraph Company, in a despatch.isterial changes were rife yesterday, northwest of Belgium, if they have reported some days ago were being\tII GREED BACK idated Wednesday, says;\tj There is nothing official in support not done so already, they will be met embarked at German Baltic ports.A:\t_____ \u201cNow that the headquarters of the ! of t|iem but there are indications sarvcSTi»** tTwmktwroi w»»™»»*\"« r-*«.\u2022