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EUROPEAN WAR DEVELOPMENTS. Rumors of disaster to the llrltish superdreadnaught 1 Audacious, which have persisted ever since the I While Star liner Olympic, diverted from hei course, clo arrived at Lough S willy October 20, are continued. After a career of less than two vears, the Audacious, lit of the. King George V. class third lu tonnage and ,, armament of his majestys warships lies at the bottom of tlie ocean off the north coast of Ireland. ; She was hit by a torpedo or disabled by a mine . just before nine oclock on the morning of October 27. "With the possible exception of one or two men. i, the whole crew of S00 officers and men were rosened by small boats from the Olympic. The rescue was. made in a rough sea through brilliant and daring x seamanship on the part of the White Star crew. I The battle ships cry for assistance was caught by the. wireless operator of the Olympic, which Avas only .about ten nilles distant.. The steamer rushed forward at full speed, while her crew made ready for their work. Volunteers were called for and double the nunilver necessary to hum the lifeboats responded. The crippled battle ship was reached a 18 few minutes after nine oclock and before nwn all, but 1H or her men had been transferred. By that time the battle ship had a decided list at the stern. I where, just below the water line, she had received her wound. Two of her euglnes were unharmed, but the one aft was put out of commission. After taking off all the officers and crew who would leave .1 the ship. Cant. Haddock of the Olympic turned his 1 attention to an attempt to save the warship. A cable was given her, but it snapped as It tightened. .Meanwhile, the bulkheads began to give way and it 1 was soon apparent that it would be impossible" to tow the ship or keep her afloat. The cruiser Liverpool and several other warships which had come up B stood by. Late in the afternoon It was decided to abandon the Audacious and the officers and men who -had remained aboard reluctantly left her. The Ho- if .tilla. ti of resue. ships continued to stand by, bow-ever, tfi until nine oclock that evencnlng, when a t terrific explosion occurred jind the Audacious plunged si stern first and in a moment had disappeared. She 1 was of 2.!, 000 tons and commissioned iu ml!!. j A Petrograd correspondent outlines the operations 1 of the present week iu the, eastern theater, lie 1 s. says: "During Tuesday and Wednesday there was uninterrupted fighting on the German side of the 1 e eastern frontier of East Prussia. The German Wir-ballen J. army Wirballeh is In Snwalki, Russian Poland, ,. almost 011 the East Prussia lnmudary line. N v with its base in 11 formidable series of fortified positions, made strong efforts to turn the Russians H . .611 1 of their trenches, but all attacks wens! successfully repulsed. From Tuesday until Thursday the Russians, advancing from the Bakalarzevo-Lyck r line, slowly thrust the enemy back to the y Mazitrlan lake region East Prussia, where the 11 C Germans have the advantage of enormous natural obstacles in the network of lakes and swamps and 1 a are aided by the intensive scheme of fortifications, 1 the central point .of which is Loetzen. BehiuO I Ietzeu Fort Boyeii blocks the narrow passage be : tween Dargained and Loewintln lakes, which, except for this break, form an Impassable barrier ex i tending twenty miles from north to south. The Germans have all the dry gaps in this region 1 1 armed with heavy artillery, against which thty ; 1 hope the Russians will dash themselves to pieces." . The following official statement conies from 1 , Petrograd: "In Last Prussia the fighting con- 1 tlnues iu the region of Stalluponcn for the posses-" i sion of the outlets iu the eastern chain of the 1 Mazuriau lakes. The fighting ?n the region of : ! Soldau continues. The German offensive has been i , repulsed in the direction of Thorn on both banks of - the Vistula toward Ryfoin and Wloclawek and lur- - ther west. The enemy brought here a part of his 1 troops from Lyck. Iu the Czeastochowit region the - 2 1 Germans are moving gradually toward the Sllesiau - frontier. In Galicia our offensive toward Don- . ualetz nowhere encountered resistance. We oc-. , eupled Krosno and inflicted heavy losses 011 ths a . Austrian rear guard. .In the region of Sanok ami Turka, where wo stormed nightly a well fortified j position, the Austriaus 011 the morning of Nov. 11 e began retreating. Iu the Garpathlaiis. on the road t from Nadvorno to Marmarosziget. near Palleczna, . f we defeated a body of hostile Sokols." s "Heavy reinforcements have been brought up f before Dlxmude by the allies, vho have resumed. 1 the offensive with, great vigor, and; tbere is every, r .indication of an early reoceunation of .the town t bv them," says a dispatch from the Belglnn fron-I tier. Fresh German intrenchments are being dug e for the purpose of holding the town and big guns have been sent forward to new positions. Tiie j roads behind the towii are filled with advancing e ammunition trains." During attacks Thursday by the French, the Germans placed mitrailleuses in. the tower Of the railway station,- which enabled e theni to command the southern approaches Of the . town and beat back successive bodies of infantry a which had succeeded in reaching the suburbs." The, i r olliclal communication given out in Paris says that 3 a German attack against the bridge at Nicuport : u resulted in failure, and that various offensive movements of the enemy around Ypres have been checked. t I An effort is being made by the United States . t government to ascertain, officially who Is responsible t for. the placing of mines iu the North sea. This is j- one result of representations made to the state de-i, in partment by the governments of Denmark, Hol- land, Sweden and Norway that their maritime to Commerce with the United States had been parai-.. yzed by . the placing of mines outside of territorial waters in violation of The Hague treaties. The United States was asked to join with these govern-: c incuts In an effort to have the warring European he d powers abate this danger to navigation. AVhether .r it will do to or not is still under consideration, ! but nieaiiwliile the Inquiry is being made to detor-M mine the responsihility for the mine laying and to. J" what governments any representations 011 the sub-P ject should be addressed. an " a Included iu the Information given to the press at Berlin is the following: "Reports received here from Constantinople set forth that the Turkish r army id the Caucasus I attacking the Russians on lP their second line of defense. An artillery engages ment near Koepryory mi NoV. 9 lasted all day. as IS The Persian, Afghan, Egyptian. Indian, and Mo-t0 to hammedan elements in Constantinople have declared f" the community of their interests. The Vossisehe Zeituug reports that Roumunia has declined a de-b- inand made by Russia for the passage of Russian troops thrugh Roumanian territory. Vienna reports bs that the retreating Servians are being followed s. eveywhere. The Austriaus" have occupied the moun-e- tainous land along the river Save and are driving her it the Servians ill the direction of Valjevo." of a German " military headquarters gave out an offi-" cial announcement as follows: "The fighting in d western Flanders Continues. Our attacks during the last few days have been impeded by the rain aiid s stormy weather, and are therefore proceeding slow-to to ly. South, of Ypres we have taken 700 prisoners. CO- The British attacks to the west of Lille have been ;d repulsed. At Berry-au-Bac we compelled the m French to evacuate a .commanding position. Our at-ld tack in the forest of Argonne has made good al progress. Here the French again suffered heavy losses, leaving more than 150 prisoners in our the le "amis." re It is officially announced at Vienna that the Rus-ir- sians have occupied Tarnow, Jaslo and Krosno. in three towns in Galicia, on the way to Cracow. The is official statement says: "Yesterday afternoon there ;d were no Important events in the northern theater of the war. The enemy has: marched Into Tarnow. . Jaslo and Krosno. The number of prisoners taken ,i" lip to yesterday were 8G7 officers and 92,727 men. at r.1 In the southern war theater the enemy continues to ns Ijjj. retreat from Koceljeva and Valievo eastward." er The German cruisers Leipzig, and Dresden, which in entered Valparaiso harbor Friday morning and spent the day in taking on provisions, sailed away the iiA yesterday morning at daybreak. British and Japanese Warships are reported cruising along the I coast and a battle at sea is expected. The Ger-.1. man cruisers Scharnhorst. Gneisenuu and Nurnberg Q also are believed to be near Valparaiso. Official announcement was made in Vienna that t the Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Augusta was sunk of " off Tsing-tao. after her ammunition was exhausted, He ip She was sunk by her own crew, and not by Japa-V nese shell fire. The crew was added to the at Tsing-tao garrison and eight of the sailors wer-; killed and eighty wounded. Official and unofficial reports concerning the situa-tion Dry in Flanders agree in saying that the force of "tlie German assaults 011 the allies lines in the fight on toward Duiikerque and Calais has lessened and the feeling is growing in England that the coveted base for an Invasion of England will not be gained by iL the Germans. the jV- In a battle lasting two days at Kara Kalissa, , Turkish Armenia, between Turkish and Russian troops, the latter lost 8.000 men and much am-th munition and Were forced to retreat, according to an olliclal communique from- Ottoman army headquarters telegraphed to Berlin from Constantinople. Reports reaching Berlin from Milan. Italy, set forth that in Egypt fighting already has occurred New ew near the. Suez- canal. Four wagon loads, of English wounded have arrived at Cairo. Thu men were in-ju jured in lighting between Suez and Ismallia. re An official Turkhh communication received in Berlin desoriles the final defeat of an entire army ,ls corps of 40,000 on the Caucasian border. The Turi:-, local , Ish report says that the forces of the Russians were 0s. so shattered that they were unable to offe? rurther .III resistance. r- Premier Vivian! regards the return of the French of of government to Paris by the end of November as certain. Parliament has beeu convoked for Dec. 13.
