Vienna Melancholy as a Sepulcher in War News Barred
United Press correspondent Alice Rohe reports on Vienna’s collapse into sorrow amid war. Descriptions include 70,000 wounded in hospitals, censorship of news, arrests for defeat talk, and crowds of refugees from Galicia. Citizens blame aristocracy for avarice while churches fill with prayers as cannons and captured arms line the minister of war palace.
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Alige Rohe
United Press Star
Murone
Galicia
cTeat
Ministry of War
Rence
Ruaslang
Red Cross
Europe
Praterstrasse
Viside
Maria Theresa
Prince Schwarzenberg
Europa
Francis Joseph
Hessian Prince Shot In Back By Allies Rumor
Calais reports fierce fighting as Prince Max of Hesse is found dead with five revolver wounds. Bodies stripped, coffin of boards, body sent to German lines. Allied troops endure cold nights with ample coffee, jam, and cigarettes, while Calais shelters Belgian refugees awaiting boats.
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International News Service
Calais
Prince Max of Hesse
Turkey Allied With Germany At War Footing
Theodosia reports Turkey has broken neutrality and joined the war, sending 600,000 to 700,000 troops ready to field under German officers. Breslau sails under Turkish flag bombards Theodosia, while Turkish gunboats raid Odessa and sink Russian vessels. Britain warns of possible war if Turkey crosses Egypt. Italy may join to influence the Balkans.
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Breslau
Turkey
Russia
London
Reuter
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Great Britain
Poland
Britain
Goeben
Black Sea
Augelan
Mallet
Grand Vizier
Egypt
Red Sea
Asia
Africa
France
Belgium
Congo
Germany
Amalet Neeas
War at Ones and Roumania in Eastern Front Alignments
In the current outlook the conflict focuses on the Ottoman Turks as the central rival. Roumania is expected to remain neutral or take a limited stance, shaping the regional balance of power amid the broader war.
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Roumania
Belgians Force German Retreat In Yser Fight
British and Belgian forces report strong actions on the Yser front with Belgian dykes opened forcing a German withdrawal amid heavy bombardments and casualties. Lille and Ostend are cited as recaptured or evacuated as Allied and Belgian progress continues along the Canal La Bassee and around the Vistula area. Berlin reports gains for the German army in the northeast while South African revolts surface in the Orange Free State and Transvaal.
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Belgium
Lille
Ostend
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de Wet
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Orange Free State
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Transvaal
Emden Glorious Feat Reported From Tokyo Embassy
London reports the German cruiser Emden, using a Japanese flag and a fourth smokestack, raided Georgetown in Penang, sinking the Russian cruiser Jemptchug and a French torpedo destroyer. Over two hundred crew members perished. This increases total vessels destroyed by Emden and Karl von Roon to 43.
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Straits of Malacca
Retreat in Poland Presses German Lines on Vistula
Petrograd reports every German army corps on the left bank of the Vistula in Poland in full retreat. An official Russian command announcement dated October 28 says German resistance has been broken and pursuing forces are advancing.
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Vistula
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Jeschow
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Radom
Berlin
German Peace Offer and Shipwreck News
London reports Germany proposed peace with France based on Metz cession and possibly Alsace, to detach France from allies, but the offer was rejected. Whitby wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla during a storm leaves many feared dead, with two boatloads saved and crew missing. Baron John Arbuthnot Fisher named new first Sea Lord succeeding Prince Louis of Battenberg amid criticism.
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France
London
The
Daily Chronicle
Paris
Germany
Metz
Alsace
Whitby
England
Baron John Arbuthnot Fisher
Admiralty
Prince Louis of Battenberg
World War Involves Over Half The Population
The article notes Turkey’s entry expands the reach of war to more than half the world by area and population. It cites Whitaker’s Almanac figures showing the Allies’ involvement amid Austrian demands on Serbia and the widening conflict across regions and nations.
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Turkey
Servia
Whitaker
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