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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1914
Page
1
Fronts in France and Belgium see heavy fighting as King Albert reportedly marches from Antwerp with army units. Reports say British expeditionary troops enter Antwerp, artillery and naval detachments support, while German siege guns and Zeppelins bombard the city, with Allied counteractions near Arras, Douai, Verdun, and Meuse sectors.
Russian and German forces clash across East Prussia and Poland with gains for Russians at Kamenka near Bakualar gewo and Biala in Galicia. Russian troops advance toward Cracow and Thorn, while German claims report defeats and lulls amid strategic movements. The czar’s army seeks breaks near Przemysl and Ivangorod as observers note shifting front lines.
London reports Submarine 19 of the British navy sank a German torpedo boat destroyer off the River Ems and earlier sunk the cruiser Hela off Helgoland on September 13. 19 returned safely to base. Berlin publishes the forty third German casualty list with 10600 names killed wounded or missing led by Major General von Walther wounded at Tarnovka on September 8. Canada ready to furnish 500000 troops to aid against Germany per Col. Sam Hughes en route to England. English and Scottish universities report low fall term attendance. Belgian refugees continue arriving in Folkestone, mainly from Malinea Alost Antwerp.
London reports King Albert wounded while leading Belgian sorties from Antwerp as German forces pound Ghent and Antwerp. Paris dispatch describes Soissons bombardment, ruins of cathedral and hospital, and a dramatic retreat into a cellar as shells rain. Writer John Ashton recalls frontline sights near Vauxhuin and the near-continuous artillery duel across a widened front.
Desperate attacks by Generals von Kluck and von Boehm near Roye and Lassigny fail to break French left and center. Germans report 1,600 captured and heavy losses on both sides as allied flanks press near Antwerp and Lille. Continuous fighting across Lens Artois Bray sur Somme Chaulnes with no decisive result in the Woerre front as Antwerp siege continues.
London Oct 11 A Reuters dispatch from Petrograd reports the fall of Przesmyal the great Austrian fortress in Galicia. German forces, after setbacks in Hussis invasion, prepare a stand in East Prussia while the Russian invasion of Hungary is officially admitted from Vienna.
A quarter of a million Jews join the Russian army in Petrograd, forming the largest Jewish army since the fall of Jerusalem. The mobilization underscores significant Jewish enlistment amid wartime pressures and national upheaval.
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