Fleets Clash at Long Range in the Black Sea War Update
Russian and Turkish fleets engaged in a long distance duel off Sebastopol while fighting continues across Poland Galicia Flanders and East Prussia. Reports claim Goeben damaged and a Russian battleship hit. Western front sees artillery duels as mud slows infantry. US Turkey clash prompts diplomatic note and Navy guidance.
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Black Sea
Flanders
France
Vistula
Warthe
Poland
Sebastopol
Goeben
Nicholas
Galicia
Cracow
East Prussia
Carpathians
Hungary
Dix
Belgrade
Servia
Belgium
Russian
Vario
North Sea
Broure
Petrograd
Lenczyca
Orloff
Smyrna
Tennessee
Gulf of Smyrna
Battle of
Kutno
von Korn
Warsaw
Ber
British Naval Casualties Now Totals Published
London reports in the House of Commons that total British naval losses include 222 officers killed 37 wounded 6 missing and 3455 men killed 428 wounded 1 missing. The numbers exclude Royal Naval Division missing at Antwerp and the Good Hope sinking off the Chilean coast totaling 1000 and 875 respectively.
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London
Winston Spencer Uhurchill
Admiralty
House of Commons
Lord
Royal Naval Division
Antwerp
Good Hope
How Karlsruhe Trapped Ships in War Patrols
One time passengers of the Vandyck describe the German cruiser Karlsruhe and its flotilla of captured merchant vessels. Captain Hans Fritsch details tactics from Oct. 26 and lists seventeen ships seized near equatorial Atlantic waters including the Vandyck, Maria de Larrinaga, Cornwall City, and others.
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New York
Karlsruhe
Germany
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Hans Fritsch
Naval Reserve
Asuncion
Frittsch
Fritsch
Atlantic
Maple Branch
Strathroy
Highland Hope
Indiani
Maria
Cornish City
Maria de Larrinaga
Farn
Luc
Funeral for Field Marshal Roberts in France
The official press bureau recounts Lord Roberts funeral at British army HQ in France. The cortège route from his death house to the Mairie was lined by British and French troops with a gun carriage bearing the coffin. Indian and British troops formed the guard, and the service was led by Chaplain Anderson.
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Lord Roberts
France
Mairie
Anderson
Critissy
Boulogne
Death of Field Marshal Earl Roberts in France
London reports Field Marshal Earl Roberts died in France from pneumonia after a severe chill. He was eighty two and had journeyed to greet the troops, with telegrams confirming the death to war secretary Earl Kitchener.
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London
Earl Roberts
France
Sir John French
Earl Kitchener
England
Lord Roberts
Field Marshal Roberts
Audacious Torpedoed. British Dreadnought Sunk Off Ireland
New York reports confirmed news from Ireland that the British superdreadnought Audacious of the King George V class was struck near Lough Swilly on October 27 and sank with the crew of about 800 men rescued by the Olympic. Field Marshal Lord Roberts notes the empire mourns.
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New York
Lough Swilly
Ireland
Roberts
Kandahar
Pretoria
Waterford
Frederick Sleigh Roberts
War measures pass Commons without opposition
London. The house of commons devoted its session to war measures. Premier Asquith sought 225 million pounds and an additional million soldiers, both approved without dissent. Debate covered soldier conduct, spy press, and censorship policies.
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London
House of Commons
Asquith
Villa Marches on City of Mexico as Carranza Factions Reconcile
General Francisco Villa leads forces toward Mexico City in a clash risk, with Leon taken and Gonzales loyalists at Queretaro Irapuato. Carranza factions debate transfer of power while Gutierrez may direct a preconstitutional government.
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City of
Mexico
General Obregor
Villa
Washington
Carranza
Leon
Obregon
Gonzales
Iraquato
Queretaro
Zapatistas
Rafael Zubaran Capmany
Cordoba
Pablo Gonzales
Con‘trol By
Genaral Gutierrez
Vilia
Myself
Havana
Gutierrez
Aguascalientes
Francisco Villa
Irapuato
George C. Carothers
General Villa
Carothers
Silliman
Flames consume Sunset elevator in Galveston blaze
A hurricane of flame destroyed the Sunset elevator and 900,000 bushels of grain, valued around $2 million in property. Six city firemen and volunteers performed a daring descent to safety on a central life net from a 90 foot brick shaft as the building burned, with Captain Fred Gernand and Captain J. J. Ryan among those rescued. One officer, Lieutenant Henry Thompson, was seriously injured during a rope descent on the north side.
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Galveston
Tex
A. Thibodeaux
Galveston Fire Company No. 1
Fred Gernand
Company No. 6
John F. Boyle
Central Station
J. J. Ryan
No. 1 Station
al F. Reynolds
Station No. 7
Henry Shirmer
Henry Thompson
Station No. 1
War and Life Insurance Losses in War Times
A high level official from a major life insurance company says war will cause only modest losses. He notes one New York firm holds about 400 million in coverage in countries at war, but soldiers killed will be a small portion of all insured individuals.
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Nearlier
Chauvoncourt
Meuse
St. Mihiel
United States
Tennessee
Vourlan
Smyrna
Asia Minor
Constantinople
North Carolina
Chios
Greece
Vourlah
Washington
Francis D. Ackland
House of Commons
Poland
Carpathians
Council of Ministers
Mr. Asquith
North Sea
War and Life Insurance
New York
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Daniels
Wilson
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Strait of
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Gulf of Aden
Turba
Duke of Edinburgh
Carpathian
Austria
Berlin
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Paris
Cruiser
Albert
Poincaire
Prince of Wales
Prince Arthur of
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French
Britain
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Mexico City
Zapata
Southern Pacific
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Chicago
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Ethelbert Wombat
W. L. Douglas
Men's & Ns
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Riluse
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Zowa
Zowa Company
Wichita
Kansas
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