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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1914
Page
9
An official Paris statement cites reduced fighting from Lys to the sea this afternoon. French forces reportedly maintain positions around Ypres and repulse attacks while snow falls in the Vosges mountains.
Paris dispatch reports Allied lines holding near barbed wire entanglements in northern France. French statements say Ypres attacks repulsed, Yser crossings checked, and minor advances including a detachment captured, with ongoing artillery duels and weather hindrances. Berlin meanwhile claims prisoner gains at Nieuport and Ypres, plus east front activity and Austrian reports of enemy retreat.
President Wilson plans to go to New York tonight and stay over Sunday with Col. JE M. Wonse, his close associate. He may return to Washington Monday and could make another trip next week to New York or a Virginia resort if public business allows.
Socialist deputy Heer Hirsch argues in the Socialist Monthly Review that Socialists supported the Prussian war credit showing internal Discord failed to unsettle Germany. Schmidt counters English Socialists by citing illiteracy figures for Russia France England and Germany.
A Tokio dispatch released by East and West News Bureau details Japanese forces taking 3,000 prisoners in Tsing Tau. Lieutenant General Kamio met with Captain Meyer Waldeck at Moltke barracks on November 10. Waldeck will board a transport to Japan on November 14 as entry ceremonies for Japanese troops in Tsing Tau are anticipated on November 16.
Lord Bernard Charles Gordon Lennox major in the Grenadier Guards and son of the Duke of Richmond and Gordon was killed in battle. He had served in the South Africa War and later saw service in China according to the morning notice from London dated November 13.
Captain Beauchamp Oswald Duff, son of India’s army commander Sir Beauchamp Duff, was killed in action. He served with the First King George's Own Gurkha Rifles and died in battle, according to reports from Thondon.
London, Nov. 13. Premier Asquith disclosed in the House of Commons that British casualties in the war up to October 31 totaled about 57,000 men. The figure was given in reply to a question from Edward T. John of East Denbighshire.
TDMA Peru November 13 report from Port Carral Chile lighthouse keeper says six cruisers were seen steaming south on Wednesday likely German ships including possible Scharnhorst Gneisenau and Leipzig. Port Corral lies 475 miles south of Valparaiso with telegraph confirmation received today. Temperatures list daily highs and lows with historical comparisons.
New York reports the cotton exchange will reopen for unrestricted trading on Monday November 16 after a suspension since July due to the European war. Officials say new contracts will begin with January delivery and December trading will be limited to liquidation of old contracts. New Orleans also plans unrestricted trading that Monday following the New York decision.
August La Fond, a baker in England, escaped to the Continent after being suspected as a German spy. He traveled via Waterloo and stayed with a brother-in-law while his English wife and five children, aged 10 to 16, waited in Westgate. A forged French-Russian background and misrepresented birthplace were used to dodge investigation as authorities pressed for details. Continued on page 8.
Emma Burgemeister, a nurse linked to Otto Koehler, millionaire president of the San Antonio Brewing Association, is under arrest after Koehler was shot dead in her apartment. Burgemeister wounded herself, claiming she acted to protect another nurse Emma Naschiel. both women are under guard or surveillance as inquiries proceed.
Cedar Rapids reports Jones County is under strict quarantine to curb foot and mouth disease. Farmers cannot visit others, livestock must not be driven on roads, and poultry including pigeons and crows are ordered killed or confined. Additional Iowa herds from Chicago stock yards show signs of the disease, with Clinton Jackson and Henderson counties under examination or quarantine as inspectors move to confirm spread.
German cruisers Leipzig and Dresden dock in Valparaiso Chile to take on provisions after participating in naval action off the Chilean coast. Reports tracked other German ships and Japanese squadrons in the Pacific with conflicting sightings and moves.
In Warr, Washington, D. C. on November 13 Secretary Daniels ordered the transport Hancock with 800 marines back from Port au Prince to Guantanamo as Haitian revolutionaries remain quiet.
Berlin reports German aviators flew over the English seaports of Sheerness and Harwich about forty miles from London. Wireless dispatches from official quarters claim the raid occurred without hindrance, amid broader war updates from Vienna and Berlin on Eastern fronts and Allied responses.
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