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October 2 7, l 9 l 4
In the Argonne Forest the Germans recap-
tured some French trenches and took the
defenders prisoners.
Some miles off the north coast of Ireland
the English battleship "Audacious became
unseaworthy at 3 a. m.. as the result of an
explosion, the cause of which was not ex-
plained. The crew of lā.lQ0 men was
rescued. The ship was built in l9l2. and
had a very heavy armament. She displaced
27.000 tons. At 9 p. in. she went down.
The British Admiralty kept the loss a secret.
It became known through private sources a
month later.
In view of the arrival of immense Russian
reinforcements during the past few days
along the Novo-Georgiewsk-VVarsaw-
Ivaiigorod line the General Staff of the Ger-
manic Allies decided upon a strategic retreat.
The withdrawal of the German troops was
attended with little difiiculty and few losses.
All railways and means of communication
were destroyed. so that the enemy. which
maintained a dilatory pursuit, was kept in
ignorance of certain new dispositions of the
Germanic forces.
Austro-Hungarian forces stormed Ravnie. in
the Macva. and captured it, despite gallant
resistance. They also took the strongly en-
trenched Serbian position north of Crnabara.
Several field-pieces, eight machine guns,
much war material and 500 prisoners were
captured.
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English despatches spread the rumor that the
Germans had invaded Portuguese Angola,
East Africa. Nothing was heard officially
to this effect in Germany. The rumor was
probably started to support English diplo-
macy in its attempts to force Portugal into
the war.
On October 28,
several fortified positions west of Lille were
captured by the Germans. Sixteen English
oflicers and over 300 men were made pris-
oners. Four guns were taken. English and
French counter-attacks were repulsed.
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A Zeppelin dropped bombs on Paris and did
considerable damage. Although several
hostile aviators ascended to attack the air-
ship it escaped uninjured.
The French set up a battery directly in front
of the cathedral at Rheims, and established
an observation-post on one of the steeples.
Southeast of Verdun the French made a
furious attack on the German positions. In
a counter-attack the Germans broke the
enemy's line and occupied its position. The
enemy sutlered heavy losses.
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The mouth of the Thames, with the excep-
tion of two narrow channels, was closed to
navigation.
It was discovered that mines had been laid
along the north coast of Ireland by the Ger-
man fleet.
General von l-lindenburg was elected honor-
ary citizen of his native city of Posen.
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The German attack progressed on the East
Prussian front. The booty from battles that
had occurred there in three weeks amounted
to l3,500 prisoners, 30 field-pieces and 39
machine guns.
On the Polish front the strategic retreat of
German troops was so well masked that the
Russians still thought they were fighting the
entire German army in the rearguard actions.
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At the trial of the murderers of
the Archduke Francis Ferdinand,
five of the accused were condemned
to be hanged and eleven were given
long prison terms.
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At the opening of the Sobranie. Premier
Radosl-avov emphasized Bulgaria's duty to
maintain a strict neutrality.
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