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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1915-01-01, Page 6NAVAL BAST Seven Naval Fliers Drop Bombs on German War ships and Naval Base A despatch from London says: 'Assisted. by Tight cruisers, destroy- ers and submarines, seven British naval airmen, piloting sea -planes, wade a daring ' attack Christmas Day on the German naval base at Cuxhaven, at the mouth of the Elbe, Six of the airmen returned safely, but the seventh, Commander Hewlett, has been lost; as his ma- chine was .found off I-Ieligoland, wrecked. What damage was done by the bombs thrown by the attack- ing party could not be ascertained; but the German report of the affair asserts that the raid was fruitless. The enterprise of the British navy in thus attempting to "dig out" the German fleet brought about a. bat- tle between the most modern of war inachisnes.. The British squadron, inclihding the light cruisers Are- thusa and Undaunted, which have been engaged in previous exploits on the German coast, was attacked by Zeppelins, sea -planes and sub- nvarines. By rapid inanoeuvriug the- ,Ships were able to 'avoid the submarines, while the Zeppelins found the fire of the cruisers too dangerous £•or them to keep up the fight. The Ger- man sea -planes dropped bombs, which, according to the .British ae- oount, fell harmlessly into the sea. The Germans claim to have hit two destroyers and their convoy, the latter being set afire. The British ships remained in the vicinity for three hours without being attacked by any surface warships, and picked up three of the seven pilots and their planes.. Three others were picked up by submarines, but their machines were sunk. Another naval airman on Christmas Eve dropped twelve bombs on an airship shed at Brussels, but it was impossible defi- nitely to a hcertain the amount of damage done. QUEEN'S NEEDLEWORK GUILD New Year's Gift to Queen Mary From Women of Canada. The following appeal has been Gent out by •the Queen Mary's Needlework Guild to the women of Canada, asking them. to contribute toward a New Year's gift to Queen Mary :— "Will you kindly allow me, through your valuable medium, to ask the women of Canada to unite pith Queen . Mary's Needlework �Guild in sending a New Year's pre- 'isent to Queen Mary which shall be worthy of our great Dominion, and tlhe m:agnifizcent work the women are doing. "Will each woman in Canada, tvho is working for the soldiers and Sailors, send one garment during January through. Queen, Mary's Needlework Guild for Her Majesty to distribute ? f This ca.n be done very easily. • "Thanks to Lady Williams -Taylor the Bank of Montreal has kindly in- „ truoted any of its branches to re- �e}esve parcels on account of the pDuild, and such parcels will be for- warded without cost to the donor. swans residing in :a town where here is no branch of the Bank of ontreal may forward parcels to Bank of Monteeal at 213 Peel treet, Montreal, cat the same time ending. the Bank the receipt for the charges paid, the .amount of which 4 l be returned to them. "It will be my pleasure to sup- ly material for one thousand gar- ents- to those who are willing to ve their work but have not mater - 1 and patterns available. This material will make flannelette dresses for infants, woollen under- clothes for children from two to eight years old, men's flannel shirts, socks and children's stockings. A postcard sent to Miss Weller, Assis- tant Secretary, Queen Mary's Needlework Guild, St. Catharines, Ontario, saying'how many garments can •be made, will result in material and •dire.ctions being forwarded to the sender free. "Queen Mary, by her unselfish de- votion to duty, and splendid exam- ple; has endeared herself to the wo- men of the Empire at this crisis,, and such a New Year's gift as I have suggested world not only prove that the women of Canada are ready to "serve the . Queen" as are -our brothers to "serve the King" but also give to Her Majesty the great pleasure of distributing useful garments to the soldiers and sailors, the refugees, the poor and needy, the waifs and strays. "Hoping that the idea of a New Year's gift to Queen .Mary from the women otf Canada will meet with a hearty response, believe me, "Yours faithfully, "(Sgd.) C. WELLAND MERRITT, "Honorary Secretary." Says Austrian Stores Used Up. A.deyspatcb from Petrograd says: Among the Austrian prisoners the head of a firm having works in Pe- trograd anel Moscow eves been brought to Kieft in a lamentable condition. He reports the Austro- Hungarian army stores to be com- pletely exhausted. GERMAN TROOPS IIIIGRY Hage Food Exactions Are Imposed Upon the Irn- Y, poverished Civilian A despatch from Northern Prance says: A detailed account of the exactions by the German au , leei'.ties in Antwerp shows that the daily fine. demanded is 14 tons of bread, 28 tons of potatoes, eight tons of fresh meat, three and one - halt tons of preserved meat, the tame quantity of smoked meat, two &in,s of cheese, 8,500 bottles of wine, isP55,000 . cigarettes 85,000 cigars, ,7o0 packets of tobaoco and twenty ons of oats. The Image shops have een forced to provide field -glasses qr the German officers gratis. Den - .tests areobliged give . to their ser - 'rices and to supply artificial teeth and gold fillings without payment. Oa Wednesday and Thursday last German and Austrian troops, cam - posed of infantry, which- (had been entrained at Sohaertbeck in a 'la- mentable condition, passed through Brussels on their way back from the Yser. They had anything but the •air of conquerors. They were sorely in need of everything. They looked harassed and worn out and went about their duties in absolute silence. In the tattered, mad -stain ed uniforms the troops give the im pression of being absolutely donor alized. Only the officers retain their arrogantly disdainful man ner. FRENCH AIRMEN ATTACKED METZ Dropped Bombs on Barracks and Station of City in Lorraine Ny< despatch from Paris says: rench ,aer o lenes gave Mai s German garrison a sharp ex- rience of the terrors of aerial rebardment Saturday. Taking mediate revenge for the inexcus- 'bte German bombardment of encs, ctro, uufertifiedtown, where oxl-eombatants• were struck dead or. utilasted by bombs rained frown er'rn n warplanes, the .French .air- ti lade ,a raid on Metz. - Care aEL taken to avoid dropping ex - ogres on private houses or on ublic placesfrequented by, molt- nrbatants, but for Several minutes the Frets& airmen showeredpower- ful bombs on aviation 'hangars, on a railroad tstait4on where troops were in movement and on a barracks at the outskirts of tlhe city. The Gov- ernment's official announcement does not reveal how .much damage was donee to German`militaryp pro- perty the French air raidlers, p y by whether or not any Getman sol- diers were killed or if any of the French airmen were injured. It is gathered fromthetone of the ap- nouiicenlent that dtlhe :attack was very supe sstcul ,and that the French aviators returned in safety to their lines. MEN STRUCK DUMII,",.. a Peeuliale Cases Treated in lir ospifOs at the Front, The extraordinary effects of shell fire upon those who are forced to undergo it are being discussed in the British medical journals, An 'English surgeon now attached to a Paris hospital reports ' the cases of four men who show abso' lately no trace of bodily wounds, but who ,are now under his •care. Two of there were etruok deaf:and dumb by shell explosions; neither of them has anything wrong with his organs of speech or hoaxing, but is suffering simply from- shock. A third cannot see, caused by a ner- vous shock. There is nothing the matter with his eyes, and complete recoeery is promised after a period of quiet and rest. The fourtb'.xnen's experience left his mind blank. Field surgeons contribute an ac- count of the manner in whichdeath comes from shell fire. In 'some cases men are found stiff in death in life -like attitudes, so that the stiff- ness characteristic of a corpse must have come on at the very moment of death, whereas under ordinary circumstances a man dies first and slowly stiffens afterwards. Some of the field surgeons have attributed this to the action of a poisonous gas given off by the new explosive, "turpentite." One of the patholo- gists at Guy's Hospital, however, contradicts that theory. WON VICTORIA CROSS.. The Remarkable Single • Handed" Feat of George Wilson. Particulars as to Private George Wilson's fine feat in winning the Victoria Cross have been given to the London Daily Telegraph. Wil- son discovered there was a German machine gun 'stationed in a wood, and, apparently on his own initia- tive, he decided to stop its opera- tions. In his desperate venture he got the co-operation of a private of the 60th King's Rifles. They went out alone and man- aged to get quite close to the enemy's position, when Wilson's companion was killed. Undaunted, however, Wilson continued on his perilous mission. One by one he shot the officer and entire gun team of six soldiers and then ran in and took possession of the gun and two oases and a half of ammunition. Wilson a few months ago was sell- ing newspapers in the streets of his native .city of ldi•nburgh. . RILL EIGHT OF'EN'El1L•Y:•• Two Manchester Officers Get Vic- toria Cross. A despatch from London says: Victoria Crosses have been awarded to Second' Lieutenant James Leach. and Sergeant John Hogan of the Second Battalion of the Manchester Regiment for "conspicuous bravery near Festubert on October 29, when, rafter their trench had been taken by Germans, and after two attempts to recapture it had failed, they voluntarily decided on the afternoon of the same day to re- cover the trench themselves, and working from traverse to traverse at close quarters, with 'great bra- very, gradually. sucoeeded in re- gaining possession of the trench.' They killed eight of the enemy, wounded two and made sixteen pri- soners." TURKISH FORCE REPULSED. Blaek Sea Fleet Bombarded Shores: in Transchorok Region. A despatch from Petrograd says: There is ,satisfactory news from the Caucasian front,. A Turkish de- rrt reinforced b : news taachme , Y. y, formed.. troops, sent from the dines' tion of Ezerum December 24 crossed. the Euphrates to march through the Dudach region and attempt to break through to Alieker, but was repulsed with heavy losses. The united efforts of the 'Russian troops and the Black Sea fleet in bombard- ing bombarding the nlhores have cleared the, Transehorok region of Turks. AtSTRLiN RESERVE CALLED. Artillerymen Mutinied, • But Were Sent to front. A despatch from, Vienna,' via Rome, says :.Austrian reservists beee. tween time ages of 42 and 50 years have been summoned, to the colors for territorial nervioe.. Two hun- dred and fifty artillerymen M Fort Montebrdone, near. Rivatrente, ;re- fused to leave for Galicia an ClirisG mus Daysi and mutinied,, but loess' , 1• decimated the st ryi h ors were sent to the front. Urged to:Conserve Foodstuffs. ,;, from Berlin says: A despatch from The:l Norddeutsche Zeitung issues a warning,against neitrg grain to feed animals, especially rye, which is 'eadstuffs. Itria d for bi s the neededY l e. empire's food supply truest' be care l husbanded to guard against a fol yg possible shortage wilia would force upon the people a difficult problem. Campaign ANS A E IN FULL FLICHICHOM,MERRY OLD MLA in Cialicia Breaks Down Under Vigor of Russian Attacks A despatch from London says: ly that Krosno and Jaslo are again The Austrian campaign in the 'Car- held by the Russians, though the pathiaa•s and in Western Galicia claim. is made that the 'Austrians and Southern Poland appears to have eecured control of the. Usjok have suet with. utter disaster, ac-' Pass after four days4.of desperate cording to the claims of the Rus- figlh'tiisg. sign official statements of Saturday' n the Dunajeo and Nide Rivers, and Sunday, which are ,partly acb' east of Cracow, the. Austrians also mitted by both Vienna .and Berlin have. been Iseverele punished,. Here, to be well founded. Some idea of according to Berlin, they "appear the magnitude of the operations to he haying a hard struggle to may be obtained from the fact that maintain their positions east of the the Russian statements record the Duna*, . though alley seem to be eapture of no fewer than 17,500 pri holding 'their own on its lower soners from the Austrians during reaches." Vienna 'says merely that the last few clays. In the Carpi- the situation in this quarter is un- thiane the Austrian defeat is 'gem ohanged. Petrograd states that pieta. Forced to accept battle with desperate fighting; went on through- superior forces in zero weather in out Christmas Eve and Christmas the snow-covered Dukla Plass, they Day, ending towards the second fought the Russians for two days evening with ousting of the Aus- and then took flight, back towards trians from Wislica, a village about the plains of Hungary, leaving 40 miles north-east of'Cracow, and great numbers of dead on the field, their expulsion from the east :bank and snore than ten thousand pre- of the 'Nidi River, which they h.acl soner's in tlhe hands of Grand Duke -crossed. In this battle the Russians Nicholas. Vienna confesses official- secured 4,000 prisoners. GERMANS DISILLUSIONED. Last Available Man Called' to the Colors. The Petit Parisien publishes a statement by a Frenchman who suc- ceeded' in escaping from Germany, and whose information, says the journal; is "precise, and beard the impress of truth. The Germans, he says, no longer believe the beautiful fables which have been told theme: The impres- sion which they give, and which they do not conceal; is one of ter- rible and immense weariness. The enthusiasm of a. short while ago has given place to a dull and intoler- able anguish which becomes evident in every instance. In the towns of middle and south- ern Germany which he passed through no more reoruits were to be seen. The 1915 class had been called to the colors, and the bar- racks are absolutely empty. Ger- many has at the present moment enrolled all the effectrives at her disposal. Those who are not in the fighting line are packed on the frontiers and in• concentration camps. The army no longer has any na- tional reserves, and 'will not be able to form them, except at the price of an immense effort, and it cannot reinforce one front except by dim- inishing its forces on another front. That is why General Joffre, who knows -all, is able to say that our position is very good. 'The truth is coming to light, de- its) the precautions taken, among the mass of German people, and the people, full of the agony of its last hours, feel that the fatal moment of oolla,pse is at hand. ENE]1Y SHOOTS CIVILIAIS The Germans Turned 8 -inch Guns Masses of Poles A despatch from Petrograd says: Very great forces are being pressed into battles of mutual destruction from the left bank of the Vistula, near Ilow, south -ward along the Bzura, and Rawka to the bend of the Palica below Toniasow. Sometimes the Ruesians, sometimes the Ger- mans take the offensive . These pitched beetles, which can- not be described as a general Ger- man offensive, gre the fiercest in the north. 'llhey become more favor- able to the Rassia.ns as they ap- proach the point where the Aus- trians predominate in the enemy's ranks. • The most southerly battle in Poland is on the Niche Here the Russians have gained a victory over Gen. Dank), whose task apparently was to link up with, the Austro- Gerinan army on the Mica, 20 miles east of Nowo,Radirnsk, and assist Against Dense the Germans' attempt to force a wedge between the Russian north- ern and southern armies. Inl.- mense slaughter is taking place in these battles. This doubtless will not be abated until the ascendancy has been definitely established. Lathe region of Soclhaczew thou- sands of civilians have been killed. The (ernsans used eight -inch guns against the town and smashed the high tenement houses. The inhabi- tants were crushed under the ma- sonry. When the population tried to flee to Warsaw, the German guns poured shells into the dense masses of nnen, women and children, and hundreds were trampled to death. The same thing occurred at Lowicz. A Russian officer who was decor- ated for capturing six, German guns at Lowioz states that 80 German women were fighting in the trench- es. LILLE BIDDEN TO STAR Prussian Commander Tells 1VE9,yor Lack of Food in City is Solely tae Fault of the British A''despatch from Paola says : To the many„ other horrorswhich the German invasion has brought to the inhabitants: of Lille is now to be added that of famine. Citizens of the northern fortress town, whioh has been in the possession of the Germane forsome months and is now destitute of Io•ad, have already paid an enormous war tax to the invader. Its textile industtrieshave a been ruined and 1,200 of }t .h `u ea the hero destroyed. M. Charlee a 1a. to y i .I of Lid a� n M;a�ai ,roc remained ,at his post throughout, letter recently in an elogiteilt.lett i y ad- dressed to 6100 .,V03, Hnn: loll, Ger- mail er-lit oznm nde ="tea,te for relief. 1r�r lii,s starving"fetsilow-citizens. •Ift lair r elute, which wast'clhexacter- gads/lrly 1'ritasian and worth .of the r yy� . hi el'E Vein Iinpea�tal �Jlxano<elloi: ins V' Hindeich tset out to dhow that if Lille womepend 'children lacked bread, l3ritafny and not Germany, was to blames.. Gernasly herself, added the commander of Lille, possessed suf- ficient resources for her army end her civilian' population. Britain, in attempting to prevent the larrival of overseas ;produce with the view of starving out Germany, was but in- flicting suffering upon the inihabi- tantts of tb:s °coupled towns of i3ranrae and Belgium The starving population would have to put up. with the consequences, for. the Ger- man Government cRullinot under- take tl?e ,feeding of Fren*h and oeed�Bel- gian crvalf. his ender dyer its.',uri,sclucdo n so tang ae Britain o1,th .• seas to • the.lmapbliartdon of fo dya 0tu s. nevem- delivered himself 'bliss, Gen. Vo� �ts, ich told the Mayo: oIi e;thathe had better a�p1y- or assts an a 'the Swiss avsrn- raent, promising that the Gerniarn Genment wouikl upoat elle re queiovs�trto ,i;lxe rtitniostsopf its powtir. If the mayor refused to seek help from the Swiss 'Gbvernnient, then, as ,far' •as the German commandant of Lille Was eoneerned, the people of that city vrex.e free to starve, NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JO BULL ANI) 1115 PEOPLE. Occurrences. in the Land' T l:eigus Supreme In the, C'onr,, menial World, Fifty-nine British officers ha been awarded the Distinguish Service Order. The British Admiralty announ that so far 7,343 lives Have been lo in the naval service. At the feast of All Saints th Shoreditch bells were rung b muffled for those fallen in the wa • One hundred and thirty, residen of the Salvation Army .shelter Middlesex Street have gone to th war. . There are about 2,000 Turks ii Manchester and district, the grey majority being engaged in the ship ping trade• Two apples sold by auction' a Covent Gardens, London, on babel of the Prince of Wales Fund, real- ized $17.80. "The Germans still think they will win," said Lord Kitchener. "I wonder how long they think it will take them to win." News has reached London that Lieut.. -Col. Wilson, commanding the Roy,a1 Horse Guards, has been killed in action. Newcastle has obtained 10,000 men in one month. For the• Tyne- side ,Scottish, 1,170 recruits were obtained in four days. $35,000 was raised in a few min- utes -at Liverpool towards the cost of providing a Liverpool Allies' Base Hospital at the front. Lady •Strathoona has contributed the entire cost of $9,000 of one of the six armored motor cars for the London Mounted Brigade. Paying their own passages over, two young men went over from Kingston, Jamaica, to the Surrey town of Kingston -on Thames, to join the King's forces. " Mr. William Stone, chairman of the Albany Trustees, has recently erected atablet in the Albany, Pie- cadilly, to oommemorate the :re•si- dente there in.1847 of Lord Macau lay, By the death of Earl Roberts the distinction of :being the only mem her of the House of Lords who ha. gained the Victoria Gross falls to Scottish. pear, the Earl of Dun more. The London County Council Edit cation Committee recently propos ed that a limited number of Indian students be 'employed as uneiilariec superannuary teachers in element ary schools, The first woman town crier i England is to be seen now at Chert sey, in the person of Mrs. Baker whose husband, the regular crier has gone to the fraut, while he son has enlisted. Railway arches at Alpertqs Wembley, are to be used as tempo ary homes for refugees. Over $5 has been spent in fitting them uu while furniture 'has been preside by the local iuharbitants. Though quotations have bee considered for insuring buildin against risk of damage by hostel aircraft, the finance committee the Kensington douncil does at recommend such insurance. Many well known figures a missing from Westminster. The wa has galled away a large number Members, .and the Unionist part o f s> larg deprived of percentage of their political force • Major J. H. Torrance, who we seriously wounded, has been in th London Scottish .for 24 yearn, L' is a son of the late Mr. A. M. To ranee, M.P., and •was one of tl number of the battalion who too part in the Boer war. The curious anomaly now prevai ing, in London is that although le gas is being used the public as having to pay dearer for it. Pi {,las, Light and Coke Company i their dist-riot north, of the Phanhe; are charging 4c. There per 1,000 el bin 'feet, An unusual sight was seen r cently when a large crowd of Be gian refugees assembled at ti 'Bank of England to 'chance Belgia bank notes into English 'none Seats ere provided in elle cou yard end they were supplied wi refreshments tgrt Indemnify Sufferers in. East Coa A despatch from London sa The British Government has deco ed to indemnify from the limper funds those who suffered bodily property lossea:'as a. result of roosut Ge:rAnan. na'tTa�l raid ash cast towns of Scarbnroug+h, W by, Hartlepool and West Har pool. 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