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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1915-01-29, Page 6'•eri rrr :ef Es 111 stt ale .na Ise ific ve ant :tea HVAL VIOTUR GeTm.c`1.n Armored Cruiser Bluecher Sunk With Loss of About 750 Lives A despatch from London says: The most powerful German fleet that has ventured to the open sea since the war began was crushingly defeated in the North Sea on Sun- day by the British battle cruiser squadron under V ice '.c.;iniral Sir David Beatty. Surprised into an aation .which they tried desperately to avoid, the Kaiser's. battle cruisers Derfflinger, Seidlitz and Moltke, his finest ar- . mored cruiser the Bluecher, and several light cruisers, were ham- mered in a running fight that lasted three hours and a half by Admiral Beatty's battle cruisers Tiger, Lion, Princess Royal, New Zealand and Indomitable, .assisted by a few light cruiser's and destroyers. Escaped in Niek of Time. At 1 p.nr., when the battle, which had covered more than 100 miles at such speed as was never before known in naval warfare, had car- ried the British pursuers to the very fringe of the mine fields guarding the German naval bases, the ar- mored cruiser Bluecher, shattered by the great guns of the Lion, was at the bottom of the sea, and two of the three German battle cruisers were -badly damaged. The German. Warships regained the protection of land forts, submarines and mines in cer- Ire ni •k of time, as would t c m they tainly have been destroyed had the battle endured much longer. On the Bluecher alone more than 700 lives were Lost, and the casual- ties on the battle ornise•ns that es - raped were very likely large. The destruction of the Bluecher was the hardest blow which has been suf- fered by the German navy, for that vessel, one of the most satisfactory of her c:la:ss ever launched, cost $6.750,000. The victory, in every way the most thrilling feat performed by the Bri- tish navy in modern tunes, was gained with little cost. The casual- ties were negligible. No British ship was lost or very seriously dam- aged. Admiral Beatty reports that only 11 •ire"e wounded on his flag- ship, the Lion, which led the fight, as she did at Heligoland, when Sir David drove her at 30 knots and got up in time to spring the jaws of a German trap which were about to close on a light erniser and destroy- er squadron. It is not easy to picture the ex•• ultatiun and pride which stirs Lon- don and all Great Britain. The fact of a smashing victory which probably saved the east coast from another savage raid and which en- sures command of the North Sea is enough for the present. Because of its. nearness to home the victory has done more than anything else -more even than the triumph off the Falk- land Islands -to cement confidence in the navy. The Kaiser's fleet was driving -westward, and there is little doubt that it was attempting to strike the 'English coast for a bombardment such as was delivered at Scarbor- ough, Hartlepool and Whitby. The instant the Germans sighted the British ships they turned and ran for it. l o ugh t. at Fall Speed. In Admiral Beatty's report there is a suggestion that the engagement began within 150 miles of the Ger- man coast and ended Within less than fifty miles of Heligoland or Cuxhaven. From 9.30 .a.m. until 1 p.m. there was a ding dong fight at amazing speed. The Bluecher was crippled and was abandoned to her fate by the speedier battle cruisers some time before the pursuit reached the zone of mine and submarine danger. Hard hit and sinking .she fell out of line, and the battle flamed.past her. At 1 p.m. she rolled over and dis- appeared from the surface. Mean- while two of the German battle cruisers had been reached by the 13.5 -inch guns. of the British, but not in a vital spot, They were able to continue their headlong flight un- til the certain peril of mine fields turned Beatty back. ARE STILE TOR6IOG AHE Germans Were Defeated in Counter Assaults East of Rheims A despatch from 1".iris says: The I French army of invasion in Alsace I has penetrated to the town of Hart - maims Weiler, 15X miles from the Rhine. The town, which commands two high reads, is aarth-'.:.est asf Muelhausen. In spite of winter's severities, the invasive is being pressed determinedly and the French are slowly but surely dig- ging their wa:. to Muelhausen and Altkirch. The operat ans in Alsace are the most interesting feature of the offi- cial reports. although heavy fight- ing in other principal districts was unusua,'1y violent and notably ad- vantageous to the allied arms. In Flanders the deadlock continues, and there have been little more than desultory artillery exchanges. North-west of Arras, at Notre Dame de Lorette, the French have maintained themselves in a position retaken from the Germans. On the night of January 19 the French stormed the plateau and turned de- feat into victory. The German official statement ad- mits the loss of trenches Which had been captured at Notre Dame plc Lorette:•. Tuesday, Thero has been rather heavy 5ghting in the Champagne country east of Rheims. The Government reports state that the Germans were driven from two wooded positions north of the farm of Beausejour and were defeated in counter -assaults. A very important success was gain= ed by French aviators, who located yesterday the position of a German ammunition depot in 'the region of Proznes and destroyed it with bombs. Simultaneously the Ger- mans were driven from some field forts and trenches. In the Argonne the Ci'ermans at: tacked near St. Hubert, their in- fantry charging after their artillery had pounded the French positions. The charge was met by artillery and infantry fire, which the Germans were unable to withstand. • Around St. Mihiel the French made considerable progress in the tedious business of tightening the loop designed to cut off the German position on the IVleuse, advancing 150 yards in the forest of Apremont. Twenty yards of newly -occupied grounds were lost, however, north- west of Pont-a-Mousson. SUCOESS OF BRITISH GIItu After a Few Minutes of Shelling Not a German Was Left in Fi elinghien A despatch from Loddon Bays: The Daily C'hronicle's correspon dent in northern France telegraphs "In the last week eonsider'able dueness has been scored by troops .allowing up repeated arlil.lei Roc•-' eases in the neighborhood of Lille. take have in the Last few day •ak•en from the Germans the iittlt ..ii,c- I .nu hien on the 1"ta, c 1>l . of.? y�vin, 14 frontier, elgitts frontier, three and a half ea fat] n1r Armentieres, ieres , ' 1`be 'l3rritish had set, up an obser- :vation post abort;three-quarters of it mile from Frelingbien when the .germans started 'to massa ednaid- -.,- Col. F. 1D....Farquhar, In command of Princess Patricia'a Light Infantry, who, by a brilliant bayonet eharge near Ypres,. call tared ,seireral German trenches. ha BERLIN GLOATS OVER AIR CRIME German Press Says Zeppelin Raid Will Be Followed By others. A despatch from Berlin says: The first page of all the newspapers pulb- lished in Berlin contained news of the attack made by Zeppelins on the English coast, and scanty re- port from the eatern and wetern war theatres occupied inconspicu- ous places on inside pages. With.remarkable unanimity, the German press appears to expect that this raid will be followed shbort- ly by others. While the amount of damage done by the bombs dropped from the airships is not yet known. here, satisfaction is expressed in the fact that all the Zeppelins re- turned safely and in the belief that "the moral effect of the bombard- ment cannot fail to be very great, especially as it follows so closely the sols Foch and Durbal. The former, recent bombardment of the Hartle- I pools and other points omthe east - who commands the French army in ern coast of England by German northern France, shows the great - cruisers. est optimism. "The situation is The Gernia,n official version 'of theatbally satisfactory," he says. "The enable force in .1'reli:righien with the object of making an assault upon the British trenches. The British officers at once communicated with the batteries at Armentieres, which a moment later were engaged in de- molishing Frelinghien and sowing death and confusion among the Ger- man troops, who beat a: hasty re- treat. "The •British turned a perfect rain of .shells Upon the German t/renches and the enemy's first kine was rapid- ly evacuated. In a few moment's. not rot German soldier remained in Ii'"relingluien, and the little town eoulcl no longer be said to exist." ATTLE AMONE '. TEE ROM Five rlachines Took Part in the Most Remarkable Encounter Since Outbreak. of the War A despatch front London says: An allied aero eaxnp, with two Far man double-deckers and a Bleriot! monoplane, dislodged by the fire of heavy German guns, had sought shelter in a hay -field bordering the. Meuse, when the telephone'broulght word that two German aeroplanes, at Taube and an Albatross, appar- ently bound for Verdun, were ap- proaching the damps at an altitude of 500 metres. The three machines of the camp disappeared in the heavy mist before the two invading machines appeared. Detecting the camp they swooped • down to two hundred metres, and black streaks shot mit from beneath them. Five bombs struck within fifty yards. One tore to shreds one of the tar- paulins that covered the three ma- chines. When one of the Farman shot down obliquely the Germans saw them and abandoned the camp. For twenty minutes the five ma- chines played hide-and-seek in the mint. The Germans soared the faster, and soon all became hidden in the black clouds, The incessant barking of the mitrailileuses became fainter and fainter until all. was still. After several minutes a Far- man came down in spirals. It land- ed hard, breaking wheels and rud- der, The men in it were unhurt. Fifteen hundred metres up the mo- tor had stopped and the.,y had plan- ed down. Up above they had seen G-, the pilot of the Bleriot, try-. ing 10 outsoar the Germans and top them. Suddenly a report, dull, distant, was heard in the camp, and imme- diately the clouds split again. A shapeless mass, enveloped in flames, astreak of blue and white, -crashed to the ground. The men Who rushed breathless to the wreck found the last flickering blue flames licking the remains of one wing, be- neath which the great cross of Ger- many was painted. Then the camp saw, five hundred ,metres up, the 13leriot. Before Landing, just to express his triumphant joy, G-, before the little group's amazed eyes, just as he had done scores of time -s before cheering crowds, loop- ed the loop. He had topped the Taube at two thousand metres, far above the rain clouds. His observer had worked the quick -firer to red heat, The. German's petrol tank, punctured, had caught fire and ex- ploded. A quarter of an hour later the other Farman returned, half a dozen holes in her wings. The Al- batross had escaped northwards. OII?AIT EVENTS S OY Generals Foch and Durbal Confident They Can Triumph Over Any G_rman Force A despatch from Paris says: L'Intransigeant prints extracts of an interview by a representative of "Lectures Pour Tous" with Gener- i • i .d n the �n 11sh ' east: Gener- airship p rain o �' g coast • is as follows: "Our airships, •in order to attack the fortified town of Great Yar- mouth, were obliged to fly over other towns, from which, it is stated, they' were fired at. These attacks were answered by the throwing of bombs. "England has no right to be in- dignant, as her flying machines and ships in broad daylight have attack- ed open towns, such as Freiburg, Dar -es -Salam and Swakopmund. "Aircraft are acknowledged to be legitimate weapons in the carrying on of modern warfare as long as their operations aro conducted in accordance with the rules of inter- national Law. This has been done by our dirigibles. The German na- tion, forced by England to fight for its existence, cannot be com- pelled to forego the employment of legitimate means of self-defence, and will not do it, relying upon her good right." It is notable that the German' statement ignores the fact that the airships bombarded Yarmouth be- fore, and not after, flying over any of the other towns. Concerning the bomb.ardme,nt of Freiburg, the eon= tention of the allies has been that the bombs were thrown at military positions, • such as an aviation han- gar and a railroad station, Germans Impose Tax On Belgian Refugees A despatch .from London says: Brussels despatches by way of A.ra:.i- sterdamm say that some of the Bel- gian municipalities have proposed to impose a special tax on well -to do Belgians who refuse to return to. their country. The German au- thorities, thinking favorably of the idea, propose to make the tax ef- fective for all of Belgium. A fugi- tive who fails to return to Belgium by March. 1st will be obliged to pay a ten -fold personal tax. The poor are exempt. The revenues will be divided equally between the Ger- mane and the Belgian municipali- ties. 'ftRi ' A.IiRIiA.L FLEET SUNK, Sixteen Aeroplanes Go .Down us1tli Steamer 'Near Sirl(►pe. A despatch' front •London says r A Petrograd desspaltch to the Times aa - sorts that the Russians have sunk near Sinope, Asia Minor, the steamer Georgios, on board of which were 16 aeroplanes, ,compris- ing the entire Turkish aerial fleet. Germans can do nothing against us. My Generals, _Durbal and Mand- hny, are heroes. Grossetti is com- manding the Ypres army, and is in- vulnerable, though he exposes him- self reciclessly. You may expect great events noon. We are deter- mined to win, and will never aban- don the task unless victor'iou:s." General Durbal is equally coufi- dent. "When I first arrived .at the post in the north I was forced to attack the Germans daily, owing to the necessity of making them think my weak force strong. Now that reinforcements have arrived, I tell you the Germans will never pass. I do not believe the bluff about their wonderful fortifications. T know about that. Why, we could 'break their line at any point any minute we want. Already they are trying peace negotiations through the Bel- gi!an'King. How childish! They are beaten, I tell you, whenever, wher- ever we attack." Favor Prohibition Of Sale of Absinthe A despatch from Paris says: The License Committee of the Chamber pf Deputies has decided to submit a report favoring the prohibition of the sale of absinthe. The Commerce Commission of the Chamber began on Wednesday the consideration of the rehabilitation of in industries ruined by the war, methods of manufacturing products formerly supplied by now hostile countries and the question of finding a foreign market for the output. Thousand Newspapers Closed in Germany A despatch from Berlin says ,that Dr. Dietz, director of Wolff's Agency, the German Official Bu- reau, has stated that a thousand German newspapers, of which 126 were political, have been obliged to cease publication owing to the war. Suggests Monument To 'German Murderers' A despatch from. London says: That it would be appropriate to erect a monument outside the re- cruiting station or outside Scotland Yard to Count Zeppelin and his con- federates as "the most cold-blooded and wholesale murderers who had ever come into this country," was the suggestion made by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at a recruiting meet- ing held in London. Sir Arthur said that if any in- ducement could be advanced to bring out the manhood of the coun- try, it should be the remembrance of the dastardly outrages which had recently been perpetrated . by the Germans, and which had degraded what they had hoped would have been achivalrous foe to the level of murderers of 'women and children. Ile only trusted, he said, that if any of them fell into British hands their punishment would be that of mur- derers. AIRMEN BOMBARD COAST TOWNS Known Dead in Raid Number Seven -French and British Aeroplanes Pursue Enemy A despatch from. Paris says : A group of German aeroplanes attack- ed Dunkirk and nearby coast vil- lages o11 Friday. They dropped about 80 bombs. There are twenty know n victirins of the raid, of whom seven are dead. One, warehouse full of merchandise was burned tip. French and BBritishaeroplanes puur- suued the enemy and brought clown one of the hostile machines. The pilot and the observerwere made prisoners. Fi�l� Marshal V�r� der C�ltz Shoff A destpateh from Cairo says.: An Several officers were at,taolted at rth a on the life of Field Marshal attempt Von Per Goltz at Constantinople is reported from Jaffa through the medium of the German Consulate there. The Field Marshal was fired at and is believed to .have been frit. DICES 6F HI PRONSB3 REPORTS PROM THE LEA011•1C TRADE CENTRES OF AMERICA. Breadstuffs. Toronto, Jan, 26.-•-Plour--8ianitoba first patents at $7.30, in lute bags; second pat- ents, 86.80; strong bakers', $6.50; Ontario wheat flour, 90 per cont, patents, nominal at $G seaboard. Wheat -Manitoba No. 1 Northern, $1.01 to $1.51 1-2; No. 2 at $1.48, and No, 3 a,t $1.44; Ontario wheat, No. 2, 81.30 to $1.36 at outside points. Oats -Ontario, 43 to 54c, outside; and at 56 to 57c, on track ,Toronto. Western Can. oda No. 2 quoted at 66c, and No. 3 at 6k. Barley -Malting grades at 68 to 70o, out. side. ' Rye --$1.09 to $1.10, outside. Peas -No. 2 quoted at $1,75 to $1.85, out. Gide. Corn- No. 3 new American, Bic, all rail Toronto freight. Buckwheat -No. 2 at 78 to BOO., outside. Bran and. Shorts ---Bran, $26 to $26 a ton, and shorts at $27 to $28. Rollet oats -Oar lots, per bag of 90 lbs $3 to $3.20. . e sante tithe. Strained relations exist between the Germans and Turkish officers. At Damascus recently a captain of. the Turkish army was killed and a. German cdlonel wound- ed, 'following a quarrel, Country Produce. Butter -Choice dairy, 24 to 25c; inferior, 20 to 21c; creamery prints, 31 to 32c; do., solids, 29 to 30o; farmers' separator, 26 to 27c. Eggs -New -laid, in cartons, 34 to 35e; so- • leets, 28 to 30e; storage, 26 to 27o. Honey -12 to 13o per ]b. for strained: No. 1 honeycomb, $2.75 per dozen; No. 3, $2.25. Poultry -Chickens, dres.ed, 12 to 15c; ducks, dressed, 14 to 16c; fowl, 10 to 110; geese, se -16 3-44 turkeys,• 0 7 dressed, lrg ,19 and «a 17 to 17 1.4o for twine. Beane -Primo, bushel. $2.50 to $2.70; hand -nicked, $2.75 to $2.85. Potatoes-Ontarios ,65 to 70c per bag• out of store, 55 to 60o in car lots. New Bruns - wicks car lots, 60 to 65e per bag. Baled Hay and Straw. Dealers are paying as follows for oar lot deliveries on track here.- Straw $7.50 to $8 a ton, in car lots on track here. Hay -No. 1 new fray at $17 to 017.50; No. 2 at $15.50 to $16, and No. 3 at $13.50 to $14, Provisions. Bacon -Long clear, 13 1-2 to 14 14o per - ib, in case lots. Hams -Medium, 16 to 170; do., heavy, 14 1-2 to 150; rolls, 14 to 14 1-2c; breakfast bacon 171-2 to 18e; backs 20 to 21o; boneless backs, 22 to 2k.. Lard -Market quiet at 11 1-4 to 11 1-2 kr tubs and pails; compound, tubs, 9 3-4 to 100. • Winnipeg Crain. Winnipeg, Jan. 26. -Cash: -Wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.37 3-4; No. 2 Northern, $1.36; No. 3 Northern, $1.32 3-4; No. 4, $1.29; No. 5, $1.25; No. 6, $1.21; feed, $1.17. Oats --No. 2 C.W., 68 1-2c; No. 3 O.W., 55 1-40; extra No. 1 feed, 55 1.4; No. 1 feed, 54 1-40; No. 2 feed, 53 3-4o. Barley -No. 3, 720; No. 4, 68c; feed, 640. Flax -No. 1 N,W.C., $1,61 1.2; No. 2 C.W., $1.58. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Jan. 26. -Corn -American No. 2 yellow, 84o. Oats -Canadian Western. No. 2, 65 to 66o; do., No. 3, 63 1-4o; No. 2 local white, 671-2c; No. 3 local white, 561.20; No. 4 local white, 56c, Barley - Manitoba feed, 70 to 71c; malting, 78 to 800. Buckwheat, No. 2, 87 1.2 to 90c. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $7.40; seconds, $6.90, strong bakers', $6.70; Winter patents. choice, $7; straight roll- ers, 86.50 to $6.60; do., bags, $3.10 to $3.30. Rolled oats Barrels. $6.40 to $6,50; bags, $3 3.10. Bran 25. r 90 lbs., to Shorts "2 $ $ 0 7, .a Middlings $30. lilouillie $33 to $36. Hay, No. 2, per ton car lots $18 to $19 Cheese Finest Westerns, 1618 to 16 1-4c; tineat Plarstorne, 15 718 to 160. Butter-Ohoioeet oreaanery, 30 to 30 1-20; seconds, 28 1-2 to 29o. Eggs Fresh, 43 to 45c; selected, 320; No. 1 stock, 28e; No. 2 stock, 26e. Potatoes, per beg car lots, 57 1.2 to 60o. United States Markets. Minneapolis, Jan. 26. --Wheat, No. i hard, $1.40 3-4• No. 1 Northern, $1,34 3-4 to $1.40 1-4; No. 2 Northern, $1.35 3-4 to 51.38 1-4; May, 51.36 3-4 to $1.36 7-8. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 69 to 69 1-2e. Oats No. 3 white, 51 to 51 1.2c. Flour and bran un- changed. Duluth,. Jan. 26.--Wheat-No. 1 hard. $1.38 7-8; No. 1 Northern, $1.37 7.8; No, 2 Northern, $1.37 7-8: May, $1.38 7.8. Linseed -$1.88; May, $1.89. Live Stock Markets, Toronto, Jun. 26. -Pine feeders, 800 to 850 lbs., brought $6.50 to 56.75; .mediums, 55,76 to $6.50, and common, $4.75to $5.75. Calves were steady at unchanged prices. Lambs brought $9,30, choice from $8.50 to 59.30; medium weight from 58 to 88.50; heavy, $7.50 to $8, and culls, $6.50 to $7.50. Sheep held steady at $5 to $6 for light. Swine $7.85, for .lots off care. Montreal, Jan. 26. -Prima beeves, 71-4 to 7 3.4o; medium, 5 3-4 to 7e: common, 41-2 to 51-2e, Calves, 5 to 8 1-2o. Sheep 6e. Lambe. 7,1-2 to 8e. Hoge, 8 1-4 to 8 1-2e. 014 BOOTS OF •Ii.EA'VIER. MAKE. Purchasing Sub -Committee to Buy 150,000 Pairs at About X1.4. A despatch from Ottawa says: The sub -committee of the Cabinet whi•ah has had, under consideration the question Of the purchase Of boosts for the Canadian expedition- ary forcers, has decided to let or- ders for a supply of 150,000 pairs, of a new standard pattern. The cost will be about $4 per pair, or 35 cents higher than was pail for the first supply. The new boots 'will be of a decidedly heavier and more snubstantial type than the first lot, whish were not suited to winter campaigning conditions and con- stant exposure to wet and mud. The orders will be distributed among a number of 'Canadian firms at the standard price fixed by the -ir0Vi rnanent. ASH IS GOOD FOOD. Recommended by the Government as an Article of Diet. Ottawa, Jan. 20. ---Fish i:or prison- ers, pensioners and public servants is the slogan' which is being sound- ed by the Naval Service Depart- ment. Tlhs department is making a strenuous effort, in this time of high meat prices to inculcate a taste for the piscine foot' and has decided ter, direct its first energies in the dirreo-• flan- o�n of •th' '•e p u'bi�p service trace . n e men Fish istherefore being .r coag I isl t . , �' . ed as an article of �ateb for eivrl Sei1''- i l' illi& 1 t i . an and n public t to o�d v is � �. such as prisons, etc.