6 mmmK_chitina, Alaska, Tuesday, December 22,1914. number 10
LONDON, Dec. 22.—Dispatches from the fronts of both
armies indicate that the Germans are weakening under attacks
of the allies in France and Belgium, while Petrograd continues
to deny reports of defeat of the Russians, claiming the Russian
armies are now in stronger positions than ever. The retire
ment of the Russians, it is claimed, was for the purpose of
selecting a battleground that would give them superior advan
tages over the Germans following and getting the enemy
further away from their base of supplies.
LONDON, Dec. 22.—Papers issued by the Triple'Entente
have assured Greece and Roumania that neither will be
attacked by Bulgaria in the event that they participate in the
war. Greece desires the help of Servia, hence this assurance
of protection by the big powers among the allies.
PARIS, Dec. 22.—Parliament met in extraordinary session
today to consider war measures of vital importance, the nature
of which are not made public.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 22.—The Bulgarian minister today
announced that an agreement had been reached between
Roumania and Bulgaria under which Roumania will restore to
Bulgaria the Province of Dobrudja and most of the other terri
tory which she acquired from Bulgaria as a result of the
Balkan war.
MOSCOW, Dec. 22.—The Czar and Empress arrived from
Petrograd today, and were greeted by most friendly demon
strations on the part of the crowds which gathered and which
were composed principally of women and children and men
too old to participate in the war.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 21.—The Russians are retiring
across the Bzura river, burning and destroying bridges in
their rear in order to retard the movements of the enemy. The
Germans are attempting to cross this stream and advance- on
Warsaw, 20 miles distant, despite the fact that four of their
regiments were trapped while attempting to cross over a
partly burned bridge, only 50 men surviving the deadly fire of
. the Russian machine guns and small arms.
BERLIN, Dec. 21.—The army of General Von Hindenberg
took possession of Lowicz, Poland, on the 18th inst., defeating
the right wing and forcing back the Russian lines 21 miles,
according to an official report given out here today. General
Von Hindenberg is quoted as having declared the Russian
losses since November 23, including 100,000 prisoners, “are
enormous.”
PETROGRAD, Dec. 21.—Germany’s claims of a victory
over the Russian armies is officially denied, and it is asserted
that the Russians blocked the advance of Germans in the
northern part of Poland.
BERLIN, Dec. 21.—The Kaiser left Berlin today for the
front having recovered from hr °cent illnes5.
LONDON, Dec. 21.—Following defeat of the Austrians the
Servian and Montenegrin armies are again joined and are
making their second advance towards Serajevo, the capital
of Bosnia.
ROME, Dec. 21.—Troops and police have been called out
in many places in Italy to keep down riotous demonstrations
against Austria, which have increased in number and propor
tions rapidly during the past week.
BERLIN, Dec. 21.—A dispatch from Brussels gives losses
of the allies in the west since December 12th at 204,000.
LONDON, Dec. 19.—A vigorous offensive movement of
the allies in Northern France is keeping the Germans busily
engaged and preventing them from sending reinforcements
eastward. The allies have made gains in Flanders and the
French forces have in the last few days-counterbalanced the
German advances in Poland.
LONDON, Dec. 18.—(Delayed in transmission)—Prince
Hussin Kemal has been appointed to succeed the Khedive of
Egypt, Abbas Hilmie. The retiring Khedive was placed on the
throne in 1892, at the age of 18. He was educated in Vienna,
which accounts for his sympathies with the Austrians and
Germans. The new Khedive is an uncle of Sultan Hilmi, who
was ruling Egypt when that country was first placed under
the protection of England in 1883 as a result of a state of war
arising from actions of Turkey. When the suzerainty of
Turkey over Egypt terminated, Hilmi sided witli Turkey.
The late Khedive is now in Vienna.
LONDON, Dec. 19.—A correspondent in Northern France
says the allies have broken through the German lines just
below Dixmude and are advancing steadily.
LONDON, Dec. 19.—Every man in British uniform, on
land and sea, wall have plum pudding with his Christmas
dinner, according to instructions issued to the commissary
department.
ROME, Dec. 19.—The Senate adjourned today after
unanimous manifestation in favor of peace.
LONDON, Dec. 19.—The reported great German victory
in Poland brings no response from Petrograd, and while Berlin
is still celebrating the possible event she is puzzled because
details have not arrived.
A Petrograd correspondent wires that Russian reinforce
ments are pouring to the front in Poland and the issue of
fighting west of Warsaw depends on which side can fling the
largest number into the battle lines.
LONDON, Dec. 19.—Dispatches from Petrograd describe
Kracow as the real pivot of operations now developing which
would indicate the Russians are content for the present to
. remain on the defensive in north central Poland, while
planning to attempt an invasion of Germany from,the south.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 19.—A German armored train
proceeding from Lemberg to near the Carpathian mountains
wTas blown up today, presumably by spies who were members
of the party.
EUROPEAN
LONDON, Dec. 16.—Attacking under cover of a heavy
fog this morning, a fleet of German cruisers, the number of
| which is unknown, shelled the cities of Scarborough in York
| and Hartlepool in Durham, English ports on the North Sea.
| British battleships attacked and pursued the Germans and a
; naval battle of considerable importance is believed to be in
i progress in the North Sea. The inhabitants of both ports fled
j in panic to interior towns and many refuse to return, fearing a
raid by the Germans. Shells hit in the business center of
Scarborough, several buildings were set on fire and it is
believed a number of persons were killed. Because of the strict
cnsorship, few details have been permitted to reach the public.
Scarborough is a noted watering place, with manufac
turing and fishing as the principal industries. Its population is
35,000 and its municipal charter was issued in 1116.
LONDON, Dec. 16.—A dispatch from Scarborough, passed
by the London censors, says 18 people were killed at Scar
borough. In one house four were killed outright and in
another house three were killed by bursting shells. The gas
works and lumber yards at Hartlepool were set on fire by shells
from the German ships and nine persons were killed.
LONDON, Dec. 16.—A German warship today threw 30
shells into the city of Whitby in York, wrecking several houses.
One civilian resident has died of wounds received during the
bombardment. The sound of the German guns was heard 20
miles inland.
LONDON, Dec. 16.—The Yorkshire Evening News
says that two German cruisers were sunk in the North Sea
during an engagement with a flotilla of British torpedo boats.
HARTLEPOOL, Dec. 16.—A British flotilla of torpedo
boat destroyers were fired upon this afternoon by German
cruisers about eight miles off shore.
LONDON, Dec. 17.—Companies of women reserves are
being formed here as a result of the fright England received
yesterday when part of the German fleet bombarded coast
cities on the North Sea. The services of these reserves will be
offered the government if required.
LONDON, Dec. 16.—(Delayed in transmission)—Four
German cruisers were engaged in the attack today on the coast
cities of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby, and they had
no difficulty in dropping shells, into these unfortified places.
The admiralty’s announcement of the raid threw London into
a state of great excitement. The British flotillas of torpedo
boats and destroyers have been engaged with the enemy at
several points and at noon the situation was described by the
admiralty as “developing.” The condition to be ascertained
first is whether the German attack was designed merely to
spread panic among the English people or whether the purpose
was to engage the British fleet in a general action or to act as
an escort in an attempt to land troops on the British coast near
Scarborough or Hartlepool, neither of which is fortified.
(HULL, Dec. 16.—(Delayed in transmission)—At-Hartle
pool the roof of St. Martin’s church was struck, killing a
woman. Another church also was struck and the roofs of many
houses were carried away by shells from the German cruisers.
LONDON, ’ Dec. 17.—An official statement this morning
says the casualties at Hartlepool were 55 killed and wounded.
LONDON, Dec. 17.—Three British steamers have been
sunk by floating mines off Scarborough. The number perish
mg is unknown.
LONDON, Dec. 17.+—A fleet of trappers lias been dis
patched to sweep the North Sea of mines scattered by the
German fleet of cruisers.
BERLIN, Dec. 17.—An official announcement says: “Part
of our high seas fleet made an attack on the English east coast,
which was bombarded early in the morning of the 16th. Regard
ing further course and action of Germany no information can
vet be given.”
PETROGRAD, Dec. 17.—It is officially denied that the
Austrians have offered terms of peace.
LIMA, Peru, Dec. 17.—The German cruiser Dresden has
escaped from the port in which she took refuge last week and
is being pursued by the British cruiser Bristol.
BERLIN, Dec. 17.—The war office has made the following
announcement: “The Russian offensive movement in the north
against Silesia and Posen has completely been broken down. In
the whole of Poland the enemy was forced to retreat after
fierce and stubborn frontal battles and is •everywhere being
pursued. ’ ’
BERLIN, Dec. 17.—The Austrian-German staff reports
that 31,000 Russians have been taken prisoners in the western
portion of Galicia.
PARIS, Dec. 16.—The cabinet today asked parliament to
appropriate $60,000,000 for relief of people in the departments
of France recently evacuated by the Germans.
LONDON, Dec. 18.—A statement by the admiralty says
two warships were struck by German shells during the coast
raid on Wednesday. The admission is made that five men were
killed and 15 wounded, but no mention is made of the loss of
the vessels.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19,—The Chilian cabinet has
resigned as a result of differences with the president regarding
alleged breaches of neutrality]
GENEVA, Dec. 19.—Statistics showing that Germany
has lost 120,000 killed, wounded an dcaptured appeared in
Swiss and German newspapers today.
WOMEN SOLDIERS WORRY OFFICERS
PETROGRAD, Dee. 2.—(By mail to New York)—The
army authorities are having their troubles discovering and
sending back to their home's women who have volunteered in
the ranks disguised as men. There have been numerous
instances of the kind since the war started, especially among
.the masculine looking peasant women of the northern
provinces.
One of these was Nadezhda Ornatsky, a muscular, well
educated peasant woman from the province of Archangel. She
had posed as a man through the second part of the Manchurian
campaign, and was praised for her courage by General
i Grippenbeg. Early in the present war she re-enlisted, and
fought in South Poland, and it was not until after the battle
of Lublin-Krasnick that her sex was discovered and she was
discharged.
A girl named Liuba Uglicki was present at four engage
ments in East Prussia and West Poland, and was wounded
slightly. She says that during long range lighting she had
no fear, but had a lvQrror of crossing bayonets with the enemy.
Two daughters of a land proprietor at Kursk have been
arrested on ,their way to join the colors, one of them posing as
“Prince Adriano IT,” and the other as her servant.
A peasant woman who was killed at Cumbinnen, had
donned her husband’s clothes and impersonated him when he
shirked the summons. She did not want her family to be
shamed.
Two school girls of the capital, aged 14, wrote the Grand
Duke Nicholas begging to be accepted as volunteers. The
Grand Duke wrote them personally, praising their patriotism,
but recommending that they find scope for their service in
caring for the wounded, adding, “I am convinced if ever you
had the occasion you would uphold the glory and might oF
the Emperor and the honor of your country.”
A young Russian woman, referred to in the newspapers
as Mile. B., has been recommended for the St. George’s Cross,
the Victoria Cross of Russia. She is the daughter of a
Russian captain of artillery, and accompanied her fatherV
battery to the front as a private, after cutting her hair short.
She took part in a number of battles near Augustoff, and now
is lying wounded in a Petrograd hospital.
BERLIN, Dec. 18.—The sinking by the Kaiser’s cruisers
of two British torpedo boat destroyers during the engagement
on the North Sea, following the bombardment of the English
coast last Wednesday, is officially claimed here today.
TOKIO, Dec. 18.—British warships have captured the
German sailors who escaped from the cruiser Emden on the
schooner Aysha at the time the Emden was driven ashore on
an island in the bay of Bangal November 10 and burned.
LONDON, Dec. 18.—An official announcement has been
made both at Berlin and Vienna that t lie re is a general retreat
of Russians from Poland and Galicia. A report received here
late yesterday stated that the entire right wing of the Russian
army in Poland was being withdrawn.
OTTAWA, Ont., Dec. 10.—A secret store of arms and
ammunition is being searched for on the Isle of Orleans in the
St. Lawrence River, just off Quebec. A concrete base upon
which a siege gun could be mounted already has .been found
there on a tract of land bought two years ago by a German,
; who established there a plant for the manufacture of concrete
| blocks. It commands the defenses of Quebec and of the St.
[Lawrence channel. Last summer a moving picture company,
I the leading officials of which were Germans, spent the summer
ion the Isle of Orleans reproducing the battle of the Plains ol
Abraham and making films of it. They employed several
hundred young men of the vicinity, uniformed them and
provided them with arms which they borrowed from local
military authorities. They had both cannon and rifles and
fired a large amount of blank ammunition in their operation-.
I The firearms which they borrowed were returned to the
authorities, but it has been reported that they took advantage
of the opportunity to land guns and secrete them in pits which
were carefully covered.
The concrete foundation has been destroyed and excava
tions have been made in search for buried guns. So far none
nas been found, and as the island is 20 miles long and seven
miles wide the search is likely to prove tedious. At its nearest
point the island is four miles from Quebec. As far as the
Canadian military authorities have been able to learn the films
made last summer were never shown.
BERLIN, Nov. 25.—By mail to New York)—German
officers tell me that the most distressing and at the same time
astonishing message that has come into their war office was
sent from Von Ivluck’s army near Noyon, France.
“Send me nurses to take care of 1,400 lunatics, was the
gist of the message which came frtJm an officer of the medical
corps.
Investigation disclosed that many of the doctors and some
of the nurses of the great French asylum lor the insane at
Chauny had deserted their posts as the Germans advanced.
There are no walls surrounding the asylum grounds, as the
asylum is built on the most advanced lines and the boundaries
of the grounds are only deep ditches.
The asylum buildings were mistaken by the Germans tor
a chateau and the officers who rode up were astonished to
discover over a thousand hopelessly insane patients in the
buildings and grounds.
The German medical corps took charge of the place and
later some of the French physicians and nurses, being assui<<
by the Germans that their lives would be spared, returned to
the asylum.