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THE WEATHER
Cloudy and warmer to
ni.fat and Saturday;
probably rain.
VOLUME XIX, No. 352.
DESTROYERS SUNK,
IS GERMAN CLAIM
Berlin States That Two of the
British Warships Following
German Raiding Squadron
Sent to Bottom
NO MENTION MADE OF IT
BY ENGLISH ADMIRALTY
A Third Pursuing British De
stroyer is Also Reported As
Badly Damaged in the North
Sea.
London, 3:15 a. m.—An Amsterdam
dispatch to Reuter's Telegram Company
contains a German official statement
which claims that some of the British
destroyers that attacked the German
raiding squadron off the British coast
were sunk. The communication follows:
“The retreating cruisers were attack
ed by four British destroyers, one of
which was sunk. Another disappeared
bledly damaged.
1 “At another point another English de
stroyer was sunk.”
An official statement issued by the
British admiralty last night makes no
mention of any British warship having
been lost. The British statement said
that the light cruiser Patrol and the
destroyer Boon which were among the
British ships that stacked the German
cruisers were struck by shells and lost
five men in killed and 15 wounded.
enOebeluon
in south Armen
Premier Botha Says Its All
Over Save Rounding Up of a
Few Stray Bands.
Captown (via. London, 9:15 a. m.)—
General Louis Botha, premier of the
Union of South Africa, considers the
rebellion, apart from the rounding up
of a few stray bands, is at an end. He
has gone for a short vacation before
undertaking a campaign against Ger
man Southwest Africa.
With the capture of General Dewet
and the death of General Beyers in an
engagement, the South African gov
ernment recently announced the re
bellion started by those leaders prac
tically was at an end. Most of the
followers of Dewet and Beyers It was
said either had been captured or dis
persed.
Goodfellows
The Goodfellows are waking up.
They are getting busy. But the
pile of pitiful letters keeps grow
ing. More recruits are needed.
Send in your name, call up the
Herald or the Associated charities
and say you will help to play Santa
Claus thiß Xmas. The work Is get
ting bigger each day.
Mrs. H. J. Doerlll Is a Good fellow
and will look after 2 or 3 small
children this Xmas. Harry, Roscoe
and Donald Newman are Goodfel
lows and send SI.OO to the Xmas
fund. A Goodfellow from Aiken,
S. S., sends $1.50 to buy a pair of
shoes for one of the kids whose
letter appeared In the Herald. The
shoes are on the way. R. C. Nance
Is a Goodfellow and sends 3 orders
for shoes, 2 pair at $1.50 and one
pair at $2.00. John W. Haley is a
Goodfellow and duplicates the
above order of Mr. Nance. Zachary
and Raymond are royal Goodfel
lows and send check for SIO.OO to
help make this a great Xmas for
the poor kids of Augusta.
It's good work Goodfellows, chip
in. Play Santa Claus. Say some
thing. Do something. The time Is
growing short.
Here's the best suggestion yet.
Read It and act on it:
Have you any old clothes to
make the holidays happier and
warmer—for the poor?
In almost every home there is an
accumulation of old clothing, out
grown, “out of style,” and partly
but not nearly outworn Some of
It Is being worn by those who can
afford new clothes and who ought
to put the money, and the old old
clothes where they are needed, to
stimulate trade and relieve the
suffering. But most of these old
clothe* are only cluttering the at
tics and Increasing the fire risk.
Make up these bundles. Do It to
night. Notify the Herald or the
Associated Charities by phone and
mescengers will call for these
packages. You can at least warm
hare little legs and clothe weak,
frail bodies this Xmas. Don’t you
want to help with a bundle and a
telephone, message. Be a Goodfel
low. Get busy.
r . Tomorrow is going to be a Big Shopping Day in Augusta. it's Saturday before Christmas— Make up your
shopping list tonight. Read the store news carefully in today’s Herald. Get in touch with the Biggest Bargains. Know
what you want , where it is and what it costs. It will pay you to say when shopping in Augusta tomorrow , “I Saw it
in The Herald Trv it
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
ALLIES CLAIM
FOCI BT FOOT
ADVANCE, WEST
Say Germans Being Forced Out
of the Flanders Trencnes. All
England Still Buzzing With
Sea Raid Talk,
London, 12:20 p. m.—ln the west there
have been no events of great import
ance—at least none has been reported.
Foot by foot tile Allies appear to lie
forcing the Germans out of their
trenches in Flanders and maintaining
the pressure elsewhere on the front
from the sea to Switzerland.
Egypt Annexation.
The British press today naturally
makes a feature of the annexation of
Egypt and the Sudan which takes from
the Sultan of Turkey 14,000,000 subjects
ana 1,300,000 square miles of land. This
action, moreover robs the Turk of his
last foothold in Africa, Italy having
taken Tripoli from him a few years ago.
The German Raid.
All England is still buzzing with talk
about the German raid on the east coast,
interest having been stimulated afresh
by the latest accounts from Hartlepool.
Many of the naturalized Germans ar
rested on the east coast after the Ger
man raid have hen liberated.
m 4‘ITONS
KILLED, CHILE
Buenos Ayres, Argentine.—The com
mandant of the Argentine cruiser San
Martin, in port today, related that in
the Colfo Nuevo he met the British
cruiser Carnarvon and exchanged
visits with her commander.
The engagement December Bth,
which resulted disastrously to the
German squadron was discussed. The
commandant of the San Martin was
Informed that in the English squadron
four men were killed and 66 wounded.
The German cruisers opened fire at
13,000 yards. The British vessels held
their fire until they were within 8,000
yards of the enemy.
ciPTtnt,
FMDEN'S CREW
Tokio, 10 p. m.—Certain British war
ships have captured those members
of the crew of the German cruiser
Emden which escaped at Cocos Island
when the cruiser was destroyed, Nov.
10, by the Australian cruiser Sydney.
The German sailors went to sea In a
Cocos Island schooner named Aysha-
Forty men of the German cruiser
Emden were ashore on Cocos Island
when their vessel was overtaken and
sunk by the Sydney.
AMEICIITO
DRIVERS HELD
Mexicans Seize Chauffeurs on
Charge of Taking Machine
Gun Parts Into Sonora
Douglas, Arlz. —C. C. Lockhart and
Michael Sutlnn. chauffeurs of Douglas,
are being held prisoners and their auto
mobiles have been confiscated by the
iMaytorena troops at Fronteras, Sonora,
according to a report received last night.
The matter has been reported to Tho
mas D. Bowman, United States vice
consul here for Investigation.
Aecrt-dlng to the report the soldiers
who captured the chauffeurs asserted
the men had a dynamo and machine gun
In their cars for Carranza troops.
Friends here of the two men said they
went into Sonora with automobile parts
to repair a machine that had been
wrecked and were returning to Amtfl
can territory when taken into custody.
Claims Proof of
Swiss Annexation
Paris, 5:25 a. m.— An proof that Ger
many made plans to annex Switzer
land. The Matin prints photograph*
of German ten and twenty pfennig
stamps across which are printed in
black letters "schweiz, ten centimes”
and “schweiz twenty-five centimes.”
The editor claim* he has stamps of
this kind In his possession.
THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 18, 1914.
RUSSIAN ARTILLERY IN ACTION
wen —w—• 11, ■—
Battery tending a field piece in the hills along the line extending from the Vistula to
the Warthe.
Plays Policy of U. S.
in Building Warships
for ‘Cold Storage’
Before House Navaf Committee, Gardner Supports His Pro
posal For Investigation of National Defense—Gives His
Views of What Would Have Happened if Uncle Sam Had
Gone to War With Rest of Nations Last August
Washington.—Representative Gard
ner, principal witness today before
the house naval comrpittee read a long
statement In support of his proposal
for investigation of the national de
fenses by a special commission.
“I am here to ask you to appropriate
for the full number of new ships rec
ommended by the general naval hoard
for this year’s construction,” he said.
“I am sorry to say that Secretary
Daniels, in his recommendations to
congress had cut the naval board's
building program for this year almost
exactly in two.
In a Single Day.
"If the gentlemen had permitted me
to present as witnesses a few recently
retired officers, in a single day the
country would have learned of our
demented policy of building warships
for ‘cold storage.’ Out of thirty com
pleted battleships, do you know that
twelve of them are unavailable with
out a long delay on account of our
refusal to pay the bills for manning
them?
"If we had gone to war with the
rest of the first-class powers early in
August, do you realize that no less
than nine of our battleships would
not have been ready to fight? We
have fifteen cruisers, twenty-two de
stroyers, eighteen torpedo boats, five
submarines and perhaps a dozen mis
cellaneous fighting ships kept In ‘cold
storage’ with the battleships. Eighty
fighting vessels of our modest navy
GRANT INCREASED
RATES TO R’WAYS
United States Interstate Commerce Commission Today Gave
Permission to Eastern Roads For Advance of Five Per Cent
—Rehearing Given on Account of War in Europe—Certain
Commodities Excepted—No Change in Coal Rates to South
Washington.—lncreases In freight,
rates, approximating five per cent on
all the railroads between the Atlantic
Seaboard and the Mississippi, north
of the Potomac and Ohio Rivers, were
granted today by the Interstate Com
merce Commission in a divided opin
ion, excepting tipon certain heavy
commodities, which comprise a large
bulk of the traffic.
The increases will further apply to
the railroads west of the Buffalo and
Pittsburg, which were granted partial
advances In the decision of last Au
gust, which denied them altogether to
the roads east of those points.
About $30,000,000.
It is estimated the advanced rates
will increase the annual income of the
roads about $30,000,000. The com
mission made Its decision upon the
showing of the roads that, in addition
to conditions from which they prev
iously asked relief, they now are con
fronted with an emergency because of
the war in Kurope.
With Commissioners Harlan and
Clements dissenting the majority of
the commission declared:
are not available for battle in an
emergency.
18,000 Men Short.
"I charge that our navy is 18,000
men short and a further shortage of
40,000 men is in sight. The general
board which has actually made our
war plans estimates the enlisted force
for tlie navy as between 30,000 and
50,000 men short for war. If any at
tention had been paid to the general
board’s emphatic appeals for our na
tional safety, instead of only 127 bat
tleships built, and building and au
thorized, we should now have 47 bat
tleships build, building and authoriz
ed; instead of 68 destroyers we should
now have 187 destroyers. Ts we heed
ed the advice of the general hoard we
should have a fleet of fast scouts to
day. How many do you think wo
actually have got? Just three and
those were authorized over ten years
ago.
“Good, Bad, Indifferent.”
“You know that we have 56 subma
rines in all. built and building, good,
bad and indifferent. Now comes Sec
retary Daniels and In a few soothing
words recommends submarines to the
paltry number of eight or so.
"We haven’t a dozen aeroplanes in
the navy. Last year the aeroplane
board recommended an appropriation
of $1,300,000. Instead of that sum, ac
cording to Captain Bristol, we let the
(Continued on next page.)
World Commerce Disarranged.
“Whatever the consequences of the
war may prove to lie, wo must recog
nise the fact that it exists; the fact
that. It is a calamity without precedent
and the fact that by it, the com*ierce
of the world has been disarranged
and thrown into confusion. The means
of transportation are fundamental and
indispensable agencies in our indus
trial life and for the common weal
should be abreast of public require
ments.’’
' Application Granted.
Washington,-—The Interstate Com
merce Commission today granted the
application of the eastern railroads for
a five per cent advance In freight rates
excepting on certain specified com
modities. Commissioners Harlan and
Clements dissented
Coal Rates,
The railroads are permitted to make
the applied-for advances in rates ex
cept the rall-lnke-and-rall, lake.arid
rail, and railand-lake traffic; rates on
(Continued on Next Page).
INNUMERABLE,
THE UNBUDIED
Servians Claim Austrian Losses
Very Heavy in Killed and
Wounded. Exceeded in Pris
oners
Paris, 10:50 a. m.—ln a dispatch from
Nlsli, Servla, the Havas correspondent
says the Servian authorities have re
established themselves In the vicinity of
Podrinte, where the Austrian troop* sur
rendered to them. Prisoners affirm
that the Austrian losses in (lie recent
engagements In killed and wounded have
tieen very large and they exceed tlie
losses In prisoners. Heavy casualties
Hre shown by the Innumerable unburici)
liodies of Austrian soldiers found on the
line of their retreat.
Loznitza where there has been no
fighting recently was burned by the
Austrians.
Kaiser Going to
Front This Week
Amsterdam (via. London, Dec. 18,
8:50 a. m.) —According to the Tele
graaf, Emperor William, who has been
detained in Berlin for sometime be
cause of illness, will return to the
front this week.
The emperor the dispatch says has
Just conferred the decoration of the
Iron Cross, first class, on Chancellor
von Bothmann-Hollweg.
Most of 70,090
Berliners Killed
Amsterdam, (via London, 3:45 p. m.)
—Berlin newspapers reaching here
declare a majority of the 70,000 resi
dents of Berlin who went to the front
have perished.
Other statistical Information given
is that the organized workers of Ger
many who number 661,000, about 31
per eent are now In active military
service. The German Federation of
Workers has given more than $3,760,-
000 for the relief of the unemployed
and to assist needy women and chil
dren.
The Turks Fled,
Panic-Stricken
Par's, Dec. 18, 5:40 a. m. —The Hava*
Agency has given out a dispatch from
Its Athens rorrespondent who quotes
a message from the Island of Tenedor
to the effort that the recent bombard
ment hy a British fleet in the Gulf
of Haros, Immediately north of the
Dardanelles, completely destroyed the
Turkish barracks on shore and seri
ously damaged the fortifications Tloj
Turks, panic-stricken, fled to the in
terior.
TODAY’S OFFICIAL
The German armies in France and Belgium are said by the allies to
be yielding slowly, lint steadily. Today's official French statement re
ports victories here and there along the battle line. It is stated the allies
have made a further advance In Belgium.
The German war office denies that further ground had been won by
the silica. It states that French attacks have been repulsed and that In
the Argnnne 7,f,00 prisoners were captured.
Thr German statement adds little to Its announcement of yesterday
that a great victory had been gained over the Russians. It Is said merely
that the retreating Russians are being pursued.
$6.00 PER YEAR—FIVE CENTS PER COPY.,
THE RUSSIANS WILL
ADMIT NONE OF IT
PROHIBITION FIB
NATION URGED
IN SENATE
Senator Sheppard to Press His
Measure For Amendment,
Even if Hobson Resolution is
Defeated in House
Washington.—Senator Sheppard ol
Tcxae, co-author of the resolution for
national prohibition, urged its adop
tion today In the senate. Directing
his argument against the objection
which has been raised to the amen I
ment, that "it is an invasion of the
rights of the states, lie contended that
three-fourths of the states had a right
lo alter the constitulon to affect thfe
nation.
Wonder and Humiliation.
“1 can understand,” said he, “how’
an anti-prohibltlonlst, who believes
that no unit of government should at
tempt to stop tlie liquor traffic, would
oppose the adoption of the amendment
after Its submission. I can even con
ceive how extreme anti-prohibitionists,
who are obsessed with the idea that
the disappearance of the saloon means
the death of liberty, might, in the ve
hemence of their opposition to any
measure coming from the other side,
Vote agninst the submission of thy
amendment. Bui how any prohibition
ist honestly desiring lo see the curse
uprooted can delude himself with the
idea that the right of one or a few
states to harbor the liquor traffic is
superior to the right of three-fourths
of the states to terminate it in this
republic is a matter both of wonder
and humiliation.
A Solemn Duty.
“The disposition of this prohibition
amendment is (he most solemn duty
that has confronted congress since the
death of slavery. It will determine
whether this nation is capable of In
voking its constituent powers to con
sider an evil which at least half the
population believes to mean the na
tion’s ruin, and to take what steps
they may deem proper for its extermi
nation.
Higher or Lower.
“We must array ourselves for a. high
er civilization or for a lower one."
The Issue will not come formally
before the senate until the Hobson
resolution lias been passed upon In
the house. Should the house defelt
the Hobson resolution, Senator Shep
pard proposes to press his resolution
independently.
MILLIONS” FEEL
HATE DECISION
Chicago.—" The decision granting
Increased freight rates to the eastern
railroads is welcome news,” said John
M. Glenn, secretary of the Illinois
Manufacturers’ Association. “The iron
and steel industries and the car works
will be most affected but it will tend
to give new confidence to every line.
A conservative estimate of the amount
of goods of all kinds bought directly
by the railroads from manufacturers
would he $300,000,000. Approximately
2.000,000 employes In manufacturing
plants all over the country will be af
fected by the decision.”
EOF UNION JACK
FLOATS, EGYPT
Cairo, Egypt (via. London, 5:30
p. m.)— -A British protectorate was
formally proclaimed throughout
Egypt today. In all garrison towns
:i salute of 101 guns was fired and
the Union Jack wiih hoisted.
HOME
EDITION
Petrograd Declines to Concede
Victory to German Invaders
in Poland, Who Claim Enemy
Falling Back Along Entire
Front
GERMANS ASSERT THEY’RE
NEARING LEMBERG AGAIN
Muscovites, on Contrary, De
clare Czar's Cavalry Has
Swung Across Southern Bor
der of East Prussia
London, 12:18 p. m.—Again the Gor
mans and the Austrians seen: to he on
the crest of a wave of battle as the In
terminable struggle in the east ooa
-1 limes; again Berlin Is gay with flags
and again I’etrograd declines to concede
v|. toVy to the invaders. Berlin and
Vienna, eontenri however, that the Rus
sians ire falling back along the entire
from from the Baltic to the ra.rpa.thlans
with the Invading center less than 3d
miles from Warsaw.
Nearing Lemberg Again.
To the south, where a few weeks ago
Russians were pouring over the Catrpa
thlans into Hungary, combined Austro-
Gernian columns have now forced them
hack through the passes and It is as
serted have advanced two-thirds of the
way across Galicia and are nearing the
fortress of Lemhii-g, occupied by the
early In the Galician campaign.
Admit None of It. i
The Russian official announcement
admit none of this They dismiss the
happenings In Galicia as engagements of
no Importance and class the operations
to the west of Warsaw In the same cate
gorj It Is claimed however that the
extreme Russian right near Mlawa ha*
thrust the GtSrnana back and that Rus
sian cavalry has swung serosa tha
southern border of Fast Prussia.
BANDITTI!
LIED UNCLAIMED
Cincinnati —Edward Knaul. a police
man. who was shot by Frank G. Hohl,
automobile bandit, while trying to ar
rest the latter yesterday, died today
of four revolver wounds received In
the fight with Hhl.
A woman they believe was the ban
dit’s confederate and to whom they
think he managed to give tha SIB,IOO
that he obtained from the two banks
he robbed.
Seek $13,100.
Cincinnati.—-Police sought today for
the $13,100 obtained by Frank G. Hohl.
automobile bandit, from the two banks
he hold up and robbed yesterday be
fore he was mortally shot In a pistol
duel with three patrolmen. Eld ward
Knaul, the policeman shot by Hohl,
was operated on early today but phy
sicians held out little hope for hla
recovery.
Kohl's body still lies unclaimed at
the city hospital. His wife, Mrs. Ber
tiia Hold, who was arrested last night,,
declared she would not claim the body.
She denied knowing anything about
the robberies and said her husband
left her more than a year ago be
cause she would not take an active
part In his career of crime.
Stormy All Night
Session, Australia
Melbourne, (via London, 8:56 a. m.)—
Uurlriga Ht<j*rny all nlfllit Resilon of the
federal lioum- of representatives the
Kpewker cited Joseph Hume Cook, lender
r.f the llhere 1 party and a former cabi
net minister, for ffroaa insults to the
chair.
fn reply Cook, amid lib«#*al oheerln*
wild the party d*»Hlned to alt under a
tyrannical speaker and the opposition
thereupon left the house.
Afterward a motion was carried to
suspend Cook until ho apolo*lied. The
flush fcr'.’W out of a debate on the com
monwealth bank bill.
THERE ARE
5
Shopping Days
Before Xmas
Road Herald ads and call
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want the pick of styles and
bargains.
When shopping in Augusta
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