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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 for advertised good* if you want the pick of styles and bargains. When shopping in Augusta tomorrow Say: “1 Saw ll I*l The Herald.” It will pay. Try IL