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THE WEATHER
Cloudy and colder to
night, with temperature
near 25 degrees; Sunday
fair.
VOLUME XIX, No. 360.
RUSSIANS RESUME
OFFENSIVE, POLAND
Capture of 11,000 Prisoners
Reported From Petrograd.
Berlin, However, Says Von
Hindenburg Keeps His Bull
Dog Grip on the Vistula
l
THOUSANDS WITNESS AIR
DUEL OVER THE THAMES,
GERMANS AND ENGLISH
No Cessation of Military Ac
tivity Christmas Day Along
Either of the Great Battle
Fronts.
London, 11:5C a. m.—While there
was no Christmas cessation of mili
tary activity, nevertheless no decisive
action occurred along either of the
great battle fronts. A spectacular
element or the recent news was sup
plied by an aerial duel between a
German aircraft and two English bi
planes over the Thames. This occur
red Christmas Day and was witnessed
by several thousand persons. The
German escaped.
Offensive Resumed.
Petrograd reported the Russians had
resumed the offensive at several i
points in Poland and had captured
11,000 prisoners. To offset this, how
ever, Berlin reports inactivity along
the Polish front. An Austrian army
continues a courageous effort to strike
down the valley of the Nida in the
direction of Carnow.
Think Too Late.
British observers think that move
ment will be too late if it is a fact
that the Austro-German attack in the
center has really received its reported
check.
General Von Hindenburg, German
commander in the east, still keeps his
bulldog grip on the Vistula and seems
to be making his present movements
towards Warsaw from Thorn, which
is northwest of the Polish capital in
the province of West Prussia.
PRETTIEST!!;
BIG IRK AHEAD
Executive Celebrated His First
Christmas in White House.
Last Year Was Spent in the
South.
Washington.—President Wilson con
tinued today to rest from the cares
of office. He is transacting only neces
sary business during the holidays. A
big rush of business is expected with
the reassembling of congress next
Tuesday and in the meantime the pres
ident hopes to get as much rest as pos
sible in order to be prepared for it.
President Wilson is devoting a good
deal of his attention just now to his
seven-year-old grandniece, Anne Coth
ran, who Is a White House guest. The
little girl was a member of the group
of near relatives who dined with the
president at the White House last
night. It was .the first Christmas the
president has celebrated in the White
House. Last year he went to Pass
Christian, Miss., for the holidays.
President Wilson will be 58 years
of age next Monday. He will celebrate
the occasion.
COM®,
ITALY NEUTRAL
London, 11:55 a. m.—ltaly's occupa
pation of the Albannian port of Aviona
is believed to open possibilities off
complicatlonss which might make it
difficult for Italy to maintain neutral
ity. Roumania's attitude, also, is more
than ever a matter of doubt, on ac
count of reports from Paris that the
only obstacle which prevented her from
joining with the triple entente had
been removed. Bulgaria was repre
sented as having given assurances
that she would remain neutral, reliev
ing Roumania from the fear of an at
tack from that quarter should she en
ter the war.
SMITE
FRANCE IS SUNK
Paris, 6:10 a. m.—The Italian preas
states, according to advices to The Ma
tin that a French submarine belonging
tp the fleet of Vice Admiral Lapayrere
Has been sunk while attempting to tor
pedo Austrian battleships in the Aus
trtar naval base of Pola. The crew,
it is stated, were rescued and taken
prUoners
GET READY FOR THE NEYY YEAR • 1 915 Is going to be the best and biggest Year, Augusta, the South and the United States has
ever seen. Warring nations must be fed and clothed—World markets must be supplied and the demand is growing for everything that the U. S.
makes and grows. The South’s cotton is going up-cotton seed are worth twice what they were two months ago. 1915—The New Year--will
find the South feeding itself and selling its surplus at a good profit. GET READY FOR THE NEYY YEAR 1915 •
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COLDEST OAT
Lowest December 26th Record
of 40 Years in Philadelphia.
Watertown, New York, Re
ports Officially Temperature
of 24 Degrees Below Zero.
Washington.—Winter had seized the
country east of the Mississippi river
today, setting new cold weather ree
oids for December in many places and
driving temperatures below zero m
New England, interior New York, West
Virginia, Michigan, Illinois, Northern
Missouri, lowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota
and North Dakota. The Florida pen
insula was practically the only region
east of the great valley that escaped
the extreme cold.
Lower Tonight.
Cold wave warnings fluttered in the
northeast and central sections of Flor
ida. and government forecasters pre
dicted lower temperatures tonight in
the South Atlantic, although probably
they will rise over Sunday in other
parts of the East.
December temperatures ns low, or
lower, than ever recorded were re
ported from Albany, N. Y„ where it
was 12 degrees below: Northfleld, Vt..
22 minus; Hartford, Conn., minus 4;
Syracuse. N. Y„ minus 12; Peoria, Ills.,
minus 18.
Up From South.
The blustering storm that drove up
from the south on Christmas had
passed off the South Atlantic coast,
leaving in its wake rains in the gulf
and South Atlantic States and snow
in Tennessee and the Virginias.
Real Winter.
Philadelphia.—With the temperature
at 9 degrees above zero at 7 a. m., to
day was the coldest Dec. 26th In Phil
adelphia since the weather bureau be
gan keeping records, forty years ago.
30 to 40 Below.
Watertown, N. Y.—Northern New
York shivered today with the coldest
weather of the winter. The official
thermometer registered 24 below zero
during the night in Watertown. Tem
peratures from 30 to 40 below have
been reported from several points la
the Adirondacks.
4 Above in New York.
New York.—New York shivered to
day in the grip of the season's coldest
weather. Temperatures dropped to 4
degrees above zero and the wind blus
tered 30 miles an hour.
Ogdensburg reported 32 below and
Utica 25 below.
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Floods Chocked.
Raleigh, N. C.—Raleigh today expe
rienced the coldest December weather
since 1909, with the thermometer at 7
o’clock standing ut 18 degrees.
The sudden cold wave after mor-l
than 24 hours of continuous rain over
the eastern and central portions of
North Carolina, it is believed, has ef
fectually checked floods that were
feared. More than two inches of rain
fell in this section yesterday, causing
the rivers to rise rapidly.
Records Broken.
Corry, Pa.—December records for
cold In Northern Pennsylvania were
troken here today when thermometers
registered 24 to 30 degrees below zero.
In New England.
Boston. —Zero or lower temperatures
prevailed today all over New England
with the exception of the extreme
southeastern section. Greenville,
Maine, recorded 16 below. Thermom
eters recorded six below at Portland,
and two below at Boston.
Fog in Chicago.
Chicago.—Fog came to the rescue of
frost-bitten Chicago today, but in the
suburbs removed from the lake the
mercury remained in the minus
column. In the city the temperature
rose from 4 degrees below zero to
9 abov l . Twenty miles away it was
15 below zero.
Zero is Missouri.
Kansas City, Mo. —Extreme cold
last night sent the mercury below
zero over virtually all the northern
half of Missouri and the states north:
South of Kansas City, where it war,
two below at dawn, the temperature
■was higher. At Springfield, Mo., it
was eight degrees above. Oklahoma
City experienced an unusually low
temperature for that locality, the
thermometer reaching eight above
zero. In the surrounding territory
the temperature was comparatively
higher. At Fort Smith, Ark., the low
est temperature recorded was 22.
AUTOS IN 1914.
Chicago.—American manufacturers
In 1914 produced 515,000 motor ve
hicles valued a, $485,000,000, urrord
ins to Alfred Reeves, general man
ager of the Automobile Chamber of
Commerce. That output he said to
day, came from 450 concerns He
arid there were 1,500,000 ears rex
lst«Ted in the various states, that
there were 15,000 automobile dealers
In the country, 13,630 garages and
680 supply houses.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 26, 1914.
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AT NOONDAY MEAL
These trench diggers of the Belgian army have performed heroic work in the tiresome task of trench-digging.
They were photographed while preparing a noonday meal somewhere in northern France.
CHRISTMAS DAY
AND NIGHT IN
THE TRENCHES
French Soldiers Feasted in So
Far As They Could---Cham
pagne From Government,
Cigars From King Albert, of
Belgium.
Paris.—Christmas for tho soldiers at
the frouV .w«# as cheerful and mm
fartable as the love and self-denial of
FYenoh families could make it. The
spirit of those at home was not to ex
change presents but to give all to the
men with the colors.
Many families probably dined meager
ly yesterday because of the packages of
soft woollen things and boxes of deli
cacies and presents which went to bat
tling kinsmen.
Many a lone soldier without family re
ceived various packages of things to eat,
wear, smoke or drink from societies and
from the government. The ministry of
war among other things sent a bott e
of champagne for every four soldiers at
the front.
Over Ten Days.
All the plum puddings in the shops of
Parts were taken hy the French military
to send to the British soldiers. The
Belgian refugees, especially the chil
dren. being so over fed that the com
mittee In charge of them postponed vari
ous dinners and entertainments so as to
extend them over the next ten days.
King Albert of Belgium sent a box of
25 cigars to each of his soldiers. All
the hospitals arranged concerts for con
valescing soldiers.
The American ambulance was bright
with Christmas decorations. Madame
Poincare sent three thousand packages
of toys, candy and clothing to three
thousand Alsace-Lorraine children who
live in the territories reconquered by
French.
To Wsr Prisoners.
The French government delivered
great quantities of packages from Ger
many to prisoners of war. Similar de
liveries it is understood were made by
the German authorities to French pris
oners.
While the men actually in the trenches
had to maintain the same strained alert
ness that they observe every day, and
while there was fierce fighting at cer
tain points on the front', yet from 1 ,Md
to 2,000 yarns hack of the infantry Tr
lng line arrangements were made for
plenty of jollity which Included a chick
en dinner and champagne.
New Year’s Day.
New Year's Day Is a greater holiday
in France than is Christmas and if the
military situation permits. General
Joffre, the French commandor-ln-chlef,
will give orders that the soldi tars serving
In the trenches Chrlßtmas Day will not
have to be there New Years.
At midnight open air masses were
celebrated at many places back of the
lines upon rough altars.
In Paris the gay midnight supper part
lies were not seen; instead the people
were In the churches at mass.
AHE AWAITING
ON BULGARIA
Pa rie, 6:15 a. m.—The only obstar'e
lo Rumania’s joining the triple en
tente forces, according to The Figaro,
was the lack of guarantees from Bul
garian regarding her neutrality. The
Figaro learns from a reliable source,
It says today, that such guarantees
now have been obtained as a result of
the Joint action of the triple entente
powers at Sofia with the further un
dertaking that in the event of Bul
garia deciding to intervene, it would
be against enemies of the entente.
BELGIAN TRENCH DIGGERS
10100 OF THE
FILIPINOS IRE
REIDUO RISE
Abortive Attempt For Concert
ed Attack at Manila. Number
of Arrests on Charge of
Sedition.
Manila.—Eight Filipinos have been ar
rest e<l on the charge of sedition ns a
result of an abortive rising in Manila
and its environs night. Fur
thftf* hflreet* are probable.
From army sources it is learned that
a general warning was sent to all of
ficer Thursday afternoon stating that
fully ten thousand Filipinos in Manila
alone were ready for a concerted attack
on Fret Santiago, the Cuartel Espana,
the Cuartel Inanterla and the medical
depot. The military units were Imme
diately prepared and a street patrol was
started at dusk.
Sailors Used Chairs.
Constamilary agents who are members
of the secret societies disclosed the
plans for an uprising, thus enabling a
force of constabulary and police to dis
perse gatherings at H igurnbnyan, Paco
and Navot.i i near Mnlabon. At Caloocan
a squad of American sailors seized
rhairs when a force of Filipinos ap
proached a dance hall in which they
were gathered and, using the chairs as
weapons, routed the Flilplnps of whom
quite a number WfTe injured.
Poorly Organized.
The rising was evidently poorly or
ganized and lacked leaders. It was com
posed for the most part of persons im
plicitly trusting the word of Artemlo
Ricarte, a revolutionary, who conducts
a continual propaganda from Hong Kong
to which place he was banished by the
American authorities some tifme ago.
Rlcarte, if Is Htated, advised that the
anti-American attempt be made on
f’hrlstmas eve w'hen the American of
ficers would be expected to celebrate the
holiday.
Minor Risings.
Reports from the provinces tell of mi
nor risings and occasional violence but
details from the sections are lucking.
The situation today from all appear
ances and according to official state
ments is well under control of the mili
tary authorities.
Governor General Francis Burton Har
rison is away on official business and
Winifred T. Denison, secretary of the
Interior is in charge of affairs, pending
Mr. Harrison's return.
The ffrdgn chamber of commerce,
supported by the Filipino body, has Is
sued a public protest against the legis
lature’s adoption of amendments to the
Internal revenue lsw Imposing additional
taxes.
On Christmas Eve.
The measure* wore introduced on the
eve of the Christmas recess and was
passed without discussion and also, it is
stated, without giving the merchants an
opportunity to express their opinions Re
garding it. Representations from the
chamber of commerce regarding the new
law, it is announced, are to go today to
Hecrettfry of War GarVison asking him
to secure President Wilson's Interven
tion In the matter
Not Thought Serious.
Washington. - Insular bureau off.
rials In the absence of official advices
today from Manila, were Inclined to
the view that the reported threatened
rising there wan not serious Earlier
in the week, Oov. General Harrison
reported he could find no baels in Ma
nila for accounts of a threatened re
volt. Rrigadler General Mclntyre,
chief of the bureau of Insular affairs,
however, In view of renewed reports
nf trouble In the Philippine capital,
cm lied for a full report of the circum
stances of the Ghrlstmss Eve distur
bances. Officials said early today
there was at all times more or less dis
affection among a restless element in
the Phllllpines and that shrewd native
leaders did what, they could to capi
talize such discontent. They profess
not to believe that anything like a ris
ing of serious proportions is imminent
in Manila or elsewhere through the
Philippines.
THREAT TO SHOOT
BY U.S. CRUISER
VILLA WILE NOT
ELIMINATE SEEL
Carranza’s Secretary Also De
clares That President Gutier
rez Inclined to Join With First
Chief.
Washington.—The provisional kov
ernment In Mexico City has issued a
decree extending to March 31 the time
for re-validatlon of ruling titles, ac
cording to a Mexico City despatch to
day to tho state department. A mes
sage dated noon, Dec. 24, from Eagle
Pass, Texas, says the ‘‘situation re
mains unchanged at Piedras Nogras.''
A mall report from the American
vice consul at Ensenada, Lower Cali
fornia, stqtes that while there have
been some political disturbances of
late ‘‘conditions in general are Improv
ing and the district Is quiet." He adds
that the bitter feeling attains! Amer
icans noticeable Inst spring apparently
has disappeared, and that 175 or 200
Americans now tire In the district.
in that connection, however, the
state department announced that It
‘‘tloes not advise Americans to return
11, Mexico and those who do so go
there on their own responsibility.”
Demand to Villa.
The Carranza agency here announced
receipt of the following message from
General Carranza's secretary at Vera
Cruz:
“General Villareal at Monterey In
forms us that he recently hail a con
ference at Balttllo with General Alva
rez, the Gultcrrez governor of the state
of Han Luis Potosi, who Informed him
that Eulalio Gutierrez hail Hcnt him
to inform Villareal that he hail de
manded from Villa that he eliminate
himself from political activity, but that
Villa hail not compiled anti that Guti
errez was disposed to enrol! himself
anil Ms troops once again under tho
banner of the first chief, and the Plan
of Guadeloupe.”
RUSSIA*
ISLAND EUR GUNS
*
Washington, D. C. The .Taj nnewe em
bassy today received official advices
from Tokio that Ruhhla ha* red<*d to Ja
pan It* half of the l*lan«l of .Hakhalten
fur no me heavy gun*. The Inland wan
officially Russian until Heptember, 1905.
The southern ha f w;ih coded to Japan hy
the UrmH of the treaty of J'ortnmouth.
ENGLAND IN TIME
FOR XMAS DINNER
St. John, N. F The fifth draft of
New Foundland naval reservists which
sailed from here December 17th,
reached England In time for Christ
mas dinner, according to n cablegram
received today. The draft | consist
ing of 160 men, brings the quota of
naval reservists from this colony up
to 1,000.
Another lot of 250 men Is awaiting
transports anti the recently organized
First New Foundland regiment is ex
pected to sail ofr England In Jan
uary.
$6.00 PER YEAR—FIVE CENTS PER COPY.,
Turk Authorities Refused to
Permit Departure of Consuls.
Were to Leave Tripole on
American Merchant Ship.
Attack Citizens
London, 11:60 a. m.—-From Athens
come* an Incomplete report of the re
fusal of tho Turkish authorities to
permit the departure from Tripoli, In
Syria, of the British and French con
suls and a number of British and
French citizens on an American mer
chant ship under convoy of an Ameri
can cruiser. That refusal is said to
have resulted In an attack by a Turk
ish crowd on tho crew of the mer
chantman while (he sailors were em
barking some Frenchmen. This at
tack ceased, however, when the war
ship threatened a bombardment. The
cruiser consequently escorted this
vessel to Dedcagatch. north of tha
Dardanelles In Turkey.
FOG IN FLANDERS
STOPS FIGHTING
Purl*, 2:50 p. m. The official An
no unr ement given out hy the French
war office till* afternoon relate* that
fog* in the north hnye Interfered with
the operations iri Flnnder* Gourde*
attacks by the Germans have been re
pulsed Ht a number of point*. Thero
w an artillery fighting near the sea and
at Perthes. Progre** al*o wa« made
in Upper Alsace on Christmas I>ay.
AUSTRALIA BATTLE
CRUISER IN PORT
Valparaiso The Australian battle
cruiser Australia came Into thl* port to
day Hhe had been on the Pacific coast
of South A merlon for several weeks A
week ago *he put into Callao, Peru.
Urges Sending Representatives of
Ruined French Cities to ’Frisco—
Marvelous Rehabilitation Story
Paris, 4:30 a. m.—Henator Pierre Oomot, writing to the Petit Journal,
urges the sending to the Panama Kxpoaition at Han Francisco of repre
sentatives of the, ruined cities of France, Bheims, Lille and Arran, and
alno of Liege and Louvain, In Belgium.
"They could on their return,” he said, "tell their fellow citizens a
marveloun ntory of that great city, which was dentroyed ten yeara ago
and han since re-con<|uered a pronperlty greater than ever. What an ex
ample! What encouragement! What hope!”
600 PIECES OF FRENCH ARTILLERY
OPENED UP FIRE SIMULTANEOUSLY
ON GERMANS; RESULT ANNIHILATION
P»ri», 12:30 p. m, General Joffre, French commander-in-chlef,
nnld to Colonels Ignatleff and Yards- Boiler, the Bosnian and Knglish mili
tary attache* at the field headquarter ter* of the French army, three or four
dayn ago:
"Come with me and you w ill gee nomethlng never seen before in war.”
They seconpanied the general to a place near the linen not far from Ar
ran. There 800 pleeeaof heavy artillery were placed In a ponltion no aa to
bear upon a comparatively short plexlun of German entrenchment*.
Fifteen minute* later the French Infantry charged. Not a hostile
shot met them Not a bayonet gleamed over the edge of the work*. The
trenches had been torn to pleren a* though by gigantic ploughshare*.
Lend and wounded men. half buried, littered the line where former
ly had been trenches, The few alive were struggling to free themselvea
from the heap* or eath. Those whh had tried to run were caught by the
horrible spray of bursting shell* In the rear of the German tranche*. Prob
ably not a man defending that part of the line escaped.
HOME
EDITION
For Facts
Daniels
Cables
Washington, D. C.---Secre
tary Daniels today called on
Captain Oman, commander of
the armored cruiser North Car.
olina, to report whether
threats of violence had been
made by Turks at Tripoli
against American sailors.
Athens dispatches published
today said an American war
ship had threatened a bom
bardment as a result.
Three U. 8. Cruisers.
Washington. The North Carolina
and the Tennessee, both are at Beirut
today, the Tennessee having gone to
that port from Jaffa after depositing
gold. Beirut Is 40 miles south of
Tripoli, where the disorders were said
to have occurred.
One report was that Turkish au
thorities sought to prevent the de
parture of American, British and
French consuls, a.nd that the attack
on the American crew of a commer
cial ship and the threatened bombard
ment of Tripoli by tho American man
of war followed.
jiiin
‘MOVIES' SUIT
The Film Rental Company Asks
Damages For Huge Sum
Against General Film Co.
New York. —The Greater New York
Film Rental Company, an exchange
for the circulation of moving picture
films in New York City, filed a Sher
man law suit today against the Gen
eral Film Company, its officers and
component companies for $1,800,000,
three times the amount of damages
alleged to have been caused by the
defendants' arts.
It is charged that the defendants
have combined to operate and conduct
ah unlawful business "u ider the cloak
of the so-called Edison License Agree
ment.”
The plaintiff asserts that. It has
built up by January, 1909, a business
which had a valuable good will and
was a profitable one; but that its
business has become practically
worthless slnee that date because of
the acts of the defendants.
CZAR IfIESTO
BATTLE FRONT
Moscow, ,via Petrograd, Dee. 25
(Delayed)—The members of the Rus
sian Imperial family who have been
here for several days, departed this
evening, the emperor setting out for
the battle front and the Empress Alex
andria for Tsarakoe Selo with their
son and two daughters.
Today the Imperial guests visited
several hospitals and the emperor in
spected the military school. At the
Kremlin I’aloce the emperor received
several delegations. Among these were
various rellgous associations belonging
to the Orthodox faith and delegates
from Jewish congregations who paid
their homage.