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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 • THE AUGUSTA HERALD — THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES SHIVERING IN THE INTER'S 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. •— ' 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. r ' 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.