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London.—German naval warfare
once more succeeded in getting home
on the British fleet, when, in
height of a heavy gale in the English
Channel, the battleship Formidable
was struck either by a mine or a
submarine torpedo and went down
with more than 600 of her crew.
The Daily Chronicle states that
vivors of the battleship report that
the vessel was torpedoed both fore
and aft, and sank almost immediately,
giving the crew hardly time to escape,
The official announcement from the
Press Bureau reads merely as follows
“The battleship Formidable
sunk in the Channel, but whether by a
mine or a submarine is not yet c¢
tain. Seventy-one survivors have been
picked up by a British light cruiser,
and it is possible that others may
have been rescued by other vessel
This expressed hope was partly ful
filled later in the day, when the trawi-
er Providence made port In Tor Bay,
bringing with her seventy additional
members of the rormidable’'s crew,
making the total saved out of 750,
s0 far as is known, 141
The Formidable was more than
teen years old, and in the age
dreadnoughts had long outlived her
name. She was a 15,000-ton ship, and
went into commission in 1899, being a
sister of Irresistible and Tmplac-
able.
sur
was
fif-
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CAMPAIGNS EAST AND WEST.
London—On the eastern battle
front, the Austrians seem to be con
tinuing their retreat toward Cracow
and the Carpathians with the victorl
ous Russians hard on their
while in Poland the German invaders
are being vigorously attacked alors
an 30-mile line from Opoczno
to the juncture of the Baura
the Vistula and are decidedly on t
defensive, In this fighting both
Petrograd and Berlin claim the ad-
vantage. In East Prussia the Ger
mans report gaining ground agains
the invading Russians.
Hot fighting continues at t*¢ No
Sea extreme of the western battle
line, where the little town of St.
Georges, a couple of miles of
Nieuport. is the bone of contention
Berlin now admits its capture by
Allies. The Allies claim to have ad
vanced a little to the north of Nieu-
port. There is continuous fighting in
the Vosges and the Argonne, with the
French reporting gains. Along the
Aisne and in the Champagne
heavy artillery duels rage
As usual, both Petrograd
stantinople tell of victories
Caucasus,
From Lisbon
port that the Germans
Angola and driven back
guese troops. German at
Portuguese West Africa have been re.
ported several times before, but have
always been denied Berlin
GERMAN FLIERS RAIN
BOMBS ON CHANNEL
London.—The Daily Mail's
spondent at Dunkirk telegraphs
In answer to our raid on Cuxhaven
German aeroplanes raided Dunkirk,
dropping bombs all over the town. A
fleet of four aeroplanes flew several
times across the city, dropping bombs
on each journey
streets replied with a vigorous
fire, but the aeroplanes
on.
it turned its head and descended sev.
eral hundred feet before righting it
self, but it got away safely.
No sooner did one aeroplane seem
to be departing than another arrived.
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nor
with
east
tha
reins
Con-
the
and
in
official re
invaded
Por‘u-
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BECOMES ROUT
Carpathians.
Russian military
assert that by the Russian New Year
January 13, Germany will be fighting
desperately to defend her own fron
tiers, and that all hope of capturin;
Warsaw and confining aperation
Russian territory h been des
by the overwhelming defeat of
Austrians.
London. critic
tra
The news
cepted here
English critics
a very noti
favor of Russia. 8
and
che
eable turn
anning the Gern
official reports
with the statements
General Staff, the foll
in
apparent
Austrian
king theze
Russian
ing situations
Of war
Lie
are
Marshal
600,000,
yon
massed
lower Vistula a
region of Opoczno,
preciable progress | he
in its effort to advance
saw. HN has suffered
es In attempts force the Sd
of the Bzura and the Ravka, and ‘t
spearhead position is : ar from War
saw as ever, thirty miles west. M1]
tary observers point out
Hindenburg could not go
when the combined German a:
trian offe neive was full
way it is improb: I
vance now
strongly
from the
id tha
junctior
the Bzura to the
made no
last ten day
toward War
slagge ring io
af
$A
to pis
nd
unger
that
on the
Poland and
German Centre imperilled.
in Galicls
centre is
The German
I by the Russian offensive west
A great Ru
IX westward toward the Wolls
line, and th @ mi :
only a fresh danger to Cracow and
lesia but may
movement for
Hindenburg's
effort of an Au
to turn the Russian left
failed with the d¢
Dank!l's army on the
Nida, and the stateme
fan General Staff
nan army is
ward Cracow
Ww io the
ore
the Nida.
movin
ss:an
Cracow
wvement |
develop int
purpos:
con
the
The stro-Germa
flank
region
wast
Lustrodier
now in full retreat to
’ ¢ Eh
Hat Ue
indicates a
vhole Ge
YOory s¢
rman plan in Po
land
Southward In Galicia
Dunajec and Biaia
tion Is even more
hopes of the Germanic allles
ern Galicia and along the ©
the Austrians
Fivers,
yminous for
In west
under Gen. von Boehme
Ermolli have suffered the fate which
overtook Von Auffenberg and
early in September,
were shattered by
Austrians poured a
the Carpathians
crumpling the
assisting Von
toward Warsaw.
when t
the Ru
for the pur
Russian
Hindenburg's
pose of
wing and
drive
The Russians were prepared
move and dealt Austrians
ter the fashion of Napoleon,
ing themselves by swift marches
tween scatlered Austrian forces and
crushing them one by one. It is re
ported from Petrograd that the Ans.
loss in prisoners is fully 3
and that in the battles from December
'8 to December 24 the troops of Fran.
cis Joseph suffered a loss of fally 49
Russia
the passes nf the Car
pathians and is marching on Cracow
Or Lin
with the af
be
V0
of the
in all dircotions.
were cut clear through in one place.
tions, Two more landed near the rail
way station. Others fell in the Rue
Caamartin, in the kitchen of the mil
tary hospital near the town hall, in
the Rues Plerre and Nieuport, near
the arsenal and in the suburb of Hos
endael.
Factory districts is Coudekerque
and Vurnee also suffered. Many wore
wounded in these places. The arm
of a child was blown off. An old wo
man was killed outright, her body
dreadfully disfigured. The bombs
were filled with shrapnel which pitied
the walls of bulldings.
The official returns estimate the
casualties at 18 killed and 32 wounded.
TO WEAR COTTON UNIFORMS.
Experiment in England May Mean
Much to the Industry.
London.—Thousands of recruits 'n
the North of England Territorial As
sociation soon will be wearing suits
of cotton, khahi as overalls over the
ordinary clothing until equipped with
woolen uniforms for service at the
ar Office, and, if successful, w!li
be 1mporiant 10 the Lancashire cotton
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PITH OF THE
WAR NEWS
Russians | have burst through the Aus
trian defensive arrangements In
western Galicia and are again rush.
ing forward over the Hungarian
plains.
President Poincare at his New Year's
reception to the Diplomatic Corps
in Paris said he believed the war
would end with victory for the Allies
within this year. ,
The number of Austrians in retreat is
placed at 175,000.
From the mass of more or less con.
tradictory news emanating from the
eastern war zone, it seems that the
Germans are not making any rea’
headway toward Warsaw.
Announcement of creation of six Brit
ish armies showed that Kitchener's
volunteers had been merged with
the regular forces, and indicated
Foreign statisticians compute that the
first five monthms of war have cost
Se
Renewal of the German offensive in
Poland, reported from Petrograd, is
sald to be developing In such a man-
ner as to lead Russian military ob-
servers to believe that the Germans’
real goal ig not so much Warsaw as
Novo Georglewisk and Ivangorod.
The Austrian retreat before the Rus-
eians in Bukowina has taken the char
acter of a great rout, according to an
official announcement at Petrograd. It
is stated that during the past fort
vight Gen, Radko Dimitrieff has cap-
tured 22,670 Austrians and 45 machine
guns.
In spite of the bad weather which
continues along nearly the whole of
the western front, there has been
heavy artillery and infantry fighting,
without, however, materially changing
the situation
An intimation that the British Gov-
groment contemplates the introduction
pt conscription for increasing the
Parliamentary Secre-
tary to the Admiralty, in a speech at
Capture by the Turks of Ardagan,
fortified town in Trans
is announced by the Turkish
Offies The announcement
at Turks, in conjunction
tribesmen, defeated
10 miles northeast
with
4.000
of
Persia
i
i
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on reports receipt of dispatehes
#1 the Balkan Peninsula
involved in the war
Lond
indicating th
SUNDAY,
Four German Army officers were
taken off an outbound steamer at New
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passports [raudulently.
The offensive movement of the
because the Ger.
the advance has
developed
The French statement indicates this
It recites a series of
along the front. The
great force, but the
night attacks
Russia issued an “Orange” book.
giving in review the happenings in the
the
fighting
conflicts
The Berlin statement of
in Alsace and the Argonne
The
urther
German communication says
ground bas been gained in the
and specifically denies the
bali of the
French are
The
making a further advance
there Paris anpouncement as
Germans in the Argonne has been
and that three new lines of
houses have
here have been no changes in
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battleship Formidable the total
saved now numbers 201
Admiralty
Captain Loxley
probably dead
issued a statement saying
and 20
SATURDAY.
The British battieahip
Ac
fo. an official statement at
it is not known whether the
isaster was caused by 2 mine or by
2 submarine. Only
the ship's crew of 750 men are known
to have been saved
A heavy mist Is preventing ali opera |
tions In Poland, according to an offi
cial announcement at Berlin.
cording
iN), CENTRE HALL, PA.
THURSDAY
Vienna admits the success of the
fussians in Galicia, and says it has
been necessary for the Austrians to
withdraw their forces along the entire
astern front and in ‘he plain of
Gorlice,
Turkish successes in the Caucasus
Berlin,
that the Germans have
out of the village of
Georges, In Belgium, south of Nien
port. The French statement says St
Georges has been violently bombarded
by the Germans since its capture by
the Allles, who are putting the posi
tion in a state of defense,
admits
driven
Dunkirk, on the
dropped bombs.
French coast,
WEDNESDAY.
A Berlin dispatch states that the
French appear to be developing new
activity along an extended line against
Alsace and Sundgau, and that news of
importance is likely to come from the
Vosges at any time
Confirmation of reports from Petro
armies in Galicia comes by
from Berlin, the dispatch stating
the Russian foree in that region has
and that the Austrians will
pelled to make new dispositions
Petrograd sender furthe;
tussian successes in Galicia,
retreat
Sabok-Dukla-Zmigred
ing more and more disorderly An
official announcement from the Rus
sian general headquarters represents
that in Poland the Russians are more
than holding their against the
Germans
Of the fighting in Poland the Ger
man War Office says that progress has
been made by the Germans on the
Vistula, Brura and Rawka rivers, and
that In the region south of Inowlodz
strong Russian attacks have been
pulsed
Loss of the French submarine Curis
be
“eorm
word of
and say
along the Lisko
front is becon
own
re
Minister of Marine
FOUR PERISH IN FLAMES.
Another
Cambridge,
inmate Of City Home At
Mass, Badly Burned.
Mass Four deaths
fatal burning of another
fire which trapped the
City Home while they
Cambridge
the probable
inmate in the
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when the officials made 2 careful
checking up of the register. Many
others among the 238 Inmates, mostly
aged men and women, suffered severe.
ly from fright and exposure, and sev
eral were partly overcome by smoke
Police, firemen and nurses
fire dscapes and
ladders, and while the building was
burning they were cared for by nesr
by residents. Later the majority of
inmatles were taken to fwd city
and provided with mat
BLACK MAND BY.LAWS FOUND.
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activity in Bukowina and the Car
pathiane,
The struggle for possession of Stein.
bach, in Alsace, oPtinues, the War
Office at Paris claiming that the
French are making progress foot by
foot.
Dunkirk, en the north coast of
France, was again bombarded by Ger.
man aviators on Thursday. French
aviators bombarded the rafiroad sta.
tions at Metz and Arnaville.
The belief that the year just begun
will see the ending of the war was ex.
pressed by President Poincare in an
address to the members of the diplo-
matic corps at Parise.
FRIDAY,
Hard fghting in Upper Alsace ig re.
ported in an announcement from the
German War Office, which says that
house after house in Steinbach has
been destroyed by French artillery,
but the village is still in possession of
the Germans. French attacks west of
Sennheim are declared to have broken
down under the fire of German
artillery.
A ing to the French official re
port, ch troops now oecupy half
of the village of Steinbach, and house:
to-house fighting is in progress
Over 30 French and British wygr.
At Kilarm, W. Va.
Fairmont, W. Va-“The triple trag
society, it
men are held in jail ss witnesses
the first time in the history of
has developed. Twenty
For
the
a copy of the by-laws
is in the possession of the county offi
The by-laws were written
although experts are at
Other murders in the last
including two Ameri
M. Smallwood and E. Mare
work on it
E
ERng.
AISHTON SUCCEEDS DELANO.
Industrial Commission.
Washington, D. C. -- Richard
Federal Industrial Relations Commis.
sion, to All the vacancy caused by the
appointment of Prederic A. Delano, of
Chicago, as a member of the Federal
Reserve Board. Mr, Alshton has been
an active raliroader for many years
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HOUSE PASSES POSTAL BILL.
Fourth Big Supply Measure Now Dis.
posed Of.
Washington, D. C-—The annual
Postoffice Appropriation bill, carrying
$321,000,000 for the conduct of the
Postoflice Department during the next
flacal yer, was passed by the House.
For the first time in many years four
appropriation bilis were disposed of
in the House before the beginning of
the new year in a short session.
EVANGELIST PAYS HEART BALM.
Settiza $50,000 Breach Of Promise Suit
CAPTAIN. WENT
———— in
the Lost Formidable,
Officers Perished
With the Captain-—Portsmouth
Chief British Naval
Station.
London,
the sinking of
the English Channel on New Year's
Day, according to the latest estimates,
the crew of 780 men 20] were
saved, a cutter, with 50 living aboard
reached land gince the first
casualty list was compiled
Many of the survivors of the For
midable were landed at Brixham, De
von, others at Lyme-Regls, Dorset
which that the
curred at the western end of the
lish Channel the
location
slateme
real cause
relate that the
truck above the magazine. The
explosion was terrific, but the maga
zine was not reached Had this also
blown up the ship would have found-
ered without there being time to save
indicates disaster oc
Eng
admiralty
nor has it
with refer
aithiougn
has not given the
made a definite
ence to the
Survivors
warship
WHE
rushed in the men on
hurried to the deck
the vessel already
the starboard. The
sent out. A cutter
the men in her were
drowned. A launch and a pinnace sue.
getting away
Edward Cooper,
the survivors landed at
said the explorion oe
curred between 1.30 and 2.30 o'clock
in the moming. When he reached the
deck the ship had begun to settle on
the starboard side Joatls
launched and remained near the ship
ck up survivors, but some of the
boatz, which stood out about 20 yards
were swamped by wreckage.
all scantily clad and
from the cold during
ipied In
As the water
the Formidable
They found that
had a heavy list to
emall boats were
ceeded in
Albert master.at
of
Were
The men
eullered terribly
the 0
shore
were
hotirs oe reaching
MANY COLD COINS MADE
4,194,112
During 1814
ington D i.
to $53. 457.817 in 4.194.112
wis minted by the United
States during the calendar year ended
The total coinage
of sll money was valued at $61.750
161.72 in 154.850.1587 pleces. The sil
ver mge was valued at $6.083.823,
with 51368655 dimes leading in num
There were 80568432 1l.cent
Coinage for the Philip
Islands amounted
for San Salvador, 7.000080
pieces. Costa Rica, 858,425 pieces, and
Ecuador, 2,500,000 pleces
Pieces
Wash Gold eoin
coin
GERMANY GUARANTEES FOOD.
tation In Belgian Situation.
London —A Reuter from
The Hague says
it
Netherlands Minister at
ported by the
the American Ambassador,
made representations to the German
Government concerning the
dispatch
Berlin. sup
“The German Government
the inhabitants of Belgium were
of food would take
Delegate From teland Introduces Bill
in Congress.
Washington, D. CA bill to an
tharize the Legislature of Hawall to
extend the right of suffrage to women
was introduced in the House by Dele.
gate Kalanianolo. The measure
would permit the Legislature to sub-
mit the question te & popular referen.
dum.
SAA A
PENNSY ASKS STEEL BIDS.
Te Use 17,600 Tors Fer Bridge Con.
struction In 19185.
Philadelphia. -—— The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company asked the steel
manufacturing concerns of the coun-
try to bid on 17.600 tons of structural
steel for bridge construction doring
1918. The company also ssked for
bids on 1.270 tons of steel for use In
reinforced ronerete work.
I an
OFFERS COAST-DEFENSE BILL.
Gardner's House Measure Would Add
8,000 Men.
Washington, D. C.—A bill to in.
IN PARAGRAY
—
Latest Happenings Gleaned
From All Over the State.
LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Chester Business Block Suffers $10,000
Blaze—Three Allentown Veterans
Die—One Killed, Three Hurt
When BSied Hits Bridge.
Thomas A. H. Hay was elected #
retary of the Easton Board of Trade
o fill the vacancy caused by the death
of the late Charles A. Morrison.
Thieves paid a second vieit to the
some of H. E. Russell dur
ng the absence of the Thro«
weeks ago while the
Coatesville the house
bles stoler
, Pom ery,
fan
fam ily Was Ir
was entered and
many velua
I. E. Carroll apd
probably fatally
ident
Eckert
McVey
Charles C
Anson
injured
GeRr
drivi in a
Firuck by a pass
wer:
grade
Petersh
CrOsEinE ack
They
Wagon
oT train
Enger train.
Were
wheo
Ure
covered
th years
at Lancaster, charged
the mails passing
checks gadd to have admitted
having a girl accomplice, but
to divulge her name
James irteen old
was
with robbing
Cassido,
arrested
and
He is
ref oeed
Governor Tenet issued a death war
rant for the electrocution of James
Boyd, Philadel phia, during the week
of March 1, at the New State Peniten
tiary. This iz the second warrant
the kind to be izsued
of
Passengers on a Pennsylvania local
were routed out of thelr seats in Stee]
ton to kelp fight a fire which started
in an express car. It was put out
the aid of cans of milk whick
were confiscated by the train crew
by
some
While coasting Leo Bartholomew, of
Shenandoah, six years oid, ran {nto an
sutomoblle, fracturing his right led
and left arm. Joseph Irwin, eight
years old, another coaster, was hit by
a bobsled and hurled down a 25-foot
t and probably fetally in.
act
Losing control of his sled on a steey
hill Charles Lynn, seventeen, of Nort}
Berwick, failed to make & turn at =a
bridge and crashed head first into =
fence post. He broke off the post and
suffered a fractured skull, nose and
He
is not expected to live
Thomas Lynch, aged 60, president of
the H. C. Frick Coke Company since
1886, died In his home at Greensburg
He entered the employ of the coke
company &s a clerk in 1870. Mr. Lyneh
Fund Commission, and his company
safety first” movement
The annual harvest of the joe in
Berks county, was started. One of the
biggest crops is being taken from the
dam on the County Home property. It
325 tone. At Friedensburg and
county, ice average eight inches
Edward ) Miller, aged nineteen years
accident, and James Taylor. Arthur
Brown and Carl Rusk, three other
viding with him.
seriously injured. when the
bobsled upon which they were riding
crashed into a bridge. Miller, whe
was steering the sled. lost control
with the result that it crashed inte
an fron span on the side of the bridee
A successful raid v was made by yegp
men st Emavs, when they blew open
the safe of the postofiice and got away
with about $500. The plunder can
sisted of a little more than $100 ie
cash and about $400 in stamps. Un
luekily for the thieves. Postmaster
Richard W. Iobst placed the bulk of
his valuables, inciuding stamps and
money order business, said to haw
bean about $10.000, in the vault of
the Emmaus Bank.
Mrs. Cassandra Haack, of York.
a oT atm ss
this year they a on uaaiton
the 35 check one Tor $1,000,
dren are: Mrs. Ida 1 hire din
Pa; Charles F. Hasnck, Mrs. Minnfe
M. Spangler, Mrs. Clara 5 Alexander.
Mre. Sadie Reigart, Mrs
Drayer, Mrs. Anna Levenite and Miss
Grayoe Haack, all of this eity,