! THE WEATHER FAIR TO-NIGHT AND TO-MORROW j Report, !*■«* • S£ A ?. , , , :S KU VOL. 77—NO. 44 BRITISH SHIP ALSO IS LOST WHEN GERMAN CRUISER BLUECHER SINKS Biggest Naval Battle of War Fought in the North Sea Yes terday When Five of Great Britain's Most Powerful Ves sels Intercept Four of the Kaiser 9 s Squadron on Way to Bombard English Coast- More Than 700 of Crew of the Bluecher Perish as the Vessel Goes Down While the Rest of the German Ships Make Their Escape x I Bji .luucictrd Pre**, Berlin, Jan. 25. via London, 11.35 A. M. —The follow-' in.~ official announcement on the naval engagement in the -.'iarch Sea yesterday was given out in Berlin to-day: 'During the advance of our armored cruisers Seydlitz, Der:l:-"::eei, Moitke and Bluecher, which, accompanied by .cm smaller cruisers and two flotillas of torpedo boats were steaming in North Sea. these vessels became engaged with British detachment composed of five battle cruisers, i .avera smaller cruisers and 2b torpedo boat destroyers. •"The c-nemv discontinued the engagement after threei hours cimc a + a point seventy miles west northwest of Heligoland, and retreated. "According to the information available one British battle cruiser and one armored cruiser, the Bluecher, were sunk All the other German ships returned to port. {Signed) "Von Behncke." ! Lo" lon, .'an. Jo.—Tiio biggest naval | battle of the war, so far as sire of ships I and we cut of i* concerned, was fought in the North sea yesterday and no -e»ult was a victory for Vice Ad miral Beatty an 1 the British battle cruiser squadron. This squadron, composed of the l>ion. T jer, Princess Royal, New Zealand and; Indomitable, accompanied by a flotilla j of light cruisers and destroyers, under Commodore Reginald Y. Terwhitt, soon j after dawn met a German squadron, composed of the battle cruisers Derf- ( flinger. Seydlitz and Moltke, and the armored < ruiser Blueeher. also escorted by light iruisers and torpedo craft, heading toward the English coast. [ In a :'our hours' running fight that ensued the armored cruiser Blueeher was sunk, anil the remaining three, two of them showing marks of heavy pound ing. took refuge behind the mine fields off the German oast, whether the Brit ish ships did not venture to follow. The British ships'suffered only slight injury. So far as is known only 123 > of the Bluecher's crew of BSS were saved. Official Description of Sea Battle The official statement issued by the Press Bureau follows: "Early this morning a British pa trolling squadron of battle cruisers and light cruisers, under Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty, with a destroyer flotilla, & under Commodore Terwhitt. sighted " four German battle cruisers and several light cruisers and a number of destroy- 1 ers stewing westward, and apparently making for the English coast. "The enemy at made for home #r high speed. They were at once pur- j med, and at about 9.30 a. m. action was joined between the battle cruisers Lipn, Tiger. Princess Royal. New Zeal-' and and Indomitable on the one hand, and the Derfflinger. Seydlitz. Molke and Blueeher on the other. A well contest- j ed running fight ensued. Shortly after j 1 o'clock the Blueeher, which had pre-! viouslv fallen out of line, capsized and sank. "Admiral Beatty reports that two other battle cruisers were seriously damaged. They were, however, able to ! continue their flight and reached an area where danger from German sub marines and mines prevented further pursuit. "No British ships have been lost, and our casualties in personnel, as at present reported, are slight, the Lion, which led the line, having only eleven ' wounded and no killed. "One hundred and twenty-three sur vivors have been rescued from tne Bluecher's crew of 885, and it is pos sible that others have been saved bv some of our destroyers. No reports of any destroyer or light cruiser fighting have yet been received by the Admir alty, though some have apparently taken place. "Their Lordships have expressed their satisfa<-tion to Vice Admiral Sir David B«*atty." London Crowds Cheer Victory Following the publication of this re- 31je Star- 3febcpcnl>cnt j p"rt London went wild with exultation, i The spaces in front of the bulletin ! board were thronged all day. Cheer on j cheer was given for the navy and Sir David Beatty, who. already a popular > hero after his victory off Heligoland on ; August 2>, has, by his latest exploit, i become idolized. It is believed that the German ; squadron ha 1 set out to repeat the raid j of last month on the Yorkshire coast. It is thought that the German! j squadron was identical with that which ! i made the first successful descent on j : England, and it is probable that the de struction of raj German ship could have caused greater rejoicing than that of i the Bluecher. unless, possibly, that of , t the Moltke, her fellow-raider. The result of the action also is re garded here as a triumphant vindiea 1 tiou of British theories of warship building. So far as »an oe judged from the meagre accounts now available, the tight itself was merely a demonstration of a victory that had been won in the j \ears of peace by the British design ers. who were able to send to sea a 1 squadron that, ship for ship, outclassed ' the Germans of the same late in speed, j | sn armor protection and in gun power. ' The ma thematic of superior speed and gunnery were even more strikingly i demonstrated than in the victory of Admiral Sturdee off the Falkland*. The Bluecher was. of all German ships, the most decisively outclassed. She was the slowest and apparently the rearmost of their squadron. She was an armored cruiser of an earlier day, and though a splendid specimen of her type, was as ; helpless, with her battery of twelve 8.2- I inch guns and her belt of 6-inch armor, against the 13.5-inch broadsides of the British squadron as were the Scharn horst and the Gneisenau before the In vincible and Indexible in the South At lantic. Germans Near English Coast Apparently the German squadron was | not more than an hour s run from the | English coast when the British patrols ahead of Admiral Beatty 's heavy forces reported the presence of the Germans. 1 The action seems to have been fought, out according to the most approved! rules of naval tactics,' the light ships reconnoitering and keeping in touch, 1 and gradually falling back on the < heavier fighters, as the two squadrons a; proached. The German Admiral, however, eith i er was less effectively served bv his scouts than wag Admiral Beatty, or he I became convinced —at the British ships! were only light patrol craft; or, con- j fident in the speed and power of his! own squadron, he determined to pusn i • home the reconnaissance, and went too ! far. In any case, when he finally learned ! the odds against him and swung hisj l own heavy squadron around for (light, j' it was too late, for the big British 11 cruisers were bearing down at the ut-1 iqost speed. , ! I Neither squadron, it is believed, was 1 in close formation. But in the rear of the German squadron was the weakest ' Cntliord ob Seveath I'alt HARBISBUBQ, PA.. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25. 1915—12 PAGES. PKMISI! SIMMS Germany Complains to United States That Curtiss Aircraft Are War Vessels 36 BEING MADE FOR THE BRITISH German Ambassador Bernstorff Claims the Selling of Hydroaeroplanes to the Belligerent Countries Constitutes a Breach of Neutrality Bp Associated Press, Washington. Jan. 25.—Germany pro teste I to the State Department to-day through her Ambassador, fount Hern storff, against shipments of American hy iroaeroplane* to the European b'el ■ liferents, on the ground that such air-j I craft are war vessels. A statement i>- Isued by the embassy to day says: "The turtle works at Hammonds- 1 I port. X. \have sold and sent to Eng land the well known hydroaeroplane |'' America and five hydroaeroplanes jof the >ame type. Thirty-six hydro aeroplanes of a differeut type have been i ordered by Knglaiki and are under con i stmetioo by the same firm. Also Itus j sia has ordered a number of these ves sels from Curtis® for use in her navy. •' There is no ijJoubt, and it does' not i need any explanation, that from the , stan l.point of international law, hydro | aeroplane* have to be considered as war I vessel* aud fcnat, therefore, by Article |\in of the agreement concluded a; | The Hague on October 18. 1907. neu jtral coon tries are prohibitol to supply I belligerent countries with such vessels.' The selling of hydroaeroplanes by the' < urtiss works, therefore, constitutes a breach of neutrality. Hydroaeroplanes are not especially mentioned in The' Hague agreement for the simple reason j that this kind of war vessel did not vet; exist at that time." LATE WAR NEWS SUIKIMfIRY A new attack on the Russian armies has been initiated by Austria, in con junction with the German forces in the east, in accordance with the plan be lieved in Petrograd to have been adopt led by the Teutonic allies. Austria; forces have struck at their opponen i aU along their :iOO-mile front. Heavy j fighting is in progress, out, so far as is known in Petrograd. no important re sults have been achieved as yet. The object of the attack apparently is to relieve Hungary from further danger of invasion by clearing the Russians from | Galicia, Bukowina and Northern Hun-' gary. Vienna reports state that the Russians already have been checked in Bukowina. Desperate fighting in close quarters ConSfnuril he is asking the court to compel her husband to pay her weekly maintenance money. The case had not been ended at the time for noon adjournment. This afternoon Beebe was ordered to pay his wife S2O a month. The Beebes had been living in Kas- i ton, where the husband is employed' as an insurance solicitor. Mrs. Beebe said she found the postcards and letters by accident when she was cleaning her j husband's desk. "He said nothing when I asked him to explain," she began, "but he struck i me right here (she pointed to her cheek), and I struck him, too." ! Later Mrs. Beebe said her husband I offered the excuse that lie couldn't keep girls from sending the postcards. Reference to the husband's camera was contained in a letter alleged to Continued on Ninth fane. THAW IS ARRAIGNED TO-DAY Decision on Motion to Send White's Slayer to Bellevue Hospital Postponed to Wednesday _ ' I By Associated I'rcss. New York, .lan. 25. —A motion to; have Harry K. Thaw sent to Bellevue Hospital so that it might be determined! there whether he were sane, was nialfei to-day by Thaw's attorneys alt his ar raignment in thie Supreme Court here I on a charge otf conspiring with others j in affecting his escajxe from the "Mat-! teawan Asylum in August, 191 r 5. De cision on the motion was reserved. No aittempt was made to obtain j Thaw's release on bail. Ho was re manded hack to Tombs prison to remain there till Justice Davis should notify th© lawyers of the day to be selected for Thaw's pleading to the indictment. Justice Davis announced later that Thaw would be arraigned next Wednes day. The justice will, on that Surplus Will Be Distributed Among Local Charities When all -billv have been met 'by the executive committee of the Stough cam paign in this city, it is estimated that there will be a ca information as to the Governor's intentions, but he declined to say any- | thing at all on the subject. Only oncei lid he get near it, and that was when,' i speaking to a group of reporters, he ' | said he and Governor Tener were in ac-1 i cord 011 tho appointments of notarioJ and justices of the peace. But he dint I j not say it in such a way a» to lead to ! the inference that they were not in ac . cord on other appointments sent to the Senate by Governor Tener. Regarding the possible appointment. !of Deputy Attorney Generad Cunning j ham to a place either on the Commission j or as its attorney, Mr. Cunningham to-' day expressed annoyance that a story] of that character should be afloat. "There is not a word of truth in the story,'' said Mr. ('unningham. "I would not take either of the places men tioned. I cannot understand how such a storv could Iwne originated." It is said that Mr. Cunningham will j remain as First Deputy Attorney Gon i eral, his relations with Attorney Gen | eral Brown being most cordial. WOMAN'S PURSE SNATCHED j I Mrs. Bernardia Hinnenkamp Robbed in ; Front of Her Home of Pocket book Containing S3O ilrs. Bernardia Hinnenkamp, 30 South Eighteenth street, was attacked by a thief in front of her home almost under the rays of an electric street light at 7.45 o'clock Saturday evening and robbed of her pocketbook contain ing S3O, half of which was in two cheeks. She had just returned to her home from the market house at Fourteenth and Market streets and was in front of her homo when a man appeared from behind, graspod her jiocketbook and pushed her over on the steps, making Lis getaway by running south on Eight eenth street ami across a vacant lot. I.M'rs. Kiuneuk&ntp was not injured by Ihe blow and turning she was able to see that the thief was br.i i small man and wore a cap and a sweater with the collar out over his coat. A small boy who was standing on the street but did not see the robbery made way for the fleeing thief. The robbery has been reported to the po lice. POSTSCRIPT PRICE, ONE CENT. ML OF HOHI. IS FQUID GUILTY OF HOIST! 1 Joseph Kaufman Con victed This Morning ofHelpingHarrisburg Bandit Steal $ 12,000 GUARDED DOOR WITH REVOLVER Chicago Youth Says He Was Hypno tized by Desperado, Fonucrly of This City, Who Recently Was Shot j to Death by the Cincinnati Police (Special to tli" Stnr-tndepondent. > Pittsburgh, Jim. 2.1. An echo of the looting or' the Hcinostead National | bank last August by Frank G. Holil, the Harrislmrg desperado, who was shot to death by the police recently while en j denvoring tn escape after robbing two Cincinnati banks, was neurd in the Al- I leghoiiv county court this morning, | when Joseph Kaufman, of C hicago, Hold's pal in the Homestead crime, was found guilty ot' assisting in the rob bery. William J. Brenneji, counsel for the defense, told the court on Naturdiiv "That Kauftrian had been Hypnotized by Holil and thus was influenced to take I part in the robbery. i>istrict Attorney : Jackson declared that this was incon sistent. with testimony of witnesses for ; the defense, who had said that Kauf ! man had been coerced by.Hohl. Co ercion, the Prosecutor contended, is the i direct opposite of hypnotism. Kaufman himself was placed on the i stand and told in detail of the robbery jof the bank. He said lie had been threatened with death if ho did not ! take a revolver, filled with blank cart j ridges, and guard the entrance to the ] bank while the money was being ta ken and if lie did not help in the es ! cape in tin automobile. lloh 1, he said, had 'posed as a good, moral man until we were about to rob the bank. Then he revealed himself." Kaufman's father, who is a hotel proprietor in Chicago, and Samuel M. Booth, an attorney, .>f Chicago, were the principal witnesses in behalf ot the defendant. Despite the pleas made to the jury !in his behalf, Kaufman, who is 20 ! years old, was found guilty to-day on | the charge of robbery. The Homestead | bank was robbed of $12,000 through a daring exploit ot lljhl and his accom plice. None of the money has been recovered. Sentence Suspended in 3rooks Cass j Sentence was this morning suspend- I ed in Judge Kunkel's court in the case i of Roy Brooks, who was arrested in an ' attempt to break into the (St. James' ; hotel. He pleaded guilty to the charge, I but letters from city officials of Port Amboy, N. J„ his home, influenced the court to suspend sentence. It appears I that the boy comes from a prominent i family. Both his father and mother were in court. Engine and Car Jump Track A local passenger truin No. 206, run ning on the Pennsylvania railroad be tween I'razer and West Chester, was derailed near Green Tree at 7.43 o'clock this morning, the engine and the truck on one coach leaving the tracks. The train was running slowly and no passengers were injured. Russians Sink Sixteen Aeroplanes London, Jan. 25, 4.33 A. M.—A Pet rograd dispatch to the "Times'" as serts that the Russians have sunk near Sinope, Asia Minor, the Georgios, on board of which were Sixteen aeroplanes, comprising the entire Turkish aerial jjoet. V Wheat Higher Than Ever To-day By Associated Prcnn, Chicago, Jan. 2o.—Prices for wheat soared higher to-dav than ever. May delivery touched 45 5-8, a 'rise of 1.1-8 as compared with Saturday. WALL STREET CLOSING liy Associated Press. New York, Jan. 25.—Renewed pres sure upon Steel and an abrupt advance in Union Pacific indicated the uneven tone of the late dealing. The closing was irregular. With a decided increase in business to-day's stock market drift ed aimlessly for the greater part of tht session, making partial recovery at thi close.