Eagle Valley news., December 24, 1914, Image 6

SPIKED PITS AND
This pleco of ground, (lotted with pits with spikes lu thorn and crossed
A'itu barbed wire entanglements, prepared by the Helglnns to Impede the ad
vanco of the Germans, gives some idoa of the fields over which the troops io
the war zonp jtp px"ctpd to charge.
GERMAN FLEET
RAIDS ENGLAND
Three Towns on Eastern Coast
Bombarded; 31 Killed.
Three Churches, Abbey and Other
Buildings Damaged Coast
Patrols Are Evaded.
London For tho first time in cen
turies England has been struck by a
foreign foe. A squadron of swift Ger
man crnisers crept through the fog
Wednesday night to the eastern coast
and turned their guns against the
Britons.
When day broke they began the
bombardment of three important towns
Hartlepool, at the mouth of the
Tees; Whitby, 35 miles southward,
and Scarborough, noted as a pleasure
resort, 15 miles beyond.
rHartlep6ol "Buffered most. There
two battle cruisers and an armored
cruiser were engaged, and at this
place the greatest loss of life occurred.
The British war office fixes the number
of dead at Hartlepool as seven soldiers
and 22 civilians and the wounded at 14
soldiers and 50 civilians.
At Scarborough, where a battle
cruiser and an armored cuiser Bhelled
the town, 13 casualties are reported,
while at Whitby two were killed and
two wounded.
Men, women and children of the
civilian population were left dead or
wounded struck without warning
while at breakfast or at work. In all,
the casualty list totals 110, according
to the official estimates, of whom 31
are known to be dead.
Three churches were damaged, the
gas works and lumber yards at Hartle
pool were Bet afire and the abbey at
Whitby was struck. The Balmoral
hotel at Scarborough received the full
effects of a shell. Several houses and
shops were shattered and partly
burned in each of the towns.
The hostile squadron escaped in the
mist after an encounter with coast
guard vessels patrolling the neighbor
hood, which were reinforced as soon
as the presence of the Germans was
signaled.
A wave of intense anger has spread
over England because of the attack,
and bitter denunciation is heard every
where of a policy which permits the
shelling of undefended towns. The
fortress at the mouth of the Tees is
supposed to give some protection to
the important shipping base of Hartle
pool, but Whitby and Scarborough are
as open to the enemy as Atlantic City
on the New Jersey coast.
Columbia River Allowance
Is Shaded by Congress
Washington, D. C. A river and
harbor bill has been reported to the
house. It carries a cash appropriation
of $ 1,250,000 for the continuing work
on the north jetty at tho mouth of the
Columbia river, $500,000 less than the
amount recommended by army engi
neers. The bill does not place this
work on a continuing contract basiB.
All other Oregon and Washington
Items in the bill are in strict conform
ity with the estimates sent to congress
the opening day of the session. The
total appropriation authorized for the
Northwest is $2,521,675.
The committee in looking about for
I Urns that could be cut, jumped on
the mouth of the Columbia, which wan
one of the largest single appropriation
in the bill, ml In order to make a
showing, lopped off $600,000 from the
amount which the eflglneers averted
wetild be required during 16 month,
beglNAlnff xt Mttrck, j
BARBED WIRE
Efficient, But Not Large
Army Advised by Wood
Now York Organization of a de
pendable volunteer army through col
lege camps, Federal control of tho
militia, increase in the Regular army
and provision for adequate armament
are essetnials for meeting the sudden
attack of any hostile power on the
United States, the members of the
Merchants' association of New York
were told "Wednesday by Major General
Leonard Wood and Henry L. Stimson,
ex-Secretary of War.
It is not a largo army, but a fully
efficient army that is needed, General
Wood said, and in filling this need the
college camps must play an important
part in training volunteer officers, for
it is on the volunteer army that the
country must ultimately depend.
The plan of the general staff to
bring tho army forces up to 500,000 is
only a stop-gap, he continued, whilo
the full citizen army is being organ
ized. "You might as well, under modern
war conditions, try to organize a big
reserve without previous preparation
aa to try to organize a Hfesaving serv
ice on a shipwrecked vessel that is
going to pieces, " said General Wood.
"To bring our forces up to 500,000 we
shall have to have 12,000 additional
officers. For this purpose we must
have college camps, such as existed
last year atXJettyBburg and Monterey.
"This year we probably shall have
2000 -boys in four of these camps. The
boys made a better record last year
and this shows what you can do with
intelligent men in a short time than
was made by the best company of the
Fifth Regular Infantry for the same
ranges. Over 60 per cent developed
into marksmen. At the end of the
five weeks' training period a board of
our own officers examined these young
sters and recommended 129 of them as
fit for volunteer officers in the lower
grades.
"Now this is the kind of svBtem
which I think can be applied .in this
country. I hope that eventually it will
grow into a general movement, em
bodying, say, a six months' enlistment
broken into periods of two months
each, to be taken during the economic
and educational vacation, so as to in
terfere as little as possible with the
work of the young men who are in
business and the educational work of
the boys who are in college.
"I think if we can do that there will
be developed a large number of trained
youngsters as officers of volunteers and
a still larger number as trained men to
form the nucelus of volunteer compan
ies in case we are so unfortunate as to
become involved in war. Some such
method as that must be adopted, be
cause when war comes it will come
suddenly an d unless we are the aggres
sor wnicn is nignly improbable, it
will come from one who is holly pre
pared and who knows when he is com
ing and where he Ib coming."
British Lose Sea Chance.
Berlin Among the items given out
by tho Official Press Bureau were the
following: "The English naval peri
odical Nautilus reports that the form
er first sea lord, Prince Louis of Bat-
tenberg, planned to cut off tho Ger
man fleet in Norwegian waters the
night of August 1 to 2, but that the
wavering of the British cabinet frus
trated his plan."
Mayor Instructs People.
Newcastle, Eng. The mayor of
Tynemoutb, a popular resort below
Newcastle on the North coast, has
Issued a notice declaring that the civil
population should remain indoors or, if
neeeMary to leave their dwellings
they are advised to go inland in the
direction of Newcastle, There are In
dication of military activity along
the cot nr Tynemoutb,
GERMANS ASHORE
MOWED BY FLEET
Battle Rages on Yser, Aided by
Allies'JJattlesliips.
Superiority of French Artillery Is
Shown by Interruptions of
Enemy's Fire.
London A dispatch to tho Exchango
Telograph company Monday from Am
sterdam says:
"Tho Germans havo evacuated Dlx
mudo, but tho report that tho allies
havo taken Middblkcrko iB untrue."
Amsterdam Tho Sluis, Nether
lands, correspondent of tho Tclcgrnnf
sends the following;
"A dispatch sayB that violont fight
ing occurred on tho Yscr. Tho floot'B
guns aro playing havoc in the German
ranks. Trains filled with wounded aro
ontoring Bruges. Most of theso trains
proceed eastward.
"Tho allies havo not occupied Roul-
ers, but tho fighting is raging between
there and Yprcs and Dixmudo."
Paris Tho following official commu
nication was given out in Paris:
"From tho sea to tho Lys wo have
gained a little ground before Nieuport
and St. Georges.
"To the east and south of Yprcs,
where tho enemy reinforced his organ
izations, defensive artillery battlos oc
curred and there was slight progress
on our part.
"From the Lys to tho Oise tho
allied forces havo seized a portion of
tho German trenches in the first lino
on the front running through Richc
bourg. L'Avenue and Givcnchoy 'Lcz-
La Bassee.
"To tho southeast of Albert tho
trench captured by us on tho 17th near
Maricourt and lost on tho 18th, was
recaptured on the 20th.
"In tho region of Lihons tho Ger
mans made two violent attacks for the
purpose of retaking the trenches won
by us on tho 18th. They wero re
pulsed.
"From the Oise to tho Argonno tho
superiority of our .artillery continued
to bo manifested by tho interruption of
the enemy's fire, tho destruction of
machine gun shelters and obflcrva
torles, and tho dispersion of a consid
erable number of troops.
"In the Argonne, tho forest of La
Grurie, we have repulsed three at
tacks, two on Fontaine Madame, and
one at St Hubert.
"Between the Argonno and tho
Vosges there has been no salient inci
dent to report."
Co-operation Plan of Scan
dinavian Nations Assured
Stockholm King Christian, of Den
mark; King Gustavo, of Sweden, and
King Haakon, of Norway, who, with
their foreign ministers, met in confer
ence at Malmoe on Friday and Satur
day to formulate a plan to combine
their respective interests during the
war, reached an agreement on the ape
cial questions raised. Tho statement
is made in an official communication,
in substance as follows :
"The meeting of the three monarchs
was inaugurated Friday with a speech
by King Gustave, who alluded to tho
unanimous desire of the kingdoms of
the North to preserve their neutrality
and pointed to the desirability of lim
ited co-operation between the king
doms as a safeguard to their common
interests. Kings Haakon and Chris
tian replied, expressing their hope
that the conference would havo good
and happy results for the three peo
ples.
"The deliberations consolidated the
good relations among the three king'
doms and resulted in an agreement to
pursue the co-operation so happily be
gun and to arrange, when circum
stances should occur, for fresh meet
ings between representatives of the
three governments."
Banker Morgan Is Big
Loser in Railroad Deal
Washington, D. C. Financial af
fairs of tho Cincinnati, Hamilton &
I3y ten rsSlrCud, new in the bunds of
receiver for the second time since
1905, were related at length before
Commissioner Hall, of tho Interstate
Commerce commission by Frederick
W. Stevens, formerly an official of
that line and the Pere Marquette,
whose affairs are interwoven with
those of the Dayton system.
Mr. Stevens appeared as an associate
of J. P. Morgan & Co, The burden of
his testimony was a statement support
ed by many documents Involving mil
lions of dollars In jitoek and bond trans
aetion, that when the late J, P. Mor
gan bought the controlling Interest of
the C, II. & D. for the Erie In 1006 he
had no knowledge of the financial re
MilU ef the jdlng year to the road,
Big German Victory Over
Czar Sets Berlin Aglow
Berlin, via London The people of
Berlin wero aroused to enthusiasm
Friday by the announcement of a groat
Austro-German victory over the Rus
sians in Poland. An ofilcial bulletin
to this effect was issued shortly af tor
noon. Within half an hqur oxtra edi
tions of tho papers appoarcd and the
whole city literally flashed into bunt
ing. Amorlcan visitors, who a fow days
ago commented on tho nondisplay of
flags, scarcely recognized tho streets,
which ovorywhoro woro gay with tho
Gorman black, white and red, and tho
Austrian orango and black, at many
places intertwined.
At tho Rolchstng, whero a Red Cross
meeting was in session, word wns ro
coivod from tho pnlaco that tho groat
est victory of tho war had been won.
Tho school woro closed no that tho
children might aid In celebrating tho
event.
Tho first intimation of tho naturo
and extent of the Russian defeat was
received Thursday night and circulated
in official quarters, but nothing was
known of It generally until tho ofllcln
bulletin was published. It has been
understood that tho Russians woro in a
precarious position, but it was not
hinted that a dcciBlvo result was at
hand.
Tho official bulletin reported Thurs
day that tho operations woro "proceed
Ing normally," which phraso Is tho
ultimatum of tho official report. It is
known now that thousands of Russians
havo been taken prisoners.
Vaudeville Lions Escape
and lerrorize Audience
New York Six trained lions cs
caped from their cage on tho stage of
an East Eighty-sixth stroot vaudovillo
theater Friday, and, bounding Into the
audlonce, consisting principally of
women and children, created a panic.
One lioness, Alice, tho largest of
the pack, escaped Into a crowded
stroot. Policemen pursued her into
tho hallway of a nearby apartment
houso and in shooting at her probably
fatally wounded a companion, Sorgcant
Daniel Glenn. Two other officers wero
slightly wounded by the claws of tho
beast in a battlo at closo range.
At Bight of tho Hons hundreds of
persons in tho theater fled screaming
to tho exits. Mothers delayed by
gathering up their children crowded
into corners and places of supposed
safety. Scores fainted and many
numbed by tho sight of tho animals
among them, sat transfixed in their
seats.
With the exception of Alico none
of tho beasts displayed great ferocity.
A few person who got in their paths
were scratched, but none of them was
Beriously hurt.
Five of tho animals still wero roam
ing about tho theater when tho last of
the audience escaped. In thoir rush to
safety, spectators left behind all kinds
of wearing apparel and personal bo
longings
Meantime the beasts roamed over
tho houBo from gallery to basement.
Within an hour after tho last spectator
loft they were rounded up in tbo lobby
and driven into their shipping box,
none of them being injured.
Fierce Gale Whips South
ern California Coast Towns
Los Angeles Heavy seas, whipped
up by a 40-mile southeaster that swept
the Southern coast Friday night and
early Saturday, wrought damage
amounting to more than $100,000 at
Long Beach and at Huenemo. John
Caspinola, a fisherman, was washed off
the launch Roma, one of the .vcaselB
sent out to search for a disabled motor
boat, which was blown out to sea with
six members of tho family of J. H.
Blake, of Rodondo. Tho Blakes, how
ever, were saved by another vessel.
At Long Beach the gale rolled up
the highest seas seen at that point this
year. breakers dashed into tho
strand, tearing out bulkheads and
cement walks, wrecking several resi
dences closo to tho waterfront, flood
Ing streets and sending spray high
over 60-foot buildings back of the
promenades.
The greatest damage was sustained
In the Seaside park and Alamltos Bay
districts. Huge waves battered down
houses, marooned several families In
their homes and flooded streets and
streetcar tracks to denths of from one
to three feet. Several factories and
two schools wero among the bulldinirs
flooded and workmen and students took
a compulsory holiday.
Most Wounded Recover.
Paris No fewer than 54 ner rent of
the French wounded returned to the
firing line before December 12, ac
cording to interesting figures supplied
uy uie surgical department or the min
istry of war. Of the remainder 24 nr
cent had received convalescent leaves,
17 per cent were still In hospitals and
JJ per cent had been discharged from
the array. Three and a half ner nt
of the wounded died, j
RATE INCREASE
GRANTED ROADS
Coriimcrco Commission Permits
$30,000,000 Increase
War tn Europe, Added to Already
Existing Conditions, Sways
Interstate Board.
Washington, D. C. Further In
cronnon In fruight rates woro granted
Saturday to tho Eastern railroads by
tho Interstate Commorco commission
In a decision from which Chairman
Harlan and Commissioner Clomonts
disflontcd vigorously.
With tho oxceptlon of lako-and-rall
traffic, coal, cok, Iron oro and certain
other traffic on which tho commission
has heretofore fixed rates adjudicated
"reasonable," all tho railroad systems
operating between tho Atlantic sea
board and tho Mississippi north of tho
Potomac and Ohio rivers wore allowed
to make the flat 5 per cunt incrcaso
for which thoy havo been asking for
tho last four years.
Tho roads hoped to get Increases
which would add to tho annual revenue
somo $50,000,009. Tho commission's
doclslon Is expected to glvo them ad
ditional rovonuo approximating $30,
000.000. Tho roads east of a north-and-south
lino drawn through Iluffalo, Pittsburg
and Charleston, W. Va., won by the
decision tho increases, other than on
tho traffic expected, which were
denied them in tho commission's de
cision last August. The roads west of
this lino, which obtained partial ad
vances in tho August decision, received
further advances, so that now all the
roads in what is described as "official
classification territory" will enjoy uni
form advances In both class and com
modity rates.
In its decision tho majortiy of tho
commission held that tho roads had es
tablished in the latest hearings a
greater need of additional net income
than over before. This was duo, in
part, to exigencies which arose out of
tho war in Europe, and in part to the
already existing necessity, in the judg
ment of tho commission, for addition
al revenues to maintain tho railroad
properties.
Chairman Harlan, in his dissenting
opinion, held that sufficient aid had
been given tho roads by tho decision
of August 1 last, and that tho findings
of tho majority woro "morally wrong."
Commissioner Clements based his
dlssentlon what ho regarded as tho In
ability in law, of tho commission to
take cognizance of everything In tho
making of rates other than their jus
tice and reasonableness.
Traffic on which no incrcaso was al
lowed by tho commission represents
about 55 per cent of tho entire volume
of freight handled by tho roods. Coal,
coko and Iron oro, however, aro bulky
commodities, taking low rates, conse
quently tho amount of revenue derived -from
them is relatively small.
Tho coal roads, in tho opinion of the
commission, already aro profitable.
Germans Evacuate Lodz,
Is Claim of Russians
Pctrograd A newspaper hero quotes
a high authority as saying tho Ger
mans have evacuated Lodz, having
found that the town would not serve aa
a baso of operations.
It Is believed tho German plan to
capture the right bank of the Vistula
and then advance from Mlawa and
exert pressure on the left bank has
completely failed.
London At the same tlmo that the
Germans are cautioned by a Berlin
military critic that talk of a destruc
tive defeat of tho Russian forces is a
"uscIcbs and misleading exaggera
tion."
"Grandma" 7 odd Dies at
Great Age of 105 Years
Walla Walla, Wash. Mrs. Sarah
Todd, the oldest resident of Walla
Walla and probably of the Northwest,
died at the Northwest Christian Home
Friday. Had she lived until March 20,
1015, she would have been 105.
Mrs. Todd came to Walla Walla
nine months ago from Eugene, Or.,
whoro tho Christian Homo waa first
located.
Despito her ago, sho was active to
the last and retained all her mental
faculties.
Mrs. Todd was an inveterate user of
tobacco, sucking a pipe constantly.
Belgian Editors Defiant.
Amsterdam Efforts of General von
Blsslng, the governor of Belgium, to
nduce the leading newspapers of Brus
sels and Antwerp to resume publica
tion have proved to he futile, The ed
tors of these newspapers Informed the
governor that so long as jJelglurn'a
king wns absent from lirussels ami
he German censorship continued, tho
tapers would not be published,