Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 25, 1915, Page 1

VOL. NORWICH, GONN.. MONDAY, JANUARY GERMAN CRUlSER | UNK BY BRIisH German Squadron Was Apparently Bound for Another/ Raid on English Coast Towns ONLY 123 OF CREW OF 885 MEN WERE SAVED British Squadron, Patrolling the North Sea, Sends the German Cruiser Bluecher to the Bottom and Badly Damaged Two Other Cruisers, in a Four Hour Running Battle as They Chased the German Warships Into Their Home Waters—Other Vessels of the Birtish and German Fleets Also Were Engaged, But the Result Has Not Yet Become Known—There are Reports of Vast German Military Preparations in Alsace, Where it is Thought the Invaders are About to Launch a Strong Offensive Move- ment Against the French in the Vosges—Artillery is Playing Leading Role in Belgium and France—Russian Attempt to Outflank the Austrian Right Wing in South- ern Bukowina is Said to Have Failed. h squadron, composed flinger, the only one of the German ift battle cru ships that had better than 11 inch German squadron, sued by the for the British coast and gives the following ac- what is considered in engagement: Pancet e and | Official Report. bait to morning a British pa- of battle cruisers and der Vice Admiral Sir dest: r flotilla t under command of Commodore Try- < whitt, sighted four German battle ” cruisers 1 light cr and re engaged, 2 number of vers steering \A‘\ knowt ome d and tly makir nglish o “The enemy ws appare: at igh and at s joined ¢ a. m. > battle crui Royal, from rincess attacked ! and Indomitable on the one e rebels|har e Derflinger, Seydlitz, Mol £ them | er on the other. howeves and_re tish Ships Lost. have been in personnel, ¢ theatre are slight, upE = line. having and no killed nd twenty-three s rescued from < of 883 and it that others h: ed | some of our des eports of Von Betn-|any destrover, or s fight- ann- n interview siven|ing have vet been rec the 1 cadquarters of the| MiTalty. though jee - rance, has given|t2ken place. : phrase “a Serap| “The lordships have expressed their 1 reference to the|Satisfactions to sinald Y Belzian neutral- < A it he had spoken of , S not as a scrap of paper for gcom accomps battle c strument whick through Bel feiture of its neutrality. He Ruinning Eatilal or s Four Hatre, hat Great Brit had oth- than the preservation of| The Germa re observed some sty for i .| time after dawn eeding in the di- pared with whic rection of the h coast. When t treaty appeared to they sighted the superior British fleet the value of a ap of paper—her own| they turne full speed for private ingerests. home wate s only after a — s]tm’n ~hase i faster British ships t witkin range of them. For A GERMAN CRUISER SUNK; more than for 5 the rurning ha TWO SERIOUSLY DAMAGED, |tle lasted, the nx being plainly | heard in north Holland, where it was| By British Warships in the North Sea|Jjudge ace morth of —Were Apparently Bent on Raid of | L° g Sehiers English Coast. was slower German cruisers, London, J 10 p. m—An appar- succumbed to the heavier ent attempt by 4 cruise; of the Li which was lead- squadron to repeat : recently the British d T ther made on Searbe e Hartle- | German ships got within the mine nd other coast tow -«ubm,;r, 1e ares 3 wo of them the British|ing gamaged, ang it was dangera a running| the ritls battle cruise jerman armored cruiser| The fact that nik and two German!irounded the line | ualties were more of the Blueche ed up by the Dritish de ships suffered only slight as known only 1 of ew of S8 were saved occurred between the and destroyers. accom- All the vessels 1 cruisers the re-| official press 1 not yet|Part in the enzagemer the B er, are battle cruise AV speed. British Had Superior Ships. The i were ships and Bluecher Carried 885 Officers and Men British i, weigt nd the flight ) the mine an. sunk, was submar el long and -in- an armored cruiser, aved them from displacement 15,5550 tons. Her com- | plement was $§5 office er e S was & orelger of 15| Lt peit ot ot 1o e e e cement and although £5500,000. Her speed was a lttle more 1, 1900, .was completely than 26 knots an hour 3 cear. She was not class- The Bineche i o S ed as a cruiser, but was in the and eight 6- xtean next clags to those formidable fighters. pounde: poed w With her were, the Derflivger,. . Ger- three tor % man;’s latest batile cruiser, which had -~ Th E ) ton shiy just 1 ihe builder's hands and the whic s comple 14 of las bt : ‘dlitz and Moltke, the vear. Sho med with eight 12. 1 f the Gogben, ~nd twelve ch guns.and t foom German navy but now pounders, and has in of the Turkish flect, which was recent-, pedo tubes. Taere 13 ly reported d by the I 3 )£ lLier speed. in the o“"" | Our griet | { your m. | tha | re | UNITED STATES coNelnaR | AGENT AT DUNKIRK INJURED | fell | i ol PRCEEY | «=2d Paragraphs -od Supplies for United Kingdom. ondon, Jan, 24, 6.10 p. m—The estion of food suppiies in the Uni Kingdom and the rise in pr ing considered by cabinet I tee presided ov by Premier quith, according to a atement out today by the offi given ! press bureau. Parliamentary Secretary of Treasury. | London_ Jan. 24, 820 p. m.—Jol Gulland, junior 1ord has been appointed mentary secretary to the succession to the late F Illingworth. Mr. Gulland is a membe: of parliament from Dumfries and has heen the Scottish whip in the lower house since 1909. FRENCH SECRETARY OF WAR VISITS LORD KITCHENER Has Been in Conference at London for Several Days. treasury, London, Jan. 24, lerand, the French secretu irned to France this e spent several conference with British war secr and ters. Before his M. Millerand sent to Lord a letter in which resolution animati ty’s government and the ple,” he said: “I could not, before gined the results in has demonstrated 845 p ening, in Kite after London Lord s in the British mi hener other ure, ener “the K referring to His Majes- British peo- ving seen which it al- itself und i ready your energetic and skilful ulse. The conference of our two countrie in the outcome of the strusgle whiceh men twith our es can but be in- creased thereby GERMAN MILITARV PREPARATIONS IN ALSACE. Observers Believe Germans Are to Be- gin Violent Attacks in Vosges Moun- tains. i ——— | Berne, Switzerland, Jan. London, Jan, 24—Great milita arations are b g made toda sace, and it is believed by mil Iy servers here that the Germans | about to begin a \mnxh offen: movement against the front in V.)r All Ger- | mar tomarrow for | the “transport: troops to the| | frontier. ¥rom one 4 alone, | {1 that of Constance the grand d y i reserves are re- | toward bor- VIENNA ANNOUNCES RUSSIAN DEFEAT. A Muscovites Were Attempting to Ad- vance South of Bukowina. £ —D¢ ttempting 1dvance | day E Jacoben, comp! KING ALBERT RECEIVES Regarding Controversy Over Treatment of Cardinal CGerman Mercier. | Pore Benedi tl ram an { | | | And Consulah Dam nan Air d During a Ger- aid Friday, = v en UARY. oBIT Anne WImrcy, hoald it 2 Whitney sculptor night at Statues Sam nant Erlkson in t of died last nd Lieut Twe Boys Drowned . Jan. old, and were dro’ 24 vapers Forbidden to Publish Evi- | commanded by ' (han -1 2 David Beatty, con- being £REX, . | atie cruisers_Tiger, inch ard cry nat 7 7 - own as “occu- | ! o r i -. i ubes. is a new boat, having | was sald, attemyts are belng made to #ons each and cven the New Zealand Leen. comploted In Mav, 3013, Tii penctraie Lhe territory occupied by and Indomitable carry 12-inch guns, speed is about 26 knots, although mJum active fighting army of the Ger- which are equal o those of the Der-|her time trials she made 2 imots. mans. MESSAGE FROM POPE | | Sei ST Fhone Across the Goniinent SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK TODAY. TO CELEBRATE OPENING Of Trans-Continental Telephone Ser- A. Watson, Who Heard First Word Spoken Over Wire vice—Thomas San Francis Thomas A. Watson, an associate of Alexander 3ell, inventor of the telephone, and who heard the first word spoken over a wire, will k from here to Mayor Miichel m New York tomorrow at a celebration of the completion of trans- continental telephone service. The original experiments were made in Boston in_ 1875. Watson was on the floor of a building and the another. spoke the inventor on first_words over He said: “Mr. Watson, come want yo Watson has come from New York for long line purpose of talking over the RESCUED CREW OF WRECKED SCHOONER Were Five Days Almost Without Food or Water. Swansea, brought Captain Almer Kel- ley and five seame f the three mast- ed schooner Alice Lord, abandoned at | sea on . 17, wi the voy- from ksonville w Bed- | ford. Captain Kelley that he ailed from Jacksonville on Jan. 7 with a load of lumber. Off Frying Pan 5 vessel ran into a gale which carried her to Hatteras, where she struck on. the outer Diamond shoal. remained on the shoals for three until all masts were lost I ows carried away. Osborn ! zel. 1 years old, was washed board and lost, For five days then the vessel drift- ed, a complete wreck. The crew, al- most without food and with no water, were compelled to lash themselves to the deckhouse. 17 the steamer Mombas: the wrec nd rescued all hands. As the Mom- bassa was bound to Havre the men were _transferred on January 20 to astle which brought them | 24 badly ured | was aground on the Lora registered 201 tor from Banzc STEA'\‘(ER CAMINO EXPECTED AT HALIFAX TODAY. Being Towed and Has Been De- layed by Reough Weather. | e Belgian from_Caltforni; disabled in and on Jan reac! raam, whi ith Sable expected to vernment s been de! parted led the to_ the | en medical attention, METCALF FOUND GUILTY ON ALL TEN COUNTS Henr- E. De Kay Guilty on All but One, in Atlantic Bank Case. e, Jan. 24—Edward president of th was last night on_cou Henr ew York brok guilty on all but one count. indict- ments charging application of the | bank’s fund bank clos its in April, Loan mes rwich and any of TELEGRAPHER KiLLS HiS FAMILY OF FOUR Wife and Three Da STEAMER PRIN OUNT veral N bers of Crew inj None of the Passsngers. Exposure. Woad n,’ 3 Cavered with s v, body of Ciifford Need- ham, agsd farmhand, was found today alons 10 roadside in West stock. The medleal examiner express- ed the opinion that death was due to 25, 1915 Thaw is Again in the Tombs| TO BE ARRAIGNED TODAY ON CONSPIRACY INDICTMENT. t SILENT AS TO .PLANS|" I No Action Will Se Taken by Thaw's | P Counsel Until to Be Hald Today. After a Conference i P bil 280,0 Cnndensed Telegrams Cieveland hns 6,400 unemployed. ltaly has almost 1,000,000 ! union” members, Anarchy, panic and disorder are said o reign in Mex The Turkish Parliament voted mo- ation credits of $190,000,000. Chicago banks are' raising a $100,- )00 furd to train ¥ young bankers. The American Steel & Wire Co., has blown in another furnace at Donora, From the 1914 wheat crop there are 90 bushels avuilable for e Anre Warner, the authoress, died at New York, Jan. 24.—Harry Thaw Highland Falls, N. Y, again in the Tombs. Brought here thi morning from Bos' onl ,.x.,w' St==s son s g e ooty i K The steamer Maryland caught fite in he was locked up in' the big gr All the passengers prison which he 1 almost seven | Were taken off years ago, when he was committed to | the state asylum for the criminal in-| A seat on the New York Cotton Bx- sane at Matteawan following his ac- > was_sold for $10,750, an in- quittal of the murder of Stanford of $250. White on the ground of insanity. To- morrow, it is expected, he will be ar est of the day Thaw’s Counsel Unable to Consult Him Efforts 1 in by s co E their clien 1y were s they were told that no_visitors wer allowed on Sunday and that if the wi > consuit him they must an order from a ) ice. Abel 1. Smit 1 ttorneys, said tonight: Even though bail should be fixed for Thaw it is possible he will ma no efforts to furnish it William |, Thaw has expressed no is 1o the manner in which the ! be handled but has left ! e ha of he whe are John B. Stanchi ) O’'Brien and_myself. ir next step will be w - cided. Whatever will be determined after we had a conference.” Mrs. Thaw who is in this city, re- fused to say anythinz res e son’s case and Mr. Jerome and M Kennedy likewise declin to a cuss the matter. To Have Thaw's San y Dctcn—nned rmer ' nsel move the issue of “The question ity, and on that subje fine my efiorts to free him,” said the | attorn ‘There will be no disposi- | tion on cur part to m Iy motions or bring about delays of any sor FIRE DESTROYS HOTEL AT GREAT BARRINGTON. Forty Guests Driven Into Street Nightclothes in Zero Weather. Great Barrinst n the driven to the street clothing with the zero_early today w d the Balley fi and te E i A. Minkler's hard store, b on the ground floor ot i The loss is $25,000. stort dista 20 was When Steamshin Arrivals. New. York, Ja: er Madonna, Mar Liverpual, Jan. $.—Arrived, steam- 24— Arvived, steamer expesure, some thme durlng the alght | Philadelphla, New o¥iic Fire did $150,000 damage to the Har- raigned in the criminal branch of the |risburg Pipe & Pipe Bending Worl supreme court to plead to the ndict- | Harrisburg, Pa ment charging conspiracy, based on | — his sensational escape by Jmumwml(" Joseph H. Choate, of New York, the from Matteawan, 17 months ago (o |d American bar, begins his comparative freedom in New Hamp- |e vear tod hire. | Besieged by Newspaper Men. |. The Burlington Railroad w end When the train drew into the sta- |immediately $1000.000 to complete a tion and Thaw, accompanied by |Pranch line in Wyomin Sheriff Hornbeck of Dutche Cour S ty and two detectives, stepy to th Phineas Pierce for many years in platform, the prisoner was besieged by | ST BERAS ton, Mass., newspapermen, He greeted them ; d1€c ter a 1 s il genially, but refused to discuss plans. William Travers Jerome, spe-| the cial counsel for the state, and Deputy |5t left Attorney General Kennedy and a state | detective arrived on the same t | but did not leave until the Thaw p: O had gone. Thaw and his guard went | 1% bill au- to the hotel for breakfast and ti s the prisoner, in a taxicab, was taken to the Tombs. ; \pecsont Seemed Momentarily Depressed. | S ant When the machine stopped Tha ] stepped out and stood looking thought y aged 70, form- fully at the steel-barred windows!er Governor ¢ v Hampshire, died which confronted him. For the f t yme in Boston after a short time since his arrival he seemed mo- |illne mentarily depressed. Several persons | in the small crowd which had gather-1 lv. , Alaska, ed shouted encouraging remarks, how- ' whil ) a friend, ever, and moment the smil was over e by nche and turned to his face. He Killec | through the steel gates and stret — out both hands to Dr. Frank M Newman Erb, president of the Ann Guire, the prison physician, whom he | Arbor Railroad Co., will soon leave for had known during his previous in-|a week ¢ the lines of the carceration here. He was soon assign- | n ed to a roomy cell on the second tior.| _ . — Shortly after he was placed in his| Fire from an unknewn cause in the cell Thaw expressed a desire to ai- | crphan ihe Gi ins in Wor- tend the religious services cester drove 240 drphans in- ducted in the Protestant to the' stree request was granted and, seat, he followed the service c One hundred nurses in City Hos- Except for a_period s Newark, N. J., threaten to fternoon in the cc s ess s nded nurses oot Rigard, a nun, acting as poet and professor hed New il army Dbattiing tr vears. snowstorms n many vy Department wi for the 't pe airsh A shipment ,000 jackasses, pur sed Ytk T sh Government, An investigation > oston A s cu » exp \ Dody was injured, have no clue, Business in the “outh Improving COTTON FINDING A COMPARA- TIVELY READY MARKET. EVERY LINE AFFECTED Farmers Are Paying Their Debts to the Merchants and the Latter Are Meeting Their Obligations. Atlantic City, N. J., Jan, iprovement in busines ithin the past few wee 24.—Notable the south indicated reports from merchants, cotton nufactarers and bankers from all r that section. The last month in particular, business men ert, has developed the recuperative power of the cotton states. Cotton selling months ago for a little more than six cents a pound now is finding a com- varatively ready market at about eight en Increased Value of Cotton. ice the goverr the increase of a N poun ment report 1s two cen in the se ce of cotton, with correspondir vance in the price cotte g to estimates expert! 2 pprox v d in an incre: 0,000,000 in > effec every of been fe memt suspended, 'reagsed abou V'n"Ph“cfl\ Of Cntton is 5(::‘ their fal market and so larg moving { crop, marked time aw. | ment. About Dec, | t is & yments of exc he movement of cotton from o to re fa a ng farmers are paying their debts t {the merchants, the merchan i their obligations to the 1 and they in turn { e lar: | { { [ TAMPICO HAS NO® EN ATTACKE. BY ZAPATA. Statement by Head of Carranza Agency at Washington. ere, iss o ed or | Iuz rday or railway i | ernmer Doming: mary t ex- ico. received from Feorge Americar | sniar ag E 1 Villa, denying ) had © ns wi Iways GARZA SEEKING EXTRADITION OF FORMER MAYOR CARDENAS. Considered to Have Been in Death of Ex-President Implicated Made Robert H. Richards. ¢—The gold medal of nd Metallurgicel so- is to be awarded this Richards, profes mssachusetts Ins | tute of Technology, for his develop- me® of redressing processes, it was mounced tonight. The presentation 11 be made at the meeting of the v to be held in March. Columbla business men are mal. ing euger from the pelmy7a palime