RUSSIANS CHECK TEUTON ARMY
PETROGRAD REPORTS GERMAN DEFEAT AT MLAWA
ATTEMPT TO FLANK CRACOW BESIEGERS ALSO FAILS
GERMANS SINK FOUR BRITISH TRANSPORTS AT DOVER
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BRING ON WAR
Senator Weeks Makes Speech In Sen
ate Opposing Talk About Unpre
paredness for War.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Senator
Weeks, in a speech in the Senate, de
nounced the jingo talk about the lack
of preparedness of the United States
for war with a foreign power. The
senator fears that the constant talk
of war with nations with which we
are row at peace is apt to bring up
the war fever in Americans, especial
ly those of foreign birth and may re
sult in many unneutral acts which
may involve the nation.
“We do not want war. We do not
need any greater preparedness than
we have at present. The fourth
strongest navy. The reserve of mil
lions and millions of strong young
American manhood that can be made
into an army long before the fleet
can be destroyed; the money to build
another fleet and all for less than
the constant building of warships to
be scrapped in a few years and the
purchase of arm supplies to be de
stroyed because of some new inven
tion.”
STOCK MARKET
IS REOPENED
Board of Governors, However, Watch
Carefully Each Sale and Will
Not Allow Unloading.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—A limited
amount of trading in stocks was al
lowed today by the board of gover
nors of the Stock Exchange. Bonds
havfe been traded in for the past two
weeks. The governors, however,
watch each sale and will close the
exchange at the first sign of at
tempting to unload large blocks of
stocks in American concerns espec
ially the sales by foreign owners, who
must hold the stocks until the market
takes a stronger turn and is able to
digest the big offerings.
Brokers believe that the ifiarket is
firm enough to stand any amount of
unloading from Europe, but the board
of governors insist on taking no
chances, as the financial condition of
the country cannot at this time stand
a drain of two or three hundred mil
lions of gold.
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION
MADE GERMAN PROGRE88
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 12.—Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, in an interview
today, said that the industrial edu
cation in Germany was the secret of
that country’s wonderful Industrial
'progress.
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London Reports German Cruiser Lost In Baltic Was Hit By Russian Submarine
Servians Claim Great Gains, Capture 20,000 Austrians—French Call More
Boys for Slaughter—Paris Again Capital—Seven Attempts Made By Ger
mans On Russian Trenches Are Repulsed With Terrific Losses.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 12.—The war
office announced today that although
the main German army advancing
from Germany towards Warsaw had
attacked the Rusisan trenches seven
times they had been driven back with
terrible loss. The battle occurred at
Mlawa, near the frontier.
Lodz Column Also Driven Back.
The German column, advancing
from Lodz has also been checked and
driven back.
Flanking Movement Fails.
The German flanking movement
south of Cracow has also failed. The
attempt to strike the southern flank
of the army has been a failure. The
investment of the Galician city con
tinues.
Russians Are Satisfied.
The military experts here are well
satisfied with the situation in Poland
and all along the frontier. The Rus
sian plans for advancing into Ger
many are working well. The posi
tions in East Prussia are still held
by the Russians, while all of Galicia
is now controlled by the czar’s troops,
part of Hungary and at the same
time Breslau is threatened.
Czar Rejects Armistice.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 12.—The czar
has rejected the proposal made by
the Pope of Rome to grant a truce
for three weeks during the holiday
period. The czar insists that the war
be carried to a speedy conclusion and
that greater suffering will result in
prolonging the war.
German Gruiser Keportea suns.
LONDON, Dec. 12.—The German
cruiser Friedrich Karl, a 9,000-ton
ship, is reported to have been sunk
in the Baltic Sea by a Russian sub
marine, and 500 of the crew were
drowned. The Friedrich Karl was a
21-knot boat.
British Transports Sunk.
BERLIN, Dec. 12.—Four British
transports were sunk yesterday near
Dover by a German submarine. The
success of the German attack has
sent a thrill of fear through the
hearts of the British people. The na
tion is thoroughly frightened and has
lost confidence in the navy, which no
longer protects the coast or shipping.
Austrians Win Victory.
BERLIN, Dec. 12.—The Austrians
have won a great victory at Wislicz
ka, capturing 10,000 Russians. The
.Russians were forced to .retire in dis
. • T, ,
order from western Galicia.
Would Relieve Cracow.
LONDON, Dec. 12.—The Germans
are making a supreme effort to raise
the seige of Cracow. The Austrians
have Insisted that troops be sent to
relieve the city. The German gener
al staff has. finally sent three ramy
corps south to attack the Russian
forces commanded by the Bulgarian
general.
Sending Uhlans To Hungary.
Two full army corps of Uhlans
have been sent to Hungary by the
Germans to help the Austrians, who
are short of cavalry and cannot mask
the movements of Infantry. The Aus
trians are making a more decided
stand now that the Russians have
crossed the Carpathian mountains.
London Expects Warsaw To Fall.
Military experts here expect War
saw to fall. They cannot see how
the Russians can hold the city when
the Germans are attacking it from
three sides. News of the battle in
Poland is awaited with great inter
est. It is understood here that the
allies in France and Belgium have
(started the general advance in an ef
fort *o relieve the Russians of much
pressure by forcing the Germans to
send troops to the western fighting
zone.
Servians Report Gains.
NISH, Dec. 12.—The Servians have
regained almost all of the territory
they lost during the month of No
vember; 20,000 Austrians have been
captured during the fighting of the
past week.
Crown Prince Summoned To Kaiser's
Bedside.
PARIS, Dec. 12.—It is reported that
the German crown prince has been
summoned to his father’s bedside, as
the kaiser is very ill and may never
leave his bed.
More French Boys for Slaughter.
IPARIS, Dec. 12.—The class of 1915
recruits to the army has been mobil
ized. The boys will be given a short
term of training and will then be sent
to the front.
French Cabinet Meets.
The French cabinet met here to
day for the first time since Sept. 1,
when the government moved from
Faris to Bordeaux. The government
is fully re-established in Paris and
the military authorities are certain
that the Germans will never pass the
line of entrenchments built by the
army under the direction of Gen.
Joffre.
British Lost Three Cruisers
BUENOS AYERS, Dec. 12.—It is
reported here that the German fleet
commanded by Admiral Spee was
able to sink three of the British
cruisers before they were overpower
ed by the larger British warships.
It is also stated that not until the
ammunition of the German ships gave
t were they sunk.
Germans Lost 3,000 Men.
The Germans admit that 3,000 men
were lost in the battle, but insist that
the British loss was also heavy.
Dresden Reported Sunk.
The Dresden was sunk according
to a report received here today. The
only German warship now in the At
lantic is said to be the Karlsruhe.
Fear for Suez Canal.
' LONDON, Dec. 12.—At Lloyd’s to
day many policies were taken out to
guard against the risk that the Suez
canal will be closed, there being fear
that the canal will be interfered with
in consequence of the Turkish move
ment toward Egypt. Premiums of
50 guineas per cent, were being free
ly paid to underwriters for policies
reading:
“To pay total loss only in the event
of the Suez canal becoming closed to
traffic for thirty consecutive days, be
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Richard Canfield, Who Made Millions
While Hit Victims Suicided,
Dies of Fall.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12—Richard Can
field, the noted gambler of this state,
who has amassed a fortune of many
millions and caused the suicide of
hundreds of men who went against
his games, died here today as a re
sult of a fall in the subway. Canfield
owned several of the largest estab
lishments in this city*/which he was
allowed to run undOT police protec
tion for many years, but was finally
closed up. As rest as one of his
places was closed another was open
ed and at times he had several in
full blast at the same time. His
largest gambling house was located
at Saratoga during the racing season,
but with the anti-betting law at
races and the falling off of attend
ance his place was closed.
Canfield is said to be worth $5,
000,000, all of which he made in his
gambling institutions.
DANIELS FOR
BIG WARSHIPS
Says That Submarine Has Not De
stroyed Usefulness of the Bat
tleship.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 12—“The
battleship is not a thing of the past.
The submarine has not destroyed the
usefulness of the big fighting mach
ines,” is the statement made this
morning by Secretary of the Navy
Daniels to the members of the House
Committee on Military and Naval Af
fairs.
“The Atlantic fleet can pass from
the Atlantic into the Pacific ocean in
18 days If need be,” further stated
the head of the Navy department.
The committee iSy investigating the
condition of the navy.. The secretary
is positive that although some of the
big battleships may be lost to sub
marines, yet the great distance the
ships can shoot, the speed with which
they can travel, makes them a hard
target for the submarine, except at
such times as they are anchored and
not expecting an attack.
tween Dec. 10, 1914, and Dec. 10,
1915, both days inclusive.”
The rate indicates that the risk is
regarded as really serious.
Trenches of Concrete.
BERLIN, Dec. 12—A correspondent
of the Zeitung Amnittag visited Dix
mude, while that town still was un
der very heavy bombardment. In a
dispatch to his paper he says the sky
was covered with smoke rings from
shrapnel. The enemy was beginning
to waver under the steady succes
sion of assaults. The allies’ fire was
no longer well directed, and as the
German preparations were well made
the German losses in the assaults
usually were relatively small. The
captured trenches, says the corres
pondent, were magnificently built of
reinforced concrete with sandbag
breastworks, stands for machine guns
and a novel type of revolver cannon,
which throws short range grenades.
Such trenches cover the whole coun
try and when one is captured, the
enemy retires to the next. The fight
ing is often at such close range that
hand grenades are employed most ef
fectively. The presence of the latest
French and English newspapers in
the trenches, says the correspondent,
shows that the allied soldiers are be
ing kept informed.
Germans’ Toll of Country.
PARIS, Dec. 12—Details have filter
ed through, describing the manner In
which the inhabitants of the prov
inces of northern France occupied by
the Germans are made’ to feel the
weight of German rule. The invad
ers’ chief object is to get everything
possible out of the country, while they
have time. Everything is subordinat
ed to this end. The Germans first
got in all the crops they could, and
are now keeping mills busy to make
flour. They run the sugar refineries
and work all coal mines that were
not destroyed.
A clean sweep has been made of
all the raw stuffs. Large stocks of
wool and other commodities have
been sent to Germany. Manufactur
ed goods are not distained. Linen,
haberdashery, and similar stocks have
been seized by the wholesale and
sent back to the fatherland. The
wine cellars and cigar shops have
been overhauled.
The Germans have a very simple
system. Everything for the troops
first; if anything is left it goes to
the population. The inhabitants come
off badly. They lack salt especially,
and are reduced to treating all the
cinders they can get in order to ex
tract soda for salting purposes.
In general the Inhabitants are un
molested. Whenever they are want
ed for army purposes, however, they
are commandeered and made to work
hard. Their chief task Is roadmak
ing, the Germans requiring good roads
for motor traction. These are profuse
ly decorated with German signposts.
The Germans run the local papers.
News Is scant, except that scarcely
a day passes without some fresh Ger
man victory being recorded. But the
papers have now admitted that Paris
has not been taken. They explain
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CHRISTMAS PEACE
—
Says Would Be Crime To Stop Fight
ing and Then Resume Killing
Again.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Andrew
Carnegie, the great peace advocate,
s&ted today that the plan to have
the armies stop fighting for a few.
weeks and then start again to killing
one another was Immoral and should
hot be endorsed. The war should
be fought to a speedy conclusion, not
so much for the sake of the soldiers,
but because of the great suffering to
the women, children and non-combat
ants, who are in reality the greatest
sufferers of the war.
The steel magnate insists that the
war be pushed to its end, but hopes
that the end will be soon. He still
believes that universal peace wrill
Come and that the present war will
be the last great war, as the cost of
lives and property and the terrible
misery of war has been brought home
to millions and millions of people
who will aid in the movement for
peace among the nations and the set
tlement of difficulties by treaties and
not because one side can kill more
men in a given time than the other.
WOULD SETTLE
GOAL GASES
Secretary Lane Determined That
Claim Owners Shall Know the
Government’s Intentions.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 12.—The set
tlement of the majority of the Alas
ka coal cases is expected shortly. The
Department of the Interior will try
to push the cases to a speedy conclu
sion so that work may commence up
on the claims under government
lease or in the event of the loca
tions and patents being granted them
by the owners.
Secretary Lane is determined to
have the cases settled and not allow
them .to drag for years.
“Big Mit’’ Stevens Gets a Job.
SEATTLE, Dec. 12.—“Big Mit”
Stevens, former councilman of Nome,
has been elected mayor of Tuckwila,
a new town in this state.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Dec. 11, 1914.
Barometric pressure .30,112
Temperature at 7 p. m. 32
Maximum temperature . 34
Minimum temperature . 28
Mean temperature . 31
Precipitation ......04
Cloudy air, wind northeast 4 miles.
Frequent light showers from 3 p. m.
to 7 p. m.
Large stock of cut glass and Paris
ian ivory at Valdez Drug Co. tt