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? B Forty-fourth Year-No. 324. PRICE: FIVE CENTS. OGDEN CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1. 1915. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Pn,toff, o,. -u.H I
British Battleship Is Sunk I
I FRENCH REPULSE GERMAN INFANTRY "
I AND THEIR AVIATORS ASSAIL METZ
M JfltassWillery Fighting Is Reported at Various Points, the
W m Maiming Successes in Some At Steinbach,
W k Being Gained Foot by Foot Kaiser's
JMake Violent Attacks Along Entire i
M Front in the Argonne and Make j
Some Gains. j k
nsive War to Save Her Territory From j
Hits, a Thousand Miles Apart, Im
ftus Strain on the Empire Allies
Bth Task of Recovering Territory
Germans Offensive on a
Bale Postponed Until More
HBH'lMaftrt. Ready-
B Athens, via London. Jan I . 9 30 m.-Accordir to
Constantinople advices which have reached there, the J
I tnan and German embassies in the Turk.sh capital aie trab
flrnnt their archives to Asia-Minor, tearing that action
mminent by fhe British and French fleets against the Darda-.
I nX and the capital. Foreigners, it is stated, are also prePar
I ing to quit the capital for the interior.
I paris. Ian. 1 .-Dunkirk on the northern coast of France
I wa. again bombarded by four German aeroplanes Thursday.
I according to reports which reached Pans during the night.
I Paris. Tan. 1. 2'..i$ P- m.-The
m Frencli official statement givei out
this afternoon phows that this artil
' : .-change on fije b&TOS mmt "in France
h'ave not diminished in severity or fre
ouencv. Various places are mentioned
B where artillery fighting has taken
nlaee At some no results are given,
while at others the French Harm 8UC
cesses, as for Instance at Steinbach, In
lstiee
M ' The statement daln th
I six German infantry attacks at a point
between the 1 en s- :,ml the V...s,dle
llH and Bays that French aviators have
'jjH aBsailed from the air the railroad sta-sinnm.
The text of the communication fol
lows". -From the sea to Rheiros there was
yesterday hardly anything more than
artillery engagements. The enemy
bombarded without result the village
or St Georges and the hoan ol tn
bridge position organized bv the Bel-
W Hani at a point Bouth ol gJxmude
salallV Sblrited cannonading resulted ai-
; antageoiisly for us betweenBassee
Carenc between Albert ind
Rove- in the region of Verneetll
in the neighborhood of-Phu,e s.hionk,
which is near Crapnne. K We men
M tioned point we also demolished cer
tain Gi cman earthwor
"In the region of Perthes and o
H Beausoiour we have held the gams
K bv us on December P.O.. Pur n,
m til the da) of Decerolw i 31 'he actn
l -ny of the opposing artillery '.orees wai
M Interrupted.
Violent German Attacks.
"In the Arconne the enemy attac ken
violentlv almost the entire front in
iho ' foresl of UGrurie VI certain
,,,.r adancod for a distance Ol
P79- hui (,nnU'r attacks were
''lelivered.
region of Verdun there have
Jblent artillery engagements.
I tyeon the Metis and the
L to the northwest of Fllrey.
I ermana delivered during the
I lot December BO-31 and the tttorn
f bl the 3lst no less than six vlo
" counter attacks for the purpos.
Iwtavw th.- trenches eapturei ry
; on December 30. Each nl these at-
I I H;s wab brilliantly repulsed.
French Aviators Bombard Mctz.
Wr 'Our aviators have bombarded at
-Might the railroad stations at Met j
! and at Amuville. !
"We continue to make progress Toot
S bv foot in Steinbach. Here the av
I I tillery of the enemy showed great ac
I I tlvity during the morninc of Decemj
I I ber 31, but ip the afternoon ol thj
I day our batteries won a distinctive ad
I vantage."
I Berlin Jan. A, by wireless: to Lorn
I doD. "-4 p. m. The following inter-
I mat ion was giyen out today at army
I headquarters.
I "In the weiteni theatre of war
IB . i ' . Una r.r.r.nr-rl
notnro? oi impui i
I near NieuportJ The idea -f reial-'iiu'.
I ihe hamlet of St. Georges, which has ,
I B been completely demolished by tUl
I enelny in artillery fire, was abandon-
.-d In view ol the high level ot the
luter there.
m lust of Bethune, to the south oi
B fcanal, wi captured an EngWab
H' H progress In th& Argonne. i
. ti.ft Argonne. out atl tcks mde
L'' Her progre?. Another 400 prls- j
V' Ma ifiiiLnjt.hlnn rvns, four mbej
H llttB!!)! lyes other .tints
peated yesterday were repulsed.
"In the eastern theatre.
"The situation on the Bast Prus
sian trotter and in Poland remain
unchanged. A heavy mist is pre
I venting all operations.
1 Proqress of the War.
Vienna. Jan. 1. Via Amsterdam and
London, 1:40 p. m An official an
nouncement on the progress of the
war wafe given OUt in the Austrian
capital today. It refers to events o.
yesterday and is as follows:
-In Bukowina and the Carpathians
the Russians developed great activ
Lty Our troops are holding their po
Bttioni on the Suczawa river in tin-
upper Osermosz territory, aisn iuu
west or the ridges of the Carpathians.
: in "the valley of the Nagyag where
yesterday, near Ockoermeaoe, an at
tack or the enemy was repulsed WUO
heavy losses to him in the upper La
toroza district and north of the us
zok pass. To the west of this pass all
other passages over the Carpathiaim
are occupied by our troops.
1 "In the district of Gorlive and to
(the northeast Of Zakliezyu determined
, Russian attacks were repulsed ever-
. Vl"On the .Vida everything is ouiet.
Further to the north the attacks ot
f our allies are progressing.
5 "In the Balkan war even thing is
Iquiet Today east of TrebinRa OUT
-'artillery compelled the Montenegrins
9 to retreat."
Germany Hold.ng Much Terr.tory-
London. .Ian. 1. 1:27 P- m - i ne
close of ihe fifth month ot the war
finds Germany still in occupation of
virtually the whole of Belgium. -an im
portant tract of French territory in
the western theatre of hostilities and
a considerable slice of Russian Po
land along the eastern battle front, a
thousand miles away.
UWvould appear, nevertheless, tnat
crrnvinv fur the present at least, is
to make further headway.
! p.rillsh commentators today call at
tentiOl to the fact that the initiative
f,,r t Jul moment se.-mr to be in the
hands V the allied romraanders and
the reefct German public utterances
to the pVpcI lhat Germany is waging a
war to save her territory
from invion. Is kocepted here as an
Indirecl Smlsslon that to battle on
tv.. fronts a thousand miles apart has
caused an unant.ripated strain on
even the great resotjKes of the em-
l'lV" Am,
Allies Facing Dftculty.
There are however, nV.lUusions ic
Londonas td th flWiculfcconfroiit
ing the allies. It is reo6gHzed thai
ihe laek oi recovering the erritor;
9el7ed by Germany is little 8 fo
midable than tb hndertHing ott
Sany v. ben she found torsntt engh,
L.. ......f...... .Mlnct a multipliciti in:
en, mles Hence the ioF.iponenjr
tb aUled offensive on u Bl-i
jmj ii such time as the alu tfble
put more meli into the
M ,,nu nile, sach is conn- feoi
Ing the Btrejsgth of its op,- lines.
General Joffre. the tWomman-let-in-chief,
is for the mt exert
ing his greatest pro6n the ex
tremities of the loiw extending
Tom the channel t
I On the east 'wfc French are
,,io r' In poon of a portion
jfcTubSC'i.'' of ui:h strate
iprteUWl.h llKfcccupfed
1 s- !,,'aaie : t mri'mn
iMteJfl pi'l h'WWW. 11
GERMAN EXPRESS CARRYING SOLDIERS TO WAR CRASHES INTO FREIGHT; MANY KILLED
...iSfe, v
were g to the French battle- v bB5BBB WfflfrnHri Jok &
fields, wa wrecked near StengeL -J!5PPIBR-i 'll. .Jt
(Germany, when it crashed into the v. "v- HijfPIffi
end of a freight tram. The cars N,.
n' totally wrecked. Many of the kJ
rSM-ning soldiers were killetL
tend, vrh tie. g,, Qf tjje British
fleet prent the Germans from oc
cupying. Laree VVC5 Train in Eng'and.
Large iri now training in F!mr
land will beVdj thrown nci oss
the channelV s0,,n as ;l Ujoro rapid
development V tho offensive move
ment oi the ays is considered desir
able. It is claimeApt Petrosrad that
Field Marshal vS n indenburRS rush
forward has hntj.posed with such
success that it , 1)0Pn definitely
checked, hut the nVtin off!cP
reiorts that satlsULrv process is
being made, except iLpalicla, where
what practically amofL to a ,.ou ,,f
the Austrian forces V rn,.ir stit.
fenlng of Cermans is a(Ltt0(;j n,Mn.
ions vary wli-ther thL ustr.-llun-garian
tones wt'i acain't. tho hor.
net's nest lo the ymthj n, t,ip
dual monarehy. Vt ,refflu sr,rAj;l
and Montenecro have foughV.
nelRhbor m a stand -till lut jc r.
ported that Austria is prei.arlflL. n,,w
cxpetlition of a million meni)st
Servia,
Excitement Over U S. Note C4
The excitemenl produced by Lj.
dent Wilson's oote concerning theL.
tention ol American vessels bj Brm
warships has cooled, with the r"
nation of the text of the coinnuinit
tion The attorn ev general. Sir J
Simon discussed the points ol inter
national law involved with Foreign
Secretary Grey today and the reply
-will be formulated without delay The
subject raav be raised in the House
of Jxrds when that body reassembles
on Wednesdsj next.
on-
iWILHELM'S NEW :
YEARJESSMiE
Recites to His People Brill
Victories of Gcrmarn
Land and Se
CONFIDENCES FIRM
' Admits Are Serious and
Task vy, But Trusts to
Ton's Matchless
Bravery.
rl ii. via London, Jan 1. 0:08 a. m.
mperor William, in a New Year's
ssage to the Army and Navy, asks
m to face, the new year unfllnch
iy and to look forward to new
deeds and new victories for the be
loved Fatherland The message
(vhiCB was made pUhlfc at main head
quarters here is as follows:
"After five long months of heavy
and hot fight inn we enter the new
year.
"Brilliant victories have been gain
ed and great successes achieved by
the Qerrnan army almost everywhere
on the territory of the enemy, while
Mjpeated attempts of our opponents ,
to swarm bn German territory have
failed.
Ships Covered With G:ry. J
BhSbb
like heroes when overwhelmed by su
perior fOle,
"Behind the army ..n.l ihe flepi tlie
liirrFri rtutioNQ taadl if, unexrfnrpIeTl
harmony prepared to sacrifice lt'
heart's blood for the sfcered domestic
hearth which we are defending
against outrageous invasion
Kaiser Firmly Confident
"Much has come to pass in the old
year, but the enemies ire Btlll firmly
kept low Always fresh hordes are
rolling up against our army and the
army of our faithful allies, hut their
numbers . do not Frighten us. Al
though the times may be serious and
the task before us a heavy one. we
look forward into the future with the
firmest confidenci
"Next to God's wise guidance. I
trust to th- matChleBB bravery ot" the
army and navy and know myself to
be as one with the entire (Jerman na
tion. Therefore let us face the New
Year unflinchingly, looking forward
to new deods and new victories for
our beloer Fatherland. (Signed).
"Wilhelm."
.GERMANY HOLDS
MANY PRISONERS
eSiReport Claims Capture
( V1 138 Officers and 577,
V Men From Allied
Forces.
I P.erlln.
don. 9 41-- 1 Ry wireless to Lon
I priJoux 11)1 'rhe total number of
' i The'dippf ;,r held io (Jermany at
0Sf dlU J the year amounts to 8,1 :tS
I ers and 577,87 men.
This is shown in :i summarv issued
from the headquarters today which
points out that the list does not In
clude civilians Interned in Germany,
nor the prisoners lakeii during the
pursuit In Russian Poland, or those
in transport,
Of the above total, the French con
tribute ::,4r,) officers, including seven
generals and 216,905 men; the Rus
sians 3,575 officers, of whom 18 are
generals and 306,290 men; the Bel
gians 612 officers, including three gen
erals and 36,852 men. and the British
492 officers and 1882s men.
Headquarters takes occasion to say
that the report that 1,140 German of
ficers and 134.700 men are prisoners
of war In Russia is misleading, since
thin list includes interned civilians.
Probably not more than 15 per cent
of the total are military prisoners, it
is declared.
RULES ISSUED FOR
ALASKA SETTLERS
Washington, Jan. 1 Secretary Lano
today issued regulations under which
settler? may take for two year periods
ten acre tracts of Alaska coal lands
for local and domestic fuel needs. He
announced that .on account of legal
complications jifyuBed by existing
claims aud the fct that there are
'iii ssa VrrirffitiatitrfifiiflltL i
leasing regulations to cover the gen
eral mining of coal iu Alaska and
they will he issued as soon as prac-
, Icabte.
Inder today's action the opening of
mines on an extensive scale, or the
export oi coal produced is not permitted.
NEW YEAR GIVEN
NOISY GREETING
Revelry Along Broadway,
New York, Continues Until
Daylight.
EXPOSITION IS OPENED
San Diego Panama-California
Celebration to Continue
One Year.
.Vs York. Jan I -Daylight today
failed to quell the noisy greeting
Which New York gave the New Year.
The revelry along Broadway contin
ued far into the morning hours and
the police, although they had little
to do. dec hired the celebration the
hinnnot f i)C 1 ! n rl rtVf.Y- I'llrtU'Tl ill t 1 1 f
City. At G o'clock this morning many
restaurants still were turning would
be patrons away.
Open House on Coast
San Francisco, Jan. 1. A sort of
open house lo the people of the Uni
ted States in honor of the opening;
of the Panama canal was the keynote
oi New Tear's day festivities on the
Pacitic coast
At San Diego, the I'anama taiuor
nia exposition started at midnight, to
continue until mtdnfght a year hem e,
while Hpecial exercises at San Francis
Co anticipated the opening, on Febru
ary 20 of the Panama-Pacific exposi
tion. The two are dissimilar In pur
pose, exhibits and architecture, each
following unique plan of development.
While nothern coast cities have no
particular expositions at tliis time, the
effect of the canal on development of
the country Is expected to he at leasi
as marked in Oregon and Washington
as further south, and particular ef
forts will be made to interest visitors
to the expositions in the vast unde
veloped resources of those states. The
European war already has made Port
land, Ore . a wheat market of import
ance, aud deluged Seattle, Tacoma
and the Pugol Sound territory with
lumber orders.
Rome's Unique Celebration.
Rome, Jan. I, 12:20 a. m An
unique way of celebrating the ntry
of the New Year took placo here to
da Usually the event has been1
celebrated by the explosion of fire
works and the firing of guns but as
this was prohibited this year the peo
ple generally agreed to appear at the
open windows, glass In hand and cry
"Viva Italy." This was done and
tie effect was most lmpreBBive.
CABINET MEMBER8l.RESIQNING.
Thursday. Fernando Fnchs, minis
ter of the interior, and Colonel Abril.
min'ster of vai were the latest rnenv
bera to las down their portfolios.
Colonel Abril had held office for only
about two weeks.
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WAR BULLETINS
lierlin. Jan. 1. t via wireless to Lon
don , ::44 p. m. An unofficial report
irom the Wolff agency reads a., fol
lows: "We learn from the main head
quarters that the war bootv taken by
our troops fighting in the Argonne in
the month of December, amounts al
logethex to 2,960 prisoners, 81 machine
puns. 14 mine throwers and one bronze
mortal
Berlin, Jan. 1. (Via The Hague and j
London i. Jan. 1 1:50 p. m. Ti Lo
kal Ahzeiger sas in its issue of to
day n has learned that the Hde3t s.m
of Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the Im
perial chancellor, was killed in aeon
in Poland Tiecemher 9. The state
ment published at the time that the
young man had been wounded and
made prisoner is erroneous.
Vancouver, B. C , Jan. 1. The Rus
sian volunteer flee: steamer Tambov
arrived from the Orient last nigbA
After discharging cargo she will take
a great quantity of heavy field puns
and projectiles manufactured In Penn
sylvania and shipped west over the
Canadian Pacific railroad. One large
cargo of American guns shipped from
Vancouver hap already arriv. d tit
Vladivostok and Is being hurried to
Poland.
Message to Bavarians.
Munich, Jan. 1, Oia Berlin, Toe
Hague and London l, Jan. 1. 1 SO p.
m. Emperor William replying to a?
New Years telegram Iroui the Kins
and Queen of Bavaria, sent thuir ma
jesties the following message:
"J reciprocate your good Wished ami
those of all Bavarians with all my
heart. You speak after my own heart
when you say wo all have but one
thought, which Is that a peace, worthy
of the sacrifices already made and
still to be secured for the heioved
Fatherland In the New Year.
"How splendid in this conncct.ou is
It that the German princes and the
German peoples aro standing t6eber
In unchangeable fidelity, with God's
help, to achieve with our heroic In.ojs
that victory for our just cause which
we expect with unshaken confidence.
In cordial friendship.
"(Signed) :
"WILHELM."
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TEST CASE FOR
ARIZONA LIQUOR LAW
j i
? Bishee, Ariz., Jan. 1. Fifteen Jll
after midnight had jiroclajM M
Ajfena a "dry" state, L. M
P-tor heyfl
rLm a charge of scdltM
,1 k'. beer, and his Plfl
gfl reJea8ed ongfl
GERMANS SINK I
A BATTLESHIP I
Another British Victim of fH
Kaiser's Navy Is Reached in
English Channel. fl
LOSS OF LIFE HEAVY WS
Heavily Armored Ship Carried jflj
Many Midshipmen and 3jH
Fleet Officers. Hlfl
London, Jan. 1, 2:45 p. m. The M
German war of attrition found another M
British victim this morning and I
robbed the British navy of the 16-
year-old. but still useful, battleship vXran
Formidable, of the same class as the sjft9
battleship Bulwark which was blown H
up a few weeks ago off Sheerness. LaS
Apparently the loss of life on board
the Formidable has been very heavy, RilXtv
as only 71 members of the crew are
known to have been saved. The of- fr
ficials. however, hold out hope that MF&li?
others may have been picked up.
The exact locality of this disaster
has not- been revealed but the fact i j v'
that it occurred in the British cha-.- .Sjsi2
nei recalls the circumstances that i'vfjfj
British ships have leen engaged in M
bombarding the German positions on
the Belgian coast and that German
submarines on several occasions in H
the past have attempted to torpedo
them. j; -
- m previous disasters to British I I ,
shins the casualty list in this cage
includes many midshipmen, no fewer
than It; having been on. hoard th j flHp
Formidable.
Carried 750 Men. Aafl
The British battleship I'orm.tdab.
had a displacement of 15.000 tons. She !!
was 430 feet long and carried a com-
plement of 750 men. She was heav- j
iy armored and carried '"nr,- .liiAJtii 'M 'fy'tf
guns, twelve 6-inch guns am:' sixteen .
12-iounders. She was provided also
with four submerged torpedo tubes. I
The Formidable v.iis launched in
189S and was a sister ship to the
Irresistible and Implacable.
The Formidable had assigned
her. according to the British navy
list for December, various fleet offl- M
( ers and. consequently, she undoubt
edh was acting as a flagship at the
lime of her destruction. Her tap
tain was Arthur X. Loxley and her
mmandr Charles Ballard. Bap
tain John C Deed was in command of
the marines on board, while the fleet
surgeon was Godfrey Taylor aud th
fleet paymaster P J. Ling. The chap
lain is given as the Rev. George B.
Robinson. On hoard the Formidable
i also 10 m.dshipmen.
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MANY GREETINGS
FOR president!
New Messages Pour
White House From
All Nations.
KING'S GOOD WISHES "1 1
Generosity of Great American-,
Nation Deeply Appreciated
by Many Rulers.
Washington. Jan. 1. New Yeat s J; 1
greetings to President Wilson 'romM'..y
the rulers of other nations and from S
many Americans poured into tne v $0
W'lute House today. .:
King Albert of Belgium sent the fol- Mrja
lowing "message from his goneral at- 'MttiS
my headqtjjcters: 'I'lnS
"On theMo .-suSlon '-e!lBiS
I send yooiy mostsinceijsjBE:
illations an, the wishes
the welfare of the great Aif 'fJtd.
linn, whose generosity to Mf--. .
of o much help in this ft ;
tress and sorrow." Mt V 'j.ifeISM
KING GEORGE'S M ' viJXS
King George of GreaW, . ? vH
the following: 'y iy(lyH
"It affords me sin- SM $ , . jtJC i '-SSTffen
convey to you on the 1 . S'pSMon
-jf the Xew Year inv WlWSSMk
wishes for your pers f;v-Sp? jM
and for the welfare anS''-sulffiH
the United, States ofW"lSB
which we are united by VxffSrnffl
af friendship and intiiu
The following niessageMMK(
rrom King Gustaf of SM ' A . :y
"I beg you to receive . :
sst for a happy New X,: I
King Haakon of NorH !
follows; B '!-.:'': '?
"On the occasion ofjfl '
; express my most ., i
?s for you and theB
kuNT BERNSTj -.'.
fcount Bernatoifl
K to the Unite