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Y"rN" 2' -JJr QGDEN CITY, UTAH, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1915. ; Entered .. so- W ,t . po.c o0-. u fl
GERMANS LOSE HEAVILY IN VIOLENT I
FIGHTING ON EASTERN BATTLEFRONT
1 violent mm IS PROOHESS
I now the n msm
Desperate Hand-to-hand Encounters Reported Germans At
tempt to Push on Toward Warsaw Russians Repulse
Enemy Causing Heavy Losses Fierce Night Battle
on Banks of Bzura RiverKaiser's Forces At
tacked With Bayonets Not a Single Shot
Fired Many Killed, Rest Surrender.
BERLIN ADMITS CAPTURE OF STEINBACH
Overwhelming Artillery Bombardment Enables French to
Occupy Trenches and Town Germans Repulse Attacks
in Meuse Country Russians Flatly Contradict Ger
man Claim That They Have Taken Borjimow
K Petrograd Sees End of Battle of Polish
. Rivers and Expects New Point
of Attack.
Paris Jan 4. The French slate
jinent given out this afternoon shows
that the artillery fighting along the
front is proceeding intermittently and
at some points with particular vio
lence. There seems to have been in
fantry attacks recently The French
admit failure in an effort to occupy
8 German position in the Meus? coun
try. They claim, however, further
progress in Steinbach.
The next of the communication follows-
"From the sea to the Oise, tue
day passed in almost complete calm.
t The weather was rainy There were
artillery exchanges at some points
of the front. In front of NoUlettea
our heavy artillery reduced the Ger
man batteries to silence.
"On the Aisne and in Champagne
the cannonading was particular1 vio
lent. Our batteries showed their su
periority and brought under their lire
reserve forces of the enemy. We be
came possessed of several points of
support held by the Germans in the
region'of Perthes and of Mesnil Leg
Hurlus. French Repulsed in Mcuse Region.
"Between the Argonne ami me
Meuse, as well as on the heights of
the Meuse there was intermittent
? cannonading. An effort made yes
terday morning by our troops to oo
cupv Boureuilles did not succeed.
"Our advance continued in the for
est of Lo Petre, which is to the north
west of Pont-a-Mousson.
"In upper Alsace we occupied nn
important height to the west of I er
nay A counter-attack by the enemy
was repulsed.
"In Steinbach we have taken pos
session of the vicinity of the church
and of the cemetery."
Germans Admit Loss of Steinbach.
Berlin, Jan. 4, via London, 3 55
p. m. Steinbach, the Alsatian town
on the heights between Stan and
Seenheim, for which desperate fight
ing has been going on for several
fla8. was officially admitted by ihe
German army headquarters state
ment today to have been captured by
the French.
The French also took possession of
the heights to the Aveat of Seenheim,
but the Germans, in a counter-attack
wllh the bayonet, succeeded in re
gaining the position.
Western Battlefront Generally Quiet.
Berlin, Jan. 4, by wireless to Lon
don, 3:55 p. m. The official com
munication issued today by the Ger
man army headquarters says
In the western theatre of the war,
except for a more br less heavy art il
i lery combat along the front, it was
generally quiet
'Only near Thann. Alsace, did the
! ( , enemy show great activity. After an
overwhelming bombardment of the
', heights to the west of Sennheim the
! enemy succeeded during the evening
ln capturing our demolished trenches
on these heights aiul in connection
therewith the lllage of Steinbach,
which we stubbornly defended and
which frequently has been mentioned
, in our reports during the iasl few
days The heights were retaken dur
" ing the night after a bayonet attack.
Fighting for the village of Steinbach
continues:
"In the eastern theatre of the war
ij the situation Is unchanged. Our nt-
i tack in Poland to the east of Kawka
L river continue."
;t . Many Conflicting Reports
Loudon, Jan. 4. 12.28 p. m. Utterly
H . irreconcilable are the claims of the
s contending armies jn the east. In
j the west the unprecedented wel
9 Feather precludes operations which
could give decided advantage to one
kdc or the other.
, The activities of the Turks in the
Caucasus seem to be assuming an in
craing importance, judging from the
V attention the Petrograd official com--1
toumcaUons are devoting to this re-
Jn. Although not admitting that
Rtt Turks have been victorious, it is
Reeded that they are fighting with
et valor and stubbornness In the
,.l(;,aUy 0f the fortified town of Sari
Mialah,
Violent lighting is in progress along
the eastern battle front, leading at
points .to desperate hand to hand en
counters. An official Russian state
ment shows that, after capiuring Bo
lomow, the Germans attempted to
push onto the northeast in the direr
tion of Warsaw, about thirty miles
away. This movement marked the
renewal of the German offensive to
ward the Polish capital, after a period
of comparative inactivity, hjt their
advance! in this direction is said to
hae been repulsed with large losses.
A remarkable night battle on the
bank of Bzura river is described in
the Russian communication which
ays that Gorman-fore-? were perml'
ted to cross the river unmolested and
then were attacked with bayonets,
without the firing of a shot. It is
asserted ithat several hundred Ger
mans we bb killed and the remainder
surrendered.
In the other campaigns on Europe's
battle fields no essential changes are
reported. I In the Trans Caucasion re
gion the Turks and Russians are en
gaged in fierce struggles, but reports
from Petrograd and Constantinople
concerning the outcome are at com
plete variance.
In Prance and Belgium the attacks
of the allies have failed to develop
into another great battle and it is be
lieved in London that the attempt to
expel the Germans from their cou
que red territory may be deferred for
several months,
Comparing the Turkish and the
Russian statements it would seem
that the Turks are making headway,
although both sides are losing heavily
as their troops flounder and fight
through deep snow and In the bitter
cold of these high altitudes.
Battle of Rivers Continues.
The battle of the rivers in Poland
has not yet come to an end. The
Germans say that they have taken
Borjimow, northeast of Bollmow. a
strong Russian position east of Io
wicz. and a step nearer Warsaw. This
the Russians contradict flatly, saying
that the German assaults there have
: been repulsed with heavy losses, and
that elsewhere they have been held
at baA Petrograd professes to see
the end of the battle of the Polish
rivers and a concentration of German
forces at some other strategic point
in a renewed attempt to break
through.
Invasion of Hungary
IT it is true that the Russians have
taken another pass over the Carpa
thian mountains, the invasion or Hun
gary in real force should, in the opin
ion of British observers, soon he a
reality Up to the present, detaeh
iraents of Russian cavalrj have cross
ed these mountains, but there never
has been an invasion in strength.
Further developments in Albania
have been hanging fire since the Ita
lian occupation of Avlona.
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MISSIONARIES ON
WORKJOERCV
Washington, Jan.' 4 To relieve
German and Austrian prisoners of war
a committee of missionaries, princi
rally Americans, will start tomorrow
from Peking for the interior of Si
beria bearing medical supplies and
clothing furnished by the American
Red Cross and to plan an extension
of their work of mercy
The prisoners are not confined, but
generally have peon paroled under
ntodge not to leave the neighborhood.
Their only wants are food, clothing
and medicine.
In explanation of the parole of
prisoners, it is laid that with Its ab
solute control of the Siberian railway,
which in wlnterlaffords the only is
sible egress fro Siberia, the Russian
government feeJ there is little possi
bility of escape.
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FRENCH EXPLODE MINE IN TRENCH FROM WHICH GERMANS HAVE I
I WITHDRAWN; USE CAPTIVE BALLOON FOR OBSERVATION PURPOSES 1
r The Germanr. mine, every trench from which they re
tire. The French, before occupying any of the trenches
A&fr ' from which the Germans have withdrawn, lay their
I mines in the trench and then explode them as a safe- I
'x'Wffli guard to prevent the Germans from blowing up the
. r4$mBB trenches when filled with French soldiers. One of the
, .flflflflHB;. fl accompanying photos, which was made in the region of
lKSBuBHSiB Arras, shows the explosion of a French mine in an
Sgig , abandoned German trench. The other photo shows a
iMi. "Mstt k captive balloon which was used at the French base m
j - JHQHHr Alsace for observation purposes.
LA VETA MURDER !
CASES ON TRIAL
I
Nine Members of United Mine
Workers Charged With Kill
ing Mine Guards.
Pueblo, Colo., Jan 4 Trial of the
LaVeta murder case, so-called, an out
growth of the recent Colorado coal
strike, and in which nine members of
the United Mine Workers of America
stand charged with killing three mine
guards and a chauffeur, and wounding
a mine official, began in the district
court here toda . The alleged mur
ders took place near LaVeta on No
vember 8. 1913.
A special venire of I'OO jurors has
been summoned and the seloctiou of
12 men to try the cases is expected
to occupy considerable time.
The men who stand accused are:
Cliarles Sheppard. Frank Kioupa.
Daniel Richards, Edward Richards,
Charles Richards, Peter Rich. George
Zemblrz. Marcur Martinolich and
John Plockhart.
The men killed were Harry Bryan,
E. G. Adams and Walter Wbitteu.
mine guards, and Luke Terry, a chauf
feur William H. Gamlbing foreman
of the Oakdale mine, was badly
wounded.
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iWHEAT OVERTOPS
! HIGHEST RECORD
i May Delivery Reaches
! $1.32 3-4 European De
mand Is Urgent Liver
pool Quotations
Higher.
Chicago, Jan. 4. Wheat prkes to
day overtopped all previous bih rec
ords since the beginning of the Euro
pean war May delivery went 10
82 "-4 a bushel as compared with
$1.32 on September 5 last, when spec
ulative excitement in regard to trans
Atlantic de elnpments was most
acute.
Shutting out ui fear of Argentine
competition was the immediate cause
of today's advance. Ocean freight
rates from Argentina have so sharply
advanced that tho South American
grain is no longer relative) cheap
Besides, hichfr quotations at Liver
pool this mornng showed ihe urgency
of European demand.
During the advance in wheat prices
here, a jump uf 1 3-4c since Saturday
4
night, trading appeared of a decidedh
livher character than has recently
been the rule. The explanation in a
measure was the fact that margins
required on transactions are now
only about half what was required not
many weeks ago.
In the last hour of the Besslon,
reports of Immense ' cash sales for
ocean shipment gave prices a further
big lift. Just before the final geng
brought business to a halt, wheat for
May delivery, the chief speculative
option, was snapped up in some cases
as high as $1.34 3-4, a rise of S :i-4c
a bushel since Saturday night The
close was strong with the market as
i. whole at advance of 2 3-4 to 3 1-2
cents net.
St Louis, Jan. 4. Wheat prices on
the St. Louis Merchant. Exchange to
day reached the highest figures since
the beginning of the European war.
May wheat sold at $1.30, four cents
higher than the price on September
2, when excitement over the var was
keen The price increase was attrib
uted to heav export demand and the
practical elimination of Argentine
competition
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FIGHTING IN
TRANS-CAUCASIA
Russians Claim Advantage
Over Turkish Forces Cap
ture Fiftieth Infantry.
Petrograd. Jan 4 An official com
munication from the Russian general
staff In the Caucasus ghes details
o' the fighting in the region of San
Kamysh. in Trans-Caucasia, rIhe
statement follows:
"In the repion of Sari Kamysh. on
January I, the great battle continued,
obviously to our advantage. The en
emy, however continued o offer an
obstinate resistance
"We captured the Fiftieth regiment
of infantry almost complete. Including
the commander and fifty officers. The
total of Turkish prisoners amounts
to five thousand soldiers, forty offi-l
cers and several surgeons. Wc also
captured six pieces of mountain ar
tillery, fifteen machine guns and am
munition. "The next day the fighting here
was still going on Our troops recap
tured some positions which tho Turks
bad occupied and took threemachine
guns and more than seven hundred
prisoners.
"At one point a company of a
Caucasian regiment was dispersed by
bayonet charcreq, while tvo Turkish
companies were cm to piej B by artil
lery fire f
"Our troops are oporating under
conditions exeeptionajfiv painful on
account of the cold 4 nd snow ,n fl
high altitude. The morale of our sol
diers is pood and Caey fight with
I ardor." j
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STOCK EXCHANGE
00ING BUSINESS
Greatest Crisis in History of
English Stock Market Is
Safely Passed.
London, Jan 4, 12 05 p. m The
London stock exchange reopened for
business today after having been
closed on account of the war since
July 30. Severe restrictions were
placed upon trading in order to pre
vent anything approaching panic sell
ing or the unloading of securities by
hostile countries.
The session opened with a round of
ringing cheers and to the strains of
the national anthem, heartily sung by
a rather smaller attendance than
usual. A number of lintish and
French members were absent on ac
count of the war, while the exclu
sion of aliens who were not able to
BatlSfy the committee that they had
severed all connection with foreign
countries reduced somewhat the l'or
eign attendance.
The single fact that business has
been resumed on a limited scale and
under restrictions Is taken to indi
cate that the greatest crisis in the
history of the exchange has been
safely negotiated through the com
blued efforts of the treasury and the
stock exchange committee.
The house had been re-decorated
during the prolonged recess, and to
day It presented a cheerful appear
ance Several Knglish members ap
peared in khaki. There was no shout
ing of bids across the house and busi
ness was on a strictly cash basis
The committee decided to allow deal
ings only between the hours of eleven
and three, inside or outside the stock
exchange, and with arbitrage business
buned, there will be no street denl
tngs in American securities at this
time.
The members generally appeared
extremely pleased again to have a
roof over their heads after 'heir
wretched experiences during the past
five months
The general opinion that the re
strictions to trading would curtail
business to a considerable extent was
born out during the first half hour.
Not a single bargain occurred in
Americans, and only a few of these
securities appeared The war loan
was marked nt !4 !S-$c and the Na
tional, M4 9-lbc India, 3 1-2 per cents
were quoted at 83 1-S, and Rio Tintos
nominally at 57. Union Pacifies were
Jl19 and consols G8 1-2
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Louisville. Ky , Jan. 4. Work on
eighi thousand portable kitchen wag
ons for the French army was1 begun
here today. The value of the order
is placed at $250,000. The French
government specified that the wag
ons he ready in three months. '
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RED CROSS SAVES
MANYJNSERVIA
Timely Arrival of American
Unit Godsend to Suffering
Ones Near Belgrade.
U. S. FLAG RESPECTED
English Nurses Down to Last
Bits of Bandages and Liv
ing on Short Rations.
New York Jan. 4. Work of the
metican Red Cross hospital unit in
Servia, under direction of Pr. Edward
Ryan of Scranton, Pa has saed
many lives In and around Belgrade,
according to Miss Emily Smimonds.
a British Red Cross nurse, who ar
rived here today on the steamship St.
Paul. Miss Bimmonds was, sent with
the first British expeditionary force
into France and from there to Ser
via. "With seven young English girls,
T have worked in the trenches 4u0
yards from the firing line for 48 hours
at a time,' she said. "The coming
of the American unit under Dr. Ed
ward Ryan was a Godsend to the Ser
vians, for at the time we were down
to our last bits of bandages and dress
ings and were living on short rations.
Unfurling of U. S. Flag.
"Up to the arrival of Dr. Ryan and
his American nurses the hospital was
constantly in danger of artillery fire.
Dr. Ryan's first act was to unfurl
the American flag over the build
Ing. It was instantly respected and
conditions rapidly improved."
The St. Paul brought six Belgian
families, consisting of 21 persons, the
advance contingent of between 6ev-eiity-fhe
and one hundred families
who expect to settle in the southwest,
ern part of the United States.
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BUSINESS MEN
OPEN CAMPAIGN
National Association of Farm
Papers Launches Nation
wide Movement to In
spire Trade.
Omaha, Neb, Jan. 4. A nation
wide campaign to assist in the revival
of business under the slogan, "Buy
It Now" was launched here today
by the Agricultural Publishers' asso
ciation, a national association of farm
papers
The movement proposes to quick
en commerce and manufacture by
hastening purchases which must he
made sooner or later The appeal is
directed particularly to the farmers,
who are to be urged to buy necessary
implements and materials now, rather
than wait until spring
The plan contemplates thorough co
operation, which it is urged would
correct unsettled conditions. In the
committee report which presented the
plan it was declared that if ?10 were
expended in the "Buy It Now" cam
paign bv each of the 40,000,000 farm
ers of the country, $400,000,000 would
be put Into immediate circulation.
TWELVE INJURED
IN TRAINWRECK
Albert Lea, Minn.. Jan 4. Twelve
perftons were injured seriously, three
of them probably fatally, early today
when the fast Des Moines southbound
passenger train on the Minneapolis
& St. Eouis railway was wrecked at
Emmons, Minn., by a defective switch.
The chair car and smoker were demol
ished. A relief train arrived here
with twelve injured. Thomas Mayer
of llumoldt. Iowa, Matt Erscher of
Luverne Minn., and Conductor Keat
ing of Minneapolis, were believed to
be fatally injured.
Othera Seriously Hurt.
Others seriously hurt are: E. J. Con
nelly, Fort Dodge, la . leg broken.
H. S. Snook, Minneapolis. leg
crushed
A L. McAllister, Minneapolis, shoul
der dislocated.
H R. Clother. Forest City, Iowa, leg
crushed.
Miss F M. Long, Dps Moines,
shoulder hurt.
O Nelson, Minneapolis, internally
Injured.
Several others, badly bruised, after
receiving medical attention, were able
to continue their journey.
WOULD FORBID
ALL WAREXPORTS fl
Failure to Keep Strict NeutraloFJ I
ity an Unfriendly Act To- j
ward German Nation. I
ALLIANCE MEMORIALS I
Letter of Protest Is Sent to -7j
President Wilson German- I fl
Americans Protest. fl
Washingion. Jau. 4 "Forbid thrift Ifl
exportation of all munitions o' warJJ
that are contraband and you wjil rafl 'V
move the rxeuse for ihe Hntish ( nn
duct which called lorth the lote Otfl . I
protest recently sent to London, ' yaid j
Theodore Sutro of New York, addressfl fl
ing the house foreisu relations com9 I
mittee todaj in favor of pending con-fl j1 I
cressional resolutions to stop c xportJ$fl I
I of war materials to European hollig-B I
I erents. I
j Delegations from New York, Pnilfefl 1
j delphia, Chicago and Baltuv.orejfl
among them representatives of ihei j
I German-Anierlc2n alliance and 'l-igj; 1
i Ancient Order of Hibernians n.. ererl I lyJ
i in favor of the resolutions.
C J. He.-.amer cf Philadelphia, I'1' f",S.-iJ:BHf
j Ident of the German-American aMN-iiB
ance, presented memorials adopt od bjnB
that organization in many st atos, urgjfl 1
ing the adoption of one of the rolu- ,.1
tions. j
These memorials included t letter Lfl
written by Mr. Hexaraer to I'residRnt-JB i
Wilson dated December 9. "in th&'fl I
interest of neutrality." sayinj ihatlH 1
cne of thp nations engaged in the v.'r
'could get munitions from this coun-M I
try." 1
) "Our failure In keeping stir ju
tralitv becomes thereby." the'Ktlerflj
continued, "an unfriendh , if rot io- J
ieal. act against one particular nafli J
tlon
"You cannot imagine. Mr FresHf
dent,' he wrote, "with what clragritft
and bitterness - it fills the Americans,- j j
of German descent to see the rsjf I
sources of this great country, n hictt ! jl
they have helped to build up. placed. M
at the disposal of enemies, who. with" I J Ifl
x their overwhelming forces, ha e pr jIH
claimed it their avowed purpose, tt" fl
cmsh our ancestral home. IfA
I "Since the attitude of our govern-
meut enables England to cutoff. H
against our interests, even the most fl
necessary articles from the civil popu- H
latlon of certain oountrles, do you
think, Mr. President, that thereby,
the assertions that the neutrality of H
the United States i6 only a matter of
form and does not exist, are justi- fl
fied?" H
Addressing the committee. Mr. Hex-
amer said: fl
"The principal evil growing cut of M
the situation is the damage belnz m
done to our commerce. We should "flffl
have an immediate Inquiry by a spo- IfH
clal commerce commission into o,r I
trade with European countries. We I jM
should demand that our neutral trade I
be allowed to go on without luterfer-
ence and that England be not allowed I
to prevent us from sending articles, I IJtjH
that are of no direct use in war. to I
Italy. Holland. Denmark, Norway and I
Sweden, Switzerland, or any othrr I
country that desires to buy our good?. I Jfl
Some way should be found to rai.e I
the embargo imposed by England on I
the re-exportation of our goods from I
these countries to the civil popula- I
lion of Germany and Austria H
"But the first thing to be done it HH
to prohibit the exportation of arm? flfl
and munitions. Onlv England
her friends can benefit by our unhoL H
commerce in war materials. Every lH
dollar made by a few manufacturers 1 IH
of war supplies is tainted with blood I RH
from the field of battle." lH
BABIES DIE OF I
SLOW POISONING I
Mother Administers Dose to fl
Two Children and Takes
One Herself. fl
New York. Jau. 4. The slow poison, j i 'H
administered six clays ago by Mr-
Ida Rogers to her two babies and her- ffl
self, resulted today in the leatb of
the older child John aged '2 Lorlda. tH
8 months old. died last Wednesday. ijH
The mothers death was expected flfl
Lorlys Elton Rogers, ihe lawyer flfl
who uas known as her husband to flfl
the neighborhood in the Bronx, wlu fl
they lived, still kept his vigil at the flfl
sick woman's bedside. He had no fl
comment to make nor did Mrs. Annie H
Roquemore Rogers, who divorce!
Rogers in 1909. nor Mrs. Caroline
Giddings Rogers, Who married Rogen fl
in 1909 and lived with him till last fl
October on Riverside Drive Mrs. fl
Annie Rogers has been a frei-nent m
callQjD at the hospital since Mrs ' j h 1
Rogers' was taken there, but she ha
declined to listen to questions eonj
cerning Rogers' life.
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