Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 214, 20 August 1915 — Page 1

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NOVO BEOBGIEM FALLS AFTER 12-DAY P0UHDM6 BY BIG GERMAN CANNON Bulletin BERLIN, Aug. 20, By Wireless Novo Georgievsk, mightiest fortress of the czar, has fallen. The capture by German troops of the great stronghold at the junction of the Vistula and Narew rivers was officially announced here today. Twenty thousand Russian ' soldiers were captured at Novo Georgievsk. The Germans also took enormous quantities of war material. With the capture of Novo Georgievsk, the Germans have taken the last of the Vistula fortresses and removed a danger that existed as long as that stronghold was held by the Russians. The pursuit of the retreating Russian armies can be continued without any possibility of a sudden sortie.

' Novo Georgievsk was captured under the eyes of Emperor

William himself, he having arrived there while the German troops were making their attack. ? Novo Georgievsk fell after a siege of twelve days, during which the mighty German guns poured a rain of shells upon its fortifications. The outlying forts were taken one by one, while the German circle drew closer daily to the main fortifications. . The German general staff accompanied Emperor William to Novo Georgiesk to watch the closing act of the military drama enacted there. While the capture of Kovno was of more importance from a strategic point, the number of prisoners taken at Novo Georgievsk was thrice as large as that at Kovno. j,

FREES DRIVER WHOSE MOTOR HIT NORDSIECK Jury Returns Verdict in Few Minutes' When Judge Fox Abruptly Ends - Case Thursday. EVIDENCE IS WEAK Magistrate Refuses to Send Blackburn to Penitentiary as Example for Law Violators. "I do not propose to send a man to the penitentiary for the example it would have on other law violaters," Raid Judge Henry C. Fox in giving instructions to the Jury in the Perry Blackburn manslaughter case. "The evidence in this case does not show that the man is guilty of the charge of Involuntary manslaughter, and I therefore instruct the Jury to return a verdict of not guilty." The Jury complied with the request of the Judge, and within three minutes Perry Blackburn, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter in kill ing Ernest Nordsieck, the aged sexton of Lutheran la. was freed from the charge. The Judge stated in open court that even if the Jury should re turn a verdict of guilty he would have to set it aside, because he did not feel that the evidence warranted convic tion. Case Closes Quickly. It was expected that the trial, which had been going on for the last two days, would not he completed until this afternoon, but Thursday afternoon Judge Fox ruled out so much of the evidence produced by the state on the grounds that it did not bear on the question at issue. Prosecutor Keller was not allowed to go into the past history of the defendant, who has frequently been arrested by the police on various charges. Judge Fox ruled that Continued On Page Eight. SUBMARINE F-13 GOES TO PIECES ON DANISH SHORE LONDON, Aug. 20. The British submarine F-13 ha bean lost with fifteen men, off the Danish coast, while on her way to the Battle Sea. Five men were saved. Official announcement of the loss of the 'F-13 was made today by the admiralty. The underwater boat went aground tlx miles southeast f Copenhagen and was pounded to pieces. She was under orders to oper Ite with the Russian Baltic fleet off Riga against the German fleet. The M3 was built In 1914. She was 176 feet long, and was equipped with four torpedo tubes. The submarine's speed an the surface was sixteen knots and her underwater speed was ten Knsjs.

PRESIDENT'S EYES , RECEIVE TREATMENT WA8HTNGTON. Au. 0 Prudent Wilson today motored to Philadelphia to have hi eyes treated, i. The president departed early and It was first thought he was only going for an early spin around the city. ; Later it was learned that he had gone to Baltimore and afterward the announcement was made that he was going on through to Philadelphia. He will return tonight. SECOND LINER OF WHITE STAR LINEJS SUNK LONDON, Aug. 20 Another White Star liner, the Bovlc, a vessel of 6,000 tons, was reported torpedoed and sunk today while bound from New York to Manchester with a general cargo. The Bovic carried a crew of 150 men. A Queenstown dispatch brought the first report of the deetruction to shipping agencies here It gave no details, but aa the steamer sailed from New York on August 8, it was believed probable that It was passing the south coast of Ireland last night or early today. SUBSEA BOATS TORPEDO FIVE MORE VESSELS

LONDON, Aug. 20. Three more British steamers were destroyed today by German submarines, but no loss of life occurred. The steamers sunk were the Baron Erskine, 5,585 tons; the Rostermel, 2,118 tons and the New York City. The Baron Erskine was built in 1911 and was owned by the Hogarth Shipping Co., Lad. The Rostermel was built in 1901 and was the property of the New Rostermel Steamship Co., Ltd. He home port was Cadiff. The announcement of the sinking of these 6teamers said that their crewa were saved. It is believed they were sunk off the south coast of Ireland, possibly by the same submarine that destroyed the Arabic. Another neutral steamer was listed as a submarine victim when it was announced that the Norwegian steamer Sverresborg, 1,150 tons, had been sunk. . . The Spanish steamer Pena Castillo, 1,718 tons, has also been submarined. Her crew was saved. MEXICAN FORCES LOCK IN COMBAT Eh PASO, Tex., Aug. 20. Heavy fighting between Carranza and Villa troops is in progress near Torreoah, according to advices r.t Villa headquarters. The mu-ta armies are believed to be engaged in the greatest battle they have fought. General Flerro, who the Villistas declare has captured Aguas Calientes, was inarching northward to strike the rear of the Carranza army

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The picture shows British sailors on the war vessels now ; storming the Dardanelles testing out the new life rafts with which the British navy, is now being supplied. A large air ring of airtight canvas forms the principal portion of the raft. The bottom of canvas enables the men to sit inside the ring as if in a boat, partly filled with water.

BIG GERMf "U" SENDS ARABIC BENEATH WAVES Passengers See Torpedo Approaching, but Unable to Detect Submarine Caplaia and Crew, Prepared for Attack Hurry Passengers Into Life Boats.

LONDON, Aug. 20. The submarine which sank the Arabic is believed to be one of the big new "TJ" boats of the German navy. It -had evidently been lying in wait alongside of the steamer lane , off Fastnet for some time. There is a strong patrol of British warships in that - vicinity, but the submarine managed to elude their vigilance and escaped. , One of the warships of this patrol squadron convoyed the lifeboats of the Arabic to Queenstown. SERVIA AGREES TO PROPOSALS FROM ENGLAND LONDON, Aug. 20. Dispatches from Rome and Athens announce that Servia has accepted the "allies' proposal for the ceding of Macedonian territory to Bulgaria, and that Bulgaria will shortly announce that she has joined the entente. According to these reports, which are accepted as true. in London, be cause of the cabinet change at Sofia, indicating that Bulgaria's army is about to take the field, Macedonia will be given to Bulgaria, Servia will divide Albania with Greece and will also receive a strip of land of the Dalmatian coast. Italy is to keep Avalona, which her troops occupied last year, as : a result of the danger to foreigners caused by revolution. ST. LOUIS SWEPT BY HURRICANE EARLY TODAY ST.- LOUIS, Aug. 20 The hurricane which devastated Texas . gulf ports reached St. Louis last night, bringing an unprecedented flood In the western and southern part of the city, accompanied by a wind blowing fifty miles an hour. : Fifteen square miles are inundated in the city and St Louis police believe that there has been some loss of life. It was reported - that ; a - child was drowned ? in , Greenwood, ' a small suburb. Street - car lines ' to " Maplewood, another suburb, were, five feet under water and the Maplewood fire department was out all night rescuing the marooned. It has been estimated that the damage will exceed $1,000,000 and that at least 6,000 persons were driven from their homes. All available boats have been taken over by the police and engaged in rescue work through districts that have neyer.been -gcji4 heforey j

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NEW BRITISH UFE raft. Throughout the. day fragmentary messages kept coming into London from Queenstown and other port cities, relative to the fate of passengers on the Arabic and other features attending the liner's destruction. The fact that some of these were flatly Contradictory made it difficult for a time to construct an authentic narrative. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Queenstown late in the morning Continued On Page Eight. CARDOZA AT CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. Senor Cardoza, the Brazilian minister to Mexico, reached Washington today. He will confer with Sercertary Lansing this afternoon and with President Wilson tomorrow. . WILSON AWAITS OFFICIAL WORD BEFOREACTING President Orders U. S. Officials to 'Refuse Statements on Destruction of Arabic by Submarine. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 "This Is no time for hasty action. - The situation created by the torpedoing of the Arabic is too serious to permit snap judgment.. Neither the president nor the state department will make a single move in the case, until all of the facts have been gathered by American dipContinued on Page'Eight V0S6ES OPERATIONS COST GERMANS MANY SOLDIERS AND GUNS PARIS, Aug. 20. Exceedingly heavy losses are being suffered by the Germans in the Vosges, according to the official statement issued by the war office 'today. The ; fighting at Lingkopf and -j Schratsmaennele ' is very severe. These points, the -Germans ' are trying to regain - positions captured by the French troops earlier in the week. ' - .An , important ' gain by the British troops on the Gallipoli peninsula, is announced in an official statement on the operations in the Dardanelles today. It said that the left wing of the British forces has made .- marked- advances in the - Amasarta districts. - the region -near Suvla 'bajr.

OFFICIALS ARGUE OVER EXPENSES OF FIXING SPAN City Takes First Step Toward Relieving Congestion by Asking Opinion of Bridge Contractors.

TRACTION HOLDS BACK Refuses to Make Repairs Doran Bridge Too Weak to Handle Heavy Interurban Traffic. , Although it has been a week since the board of works declared the Main street bridge unsafe for traffic and ordered it closed, the first definite action, .looking toward the restoration of traffic across the river at Main Btreet, was taken today at a meeting, which had been called by the board of public works. . : Upon the suggestion of Wilfred Jessup, counsel " for some local jobbing concerns, who acted as chairman of the meeting, the board adopted a motion that the Toledo Bridge and Construction company, successors to the company which constructed the bridge, be asked to send engineers to the city to inspect the bridge to as certain whether it could be repaired so that it could be used for a reason able length of time. , , Makes Suggestions. "If it 'would have been one of our own, bridges," remarked G. K. Jefferies, - general 6uperintedent of the T. H. I. & E. traction company, "we would have taken this action the day the bridge was condemned and closed. As Mr.. Jessup has pointed put, there are only, two things to be done,: either repair the structure so that it can be used "again" for a reasonable length of time, , or build . an entirely new bridge. If the bridge can be properly, repaired this should be done in preference to building a new struc ture, on the grounds of economy." '. Engineers or tne Toledo company are expected to arrive in the city the first of next week to make a thorough examination of the Main street bridge. Complications in carrying out any plan for the repairing of the - bridge, if it can be satisfactorily repaired, are foreseen, however, because of the attitude : Jefferies has -assumed toward such a project. The ' traction company will not contribute a penny toward : the expense of repairing the bridge. '. He did not make this statement to the city, and county officials who attended the meeting, but he declared, himself emphatically on this point when' Questioned by a reporter after the meeting.- - ; Hold. Franchise Right. . "We have a franchise right to use the. bridge and, being a . part of a public street,. the city is obligated to keep the ' structure, in . repair, so ' the : company cannot be expected to contribute to the expense of such repairs," Mr. Jefferies said. . V , Mr. Jessup, in addressing the meetinc. said if the bridge could be repair ed, and he was confident it could be, I at an expense not to exceed $25,000, he thought it would , be fair for the traction company to ..contribute a reasonable share of the expense, as it ;Cpjntinucl on PgEIfhtT .. I

ARABIC'S OEATH TOLL 30; INCLUDING 2 AflfilGAUS SAVS WHITE STAB LIE ' " . . . , r Passengers Rushed From Sinking Vessel b Eleven f&sctes and Put Into Life Boats Two Persons Died From Wounds Inflicted When Vessel Was Hit Survivors Praise Crew. '

LOSS PLUNGES ENGLAND INTO DEEP MUG Bulletin WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 The United States government is not yet convinced that the sinking of the White Star liner Arabic by a German submarine yesterday was a "deliberately unfriendly act" as outlined by President Wilson in his last note to Germany. Until complete information from American official sources is in his hands, Secretary of State Lansing today said that he would not try to decide whether our rights have been violated. He said he would not attempt to form any opinion, nor would the president on the meager details so far available. Only two dispatches have been received by his department and they do not clear up any of the doubtful ground.

LONDON, Aug. 20. Thirty persons, two of them believed to be Americans, are missing as a result of the destruction of the White Star liner Arabic by a German submarine off the Irish coast yesterday, according to latest figures. Two of the Arabic's lifeboats capsized from overcrowding shortly after leaving the liner. Two persons from the Arabic who were wounded when the attack was made, died later upon the British steamship Dunsley. The two Americans reported missing were Mrs. Josephine L. Brugiere and Dr. Edmund Wood. 4 - The German submarine whose torpedo sent the Arabic to the bottom attempted wholesale destruction of ships off Fastnet. A torpedo was sent into the hull of the British steamer Dunsley and another was fired at the British steamship Oriana, but missed. The Arabic was upon a mission of mercy to help the Dunsley when she was struck. Dunsley Abandoned.

WITHOUT NOTICE WASP LAUNCHED FATALTORPEDO Arabic Captain in Statement Says He Saw Approach of Shell From Bridge Lookout. ORDERS BOATS DOWN Few More Minutes Would Have Allowed Rescue of All Members of Crew Died on Duty. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 20. "The Arabic was torpedoed without warning. ' She sank in eight minutes. If the submarine commander had given me a little time I could have saved everybody." Captain William Finch, commonder of the destroyed liner Arabic, made the foregoing statement today, after he had told. the story of the sinking of the Arabic. Captain Finch himself Continued On Page Eight. WHITE STAR OFFICE iN NEW YORK SAYS NINETEEN MISSING NEW YORK, Aug. 20 The White Star line today issued a list of missing passengers . of the liner Arabic con taining nineteen names, four of them Americans. P. A. S. Franklin, vice president and managing director of the line, pointed out that the list differed from the official report received by the American state department and the press report showing only two Americans missing. The White Star list Issued at 11:10 a. m. follows: h,;v- : ..,'.- Cabin passengers Mrs. Josephine ll Bruguiere, New- York; - James H. Houlihan, Philadelphia; Edward T. Wood, Janesville, . Wis.; William Dellizant, , Miss Mary English, Patrick Fitzgerald, L. . Lansiller, Miss Ellen Mells, Miss Mary Mells, Mrs. Reaves, Mrs. Randall, Mrs. Tattersall and Miss Irene Tattersall. Steerage Miss L. Hermann, Henry Harrington, Thomas McMahon, Mary Paddington, Cornelius Sullivan : and Florence? Thomag, "

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Dunsley has been abandoned in a sinking condition. A dispatch from Queenstown stated that thirty-five seamen from the Dunsley had landed there early tnis morning. , Five passengers and twenty-five members of the Arabic's crew were lost when the vessel was sunk by a German submarine yesterday, according to an official statement issued this afternoon at the White Star offices. Among the passengers are two Americans. The figures contained m in the statement follow: Total on '. board. 424; passengers saved, 176; crew saved, 218; missing, passengers. 5; crew, 25. Two of. the Americans who were passengers were definitely given up for dead. After a search of many hours it was admitted that no trace could be found of Mrs. Josephine Brugiere of New York, and Dr. Edmund Wood of Janesville. Wis. Late reports received at the White Star offices indicated that at least twenty persons, and may be more, lost their lives. There were more than a score of Americans upon the Arabic bound from Liverpool to New York. Taken Off in Eleven Minutes. That more of the ship's 181 passengers were not killed was due to the efficiency of Captain Finch and his seamen. The crew of the Arabic had less than eleven minutes to marshal the passengers, get them Into the boats and lower the boats over the ship's side. Survivors who arrived at Queenstown were high in their praise of the Arabic's crew. At the same time they condemned the crew of the German submarine most heartily for not giving any warning of the attack. James Calmon, an American survivor, who reached Liverpool along with a number of other Arabic survivors, said he was upon the promenade deck watching the Dunsley when he suddenly saw a torpedo speeding, toward the Arabic. "The minute I felt the impact I seized my wife and together we ran toward a lifeboat," said Mr. Calmon. "I did not see the submarine at all." Hits Near Stern. . "I am told that the submarine was seen, although most of those on board claim that it was not. . The torpedo struck full force about 100 feet from the stern and so mighty was the explosion that a monster hole was torn Continued On Pg Eight. Weather Forecast! U. S. Report Rain tonight; Saturday rain northeast, fair south and west portion. Warmer - south portion. Strong shifting winds Becoming north ! - : Temperature Noon .............. 1 Yesterday Maximum ............. Minimum ..jpr,:

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