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SUB SINUS 6 SHIPS
A COMMERCE RAIDER ACTIVE OFF
THE AMERICAN COAST ;
NO VIOLATION OF LAW
Imperial German Navy Reaches Long
Arm and Ravages Shipping Along
Our Coast—U. 8. Warships Rush
to Rescue Those That are
Set
Adrift.
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Lying off Nantucket Light,
where every liner bound to and
from New York must get its bear
ings, the German submarine l -
63, aided probably by one or two
other war submarines, torpedoed
and sank six ships Sunday. Four
of them were British—one a pas
senger carrier. The others were
neutrals—one Dutch and the other
Norwegian. An American steam
ship was held up, but was allow
ed to proceed. /
Admiral Knight, commander ef
the naval station at Newport, R. I.,
says that the Nantucket lightship re
ports a second German submarine
nearby. Naval officers say they ex
pect a fleet of German submarines
will blockade every Atlantic harbor
from which munition ships leave.
The 11-53 began her depredations
at daybreak Sunday morning. So
far as Is known there has been no
loss of life. Seventeen of the fast
est destroyers in the l-irited States
nary went plowing through the fog
in search of the crests.
The-Innocent looking little engine
of war which lay at anchor for a few
short hours in the inner harbor Sat
urday afternoon became a death-
dealing demon no sooner than she
had passed the three-mile limit Sun
day.
She first sighted the American
freighter Kansan making her way
through the dim light of early morn
ing from New York to Boston. Cap
tain Roae. the euave and keen-eyed
commander of the U-53. personally
stood on the bridge and handled the
Kansan. The freighter was not de
tained long. After Inspecting the
ship's papers Captain Rose apolo
gized and allowed the vessel to pro
ceed. The Kansan was fifty mllea
away from the scene when he wire
less -operator picked up the dreaded
8. O. 8. It was from the British ship
West point.
From station to etatlno along the
coast the distress call was repeated
The captain of the Kansan Instantly
heeded the call. It was followed by
a message briefly saying the West-
point had been attacked by a sub
marine and was In dallfer'ot. sink
ing. Her crew and paaaengrra had
taken to the boats, ready ftr'put to
aea.
Within a few minutes the air was
literally charged with electricity as
wireless messages • f warning were
broadcasted along the coast.
The submarine, or submarines, had
taken a position directly In the
steamer lanes where they could hard
ly miss anything bound in for New
York, or bound east from that port
Twenty minutes after the call was
flashed to the naval training station
at Newport the torpedo boat destroy
er Jarvis had left her_ moorings and
was headed for the open sea She
was rapidly followed by the other
boats-of the flotilla. Crowding their
boilers, the fleet navy boat started
on the horrible Journey of mercy.
But the Kansan was first to reach
the rapidly sinking steamer. She
beat the navy boats In the first race
In American waters to sav^the lives
of persons imperiled by the ruthless
undersea warfare.
Vessels of the Entente allied na
tions and neutral bottoms carrying
contraband of war scurried to get
within the three-mile limit of the
American shore. Several that were
following the outside course shifted
and made for the inside lane. The
Stephano, cf the Red Cross line, how
ever, was caught outside the neutral
zone. The destruction of this vessel
was perhaps the biggest prize of the
day. The craft had been sold to the
Russian government and would have
been used as an ice-breaker after her
present trip.
The Strathdene is said to havt
been loaded with munitioivs of war
for the Allies. She proved easy prey
for Captain Rose and his men.
Twenty minutes after the crew had
taken to tlhe open sea in small boats
she lifted her noso towards the sky
and sank. Pluckily battling the
waves, the crew of the Strathdene
managed to reach the Nantucket
shoals lightship.
Throughout the day and up'to late
Sunday night none of the patrolling
fleet maintained by the British .and
French to protect their own shipping
and American ships carrying muni
tions of war had been sighted. Fran
tic appeals were sent to Halifax, but
for a .time the commander of the
British naval station there refused
to divulge what steps were being
taken to meet the submarine attack.
“All steps possible In the cir
cumstances are being taken to deal
with the situation.’’
This message was received by the
Associated Press Sunday night from
the commander-in-chief of Ihe Brit
ish North Atlantic squadron at Hali
fax, N. S. It was in reply to a re
quest for a statement by him.. The
work of the patrolling fleets was
directed from Halifax and ever since
the war began cruisers and Auxiliary
ed from the radio ' station. The
atories regarding the U-53 whlcb ap
peared iir the Sunday papers had
aroused much speculation as to her
mission and the news that she Jiad
attacked British vessels traveled fast.
Auxious Inquiries were made at the
newspaper offices from seemingly al
most every one who had a friend on
the water or owned a share of stock
in a merchant bottom.
The vessels sunk are:
Westpolnt, British freighter, 2,413
tons, bound from London to New
port News. Crew of 35.
Strathdene, British freight,- 4,312
tons, bound from New York to Brest.
Crew of 50. ' . ,
Stephano, British passenger ship,
3,439 tons, bound from Halifax to
New York. Elgkty-three passengers
and crew of 7-5.
Steamship Kingston, believed to be
Brtish, but as yet unidentified. No
details.
Bloomersdijk, Dutch freighter, 3,-
201 toas, bound from New York to
Rotterdam. Crew of 35.
Christian Knudsen, Norwegian
THE WARIASTMK
DOBRUDJA FIGHT OVERSHAD
OWS THAT ON TRANSYLVANIA
DANGERS ARE IN SOUTH
Fighting to the North of Kingddm is
Minor When Compared to the Out-
. come of the Southern Battle, Says
the Military Expert of the New
York Times.
None of the war theatres this past
week presents a particularly interest
ing field for discussion. There has
been fighting everywhere, some of it
pam to London, via Perth Amboy.
Crew of 30.
Immediately after the S. O. S.
calls from the Westpoint were pick
ed up at Newport Sunday, Admiral
tanker, 2,583^ tons. bound ^rom^Tux- of the harde8t kind( but’the results
which have apcru&d ' have nowhere
been of sufficient importance to
bring to the general situation any
j great modification
. .w j . i It is practically exactly where it
Cleaves ordered out the destrqyer, laat week SeV e ra l interesting
fleet to give assistance. The Jarvis, < minor jj ave been made,
one of the fastest of the fleet, being BOine 0 j w bich hutfe TreOn greatly ex-
capable of making thirty-one knots, a gg era t e d, but their bearing on the
had steam up and steamed out of the sttuatlon a8 a who i e l8 almost in
harbor at full speed shortly before fl n i te8 j ma i
1.30 o’clock.
The first of these, chronological-
Following the Jarvis as rapidly a* ly wa9 the defeat of { he Koumanians
steam could be made went the de- at Ked -power Pass. This pass, which
stroyers Cash in. Ericson O Brien,! lead8 tQ Hermann8tadt thr o U gh the
Benham, Cashin, Balch. McCall. For-: q. rang j van | a mountainMT was seized
ter, tanning. Winslow. Aylwayne.l during the flr8t day8 o{ the Rouman .
Cushing, Cummings, Pauling and
Coynham and the tender Melville.
The fleet went to sea under full
speed and naval officers did not ex
pect the return of any of the vessels
with survivors before a late hour.
The weather was thick outside and
the destroyers were lost lost to view
from alone soon after, passing Bren-
ton’s Reef lightship.There was some
delay in getting the destroyers under
way because. It being Sunday, many
officers and men were an shore leave
and vessels did not have full heads
of steam up. '
The first vessel to get under way.
the Jarvis, steamed out 57 minutes
after the first call was received and
the tender Melville, the last of the
fleet to start, got away only 15 mtn-
utea later. The only action tf>y an
American government official waa
the ordering of the torpedo flotilla
at Newport to rescue the crews of
vessels sunk.
Under the cede which governe
making public radio dlepatchee this
government will guard from publi
cation any Information It receives
which might be of value to any of
the belligerents and should It learn
of the number or location of the sub
marines It will not disclose anything
which might be ef assistance to Al
lied cruisers.
One effect which It seemed certain
the submarine raid would have le to
, lan offensive and held while, the ad
vance continued beyond llermann-
stadt. \
I Heavy fighting had-been going on
I for some time when the Germans an
nounced a complete victory, claiming
that they bad taken the pass and
were in such positions that it could
be held against all attacks. This
proved to be untrue. It was prob
ably a political statement, made for
the benefit of von Kalkenhayn, the
deposed chief of staff, who had just
taken command-
Several days later the Germans
did make a move against the Kou-
maintains which was a not inconsid
erable victory, although tt did not
Involve a great many men and has
been generally overstated. The Rou
manian army was, as far as we know,
l Just north of liermannstadt. well
north of the paaa.
The pane was used naturally as a
' part of their line of communications
and a most necessary part.’ Supplies
came up through the pass via the
railroad which parallels the valley of
the Oltu River, and which. Juat after
tt crosaea the first mountain wall,
divide#, one branch winding tta way
weatward. the other toward tba enat,
where It paralleled the Roumanian
front and acted most admirably as
the main lateral line of communica
tions.
... At this country Is extremely moun-
\ -°f talnous. with highways few and aa a
gtd and to Port officials to ru j # verjr | t ean i,* readily un-
•, f ° rU , \° P ;* Venl . 1 , K* <J*r«lood that the railroad lines are
—* '“PP 11 ** ot food or oil by, th „ l!f# of th . tr<KT p, 0IKsrat!nif oB
either side. The advance must take
place along the railroad lines; a de
feat must follow them In order n<A
to be turned into a rout.
This waa the situation when the
Germans planned a masterstroke
Their Idea was el
merely the sending of a heavy raid
ing body around the Roumanian
flank to strike their line of communi-
sympathizers. N
Officers noted that the short dis
tance travelled by the U-53 from the
time she left Newport Saturday until
she began her operations against
British shipping Indicated tfiat she G „ maD# planned a maaterstroke
was following a careful plan of ac- The|r ^ ma s simple. It involved
tlon. Had the 1-53 been headed
homeward she would hsve passed
early Sunday beyond the point where
«uon.. the Altu Railroad, in their
One thing that Is puzzling naval rear
» »* *?.**•*».«¥» ‘ n ‘° This force, the size of whlcn we
and another thing that ts the sub- re aily know nothing about, but which
Ject of the speculation of many out- „„ prob ably relatively small, work-
side the navy why a destroyer flotilla #d ll# way around through the small
of seventeen vessels was sent out to Tall wUh whlch lhe mounl a, n .
rescue the crew s single freight are 8Cored .nd over the hills where
steamer. The destroyers were order- there were no valleys and cached
vv ° U \\ t k"" 1 . reP ° r i tf « at the . the r ®ar of the.Roumanian army un-
Westpolnt had been torpedoed. | observed' rtiw this happened no
The theory advanced Sunday night
was thaf Comamnder Rose, of the U-
53 came to Newport to advise Rear
Admiral Knight that he was about to
attack hostile shipping and contra
band carriers under the rules of in
ternational law. Rear Admiral
Knight reitered Sunday evening that
Commander Rose’s call was one of
courtesy, but It was suggested that
the German commander wished to
guard against any loss of life through
the aid of American vessels in pick-
happened
one has explained. It would seem
that, in this day of most efficient
scouting by the airmen, such a ma
noeuvre would not be within tha
bounds of possibility.
.It was a daring move, such a move,
Indeed, as the Germans would not be
expected to make. Its characteris;
tics are more French than German.
But it was made, and It was success
ful. The railroad was reached and
cut.nhe base of supplies raided. The
Roumanians seem to have been
ing up passengers and crew s of ships- thrown Into a sudden panic by this
destroyed.
SUBS SINK BIQ LINER
USED AS ALLIED TR00PSBIP
unexpected blow, and fell back hur
riedly, abandoning their positions
and sacrificing a great quantity of
their stores. The raid was a com
plete success.
In their retreat the Roumanians
lost about three thousand prisoners,
no more. This is. in fact, all that
Cunarder Franconia, 18,000 Tons, 1 Berlin claimed to have captured. It
1 is, therefore, a sufficient indication 1
•truction, howarer, la not apt to
come-'' from tha west -through Tran
sylvania. Much more apt is it to
co'me from the ekst—from Dobrudja.
Let us look at the situation in Tran
sylvania as it has developed and we
shall see why this'is so.
If 'the Germans contemplate de
stroying Roumanian power, the blow
must come, if Transylvania ia the
avenue of approach, down the valley
of the Altu River through Hermann-
stadt by way of the Red Tower Pass.
This would cut off lhe Roumanian
province of Wallachia and remoye
from Roumania her greatest menace
to the German cause, a menace di
rected at Northeastern Serbia and
the section of-the Oriental Railroad
south of Belgrade.
In such a case, Roumania would
not be necessarily neutralized, but
her teeth would be drawn. More
over, the Teuton battle line would be
Considerably shortened, for, instead
of being forced to guard practically
every point on the irregular tie of
the Roumanian boot, she would be
able to stretch her line straight
across.
There Is, however^ a fly in this
ointment. The fly Is the fact that
the main line of Roumanian advance
against Transylvania is from the
east and npt from the south. In
other words, Roumania is forcing'
he- way forward on a line generally
north and south through Fogaras,
which line is perpenlicular to all the
necessary railroad lines on which the
Teutonic armies would have to de
pend.
Whatever positions the Germans
would take In the pass would be out
flanked If not surrounded, and their
entire plan could be spoiled by even
a minor and otherwise insignificant
forward movement. The German line
north of the Roumanian border could
not permit itself to be forced back
gradually, as tt would be fighting
with its back against its line of com
munications, which it would have to
hold.
The minute these communications
came under the* fire ot the Rouman
ian artillery the whole movement to
the south would be endangered.
What Is much more probable la that
the fighting in Tr <sylvania is al
most if UOl entirely defensive and
that what U intended as the main
blow against Roumania is In process
of being delivered in Dobrudja.
The key to all Ihe fighting In Do
brudja. and the only way by which
an invasion of Roumania from the
east can be made. Is the great bridge
at Cernavoda. This ia what all the
fighting means. This la the one and
only object ot the Teutonic campaign
In this section.
From Belgrade eastward we do not
find a single railroad or highway
bridge across tha Danube until this
bridge town in Dobrudja Is reached
Once this bridge to taken, the way
to Bucharest la open. The construc
tion of another bridge would bo a
matter ot a long time.
The baiTts of the Danube are very
marshy, the river Itself very deep
To construct a bridge across It would
necessitate heavy artificial embank
ments. strong abutments going down
to a groat depth, and heavy piers of
stona or concrete In the bed of the
stream ttaelf. All this would In
volve a great amount of time, much
more time than the Germans have at
their disposal.
Pontoon bridges may be thrown
across, but these at best ara fragile
affairs, easily destroyed and Insuffi
cient In carrying capacity. Modern
armies must have at their disposal
railroad bridges which are constantly
open In order that the traffic inci
dent to the supply system may be
maintained.
Cernavoda, and Cernavoda alone,
can give U. Therefore we find the
^Teutonic army streached out some
little distance from and parallel to
the railroad from Constantsa to
Bucharest, fighting, aa only they can
fight, to reach the railroad. Their
efforts have so far been unavailing
They have announced victories, but
the victories have felled to material
ize. On the contrary, they have been
forced backward rather than shown
any ability to move forward.
The way for RukhIh to wide open.
It to not another case of Serbia,
fttaDding alone, Neparated from her
allies, forced alone to stand the
shock of the combined strength of
Germany, Austria and Bulgaria.
Russia can pour troops into Rou>
mania, by way of Bessarabia and
Hukowina, without end. Russia
has, in fact, been awaiting this op*
portunity for many months. Now
that It has come, it will not be
neglected.
Serbs and Bulgarians were facing
each other.
When thlrf* height fell into the
hands of the Serbians the entire Bul
garian line waa outflanked from a
dominating height and was therefore
forced to retire. This retirement was
continued‘for cover five miles on a
front of nearly twenty and carried
the Serbian trenches forward as far
as Kenali, Just ten miles south of
Monastlr, on the Salonikl-Monastlr
railroad.
The bend or loop of the .Cerna
River has been crossed and Is now
well to the rear of the Serbs; their
right has moved forward vis far as
Petalino, while its left is but seven
or eight miles south of Monastlr.
This campaign in the south is just
beginning to take form. There is
every reason to think that from a
military standpoint It will prove the
most Interesting of any of the cam
paigns now being fougbt. It Is a
long way off, as far as we are con
cerned, the country is but little
known, the names are strange. It Is
a country In which but few of us
have ever had any particular inter
est.
For these reasons, it will not at
the beginning carry the same decree
of interest as the fighting in the
west, with which most of us are gen
erally famllar. But this front is Im
portant,. there is a wide field for
strategical plans such aa would not
be possible In the west; a wider pos
sibility, therefore, for the display of
military genius.
For these reasons, when the guns
of Sarrail begin to boom all along
the front, and the campaign devel
ops to such an extent that we can see
which way the main effort to to come,
we will .find this a roost fertile field
for Imagination and speculation.
On the''Struma front, where the
British have been hammering tiielr
way, the Bulgarians are making %
very stiff resistance and the pro
gress to less marked. The advance Is
slow, one village after the other be
ing taken after the most severe fight
ing.
The. British are aiming at the
Seres-Demir-lltosar railroad, the
breaking of which would probably
< tu-<. the Bulgarians conkldi r bla
embarrassment Here to another
country wrilre rondr other than rail
roads. are 'conspicuous by tbelr ab
sence
1MOVEFOR PEACE
IDE UNITED STATES BAS NOT
ALTERED ITS POSITMIN .
WAIT FOR ROFER TIME
Almost Every Neutral Nation Has
Decided to Offer Mediation Be
cause of Its Certain Rejections by
the Allies—Lloyd-George Issues
Warning and Nations Stand Asktow
No new steps to end the Euro
pean war have been taken by Ui«
United Statea, and so far aa of fid In
at Washington can foresee, hone In
likely to be taken in the near futum,
according to an authoritative stato-
ment of the government’s position,
obtained from high official circles.
While no official professed to
know what Is in President Wilson’s
mind. It was declared that no pre
parations had been made for discus
sion of peace through tha usual dip
lomatic channels and that all the In
formation gathered seemed to indi
cate that such a move would be both
useless and InadvisabK
It was pointed out, however, that
in a matter of this nature the presi
dent usually keeps his own counsel
aud might be Influenced by indica
tions of which the officials are in
ignorance.
Regarding the many rumors that
the United States already had made
mediatory advances to the belliger
ents during recent months. It was de
clared authoritatively that mediation
bad neither.been offered by this gov
ernment nor suggested te it from
abroad.
It w-as flatly stated that no new
peace overtures at all had been made
to any of the belligerent govern
ments. and that no belllg'reet gov
ernment had indicated that such
overtures would be welcomed.
The United States, It was explain-
IIIV. t s MV V MHVTJ OlsAlCT, IV CAyt«lir»
The armies operating here are en- ed, stands exactly where It has stool
tlrely dependent on railroads for. sup
plies, end the cutting of any one of
these all too few lines can cause con
siderable trouble.
Between these two flanks—that of
the Serbs and of ths British—them
Is a very ominous quiet Along this
stretch la ths only section of ths en
tire Teuton battle line where the al
lied pressure la not being nested, la
fart, being Increased, as time
ever since President Wilson, at thn
outbreak of the war, made aa open
offer to use the good offices ot the
country whenever requested Since
that announcement. It was declared,
them has been no changes no far an
the American government to eon-
corned
While declining to bo quoted
directly on no delicate a matter, offi
cials am understood to ho thorongh-
But Sarrail is quiet and does noth-! ly convinced that any peace move at
lag. evea though hte flanks am ao.thto time woald be mqeated aa an-
extremely active. He khowe what he neutral sad might Impair the go^
ts delng. wp do not We can but! ornment’s standing as a madlatat
guc-s, taking Into conriderctlon all when the time lor action comas.
ths facts as they are presented. | !• support of this belief. attenllM
In spits of ths fact that ths lias of
the Vardar la the one melful place In
nil this battle line, them to still ao
mason to donbt that the flaal and
deciding step of the Allies will he aa
attempt to advance up this valley.
Thla belief Is strengthened rather
than weakened by the activities In
other directions. If It were Harrell s
plan to move up ths Vardar. what
Is called to the formal
Switzerland. Norway, Sweden aad
Denmark not to offer mediation now.
tho Informal decision of Spain aad
the Vatican to tho some effect, tfce
warning against such attempts
sounded recently hr David Lioyd-
Oeorge. the prittoh war minister, tho
Swedish premier’s declaration that
peace proposals by neutrals woald
futile, and other nils ranees by
ATTACKED THE STEPHANO
would be more logical than to per
mit these flank attacks to go on. sad | public man la belllgereal and
when they had drawn away all poe- tral counties,
slble forces from ths centre to guard j Holland and the United Statea
their flanks, to strike the centre with atone ham taken no definite aland
full force? . against mediation now. hnt them la
Suppose that the British. In their ao szpectatioa that vlther will abaa-
sffort, should he able to push their don Us present sitonee.
wgy forward to the valley of the Stru-
mltza toward which they are headed
Thla valley runs east and WdSt and
ties up with the valley of the Var
dar. Suppose, further, that the Serbs
are nucreMful In their efforts, while
the Italians guard their flank, and
reach Prllep. <-
A smashing attack up the Vardar
would then entirely discount tfie ad
vantages of Interior position which
the Teutonic powers hold and result
In the establishing of a practically
continuous line from the Struma,
across the Strumltza Valley to the
Varda, and from there to Prllep.
Tail ot
Ship by
Lieutenant Commander Milter, of
the Ericsson, which picked np some
of the hosts from the Stephano. aaid
Monday that no attack waa made oa
thin vessel until all on board had
left. When the Ericsson arrived at
the lightship Commander Miller ob
it 1 serbed a submarine about a mile dia
ls 'difficult to see any other way in tant and almoat Immediately beard,
which the Teuton advantages can be j three'shots from the bow gun of the
overcome.* But when Sarrail makes
his first move we shall know.
and Beet on the Line, is De
stroyed in Mediterranean.
The principal event of the fighting
here has been the attempt of the
Roumanians to flank Mackensen’s
forces out of position by crossing the
Danube *at Rahovo over pontoon
bridges and thereby threatening his
relative size of the raiding j The attempt was yftirtive and gave
to i
The Cunard line steamer Fran- (
conia has been sunk, according to vertised.
Lloyds. The admiralty announced . much exaggerated
raar.
of the
force. | Sofia an oportunity To make all sorts
This move of the Germans has of wild claims over the destruction
been largely exploited and much ad-' tion of this force. Apparently,
In the process it has been'somewhat more than a division'of
that the Cunard steamer Franconia, stores and military supplies
W ' - - -
employed for transport duly, was captured, (which undoubtedly
Considerable, troops effected the crossing and seiz-
wer.e ed several of the river towns. SI-
Rou-i multaneously with this ^ movement
sunk in the Mediteranean Wcdnes-i mania could ill-affcrd to lose. The the Roumanians ofi the main front .since July l
The fighting on the western front
has. for the past week, been practi
cally suspended on account of the
weather. Almost am incessant down
pour has made any action there q>rac-
ttcally out of the question. The avi
ators could not work,' thp artlljery
could not .find their objective, the
men could not move out of their
trenches. The pressure has not let
up, howeverf even thqugh no blows
were struck. > ' ’
The lines have advanced slightly,
hut the situation has not changed.
We have, however, ~ome interesting
facts as regards losses, and, although
the French losses have never been
officially published since the begin
ning, it seems, that the losses of the
Germans and those of the French and
British have been 'about the same,
four hundred and fifty thousand men,
submersible.
Through the haze he could dimly
day by an enemy submarine. The
steamer had no troops aboard.
Twelve men of the ere of 302 are
Roumanian army, however" was
missing.* •
The Franconia, which was being
used as a British transpi. ,- t, accord
ing *to admiralty announcement, was
a vessel of 18,150 tons gross, and
was built in 1910. Her maiden voy-
began a vigorous attack against the
entire Jine.
The line of communications of this
neither dispersed non destroyed.
On the contrary, it fought its way
through the force in its rear and re-j force of invaders was too thin, their
established its line of communLa-, positions, with the river at their
tions, with but little sacrifice in per- back, too "precarious, to permit them
sonnel. Retirement waff necessary. to move out. As the attacking eoj-
and the evacuation of Hermannstadt umns which were Immediately sent
and the Red Towsr Pass was an un-'out^against them approached, the
age was between Liverpool and Bos- welcome necessity. | Roumalans withdrew to the north
ton in February, 1911. I The fact that the ex-chlef of the bank of the river in good order, and
The Frinconla was 625 feet long German general staff is in command with small losses; not with the loss
seventy-two feet wide and displaced of the Teu tonle forces in Transyl- of over fifteen thousand men. as first
tlrenty-flve thousand tons When she Tani * ‘“^cates these operations claimed by the Bulgarians,
was built she was considered one of ma3r haTe aa8u W ed considerable ,1m-1 On the Saloniki front the week has
the most comfortable steamers of the s P ortance ,n Germany’s
Of these, the percentage of perma
nent loss is greater on the part of
the Germans than with the Allies,
due to the fact that Germany’s cap
ture of prisoners has been negligible,
while the Allies have taken a total crew hoarded her and opened her
^.-vessels of ,the Halifax and ever since
the war began up and down the coast
line.
Cnnard line.
The vessel
was nicknamed
officers stong the
had been
New England coast, who |
advised by the British embassy to
wars British shipping against the
U-5S upon her appanrnneo nt New
port Saturday renewed their can
tina oa Isarnfig that tha aahaaftaa
had gone late action.
tike a
been marked by determined and con-
ambition of late seems to be to de- slstently pressed fighting on the Mon-
I stroy all that she * can destroy. : astir front and along the Struma.
.. „, . . . J"® whether U. really adds any benefit tot All other sections of the battle line
Bath Ship, (naan .ch as she had her cause or not. . • . are generally qut*.
more bathrooms and , The- threats as to what would ha On the Monastlr frost ia spite of
• the ^ alir *^. D . a *^*15®*^ 1 dose with Rouman**. that she would
tng
__ thal she would the oft repented fTUT—fgl
. ... . . soon he placed fn lhe aaihe 'position anee of the Bulgarians, the Serbians
aeagers bound for tong cruises to the M Belgium nnd Serbia as all other hath hehn going abend eonutoteutly
Mpdlterriant small aaltoas who have tha temerity For naay days the fighting centered
The piearmga of tha Franconia was te staad sealant the Germaa rs«!me. aronad the height of
the bent appointed ot nay to hpt another eapw tone ef the Ger- the htghent peak af the •carfeee Oreh
crying third etnas paaaaa- man paltry ef rale er rain lot It range ef hi
tig laat previa aa report af mono* aathlpM flmaany Is trytag This peak had n great fptatral
te Jean. 1»1». an- la destroy Boamaata. hat ban aat y« Mpteraaro M * tea highest point
of about sixty-eight thousand men.
This is the side of the story that is
bound to tell against the Germans in
the long ciin. ♦
There is no disputing the fict that
the Allies have a tremendous super
iority In mfen and are now at least
equal In supplies and organization.
Germany must do more than kill^oan
for man if aha is to have the slight
est Chance at winning.
It is a queation of ultimate, re
sources. All ware which are fought
to a finish are. War la a business
aad the rules end principles of bust-
water cocks.’’ Jle said no torpedo
was discharged.
FIGHT IN NICARAGUA
Nephew of Former President
Four Conservatives.
Kllla
detful in the light they are making
against the odds which they fare.
Bat they caaaet change history,
and hlptory. the eti -rtence ef man
kind. points te their defeat Only e
conservatives shooting nnd killing
four of them.
Daring the figkt Zelaya
make out the Stephano, the object of
attack. None of the shots struck
and probably none was aimed direct-,
ly at her. The Stephano hove to im
mediately and sent a message to fhe
Ericsson, saying, "Please take off our
passengers.’’
Before Commander Miller could
get his boats to the side of the steam
er she had loaded all her passengers
In her own boats from which they
were taken on board the destroyer
within five minutes. The Stephano
was still afloat when the destroyer
left, but was reported later as sunk
by a torpedo. ^
In describing his experiences Dr.
Andrews declared that the Germans
gave the bolt proper warping and
then stood by until all of the pas
sengers had been taken off.
“Officers of the United States tor
pedo boat destroyer which had ar
rived in time to take care of Die pas
sengers of the Stephano visited the
steamer,” he said, “to make sure that,
all of the passengers and crew were
safe. Theq members ot the German
In a fight which broke out at Man
agua, Nicaragua, Mob day during ten
election of Gen. Emiliano Chhmorro
aa president ot the republic, Salvar
dor Zolaya. a nepbeW of former Prnn-
«r»-wrrrr- \ Meat Maya, atucked r grt»;p of