St. John's Daily Star, 1915-08-23

              the st john's daily star kg w found land volume 1 monday august 23,1915 no 106 russ fleet sinks 11 enemy warships in the gulf of riga one of the german warships sunk was the yon moltkc 23,000 tons sister ship of the goeben and one of the ships of the north sea bat tle in which the british san the blucher other german ships sunk 3 7 torpedo boats as result of the battle the germans have been forced to withdraw from the gulf of riga which they entered to try to land troops german soldiers captured or de stroyed aug 22.—a despatch to 1 he central news from petrograd says : 1 he president of the duma an nounced that the germans had lost the battleship moilke three cruisers and seven torpedo boats in the riga battle ihe german battle cruiser moltke was a vessel tons and car ried in ordinary times'a complement of 1,107 men she was the sister ship of the goeben which became part of the turkish navy after the commence ment of the war and was re-chrislen cd llic sultan seiirn the moltke vtfas 590 feet long arm ed with ten i i isch and twelve 6 inch guns also twehe 24 j>ounder in addition the armament included four 20 inch tarpedpnu she was built in 1911 and had a speed of about 28 knots chased by british the moltke was in bailie with the british fleet in the north sea last jan uary when the german armored cruis er blucher was sunk she cost about 12,000,000 the announcement of the president cf the duma is as follows in the riga battle the germans lost one supcr-drcr.dnought the moltke thice cruisers and seven torpedo boats 1 he german fleet ims withdrawn from riga bay the germans tried to make a de scent near pcrnpvin pernigel on the east shore of the gulf of riga some 35 miles north of riga four barges crammed with soldiers took part in the descent they were repulsed by russian troops without co-operation of the artillery the ger mans being exterminated and their barges captured leave the gulf petrogracf august 22.—an official communication issued today says ihe german fleet has left the gull of riga our destroyers in the black sea have sunk over a hundred turk ish boats /' were helped by british submarines petrograd reports that our under water boats played big part in riga naval battle little damage done to russian baltic squadron london aug 23.—among the ger man warships sunk in the battle in the gulf of riga is the battle-cruiser moltke four huge barges filled with soldiers were captured the invaders surround ed and taken prisoners pelrograd indulged in pardonable rejoicing this afternoon because the desperate efforts of the germans to up set pur military plans by creating a diversion on the eslhonian coast have signally failed and according to new received today they sustained heavy losses during the operations connected with the forcing of the gulf of riga aided by british submarines we were able from the shelter of the great and little sounds to harass and cripple and finally drive the enemy out of the gulf the losses of the gallant baltic fleet were extremely small in no way im pairing its efficiency so long as this is preserved no serious danger can im mediately threaten petrograd french sink two german destroyers paris aug 23.—two french boats encountered and sank a german tor pedo boat destriyer off ostend last night says an announcement made sore today our boats were undamaged the t.a band will attend the fer ryland garden parly on wednesday london aug 22.—three russian warships and one german warship all small vessels were sunk in a battle in the gulf of riga an official an nouncement to this effect was made today two other german warships were put out of commission during the en gagement one ran ashore and the other was damaged the russian vessels which were sunk were the gunboats sivutch and kor scts and a torpedo boat the german ships sunk or put out of commission were all torpedo boats the damaged german boat was escort ed to port british lines lengthened our troops on the continent increas ed to 800,000 men now hold 100 miles of front instead of 40 miles men of army are well trained daris aug 23.—the petit parisien states that the british line in nor thern france and flanders has beer lengthened to more than 100 miles formerly it was only 40 miles long the total number of british troop actually on the firing line is eight hun dred thousand from the sea southward the first army is now the belgian then comer a french array and next the first brit ish army then comes another french army with the new british army to the south the arrival of this new british force extends the front nearly ten miles field marshal sir john french is now so well satisfied with the training kitchener's army is receiving in the british isles that new troops are being drafted for the trenches straight from the transports roosevelt wants war is of opinion that the sending of notes to germany is a mere waste of time united states should be ready to strike blow at germany qyster bay aug 22—former pre sident theodore roosevelt issued i!.e following statement here on sat urday i see this suggested in papers that the german answer to our last note that is sinking the arabic by a ger man submarine and the consequent murder of certain american citizens will be adequately met by the admin istration dismissing bernstorff and sev ering diplomatic relations with ger many - i earnestly hope the administration will not take this view for to do so will be a fresh sacrifice of american honor and interest the president's note to germany in february last was an excellent one if n!y it had been lived up to but r/ery subsequent note represented no thing but weakness and timidity on our side the sinking of the lusitania and arabic represent the arrogant answers which this weakness inspired germany will care nothing for mere severance of diplomatic relations the time for words is passed for this na tion long passed the time for deeds has come what has just occurred is fresh and lamentable proof of the unwisdom oi our people in not having insisted up on beginning active military prepared ness thirteen months ago may help balkans to decide now that italy has broken off rela tions with turkey it is expected that roumania will throw in her lot with the quadruple entente powers—bulgaria waiting for ser bia's decision greece likely announce her decision this week little change in poland and the bal kan provinces—big battle being fought along the kovno-vilna railway—some liveliness in the west where xennan repulses are reported aug 22.—italy's declara tion of war against turkey is ex pecked to have an almost immediate effect on the balkan states which an still debating which side they will take in the conflict . relations betwen italy and rouman ia for years have been very intimate the opinion is expressed here that il s probable especially in view of the threatening attitude of the germanic powers toward roumania because of her refusal to allow ammunition to pass through her territory that now that italy has broken relations with turkey roumania will join the quad ruple entente waiting serbia's reply bulgaria is still waiting for the reply of serbia to the suggestions of the entente ministers that serbia cede ma cedonia to bulgaria while greece is likely to declare her future polic when the chamber meets this week the opinion expired in circles here is that it is significant tha venzelos who has always been friend ly to the entente powers has decide to take charge in addition to th grecian premiership of the office o minister of foreign affairs with the inclusion of italy amonr turkey's opponents in war and tl former's well known desire for expan sion near the east the balkan may consider the time is ripe for then to enter the field to secure for them selves a share of what falls to the vk torious group it is for them to jc cidc which side is likely to win has no effect the continued retirement of the pu sian armies seem to have little if aw influence on the situation the opinii being expressed by military critics thr vctory for the entente a'lies in th dardanelles would more than offse this so far as the near enst is con cerned the franco-british forces nre in creasing their efforts to force th straits there is little change in poland a.»c the baltic provinces a big battle is being fought alon the kovno-vilna railway and the nic men river this however is of sec , ondary importance to the movement gainst brest and litovsk the austro - german forces are across the rivers and roads both nortl id south of this fortress which is in vested from three sides curiosity is evinced as to whether the grand duke nicholas intends to defend it or fal urther back for the moment he is resisting the ustro-german advance but this may ie only with rearguards which have een detailed to inflict as much loss is possible on the invaders and delay the progress of the teutons liveliness prevailed along some joints along the western front but mgagements have been of minor im portance the french claim to have repulsed german attacks in artois and the vos es while both sides are expending immunition in artillery engagements bomb throwing and other artifices in lany places to annoy their oppon ents the italians report slight progress on all their fronts ■ im • germans keeping mum concerning the arabic berlin aug 22.—no statement is obtainable in official quarters regard ing the sinking of the steamship arabic the tendency however seems to be to consider the question without ex citement the press thus far has avoided comment of any nature italians declare war on the turks italian ambassador hands the porte a note declaring italy in a sta f e of war with turkey and demand ing his passports leaves constantinople by way of adrianople reasons for italy's action are turk efforts to stir up rebellion in libya and turkey's refusal to allow itali ans to return home london aug 22.—italy has declaim ed war on turkey the italian am bassador has left constantinople received passports paris aug 22 the turkish am bassadpr to italy and the personnel of the turkish embassy at rome have already received their passports it is stated in a press despatch from rome marquis di garroni the italian am bassador to turkey will leave con stantinople for rome today travelling by way of adrianople most of the italian embassy's staf already have left london aug 22.—marquis di gar roni italian ambassador to turkey today handed to the porte a note de daring that italy declared herself ii a state of war with turkey and de manded his passports the reasons given in the note were • the support given by turkey to the re volt in libya and the prevention o the departure of italian residents frorr syria makes rumania happy geneva august 22 the bucharest correspondent of the tribune sends the following news of the italian declaration of war against turkey reacwed here at 8 o'clock last night there was much enthusiasm throughout the city the king at once called a meeting of the cabinet the italian amßas sador was present the king today will hold a con ference with all the representatives of the balkan states yesterday he sign ed several decrees of a military na ture russ lines still intact capture of kovno by germans did not cause any break in russian lines and petrograd expresses re newed confidence—russ armies in good form aug 23.—telegraphing to the times from petrograd the correspondent of that newspaper in the russian capital says from official communications and other reliable sources much needed comfort has been derived since friday the unexpected brevity of the re sistance of the strong fortifications of covno has contrary to gloomy fore bodings not meant the entailed rup ure of our main line of communica ions the surviving garrison was orthwith reinforced by troops who re staunchly holding the line from rom the right to janow and on both janks of the niemen south of janow md altsouns big drive anticipated behind the screen of general schme ow's cavalry massed of huge german onentration are believed to be in pro jress and making preparations for a irive from dvinsk to vilna there is no anxiety here at present hat the enemy will be able to endan ger the retreat of the armies operat ng between grodno and brest-litovsk the rearguards of these armies are holding back the enemy along the line of ossowetz bielsk and brest-litovsk we still hold the bialystok-brest-lit ovsk railway and still have four double track lines clear for the movement of our troops north and east steady and well-ordered.t german expectations that grodno would be our sedan may be treated with equanimity it is true there is the onslaught on brest-lkovsk still to be recokned with but its eventual loss probably already has been discounted the russian armies continue their steady and well-ordered retreat to their appointed line inflicting enormous loss es on the enemy made peace overtures to allies london aug 23.—a despatch tc he post from petrograd says that a 1 conference with the publishers of the fading petrograd papers who visitec im to urge the facilitating of the trans ort of supplies of paper m sazonoff russian foreign minister declared ir reply to a question that germany har vice already attempted to open p°ui arlers for a separate peace once vith france and once with russia cotton declared absolute contrand proclamation to this effect signed by the king appears in the london gazette and the order becomes ef i fective immediately lj|o surprise expressed by washington officials they had been informally notified of the allies intentions some time ago—expected that there will be protest made by cotton interests london aug 22.—cotton has declared absolute contraband by bril xm according to n statement i«;:ed ! y llit '• oreign off r last cverw the statement declares that the government proposes to initiate mea sures to relieve the depression which night temporarily disturb the cotton rrtarket because of the contraband or ir-.r it was learned upon inquiry at the rjpreign office that the french gov ernment has issued » similar notice ioclay effective at once aug 23.—the declaration naking cotton contraband is effective fi>m today the royal proclamation concerning the subject was published r a supplement to the london gaz ette issued tonight and is very brief after a preamble citing the previous proclamation concerning contraband ill says now therefore we do here by declare by and with the advice of omt privy council that during the continuance of the war or until we give further public notice the follov ing articles will be treated as absolute contraband in addition to those set out in our royal proclamations aforemen tioned raw cotton cotton linters cotton waste cotton yarn and we do hereby further declare that this our royal proclamation shall at once take effect the london gazette proclamation was signed yesterday by king george no surprise to u s washington aug 23—the announ cement that cotton has been declared absolute contraband of war by britain came as no surprise to officials here secretary lansing was informally ad vised by the british embassy some time ago that this action had heen decided upon and that formal announ cement was delayed only pending ar rangement of details this included it is understood pre parations to protect the market from the effect of the announcement and also an understanding between britain and her allies while officials would not discuss the subject on saturday night certain united states interests will protest against the british action citing the previous consistent policy of britain in holding cotton free of restraint the result it is expected will be to draw out a full explanation of the reasons behind the british change of policy with cotton declared contraband there will be no payment for sei/od cargoes a.s heretofore and inform dis cussion so far as cotton is concerned is at an end germans send an ultimatum to roumania ? demanding the right to transpart troops and material to turliey across roumanian territory balkan state prepares to resist de mand london aug 22.—a reuter ces atch from sofia bulgaria says private advices from bucha-cs irate that it is feared there that cer tiany has sent an ultimatum to rou rtania regarding the right to transmit nunitions for turkey through rouman an territory the roumanian cabinet is firmlj resolved not to grant this permission \ a large number of cars laden v itl var material have been held up a edeal a village near torr.o p?.ss vhere it is reported roumanian troop v*e concentrating troops also are massing at ja~sy 20 miles northeast of bucharest the petroleum regions have been i avily garrisoned roumanians have decided to mobilise ? geneva tribune reports that rela tions between bulgaria serbia and roumania at present are excellent predicts roumanian mobilisation august 25 geneva aug 22.—the bucharest correspondent of the tribune sends the following between nish and bucharest con stant telegrams are passing it is be lieved that roumanian will begin gen eral mobilization on august 25th relations between bulgaria rou mania and serbia at present arc ex cellent arabic not convoyed by british warships london aug 21.—the british gov ernment today issued a statement that the british steamship arabic was not being convoyed when she was torpe doed by a german submarine 12r """ yd i new arrivals | household requisites while and creamlace curtains s white curtain net | i cream madras muslins f 1 cream curtain voiles i with dainty colored border ] tap vetvet and table covers j assorted white cushion covers [ and blay j bo wring brothers ltd * have you tried our rich ginger snaps if not why not i a dainty addition to any table order a tin from your grocer i the tin with the green label | don't accept any substitutes a harvey & co ltd i