St. John's Daily Star, 1916-01-15

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 11 3.00 per annum saturday january 15,1916.v price one cent no 12 no warning when u-boat sank liner forty members of the crew of the british steamer clan macfarlane sunk in the mediterranean on de amber 30 are still posted as nng m - x v sea was running when torpedo hit her u-boat only came to the surface and asked information of the sur rs in the boats after the ship had been sunk was one of larg submarines | s \ in jan 1 5.—the malta cor pondent ol reuters telegraph ds the following despatch embers ol the crew ol the iuncr clan macfarlane i torpedoed in the * medi m on dec 30 is.still mis - boon given up a losi tin salanson commander ol is included among the mis ivors who have arrived here ■ steamer was torpedoed with rning in a rough sea and ne appeared on the surface c . er the torpedo had hit the ship be crew had.taken to the boats marine came alongside a i i by the captain ol : lane and tha submarine c asked and received misca information regarding the ship . submarine was of the largest and mounted two guns and its mander showed great uneasiness • arvivors say while waiting for tr to sink and finally ac ed her sinking by placing five low the water line the life boats battled eight days ' mountainous seas with the oc i i rations consisting of half nit and a small cup of water twice daily six life boats were seen tied together but three broke away e and are believed lost possible unless the railway extends as tar as the neighborhood of ismajia on the canal 48 miles from port said meanwhile the british besides de fending the suez canal where ihey are confident they will be able to repulse the turko-german attack have adopt ed measure insuring the safety of the interior of egypt and they have pro hibited navigation in the red sea which is patrolled by warships the garrison at aden has been increased wi(h the object of preventing she 1 urko-german emissaries from reaching abyssinia which communi cates with europe only by way of dji butil in french somahiand on the gulf of aden from which the french railroad now reaches adisabeba 48 miles by rail irom djibutil turko-german offensive against egypt delayed but is not abandoned london hears the railroad from jeru salem has been carried across the sinai deserl to within fifty miles of the suez canal and stores of food and water provided delay in attack caused by necessary road-building ■ british have not only fortified the sirez canal and provided for de fence of the interior of egypt but have warship patrolling the red sea ' london jan 14.—the turko-gcr man expedition against egypt har been delayed bu has not been aban ihe railroad from jerusalem ow been carried across the sinai and 50 miles from the canal supplies of water and pr i v is have been accumulated al route the expedition is to fol i he delay o:t the attack on the suez possibly is due to the tact that r lilroad is not yet completed since the germans are convinced that mili tary operations in the desert are mi vatican denies interference in present war holy see says i is apparent both sides are fighiing for a con clusive victory jjome jan 14.—the holy sec did nothing up today cither direct or indirectly to solicit from either group o the belligerents an invitation to par ticipate in or preside at a peace con ference says the catholic organ giri rera ditale in article evidently inspired by the vatican both groups of belligerents the pa per adds thus far intend to be com pletely victorious dictating conditions of peace outside of any extra interfer ence threatened egyptian move bluff rome believes the germans are using such talk as a blind to cover up their real intentions which is to aim a crushing blow at british in mesopotamia and attack egypt later ome jan 14.—the mass of rumors and reports which have spread of ate concerning a contemplated turko german drive against egypt is be lieved here to be a veil artfully cast by the central powers and their ottoman ally to cover extensive preparations j now underway for a concerted gigan ic efrori in mesapotamia with the aim of inflicting a crushing defeat upon the british there suez and egypt will not be seriously attacked until this aim is accomplished the germans it is said are purposely spreading reports about an imminent attack on the suez canal and are pre tending that the troops have been sent to syria instead however the teu v on turks are concentrating all their efforts at present in mesopotamia reinforcements of troops and enor mous quantities of war material in cluding heavy austrian artillery have ecn sent to bagdad which is to be the base for the new drive only demon strations in force are expected against the suez canal while the main effort will be made from bagdad a crushing defeat of the british in mesopotamia is the immediate object the germans believing that such a de feat would open up the way for opera tions against the suez canal and egypt allowances are reduced municipality of benin makss conoid crable redaction in quantity cf bread doled out to ib citizens weekly—government prohibits im portation of biuter to prevent com petition with imperial bureau derlin jan 15.—the municipality of berlin has taken the lead in the reduction of bread allowances which ere ordered recently by the cen tral authorities in order to accumulate a reserve supply f : ifty grammes per week is the re duction which is from 1950 to 1900 grammes which . is equivalent to slightly more than four pounds sup ' plementary cards for working classes with incomes up to 2500 marks annu ally will call for only 350 grammes per week instead of sco butter for bread also is the subject of governmental action an official an nouncement has been issued warning i municipal'ties and communes they will not be allowed to import butter pur chased abroad a number of cities de i siring to satisfy the complaints of cit | izens sent agents abroad to buy but i ter thus establishing undesired compet ition with the imperial butter bureau encouraging foreigners to demand high er prices thirteen of the crew of the norwegian steamer were lost in the wreck cromer england jan 15—thir teen members of the crew of the norwegian steamer hafru perished when the steamer broke in two after stranding and one member of the ships personnel saved when the ship stranded v he crew j took to the rigging but all except one i were washed away before the life boat arrived to aid them available shipping records do not contain the name of a steamer the hafru ruined by earthquake then visited by fire i rome jan 14.—the cathedral of sora was destroyed by fire today while services were in progress throughout italy commemorating the earthquake at avezzano and sora a year ago the fire destroyed the statue of st restina sora's protected saint which was almost the only object in the church of sora which escaped ur.in jured in the earthquake of last year montenegrins are overwhelmed by sheer weight of numbers london jan 15.—the flag of the dual monarchy flics over cettinje and the austro-hungarians are con inuing their march southward toward ihe fortified port of antivari driving before them by force of numbers the soldiers of king nicholas montene gro is now encompassed on all sides except in the south by invaders across the southern border in al bania should they be driven there they will face foes in the albanian tribesmen with the fall of their capi tal and with no let up in the austrian pressure against them the situation of the montenegrins seems a critical one doesn't safeguard them the newly-acquired positions of the austrians dominating the adriatic sea have not sufficed to keep from harm their warships one of which a cruis er of the novara type has been sent to the bottom of the adriatic by a trench underwater craft where the sinking took place or whether there were casualties connected with it is not made public the turks according to unofficial reports from berlin have taken ker manshah the so-called capital of per sia and famous for its rugs and carp ets surrounded by a fertile wheat country little fighting is going on along any of the various fronts except by means of big guns and sapping operations the entente fleet again has bombard ed the turkish positions on the evacu ated gallipoli peninsula since the blowing up of railroads and bridges near the greek v frontier by the engineers of the entente allies there have been no new developments seeding to show a change in the situa tion there nothing has come through concerning the promised attack by the teutonic allies along the line leading to the base of the entente allies at salonika but advices from the mace donian sea port are to the effect that the british and french continue to land reinforcements there in large num bers and it is hoped by them to make salonika a second ypres in strength and resisting ability germany threatens germany has notified britain that as the government has declined to an swer satisfactorily the german demand for the punishment of the members of the crew of the patrol boat barralong for the alleged killing of the crew of a german submarine which the barra long sank germany is forced to adopt adequate measures as reprisals baron chelmsford has been appoint ed viceroy of india in place of baron hardinge haveßeenchasedfrom their capital and are now returning to wards albania — quiet on the other fronts north holland devastated by unprecedented floods i tous westerly storm backed the fater of the north sea upon the and broke down some of the ykes and flooded a number of illages—hamburg is also stffler [% from the flood sterdam jan 15.-the te!c graaf reports that the zuidcr zee dyko at katwoude has burst that zuicl polder has been flooded and that the inhabitants of the place obliged to abandon it have fled to ld.i-.i which is also jarlly flooded at seven o'clock adds the message the alarm bel rang at broock also in the province of north holland and aboui six miles northeast of amster dam as the flood was pouring in with terrific force many forms were completely inun dated and the inhabitants are pro ceeding in boats to surrounding vil lage volendam is entirely flooded monnieknd on the mainland and the island of harkan'are under water . hamburg flooded hamburg jan 15.—a1l the street rcrvice and vehicular trafhc of this city is tied up owing to the unpre cedented floods caused by a wer itorm blowing water from the se back up the elba kiver many cellars have been filled wit water and the streets of the lowe portion of the city are flooded io ; depth of 30 inches the storm reach ed its height at 1 1 o'clock on fhtm day r.ight bigger menace amsterdam jan j a later me sage from edcm says the dyke pro tecting the polar zeevange is in dang ed and that if it breaks the resui will be the flooding of the greater par great dan-age done london jan 15 damage cause by the floods in northern holland i said by an amsterdam correspondent to be greater than was believed a first 1 he great dykes along the zuider zee have collapsed at several places and peasants with their cattle flee precipitately before the rising waters greek queen unlikely to visit german kaisei paris jan 15.—adespatch to th journal dcs debates from athens jated today says no one here believe that ihc queen of greece is ihmkinrj o going to see her sick brother em peror william it is pointed out that she has talked of this for a long lime nnd that it is unlikely she would ex pose the greek dynasty to very ser ious risks by visiting berlin under pres ent conditions mr w j walsh m.h.a fo - pla centia is in town on business read the daily star austria protests arrest of consul says aclion or eniente aiiics wqs ex hibition of bruld force —— — vienna jan 15.--raron rurian austro-hungarian foreign minister has requested american ambassador penfield to convey to the british and french government an austro-hmgar i ian protest against the arrest of the austrian-hungarian consul at salon ika and his assistants and the violat i on of the archives of the consulate the note refers to the conduci of the entente allies as a brutal e::ercise of might and a violation of the ir.ost elemental principles of international law it further declares thai aujro hungary reserves the right to take slcps dictated by the further course of the entente allies in respect to lhe f'lcial under arrest armenian massacres london jan 15.—armenian refu gees at erivan russia transcaucasia state 1500 sasun armenians who were forced by cold and famine to to the turks under a government r.m nesty were killed by the ordir ol me government of mush men were mas '. red and women and children drown j in the euphrates river th & news aas telegraphed to viscount bryce by in american refugee worker ''?&> t extremely coid london jan 15 the post's stock holm correspondent reports arctic con ditions throughout sweden with a re cord temperature of 23 degrees below zero twenty steamers were frozen in at gefle during the last few days hc the ice breakers •-- re lease them austrian cruiser sunk in adriatic warship of 3384 tons torpedoed by french submarine focault rome jan 15.—1t is officially an nounced that the french submarine focault attached to the italian fleet torpedoed and sank thursday in the adriatic sea an austrian scout cruis er of the novara type these cruisers of which there are four have a displacement of 3384 tons and carry as their armament two 18-inch torpedo tubes and nine 3-9 inch guns the focault was built in 1912 at cherbourg and is 167 feet long french aviators wrecked trenches of bulgarians london jan 14.—a squadron of french aviators on tuesday bombard ed the first line of bulgarian trenches in the serumitsa wrecking several trenches and killing and wounding a number of soldiers says a despatch from athens to the exchange tel co railwaymen opposed to compulsion pass a resolution absolutely con demning conscription in any form and say that they are prepared to take the most drastic action if the bill is passed will call general strike of british railway workers say that if the government com mandeer men fo rthe successful prosecution of the war is should also commandeer property for the same purpose j[ew york jan 15.—a news agency despatch from " london published here this afternoon says the national railway mens l t nion one of the greatest labor organizations in britain has defied the government to enact the conscription bill in the most drastic resolution yet adopted by any abor body the executive committee of rail way men declared their organization vill resist conscription to the utter nost ihey hinted at an immediate strike of all railway workers of brit ain if the bill passes parliament lnless the government is prepared lo confiscate the wealth of privileged classes for more successful prose cution of the war reads the resolu tion railroad workers will resist to the uttermost the confiscation of men whose only wealth is their labor uower the executive committee declared the railway workers are overwhelming ly opposed to any form of conscription and they have not receded they said from the position they took several months ago when they warned the government that an attempt to en force conscription would be followed by a general strike the drastic action of the railway men coupled with the anti-conscrip tion resolutions adopted by the repre sentatives of eight thousand miners yesterday unquestionably has caused the government deep concern mr asquith conferred informally to-day with the members of the cabinet it was rumored that efforts were being made to amend the bill before the final vote is taken to eliminate the objections of the railway men and miners british release the stockholm london jan 15.—the swedish american line steamer stockhilm with passengers mail and general cargo which was taken into kirk vvail by british authorities for ex amination her voyage from new york for stockholm was released to-day 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