The Weekly Herald (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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WEATHERFORD, PUUXB OOVHTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER *1, 1914.
Held That Mutual Understand-
lag as to Certified Cargoes
Might Offer Solution.
By the Associated Press.
» RIGHT SPENT IN TRENCHES
SNIPERS CONSTANTLY AT
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Washington, Dec., 31—While the
American note to Great Britain con-
ig interruptions of the commerce
country continued to absorb
Washington, there was man-
confidence that the difficulties
ily would be adjusted ami-
the discussion has turned
{ires which the United States
groper# could take in co-operation
With Great Britain to reduce to a min-
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imum the necessity for extended
search on the high seas. It became
known that agents of the treasury de-
partment, acting in co-operation with
the state department, in one case al-
ready had inspected a cargo of cotton,
which Inspection had satisfied the
British embassy and facilitated the
progress of the shipment to its desti-
nation.
The belief was held in official quar-
ters that a mutual understanding
might be reached whereby legitimate
cargoes could be certified before their
departure from this country and there-
by made immune from detention.
High officials of the Washington
government were somewhat surprised
that the American note has been re-
garded as “brusque" in some London
quarters. They Baid the British cab-
let, which has it under consideration,
JTafter a single reading of the docu-
ment, must be convinced that the
United States had spoken in the most
friendly spirit, though none the less
earnestly and emphatically.
1 In all, it became known, thirty
American ships and cargoes, their
value totaling millions, have been de-
tained. The American note points out
specifically, however, that reimburse-
ment far previous damage alone can
not "cure the situation, as the activity
• of the British fleet has restrained
many American exporters whose bus-
iness has become stagnant for fear of
the numerous technicalities and risks
Involved in shipments..
With respect to cotton shipmehts,
the case of one or two illegitimate
tag the charges, the American govern-
ment has thought it advisable, never-
theless. to Issue a warning that one
fraudulent shipment must produce
embarrassment to cargoes generally.
Secretary Bryan, discussing the note
with callers, declined to give any de-
tails. Those neutral diplomat* who
called to ask about the note were not
given a copy of it, but were informed
that the first newspaper report of it
was accurate. They were told the
state department probably would not
deliver the text of the communication
to foreign governments generally, as
it still regarded the note as confiden-
tial, the American government itself
not having authorised its publication
jin part or in whole.
The general points on which the
note complains, and which have been
the basis of several specific protests
higherto, substantially are as follows
1. American cargoes have been
soarched on the high seas—a belliger-
ent right that is not denied—but the
ships also have been diverted to ports
for further examination, a circum-
stance held not justified under inter-
national law unless full proof of hos-
tile destination is presented at the
time. Serious loss, especially to per-
ishable goods, has resulted.
2. Great Britain has Regarded abso-
late and conditional contraband as in
the same class. The general under-
standing in international law has been i together,
that absolute contraband includes i
those articles which are intended for
use by a belligerent force and directly
destined to it. Conditional oCntraband.l
including foodstuffs, comprises the ar-
ticles which arc susceptible of use by
an army or navy, but it must be prov-
en that instead of being intended for
the civil population of a country thes"
products are destined for use by its
army and navy.
8. The note declares that in respect
to commerce between tw’O neutral
countries there ought to be no ques-
tion of contraband at all, for the rela-
tions arc those of peace and not of
war. Since the Civil war the United
States has' upheld the doctrine of
“continuous voyage” which permitted
seizure of a cargo even in its journey
between neutral ports provided even-
tually it was destined for a belliger-
ent. The American note, however,
takes the position that proof of such
hostile destination must be shown at
time of seizure.
4. The American government con-
tends a consignment sent to no spe-
cific consignee, known as “to order"
shipment is not of itself suspicious,
unless other facts are adduced, also,
at the time of detention or seizure.
j black, evil-smeling smoke, showers of
1 earth and stones, mangel-w’nrzela, and
pieces of shell come flying into the
trenches. One man finds a large
j ce of shell In his overcoat pocket.
I N’o one w as hurt of our lot. On our
_ i left the regiment had four killed and
London. Dec. 31.-Under what pic-'.3everal wounded- Thl8 ls ^ nnder
turesque circumstances men often :flre ProP*r*- and are S,ad «*«*!
move forward to the firing line is de-!have st0PPed and *iven us R re8t Notj
scribed by a London artist, a member,60 the 6n5»er8’ "ho,keep it up all day.}
of the Honorable Artillery Corps, who, “Night observation is very nerve-
with the sensitive eye of his craft.I'racking- Treea move Rboi,t’ 8howins
WALDROM’S
tells of his impressions with more
than ordinary vividness. His letter is
undated, but was presumably written
somewhere in Belgium.
“After doing work all over one
country,” he Writes, “we find <jur-
selves in another, with every’ prospect
of having a very hot time, which we
have all been praying for. At the last
place but two we were digging a sec-
ond line of trenches and came in for
some very hot fire. The next day
they caught u* ns we went to dig in
slightly more advanced trenches:
and we lay in a small ditch for about
three hours with shell and rifle bul-
lets jumping about over our heads
and flicking leaves off the stunted wil-
low trees in our ditch. One was quite
safe and rather bored, as it poured
with rain. I played a game of picquet
with the man next me and won two
francs, then the rain stuck the cards
Good-Bye Old Year!
—Hail to the New—
black against the snow, ana the skv
is yery clouded, ail shapes look hum-
an, menacing and advancing. There
is a tremendous artillery duel going
on on our left, like a million stage
carpenters knocking together a scene
of herculean proportions. Some reg-
ulars come up to reinforce our trench,
an attack is expected. I can hear the
tremendous movement of supply wag-
ru' going on just over the hill crest
in the enemy’s lines. Small red sparks
show fitfully in the trenches, rockets
are going up, and the 6ky ever and
anon is plit with great flames of light.
A farm behind our lines is one great
blaze and they send up rocket signals
oi our side, but nothing happens. We
r.fc relieved just before dawn, and we
-p back here very tired, dirty and
but very glad to have got
through our really first test of endur-
ance all right.”
Wc add our greetings to those of your
many friends and wish for you a happy
and prosperous New Year.
Ladies, misses and children can supply all
their wants with the season’s newest ready-to-
wear coat suits and coats and skirts at the low-
est prices that will be made this season.
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Now is the time to make your
money go the farthest.
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HtTHTAlR RUNG DOWN ON THIRD
ADVANCE TOWARD WARSAW”
MAY RUSSIANS.
COTTON FREIGHT RATES
SOARING: SHIPS SCARCE.
fiy Hip As»of-tnted 'Press.
Savannah, (la.. Dec. 81.—Owing to
the scarcity of neutral ships and the
^ ___ _______ risks connected with transportation,
cargoes It is recognized, haB caufeed trans-Atlantic freight rates on cotton
‘ — ~ - have reached new
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the British government to suspect nil j from Savannah
.shipments. The United States gov-
ernment has no evidence that there
has been contraband concealed in cot-
ton cargoes, but England has made
two specific complaints of it. Al-
bigli records, according to local ex-
porters. The average price of cotton
bore is abojjt $85 per bnle, and the
freight rate to Bremen Is quoted at
approximately half the value of the
though not vouching for, or confirm- cotton.
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E. & L. GARAGE MOVES
The Early & Late Garage, Clar-
1 ence Hopkins, proprietor, began
moving Thursday to the old stand
formerly occupied by Richards &
Putman.
f Mr. Hopkins asks a renewal of
the generous patronage of his old
friends and wishes them all a happy
and prosperous New Year.
& L. GARAGE
—Palo Pinto Streep „ ,,
"The night before last we left at
about 5. It was quite pitch black and
intensely cold, and snow lay heavily
everywhere on fields, roofs and trees
as we marched Bilently through the
village and out into a long, long road
with a wonderful avenue of trees like
Hobbema’s famous picture at the
National Gallery. On we go, hardly
able to keep our footing on the frozen
and uneven ground, and always, like
a tremendous surf beating on an iron
shore, comes the booming of guns
Rockets shoot up, leaving a long
stream of stars, and showing up the
silent country, snowbound and very
peaceful-looking, until one comes to a
village totally deserted, ruined walls,
heaps of debris and great shell holes
In road and roof telling their dreadful
story. And as if a miracle had hap-
pened, there stands the church un-
touched.
“We halt silently and move on again
and as If to remind us that the world
is' not so peaceful after all, shells
come bursting through the air. One
bursts quite close, setting a ruined
house in a tremendous blaze and
lighting up the whole scene (quite
one for a painter). We are just out
of it, five minutes earlier would have
shown us all up, and we should prob-
ably have been very effectively shell-
ed. We climbed down little slippery
slopes and up others very warily (one
Is carrying everything, and the natta
in one’s boots on the hard ground
make bad going). Over fields, and
then we reach reserve trenches at
about 7:30. I hate reserve trenches.
One of my great fears is suffocation,
and to stagger into a hole in the
ground and find oneself under the
earth, head touching knees and roof
above, in black darkness, not knowing
where one is, and feeling caught in on
every side, is dreadful to mo. We do
guards, each section till about 4:30
in the morning, with slight sniping to
remind one of the Germans, then we
form up and off again, and stagger, it
seems, for miles across fields and bro-
ken country. Here we are at last at
the first line of trenches. Black sil-
ent figures suddenly appear, a few
whispered orders, and we find our-
I selves in the trenches.
“There are five of ug_A»*tpur trench.
I The dawn comes up M&fty and we
lean see what is in fremt of us. We
| are evidently on top of a slope, or
rather not quite on top. There has to
be one observer in every trench for
half an hour all through the day and
at night an hour. The cold is still
intense, but we open a tin of jam and
start having breakfast. Suddenly tny
slice of bread and Jam is covered with
clay, knocked off the top of the para-
pet. The snipers are at work, and
wonderful shots they are, too. Over
a hundred bullets were put just in the
top of our trench, and whenever an
observer’s head went up to look
through a small inclosure, they were
at it again. Suddenly their batteries
opened fire on us, and getting the
range with marvelous celerity they
proceed in the next hour to put close
on one hundred shells on about half
a dozen trenches, including ours. We
are all crouched down. The noise is
advance, said that the result of the!
campaign would be the re-occupation |
of Lemberg by the Austrians and' the;
capture of Warsaw by the Germans, I
and that subsequent operations as di-
rected by the German general staff)
would decide the war.
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Berlin Official
Statement
Austrians Suffer Enormous Losses.
! tty the Associated I’resa. ■
( Berlin, Dec. 31.—The official atatfe
ment today' says the German attack*
Lemberg. Galicia, Dec. 31, via Lon-jn Poland are making progress in
don —The simultaneous attacks of the j Rawka district. There is no ch
Austrians in Western Galicia and from' on the Bsura and Pllica rivers,
the Carpathians proved to be a com-i o^gium yesterday an entire Franok
plete failure. Unofficial reports reach-1 company was annihilated by an un«
5""r <h.t del-mining explosion. The German*
still occupy Stelnbach, although tht
French artillery destroyed many houa*
es there. , - "
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Germans Ktncnate Mistrzewice When
Austrian Advance From i'arpa-
tiiians is Cheeked.
ing here state that the losses of the
Austrians were enormous and that the
Russians have taken as many as 50,-
f)U0 prisoners, including many Ger-
mans. Train loadB of guns and other
war booty pass daily through Lem-
berg.
Petrograd, Dec. 31, via London —
The Russian view of the military sit-
uation in Poland in the light of ree-
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French Official
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Statement
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check has been administered tp the
Germans. The evacuaton by the Ger-
mans of the village of 'Mistrzewice,
five miles north of Sochaczew, related
officially by the war office, is regard-
ed by military critics here as “ring-
ing down the curtain on the third Ger-
man advance toward Warsaw.’’
At a tremendous loss to themselves,
the Germans had succeeded in estab-
lishing a foothold in Mistrzewice, on
the east bank of the Bzura river, but
their persistent sledge hammer at-
tacks during the last three weeks
failed to penetrate the Russian line
before Warsaw. The Germans stead-
ily threw reinforcements into the
town in an endeavor to extend their
position along the river. -
When it became evident that the
Austrian advance from the Carpathian
mountains had failed the Germans
evacuated the village during intervals
between Russian attacks. The Aus-
trian operations from the Carpathians
evidently formed an integral part of
the general plan of the Germans for
the Warsaw campaign.
Heavy artillery is being brought up
by the Germans along their center be-
tween Skierniewice and the-Pllica riv-
er. This is regarded here as purely
defensive move, designed to prevent
the breaking of the German line by the
Russian infantry forces which are
operating there under the cover of ar-
tillery
Unofficial' reports from the Warsaw
front state that in comparison with
the heavy artillery duels, the infantry
operations are mere episodes
In Galicia the Russians have taken
the important town of Gorlice, fifteen
miles south of Tuchow, where the
Russians recently halted the western
Galician army of the Austrians, pre-
venting it from joining with that of
General Boehm-Ermolll. which was
advancing from Sanck-Lisko. Gorlice
is the junction point of several rail-
roads running east, west and south
throfigh the Carpathian district.
The pursuit of the retreating Aus-
trians In the Sanck-Lisko district has
been carried as far as YaBilsk. on the
extreme left flank of thp Austrians,
which ha* been captured. Yaalisk
and* the most Important high-
way into Hungary.
Hungarian prisoners arriving at
Kiev »t«ty th&t their CQtnjnandere. in
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Russian Left Wing Strong.
Berlin, Dec. 31.—(By Wireless to;
Sayville, L. I.)—The German official j______
nation In Poland in the light of ree- pregg 5ureau gave out the following: Ly the Aggoclatert Press,
ent developments is that a deflntej ..The ftuggianH i)ave strengthened pariB> Dec. 31.—The official stata*
their forces opposing thp Austrians in!,uent today 8ayg the French made t«r*
Galicia, and the latter, it is under-1 ^y,er advances at several point*. Ger»
stood, will be compelled to> make new j man counter attacks were repulsed in
dispositions, which will require j Alsace. The village of Stelnbach, 1%
time. Ixocal military experts are|AIgace lg occupied by half Germ**
making attempts to picture Russia’s j and half, French, and there is str**|
occupation of the line of Krosno-Jaslo ■ flghting there today. Near Rhetm*
the Germans last night blew up tan
as being no real gain for the Russi-
ans, but on the contrary as weaken-
ing their position. This view, how-
ever. is considered too optimistic, and
the fact must be faced that the ex-
treme left wing of the Russians is
proving itself superior to its oppon-
ents. The present action of the Rus-
sians in strengthening their forces
there is duo to their realization of
what an encircling of their flank in
Galicia would signify.
'‘News of importance is likely to
come from the Vosges district at any
time, since the French have assem-
bled strong forces all along the line
of Belfort-Epinal-Toul-Nancy. They
still hold all the Vosges passes and
appear to be developing new activity
along an extended line against Alsace
and Sundgau.”
French trenches, but the
pulsed the subsequent attack.
French r**
GERMAN SOCIALIST MAKES '
APPEAL TO END WAft
By the Associated Press. _____
London, Dec. 31.—An appeal fro*
Karl Llebknecht, the German social*
ist, to workers of the world
the war was published in labor paper*
here. Llebknecht say* the mar
everywhere loath this war and am
the German workers ther*
greater opposition to the war ««
generally supposed.
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Miss Laura Oliver and Mrs. Fr*4
Oliver are
Worth.
spending the day in Fort
The New Year
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1“MINDS me at the same old stand, ready to serve
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ting as each shell burst* Cloud* Of addressing the troop* previous to the
my customers and friends. The year just pass*
ing has been a hard one for everybody, and while
I am “not broke, but slightly bent,” I am thankful
for past patronage and solicit your continued fa-
vors during the New Year* •
May 1915 bring more cust
mers to my store. ffiT
Geo. W. M
North Main Street
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