ob oi £7 has The Germans Reached the French Trenches at One Place, But Were Repulsed Miter Severe Fighting. fe - Paris, Dec. 11.--Further progress of the allied troops along the entire line of more than 250 miles, with the ex- ception of in the region of Ypres, is reported to-day in the official communique. About Ypres, the Germans made thre tacks Freni ing. : - Further advances and the results of German attacks in the e are reported, while along practically the entire line the German artillery has been active, but un- able to overcome the advantage of the French guns. i e desperate at- esterday. At one point they actually reached the trenches, but were repulsed after desperate figlit- ~- British in Roulers and Armentieres. Loudon, Dec. 11.--The allies have entered Roulers (Rausselaere)' in West Flanders, about twelve miles northeast of Ypres, according to the Sluis correspondent of the Amsferdam Handelsblad. Reuter's Boulogne correspondent, who. has just re- turned to Boulogne from Armentieres, savs that Tuesday the Germans were driven out of Armentiores by the Brit- ish and harled back beyond artillery range. Arvmentieres is nine miles northwest of Lille, IR i] LR TT - i SUNK BY THE BRITISH Buenos Ayres, Dec. 11.--Addifional reports of the engagement off Falkland Islands receiv that the British fleet includes the second eruiser squad- ron, attached to the home fleet, composed of the cruisers y Achilles, Cochrane and Natal. 'The sinking of the Geran eruiser Nurnberg, first reported yesterday, has been confirmed. The Nurnberg was run down only after a chase and refusing to surren- der, fought gallantly until sunk. The Dresden met a similar fate eight hours later. The main engagement off the Falklands lasted for five hours. The German reports declare that Admiral Von and officers of his fleet realized that they faced certain destruction when they saw they had been caught between the Japanese and British fleets. The German vessels immediately spread out and prepared to fight to the last man. The Nurnberg and Dresden, being light cruisers and the swiftest vessels of the German fleet, managed to keep up a running fight for hours. he cruiser Karlsruhe and the converted Kron Prinz Wilhelm, which were in this vieinity, have fled. The British fleet, according to latest reports, has cap- tured the crews and sunk colliers and supply ships which were serving these cruisers. Fee If these reports received by wireless are true, it is believed that the Karlsruhe and the Kron Prinz Wilhelm, as well as the Prinz Eitel Frederich, will soon he rounded up by. the British. | Deprived of auxiliaries, the eruisers will soon be rendered helpless owing to shortage of coal and supplies. ed to-day, stat Spee SEVENTY-FIVE NURSES from on file and in secur- ve now in- per- uto- WAR NOT. KINDLED IN PEOPLE'S WELFARE German Socialist Says it Was Created by German and Aus- trian War Parties. Amsterdam, Dec. 11.--Dr. Karl Lieb- knecht, the socialist member of the Reichstag, who was the only one to vote against the war credit at the re- cent session of the Reichstag, explains his agtion in an article just pullish- ed in Berlin. He says: "This war was not delired by any of the peoples affected, nor was it kindled® to" promote tho weliare of the Germans or any other people. It was created by the common action of the German. and Austrian war parties in the obscurity of semi-absolutism and secret diplomacy, in order to antici- pate their adversaries. : "At the same time, the war is a Napoleonic attempt to unnerve and crush the growing labor movement." | i De iw PITH OF THE NEWS Condensed Items By Telegraph And From Exchanges. Rev, F. J, Sawers, Peterboro, been offered the rectorship of bourg. Controller Thomas L. has Co Church is € | definitely in the Toronto rhayoral- ty campaign. A Canadian banker states that of the £350,000,000 war loan Canadian banks secured £20,000,000. At Salisbury Plain, Pte. bray Penn, Montreal, died ford Manor of pneumonia. Finley Perrin, London, brother of the late D. S. Perrin, millionaire bis- cuit manufacturer, died on Thursday, aged eighty-four years. New indictments Chicago police officials © charging bribery: and confidence swindling were returned on Thursday. The provincial government is pre- pared to do everything in its power to stimulate horhe industries and build up great industrial centres. The CN.R. and G.N.W, telegraph amalgamatian has been completed. The change takes place on Jan. Ist The G.N.W. will take over the C.N. I. offices. English brewers are seriously con- cerned over the effects of early clos ing 'and heavy duties upon their trade. Beer consumption has decreas. od fiity per cent. and the consump- tion of spirits is increasing. Edward Murray Wrong, B.A., Bal- liol, has been elected to a Fellowship after examination in history by the president of the Fellows of Magda- lon College at Oxford. He is a son of Prof. Wrong, Toronto. As a basis for a motion pleading that a new .trial be granted Hans Schmidt, who murdered Anna 'Apmuller and then threw her dis- membered body into the Hudson river, his ajtorney has presented to the supre court in New York, affidavits signed by physicians which ret forth that the girl was killed by sun operation and not by having her throat cut, as Schmidt said was the case. Mow- at Bul- against four eries Sank Two German Submarines London, Dec. 11.--A half dozen German submarines made an attempt at 6.30 o'clock Thuryday morning to enter the admiralty' harbor, accord- ing to' a Dover despatch to the Ex- change Telegraph company, and for half an hour the batteries kept up a furious fusilade, firing at least s. ' three of the sul ried that two or rines were sunk. William Antoine; his wife and two children, and her brother, Baptiste lian'Fex, of Cornwall, were drowned while erossing in a boat! to Bernhart Island to attend a family party. Rev. W. R. Boag. for several of the Episcopal at Sacket Harber, #3 GERMAN RECRUITS PRACTISING In order to make their recruits efficient in the use of the bayonet, they provide them wth dummy harm- less bayonets with which they imstruct the recruits, NORWAY APPEALS DECISION Of German Prize Court Regarding Vessels Seized. Christiania, Norway, Dec. 11 (via London).--The' prize court at the Ger- man port of Swinemunde, on the Bal tic, has rendered its decision in the cases of five Norwegian ' steamers seized by German warships, according to word which reached Christiania yesterday. Both the ships and their cargoes were declared lawful prizes and were confiscated. The vessels were loaded with wood- en pit props, consigned to English mine owners. The decision of the prize court is consequent upon the recent classification by the German government of wood 'as contraband. , The seized ships were valued at $400, | | | Gin, The owners of the vessels have er tered vigorous pratests, alleging that | the confiscation is in violation of in- : ternational law. An appeal from the decision of the prize court has been taken to Berlin | MURDER AT WHITBY. REVEALS NO ROBBERY | "Central" and Then Died at His Post. Whithy, Dec. 11.--Laler reports indicate that there was no robbery or any appearance of attempted rob- bery in connection with the murder of William Stone, Jr., the popular Young operator. Chief of police sald to-day the bullet which killed Stone went in just over his heart. There will be an autopsy and an inquest. The message from the dying man reached the police chief just af midnight. A freight train had pas- sed through just previously. Hello Central, this is the. june- tion, somebody has _shot me," said a voice over the phone. Several arrests have been made on vagrancy charges in connection with the case, (See also page 3.) been decorated with a French medal for bravery in saving a genera! from capture by Uhlans between Rheims and Lille. Influential Hindus in British Col- umbia who have seen service in the Indian and other British forces offer to raise a. company of their country- men for service in the war. HOW BRITISH London, Dee. 1L.--Official details of the terrific naval engagement of Tues. day in which Admiral Sturdee avenged the death oi his ¢lose friend and com- | rade, Admiral Cradock, are furnished ! hy the admiralty's statement. | The most rémarkable passage of { Admiral Sturdee's report .is that not | a man aboard any of the British ships { was lost. | The battle lasted for five hours. | When . the British squadron attacked, following the ntotions of the flagship, the Dritish guns singled out the Scharnhorst, flying Admiral Von Spec's flag. . The German flagship replied and a vigorous engagement ensued in which -- the Gneisenau stood 'by, the oth- ers being directed to scatter. It took three hours of lutions fight. ing, in" which the gunnery of the rival crews was put to supreme test before the Seharnhorst was given its death blow. . As the flagship went down, stil) fighting, with al on y the Brit. slip directed its against the Uineisenan, sister ship of the Scharn- horst. Meanwinle the British tL BAYONET CHARGE. ing to German South-West Africa, and - Y + Aree ian Hy Whitby Junction Operator Notifeid as the source of a base from which to | threaten the peace and liberties of th. | { SANK GERMAN WARSHIPS the total loss of ; X between THE BOER REBELLION AT END, SAYS BOTHA The Premier Announces Complete Victory Over the Forces of Maritz. London, Dee. 11.--~General Louis Bo- tha, premier and commander of the defense forces of the Union of South \frica, announces that the rebellion is practically at an end. Since the capture, on December 4th, of 700 rebels and the surrender of 200 oth- ers, five additional rebel leaders and their commandoes have uncondition- ally laid down their arms. Only one rebel leader is at large, Col, Marita. General Botha, in making the an- nouncement, warns the people against Larboring any vengeful feeling and concludes : "Maritz and Kemp, who were cor- rupted while officers af the Union De- fense force, have succeeded in escap- Fighting Develops Into a Des: | and artillery by their German allies, will seek to invade the Union. Our | next duty is to.deal with this danger and make it impossible for German | South-West Africa to be used again | non. | "l hope and trust that the people | will deal with this dancer as energti- [ ly as they dealt with the internal rebellion." I'he Indian office reports that 1,100 Furkish prisoners, exclusive of wound- ed, and nine 'guns were captured at Kurna, on the Persian Gulf, which was occupied on December 8th. CONGRESSMAN PAYNE DIES In Portland Washington, Washington, Dee. 11.--Five min- utes after he called up the hotel of- fice of the Portland hotel here last night for help, Representative Sereno E. Payne, of Auburn, N.Y., died sit- ting in an arm chair in his room, of heart failure, | Representative Payne was the only member of the present congress who served fifteen terms. He started in the forty-eighth, missed the fiftieth congress, and had been returned to | every subsequent congress, He was | born in 1843. | Vatican, | conditional His Room Hotel No orders have yet been issued re- garding the third overseas contin gent, SQUADRON | | sistance for two hours more, when it, | too, was sent to the bottom. w---- Rescue Men In Water. While in the distance the warships of the British fleet were engaging the Liepzig, which was sunk after only a short Aght, ef- forts of the units which had des- patched the Gneisenau were direct: ed towards picking up the survivors who were struggling in the water, some clinging to the boats which had gone overboard when the ships tleared for the action. Of 'the crew of the Liepzig. also, some survivors were saved; but of the~trew o' the Scharahorst none was found alive, though the water all about by this time was dottel with inert forms, The rescue of the living delayed the chase of the fleeing Nurnberg and Dresden, which was led by ihe flagship, but the colliers accom- panying the German squadron were easily overtaken and British crews immediately placed aboard them. Of the chase that followed, {ts aitection and duration, nothing is said in the official statement. The N carried a crew of i 422 men and as far as known none of the crew ped. ~~ This small | state. | ener colonel of the talking in code." 1g SUPREME EFFORT --- LAST EDITION "TO RELIEVE CRACOW perate Battle. GERMANS ARE POURING MEN FORWARD IN SEEMINGLY | UNENDING NUMBERS. German Cavalry Attempting to Get Across Carpathians --= Petrograd | Reports Germans Being Held in | Check Near Warsaw. i London, Dec. 11.--A supreme ef-! fort is being made by the Austrians and Germans to relieve the besieged fortress of Cracow. So important is this movement regarded, that Arch- | duke Frederick, who has been in command of the main Austrian ar- my, is said to have yielded the di-! rection of operations, to the German general staff. The fighting to the south of Cra- cow is developing into one of the great 'battles of the war. The Aus-| tro-German forces have made des- perate attempts to break the Russi- an line by massed frontal attacks pouring men forward in seemingly | unending numbers. - The artillery | fire has been terrific. Every indica-| tion is that the German artillery ont- | ranges the Russian, but the Russi-| ans have held their lines by the] bravery of the cossi®ks fighting on | foot. On the southern front the indica- tions are that the German cavalry is endeavoring to get across the | passes in the Carpathians to relieve | the situation in Hungary. Petrograd reports to-day 'that the operations of Gen. Fran- | cois to the north of Warsaw are m4king little progress. The failure @f the Germans, however, would be followed by a disaster more serious than that which befell Field Marsh- al Von Hindenberg on his first ad- vance on Warsaw. Petrograd re- ports that the Germans are being held in check. state | Enormous Booty for Serbs. Paris, Dec. 11.-- A despatch to the Havas Agency from Nish, Servia, says the total captures of the Ser. vians in battle fought with the Aus- trians from December 3rd to Decem- ber 7th were 121 officers and 22. 114 men, 68 field pieces, 42 quick firers, eight mortars, 10,000 rifles, 50 waggons-loads of ammunition, 1,305 transport waggons, 10 hos- nital waggons, four ambulances, two treasury safes and 327 horses. Germany Favored Truce? | Berlin, Dec. 11.--(By wireless | telegraph to Sayville, [.1.)--Among the news items given out by German Official Press Ilureau terday were the following: "Immediately Germany received the suggestion of Pope Benedict for a truce among the warring nations | during the Christmas holidays an | afirmative reply was sent to the The reply, however, was on the acquiescence of all the other belligerents on the wpe"s suggestion. \ the | yes- | Kaiser Sitting Up, London, Dec. 11.--~The condition of | Kaiser Wilhelm was improved to such an extent to-day that he was permit- ted to sit up for a few hours, de- spatches received here, via The Hague, 9 War Tidings. A Turkish gunboat has been sunk by a Turkish mine, at the entrance to the Bosphorus. The king has appointed Lord Kitch- Irish Guards, to succeed the late Field Marshal Lord Roberts. { Lieut.-Gen. Sir James Wolie Murray has been appointed chief of the im- perial general staff in succession to the late Sir Charles Douglas. In Rome it is said Prince Von Bue- »w, the provisional ambassador of ermany, is entrus with a special secret mission to prepare for peace. OFFICER ON GLASGOW DESCRIBES THE FIGHT That Took Place Off the Coast of Chili on the 15th" of . London, Dec. 11.--The Times prints a letter from an officer aboard the H.M.S. Glasgow dated Nov. Oth, giving a vivid narrative of the naval fight off the Chilean coast. Describing the search of the Bri- tish squadron up and down the coast for the enemy's warships, the writ- er says that although they could not locate them, "We heard thelr secret and friendly wireless stations ic [3 Coming to the battle itselM, the writer says everybody was remark- ably cool as if at practice. "I can- not understand the miracle of our deliverance. Nono will ever. we were struck at the water Mune in all, hy five shells out of about six hun- dred directed at us, but strangely enough, not in vulnerable places, our woal saving vs ono three occasions, ! as we are not armored and should ) not be in battle line against an arm- J ored cruiser." * Toronto hotel-keepers will with the military guthorities to tain sobriety To STURDEE AVENGED Death of His Friend, Late Admiral = Cradock. London, Dec. 11.--About the ad- miralty there is told what purport- ell to be the story of how Admiral Sturdee, who as far as the publif knew, was still en duty as chief of - the British war staff, came to be sent to South Atlantic waters . to capture the German fleet that de- stroyed the Good Hope, flagship of Admiral Cradock, and the Monmouth on November 1st. Through the 'long yea their service there has been ® brotherly attachment bet | mirals Cradock and Sturdee. had been held in high favor royal navy Cradock immedial \ uneereding Sturdee as naval aide the king when Sfurdee in 1908 as ed to be returned to sea duty. When the news was received that ira! Cradock was lost with his flagshin in the engagement off = © Chile on the afternoon of Novems ber 1st, Admiral Sturdee besought the first lord of the admiralty, ac- cording to the story, to permit him personally to command a fleet of fast ships to avenge the death of his friends. Admiral Sturdee's "whim" was humored. And his friend and the service was ayeng- ed. CHRISTMAS DINNER FOR EVERY SOLDIER The Government Will Provide the Season's Cheer For All Not Going Home. Ottawa, Dec, 11.----Every man un- der arms in Canada will have a Christmas dinner at the govern« ment's evpense. This will include the 8,000 odd men now doing out- post, garrison and guard duty throughout the dominion, and' the 30,000 troops now mohilized here for service oversea#.. It has been decided that fo he ot these shall be deprived ol it some par! the Christmas hoor which their Christmas day. ------------ Liquor Shortens Life, New York, Dec. 11.--~That: the use of alcoholic = beverages shortens life was reported as a statistical fact to the eighth annual convention of the Association: of Life Insurance Presi- dents at the Hotel Astor to-day. Figures on the subject were present ed by Arthur Hunter, actuary, in con- nection with the findings of mortality investigation into the lives of 2,000, | 000 life insurance policy holders, eov- { ering a period of twenty-five years. Crosse And Blackwell's. Crystalized ginger, 30c. th; dry sweet ginger, 30e.. 1b. 4 wholesome confection, to be had at the Golden Lion Grocery, DAILY MEMORANDUM, Vaudeville, Grand Opera House, 7.30 am. Mendel's big clearing sale opens toe morrow morning. See top of page 3, right hand corner, for probabilities, Intercollegiate debate, Queen's vs, Ot« tawa, Convocation Hall, § p.m. Sale home-made cake, pies and pickles rOW Y « C. A. rooms, Saturday morning: THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is On Sale at the Following City Stores: Bucknell's News Depot ..305 King RB Clarke, J. W. & Co. .... College Book Btore Coulter's Grocery 'ullen's Grocery, Cor. Frontena« Hotel Gibson's Drug Store ..Market Square McAuley's Book Store ....98 Princess McGall's Cigar Btore, Cor. Prin. & Jang 1cdLeod's Grocery ....51 Union / Medley"s Drug Store 360 U: Ave vaul's Cigar Store .. 7¢ Princess Prouse's Drug Store ....313 Princess Valleau's Grocery ......908 Montreal Lowe's Grocery ........ Portsmouth ; ROBERT J. REID ! : "The Lea: Un 4 Phone 677 inn Street JAMES REID 254 and 258 STRENY "Phone 147 for ! Take Notice New Xmas Goods