Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY,   XOVEMBER 15, 1914.      L%'::ontS
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Crack Battleship of the English Navy Sent to the Bottom by German Mine or Torpedo Within Sight of Irish Coast.
OLYMPIC  RESCUES   90O  MEN   ON  BOARD
New York, Nov. 14.—The following letter from an I ntemational News Service correspondent on the liner O lympic gives the details of th e disaster to the British super> dreadnaught Audacious.
"Since I wrote the earlie r report we have had most thr illing experiences. Tuesday morning soon after breakfas t as we were off the coast of Ireland we saw four or five miles away a British dreadna ught, a cruiser and torpedo b oat. We made toward it and found H. M. S. Audacious flying signals to stand by; that she was sinking. Waves were breaking over her after decks. In the rough sea she seemed to be going down by the stern with a heavy list to p ort, as if she had been torpe doed on the port side.
WHOLE CREW ON DECK
"The whole crew of 96 0 men were on deck, all stan ding erect. Those at the stem with waves breaking o ver their feet.
"There was no flurry visible. Everything was being managed with coolness and clock work precision.
"All our boats were lowered, manned and sent off to take the crew from the Audacious.
"The battleship launch ed one of her own boats fu 11 of men, but a huge wave dashed it against her side, oa psizing the boat. All the m en were picked up by small boats from the cruiser and d estroyers.
"Meanwhile the Audac ious was making efforts to g et a heavy cable to the Olympic.
"A trawler flying the S wedish flag had come up an d with fine seamanship she picked up the heavy cable a nd brought it to the Olymp ic. We were informed the lighter cruiser, a gunboat an d several destroyers were no t of the slightest use as they could not tow the battleship, but that the Olympic was going to try to get her into shallow water before she sank.
"At last the heavy cab le was fastened. But a mo ment after the Olympic started the hea\'y sea made i t impossible to regulate the strain on the cable. With the 45,000 ton ship on the o ne end trying to pull a 30,00 0 ton battleship at the other end the cable broke.
GIANT BATTLES HIP POWERLESS
FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES BETWEEN ALLIES AND GERMANS
French Claim Victories All Along the Battle Line in Bel¬ gium and Northwestern France
SOLDIERS    ARE    WAIST    DEEP     IN     WATEP
COLLAPSE OF GERMANY'S POLISH CAMPAIGN
.\—Germ.an left wing, under com¬ mand of t^encral von Hindelhurg. B-C —Centre, which has been separated from the two wings. D—Austrians under command of General Dankl. The numerals represent the eight Russian armies that have been launched against the German-Aus¬ trian armies. They are: 1—First army. General Kennenkampf. 4 corps. ' 1«0.00O men. 1—Second army, Gen- I eral Skiginsky 5 corps, 200,000 men. 3—Third army General Mistchetko, .'i corps. 3 cavalry divisions, 250,000 men.       These   troops  are   in   contact
"The Olympic then tried to drop her own anchor cables— the longest in the world, but th e trawler was unable to pick them up and the dreadnaught with all her engines out of commission, was powerless to lift tho Olympics heavy cable herself and get it
aboard.
"The whole afternoon was spent in trying. We found the sinking battleship just after breakfast and now it •was getting dark. More than three-quarter s of the Audacious crew had now been taken off by the cruiser and a gunboat hovering near.
"About 200 men remained on the Audacious—all on decJjr— waiting calmly for the signal to 1 eave, as the huge pile of iron was getting lower and lower in the water.
"Perfect discipline seemed to prevail on all the ships. There was no confusion—not a shout or sound came to us from the sink- iiij; dreadnaught.
MAGAZINE MIGHT EXPLODE
"Experts told us the battleship's magazine might explode at any moment but there was no excitement.
"After dark the rest of the crew were taken off the Auda¬ cious and put aboard the cruiser and gunboats and salvage crew summoned from Glasgow. i
"We all wondered if the stricken ship would survive the night.
"The Olympic was ordered during the night to proceed to Lough S'willy on the north coast of Ireland for safety.
• ¦ A squadron of the British navy, it was said, was already there, including the flagship Halba, five battle cruisers and many gunboats and destroyers—a regular armada.
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION LIGHTS SKY
"The Ol^impic got under way and was going at less than half speed when the greatest noise I ever heard in my life made us all nearly jump out of our skins,
"A huge red semi-circle of lurid light at least 1,000 feet in diameter flamed into tho skies astern of us and, in about thirty seconds ull was black again. The Oljrmpic crept slowly on with¬ out stopping.
"It seemed obvious to everyone on board that the'magazine of t'ne pyeat Audacious, had blown up and $12,500,000 had gone to the bottom. But I do not believe a single life was lost. The officers of the Olympic were stricken dumb on the subject of the Audacious.
RESCUED TARS JOLLY LOT
"But the few hundred jack tars we had rescued and all of whom came aboard barefoot, (but every man jack of them with a cigarette tucked behind his ear) had the time of their lives that night.   They were not cast down by the disaster.      They    danced
horn pipes, sang songs and kept upa   of a racket all night
long and even the cabin passengers on the Olympic joined in and many healths were drunk to th e British navy.
¦ :oon after daylight a London and Northwestern Railway tug came out to take the seamen off the Olympic. They jammed her deck and as the tug moved off the men gave round after round Ol cheers as I have never heard of to the Olympic who hadjrescued them.
"The Admiralty sent the Olympic a wireless saying it was un¬ safe to proceed to Scotland until the sen, #id been swept for mines, go that the liner was ordered to stay here. Passengers were taken off and landed in tenders.
ACCIDENT A MYSTERY
"How the Audacious was sunk, whether by a mine, or by a 4orpedo is a matter for experts.    But if by a mine how could   it
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AUTO KILLED C. D. VAN SCOY
«itli    General    Hindenburg's   German
army. 4— Fourth army (Seneral Oil- ] insky, .", roriis, including the guards, : 200,iMP0 men. .^—Mfth army, Gen- ', eral von Plehue 4 corps, 160,000 mea. I 6—Sixth   army.     General     E-werth,   4
eorps. Kill.000 men. 7—Seventh army. ! iJeneral Radkow Dmitriew, 4 corps, I IfiO.OOO men. S—Kighth army Gen- ! eral  Kroussllow.  2 corps and Siberian
and Caucasian contingents, about : 100,000 men. The st**Tlgth of the . Ru.ssian armies on October 2,5 was , l,3,'>u,000, but since that time they . haave been  heavily reinforced.
MYSTERY 01^ FATAL STABBING HALTS POUCE AND TROOPERS
Piiris, Nov. 14.—The French an J their British and Belgian allies won today in every encounter from Liille to the North Sea. The German at¬ tacks were met strongly and the in¬ vaders were driven back at evety point   of  German  attack.
"The Germans have dug fre^^h trenches, brought up heavy re-en- forcement.s and mounted additional batteries of heavy rapid fire guns for the defense of Di.xmude and the allies are massing strong bodies of troops on the left bank of the Yser opposi-^e the town for a final a.ssault whic i promises to be t}»e most bitterly I fought battle of this .section of th .• ! fighting line.
! "Straightening of the allies salle;i>. I thrust eastward from the pivotal posi- ; tion at Ypres i.s progressing and the j French and Britush are making a I gigantic effort to press the line for- I w-ard until its ends rest Sennebeko I east of Ypres and Uinghemarck, five j j miles to the north. ] Violent  .Attacks by Gcmiaits.
' "Two violent attacks were directed ' by the Kaiser's troops against the aliiett positions in the course of the day's fighting, one to the northea,sl of Zonnebeke and the other to the south of Ypres. Both w-ere repulsed by the allies and in the latter en¬ counter the Germans suffered heavy losses, being cut to pieces hy rhe heavy French machine guns. The ef¬ fort of the Invaders to drive the Bel¬ gians from their position at the bridge at Nieuport failed  ngain  today.
"In the course of the French move¬ ment to straighten the wedge in front of Ypres the allies were able to push forward near Bixachoote north of Ypres w-here a gain of one kilometre was recorded. The attack.s against these positions to the north of Y'pres have been of such vigorous character as to betray the concern of the Ger¬ man   staff   lest   this   advance   be   the
signal for the spread of panic through the  ranks.
German Discontent ReiKirted, "LHscontent has been repurtel among the new troops brought to re¬ place the veterans in the German trenches. This feeling has been fos- terd by th conditions under which th" raw troops have been compelled '.o fight. In the trenches they have been •.v;iist deei> in water mo.st of the day and night owing to the flooded condi¬ tion of the country and the constan:. rins of the past few days. While the German.s were able to record slight gains, according to German prisoners, the officers .still were .able to main¬ tain  the morals of  the reserves.
But if a drive is started by tho allies, it is the belief of experts hera the retreat of the Germans which Hto been held imminent for so long wil] he. precipitated. In the region between the canal of La Bassee and ths town of .\rras a vigoroius attempt to break through the allies' front was made by the Gei-mans today, but here f^ well as at Lyons, the attackers wero repelled and the French and British continued to maintain their offensive po-sitions, even recording slight pro¬ gress at   several  points.
Fort l)e Paris and St. Hubert in tho .\rgonne region were agtin attacked ! by the Kaiser's troops in a vain ef¬ fort to re-capture these positions. The fighting in this district is becoming dail.v more violent.
Gi-rmans  (laim  Slow Progpeas.
London, Nov. 14.—The following uew.s bulletin was issued by the war office at Berlin and i^ent to London by  w-ireless:
"The fighting In West P landerj continues. Our attacks during the last few days have been impaired ?y rains and stormy weather therefor..! we h-'.ve l>een progressinir only slowly.
"We have taken 7^0 French prlson- (Contlnned  on  pag" 2.)
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Neck Broken in Accident at ^vj,), gght Stab Wounds Miners MiUs Man Goes Home
Westmoor  Last
Stepping   from   beside   the   trolley tracks at the corner of Market street and Thomaa    avenue,    Westmoor,    a man   believed   to   be   C   D.   VanScoy was  almost   instantly   killed     by     an automobile    owned    " :.i    driven     by Harry   Dietrich   of   Shickshinny     htst night.     VanScoy   evidently   was  wait¬ ing   for  a  car,   but  according  to  the j story  told   at   police   headquarters   by I Dietrich  he  allowed  a   West  Pittston car to go by and then turned directiy I into the roadway  and into the auta- i mobile'B   path   before the  brakes     of j the  latter  could  be  applied.     He  fell ' head     foremost     and   his   neck     was broken by the machine's fender.
Dietrich took the body in his car to West Side Hospital and then gave himself up to the police. He Said he noticed VanScoy take up a posi¬ tion at the corner of Thomas avenue and was certain he intended to board the next car from Wilkes-Barre. Dietrick was headed to\.ard this ci'y and WTien the West Pitttson car sped by VanScoy he paid no attention to the latter until he started out on tha roadway. It was then to late to j avoid the crash and VanScoy was un¬ der the machine before Dietrich'.: foot had pressed the brake clutch. Only a tag on the coat of the dead man gave the name of VanScoy and lacking any further identification the police ordered the body sent to Maher's ndertaking rooms in Kings¬ ton.
and to Bed, Leaving No Trace of Affray in Which He Seems to be the Sole Victim
STATE POUCE SEEK A  CLUE   TO    MYSTERY
With   eight   stab   w-ounds   threaten-, could   only   make   meaningless     ges- ing   death   Michael   Rowlands.     aged j tures. When removed to City Hospital [.about .^7  years, of Miners Mill.5. Is in [.State Police examined    his     clothing
the City Hospital unable to explain the cause of nis injuries. State police v/ho ha\c b'?en scouring tne section for some tr,'. ce of a saloon nrawl at midnight Friday were unable up to an early hour this morning to give the lea.'-t inkling of details on the stabbing and the police face a mystery that promises to be of a baffling nature.
Itowlnds entered his hom-^ .=:ome time during yesterday morning and none of his family was aware that he had been injured until attempts were made to arouss him for lunc'u. He   w-as   then   found   in   a   semi-con-
for traces to a solution of the mys- terv- but were finally forced to start on  a blind trail.
Three wounds received by Row¬ lands are of a nature ordinarily fatal. One penetrates the abdomen and the others arc in the ches'. Besides these ar cut.s and bruises of the he.ad and back, all seemingly made bv a lon.g sharp knife AViiliam McDonald of -Min. r's Mills, a brother-in-law of Rowlands, .^pent all \-esterday after¬ noon in an Investigation In Minei's Mills but without result. All known is that Friday w-!is pay-day at the mines   and   Rowlards     received     his
LORD ROBERTS DEADjNFRANCE
Hero of India and South
Africa Succumbs to
Pneumonia
London, Nov. 14.—The news of the death  of Field   Marshal Roberts waa i re-election was assurred.
DR. ANNA SHAW WINS VICTORY OVER ENEMIES
Nashville. Tenn., Nev. 14.—Dr. Anna Shaw- will begin her elevent'n consecutive term as President of the atlonal American Woman'.'* Suffrage Association at the close of the con¬ vention     now   in   session   here.     Her
, wages along with manv others ¦ scious condition, weak from lo.s.' of; Where he so^nt the night there was 5 blooj. Every effort was made to , no one to testify to.. At the hospital (have hini indicate where or how he i it was .stated Row-lands will 1 had   received   the   wounds     but      he ; die.
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THESE MAY BE ROBBERS BOLD
PRIESTS JOIN LAITY
IN PLEA FOR FUNDS
When Detectives Brown and Smitli arrested three York Stale boys on South -Main strtet yesterday .after¬ noon and found in their possession a .iimmy and other tools peculiar to the burglar's profession it looked for a time at police headquarters as though a solution was at hand for some .;f the recent numerous burglaries. Vic¬ tor Duffy and James Gordon of Ne.v York City and Joe Dickson of Ro- 0 year; of age, are
RESERVE BOARD FIXES RATES
Nov.
Washington, reserve    board   today rediscount   rates   for
paper  of  aU
At   a   meeting  this   afternoon   Revj Father John J. Curran and the com-
I mittee   in   charge   of   relief   measures
: for the striking miners    in    Eastern
j Ohio  will  discuss a plan of solicitingi! Chester, all  under
I aid  from  all  the  people   of Wyoming j the   boys  and   the   first   charge     they Valley,   allowing  contributions  of  not i will   face   probably   will   be   put   forth
j only money  but    of    clothes greatly j by   railroad  detectives who   say  their
I needed by the men,  women and chil-i telephone booths have been roii^ed by
I dren   of  the   affected   region.  Second, i youngsters      answering    the    ^
I hand   clothes   are   desired     in     great! description of th captured.
abundance and as great an amoutit ot!         --«-.. -	
money as can be gotten w-ill  be usedij .VDAMS I'OR SPK,\KER
for food  and  fuel.    Fathers Wergoff i      Rei»resentative   Wiiliam   .\dams,   ot   State House of Representatives. How Karniski.   Kudirka,   Moffett,   Goe<;keJ! Hazleton,   was  in  town  la^ night  in   ever, .Mr. Adams and his close frienda and    .McManus   have   joined    heartily. I company  with   Senator   J.   W.   Lyn. h, i ff*el about it there is nevertheless con-
i with Father Curran in the charita-| of Scranton, and politic ians were won-i siderable foundation to a rumor that ble work and the ensuing week wllbj dering if the vLsit had anv-thing_ta i the Hazleton m-'.n will be launched ibr bring definite action. J do with the boom for speaker of tb« { the important-poaitlaa*
14.—The federal! announced   the; the   twelve   ce- ¦ serve districts In participation fur the opening of the banks on .Monday.
The rates are aS follows:
For New  York and  Philadelphia	
Bills and notes having a maturity off not more than thirty days, 5 1-2 per cent.; and paper vvlth a longer ma¬ turity,  6 per cent.
Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Sa. Lou¬ is  and   Richmond—For maturity, six per cent.
.\tlanta,   Minneapolis,   Kansas   City Dallas and San Francisco—For thirty day paper. 6 per cent; and  for papeil nera;   of  longer maturity,  6  1-2  per cent.
All   the   banks   are   ready   for   the opening on Monday.
received  in a telegram     from     Field Marsh.il Sir ohn French, reading:
"I deeply regret to tell you that; Lord Roberts died at 8 o'clock thia Saturday evening."
A later dispatch said that Lord Roberts contracted a chill Thursday, soon after his arrival in France and succumbed after a short Illness, hi,^ great age, 82, mitigating aaginst hia recovery. ''
It was only yesterday that another official announcement was made that the famous general was going into thtt war zone to see the  Indian  troops.
The explanation of the field mar¬ shal's visit to France was accepted aa plaiisiiile as Ixird Robert^ w-as born tn India and w-as fairly worshipped by the Indian troops at the front.
It  was believed,  how-ever,  that  thq presence  of the  field  m.arshal  in   tho fighting   zone   presaged   active   devel¬ opments of  thecampaign. Native of India.
Lord  Roberts was born  in Cawan- pore,  India,  Sept.   30,   1832.    eH was the son of Gen. Sir Abraham Roberts, G. C.  B.. and  Isabella Bunberry Rob^ erts.     He  was  very  young w-hen senQ' to England to be educated.    There h^^ j was graduated  from  Eton, Sandhurstlj and Eddlscombe.
e remained in England until 18')2, when he returned to India to begini the foundations for the fighting ca- a9-Roberts-tgrig rrrrrrlrr 3?lwcih gf reer which caused Emperor William in September, 1912 to refer to htm as "the  ablest soldier  of the  times."
Like all those who build mightily, he began at the ver>' foundations andk spent four months in thelahoratory with the native field battery at Diim, Dum. His most important duties therv comprised o super vision of the firing; salute guns.
He    was    quiet,  studious,  taclturr., sometimes      abrupt     and      seemin^I.v | quarrelsome,   but  he had   the  build.)g   '^^ s^" spirit of the born man of warfare aud early  his success wa---  predicted. F>iery   Inch   a   Man. He was a little man, physically, btit he was a man over his entire  length and   breadth.     He   was not  possessed of  fear and,  in  his  appentice    days, would fight with the keenest appre^:- j th® iation of the occasion and conflict.    He was noted  as ^Continued on PacQ
The anti-Shaw forces held anoiher caucus last night but were unable fo induce anyone to run a.i;ainst Dr. Shaw.
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STEEL >nijI^S OPF.X,
Gary, Ind., Nov. 14.— Orders havei been issued to resume operations ati the Gary steel plant on Mondayj Three bla.'rt furnaces, twelve npenr hearth furnaces 210 coke ovena and all rollin.t; mill.s except the rail ralU Will be w;tive for some da.ys.
SPECIAL AIEXTIOX
FOR     SALE—Finely    equipped  meat market, only one in town.    Address Box   S9,   L,aceyville.
I H.VVE a contract to d strlbute a million FREE I'kgs. Borax Soap Powder. Want reliable men and wo¬ men to help. $15.00 w-eekly. JL T. Waverly Brown. 730 N. Franklin, Chicago
WRITERS WANTED to send us poems and melodies for new songs. We can compose mu.sic and arran^ for publication immediately. Dug- dale Co., Washin.gton,  D.  C.
CHAHTER NOTICE
Notice Is hereby  given that  .m ap¬ plication  will  be made  to  the  Gover¬ nor of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  on Monday,   December   7th,   l'.n4,  at   3 0 o'clock   A.   M.,   under  the  Act  of  As- I sembly   of   the      Commonwealth      of J Pennsylvania,    entitled    "An    Act   to I provide    for   the  incorpor;>tion     and ! regulation   of   certain   corporations," approved     .\pril     29,   1874,   and    the supplements thereto,  for  tlie  charter intended     corporation    to    be called   tho  "Wyoming   Produce  Com¬ pany,"   the   character   and   object   of which  is   for  the   purpose  of  buyius .'ind  selling  butter,   eggs,   cheese  and kindred  products and   for these pur- po.=c.s   to  have,   po.ssess  and   enjoy  all the rights,   benefits and   privileges of .said   Act   of   Assembly   and   the^ thereto. >iK:ti.ER  WElNTRArS,
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