Evening star., 1914-12-15
KAISER HOPESSEA
DEFEAT ABENEF|T
Asks That German People
Make Good Use of Naval
Sacrifice.
LAND BATTLES REPORTED
FAVORABLE TO GERMANS
Official Press Bureau in Berlin Takes
a Cheerful View of the Mill.
tary Situation.

BERLIN, December Is, by wireless
An official statement given out at head
headquarters today contains copies of
kilograms exchanged between Emperor
Wlll1am and Johannes kaempf, presi-
dent OF the reichstag, regarding the
naval battle off the Falkland Islands.
In answer to the telegram of President
kaempf regarding the German loss in
this battle. in which Herr Kaempf said
that the nation was one with the en-
peror in grief at the loss, and with
pride at the heroic deaths resulting
from the fight, the emperor said:
May the heavy offers we have been
forced to make in this battle for our
existence be borne by all and used
an unShaken hope in God, our Lord
from whose gracious hand we humbly
receive fortune, misfortune. joy and
sorrow. will turn this most difficult
hour into blessing for the father
land
The official press bureau today gave
out the following:
THE Turkish cruiser Midirli (for-
merly the Breslau) has .bombarded Sc
bastopol.
in the army besieging Przemysl. Sew
eral battalons are said to have been
sent away in fetters.
The Turkish official bulletin says
that the large cruiser Sultan Sel1m
the Goeben) bombarded Batum De-
cember 10, setting fire to the city. The
Russian land batteries returned the fre
without success.
"ConstantinopIel learns authoritativelJ
that a Mohammedan uprising has oc-
CURED in the Caucasus and that $4,000
armed Russian MoslemS went over to
fight against the Russians
"The Temps IA Paris newspaper) esti-
mates the Russian losses at over ,8oe.-
900, of whom over 100000 have been
killed.
The Austrian general STAFF reports
that in the ,Carpathians and near near
made prisoners.
The board of the Milan Corn EX-
change has addressed a protest to the
Italian foreign minister. charging arbi-
trary seizure by the British and French
of eleven Italian steamers.
The Gazetta del Popolo "a Turin
newspaper) reports from Dunkirk that
an enormous percentage of the Indian
and North African troops have been Sc
Verely wounded because they were used
as food for powder by the English and
French.
Situation on Battle Lines.
The week end finds no change of i'm
the east only the evacuation of Lodz
by the Russians. although there is rea-
son to believe that the German attack
has been gaining ground.
"Southward OF Cracow the AuStrtanS
still are repulsing all attacks and further
to the south have succeeded in clearing
a number of the Carpathian passes of
the enemy.
"The position of the Germanic allies in
Poland is generally considered favorable,
an especially favorable point being the
fact that the Russians appear to have
assumed the defensive everywhere with
out the power or energy to assume an
aggressive advance in any section.
There have been no developments, so
far as advices disclose, in the servian
operations.
1.-The German and Austrian bulletins
issued Sunday combine to show that both
armies are making progress against the
Russians. While the German statement
omits to say whether the capture of H.
900 prisoners and forty-three machine
guns, previously reported, occurred in
the region of Lodz or Lowicz or north Of
the Vistua by the army which last week
took Przasnysz. the Austrian statement
renders IL pra ctically certain that it was
north of J.owicz where successful at
tacks continued upon the strongly forti-
fled Russian position.
the Russian southern wing on Saturday
at Limanowa and the advance of Aus
trian forces over the Carpathian passes