The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-02


 London, January 1.-(Midnight.) The Tor bay trawler Providenci has landed 70 additional survivors from the battleship Formidable. They were rescued by the trawler during ter rife storm this morning. This makes the aggregate number of saved as far as is known i4z.
 The rescue was made under dauger- ous and exciting circumstances. The frawler's crew was amazed while rum ming before the -gnIe for shelter to find small open boat driving under their lee. After desperate efforts the traw- Ter got rope to the cutter and brought her to stern.
 The naval men began to jum0 aboard hut even then there vas dan- ger of losing men in the 3O-foct sens. After a hRlf hours work, however, all were safely rescued. When all had left the cutter her rope wns cut. She was full of water, having n hole under her hull which had been stuffed with a pair of trousers of which one man had di- vested himself for the purpose. Some of the rescued men had little clothing. The naval men had been. In the cutter for nearly IF hours. The crew of the trawler distributed hot coffee, food and tobacco among the benumbed saiI- ors. When they landed the residents brought blankets. clothing and boots for the survivors and housed them in comfortable quarters.
 The experience of these survivors from the Formidable is almost indes- crfbabIe. For hours before being res- cued they had been battling against the storm, hoping against hope, until the brown sails of the Providence hove in sight.
 Copenhagen, January 1--(via Lon- don. SEQ ?. m.)-Danfsh autho rities today seiHed large cargo of copper. saia to have been shipped to Denmark by . German-American in an attempt te smuGxle 1t through this country tO Germany by means of false bill of loding.
 London. January L-uOs2o D. ml The destruction of the British battle- ship Formidable in the English chan neI today by a mine or . submarine boat. although one of those events EngIishmen now realise must be ex- pected 90 lonG as the BrftisA navy is compelled to keep the seas, has caused widespread grief.
 This Is due, not so much to the loss of the ship, which was IS years old and cost about s5.Ooo,o0O. as 1t is for the men gone down with her. Thus far only 15O men of the Formidables crew of 75O are known to have been rescued. light cruiser picked up 30 and a Tor bay ! trawler 70 Among the rescued are eight | officers and six midshipmen
 The British admiralty has not an- ncunced the locality where the disaster | occurred and declares that it is unable to oay whether the ship struck a mine or was torpedoed. but the inclination here Is to believe that a submarine again has been successful in an attack. 4s
 Battfes at Front -ss
 News from the front was dwarfed to- day by this latest loss to the British navy. although big battles are taking place along the two fronts.
 Fighting in Flanders and northern France has been confined largely to ar- tillsry engagements. except near Be- thune. where the Germans claim they have taken . British trench. They ad- init. however, the loss of St. Georges Anear tho Belgian coast. which the Ser R4in officaI report says 1t waa. decided not to attempt to retake owing to high water
 In the Argepne region. where the bat kIo has been almos. continuous for weeks past, the Germans have made q
 NtIs progress. as an offset to which.
 lysver. the French declare they have
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