Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-01-09
BATTLESHIP FORMIDABLE TOR
PEDOED BY GERMANS IN THE
NORTH SEA ANC OVER 600
LIVES LOST.
RUSS OVERNJN CARPATHIANS
Austrians Are Hard Pressed in Ga
licia-Fighting Continues in France
. and Allies Are Said to Have Moved
Forward Some-Other War News
Latest War News to Date.

issued by the various governments
The situation in Belgium and North
ern France has not changed materially
in several weeks past, while III the
east the reports are at variance.
From Petrograd it is announced that
the Russians Lave successfully re
pulsed the German attacks on the
Bzura and Rawka rivers, while the
Germans announce the capture by
their forces of BOrjinow, a strong Rus
sian point of support, in which l,oVo
prisoners were taken, and that to the /
east of the Rawka river the German |
attack is proceeding steadily.
Newspaper dispatches forecast pos |
sible grave happenings in the Balkans. |
! The revolutionary situation in Albania |
is said to have grown much worse.
and it is declared that the efforts OF
/ the Christian Balkan states to secure
the neutrality OF Bulgaria apparently
nave not met with complete success
| and that Greece, Servia and kou-
mania are preparing for eventuahueS.
Conscription may be enforced in
| Great Britain. This was intimated III
a speech made by Thomas J. MacNa-
mara. parliamentary secretary to the
! admiralty. referring to men without
dependents who have not enlisted, ne
said: IF they think they are going
to enjoy a life of freedom at the other
fellows expense they won't enjoy 1t
much longer"
Pope Benedict is hopeful that dur
ing January many wounded soldiers
incapable of further fighting will be
returned to their home countries.
Most of the belligerent nations have
agreed to the pOpes request for an eX-
change of such prisoners.
5 Switzerland, according to the retlr
ing president of the republic, DR.. Hoff
mann. who will hold the portfolio OF
foreign affairs, intends to remain alb
solutely neutral.
5 Emperor Francis Joseph has accept
] ed the retirement applications of two
a more generals who we're active in the
+ disastrous Servian campaign.
t Great Britain has notified the Unit
@ ed States government that seized car
7 goes of turpentine and rosin and cop
e per shipped before they were placed
+ on the contraband list have been, OF
will be. paid for. No cargoes for Italy
y if is announced, have been held VI
l. since Dec. 4. Negotiations are III
Il progress with a view of removing the
II embargo on rubber.
Five hundred and seventy-nine mer
.efpI-inO pf tho RrItlSl
= battleship Formidable in the Engllsi
8. channel on New Years Day, accord
n. ing TO the latest estimates. Or tn
q crew of $50 men, POI were saved,
10 cutter with fifty living aboard HAVING
reached land since the first casuai'.
~ list was compiled.
\ The Germans found another Brltls
- victim Friday by sinking the 16-yeal
old. but still useful. battleship Fol
midable. of the same class as the bal
tIeship Bulwark, blown up te'
weeks ago off Sheerness.
no The fact that it occurred in Tn
ar English channel recalls the circun
N. stance that British ships have bee
;s- engaged in bombarding the Germa
.Iv pOsitions on the Belgian coast an
sh that German submarines on sever;
H. occasions in the past have attempte
he to torpedo them.
ed As in previous disasters to BIRTHS
ships. the casualty list in this ca:
an includes many midshipmen, no few
nd than sixteen having been on boal
I'm the Formidable.
er- The Torbay trawler Providen
De landed seventy survivors from q
gu battleship Formidable. They we
'"' rescued by the trawler during a Il
en- rifle storm Friday morning.
80 Some of the rescued men had lit
cd clothing. The naval men had be
in the cutter for nearly twelve hou
The British battleship Formidat
had a displacement of $1,000 tol
She was 43O feet long and carried
on complement OF $50 men. She W
' 'iN heavily armored and carried four
10, inch guns, twelve 6-inch guns and
'P teen 12-pounders. She was provid
GU also with four submerged torpe
ho tubes.
rIv The Formidable was Launched
mn 1898 and was a sister ship to the 1T
70 sistible and Inplacable.
Tor A cargo of American copper, VIM
mes it is alleged, was to be smugg
of through Denmark into Germany,
been seized in Copenhagen.
Ambassador Walter Hines Page
:. a long report from London, recei'
me, at Washington Friday, following
l at conferences with high officials the
OF described the general attitude OF
ears British government and the people
lie ward the American note OF prot
nur' concerning Shipping as entirely trie
w.. He said reply mad been promi
within very few days.
Emperor Francis Joseph recel'
he New Year greetings Of the
Derial family and presided over