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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
BLAZING RATS FAIL
TO HARASS FRENCH
Germans Use Ancient Device in
Fighting Near Albert

The Germans are resorting to "ire
ships" in their fighting against the al
lies in northern France.
They are sending burning RATS
loaded with explosives a1oat on the
streams in an attempt to burn OIL blow
up bridges held by the French, Brit.
ish and Belgian troops.
The Freich official statement tells
of these operations IN the river
Ancre, which flows north and west OF
Albert.
In the vicinity of La Bassee there
has been a return to the old style of
German battering, the men being
hurled forward in close formation at
great sacrifice, with, British reports
say, little permanent gains.
La Bassee, twelve miles south OF
the Belgian border, long has been a
crucial point on the western front,
and the British troops congregated in
the neighborhod have suffered heav'
lily.
German attacks at ST. Paul, which
were repulsed with severe losses.
were directed against the French pc
sition in the forest of st. Mard, east
of Scissors, where a heavy amount
of French artillery was massed.
After a respite, sever bayonet
fighting is in progress in the Argonne
district. troops fighting at close quar-
tiers for possession of trenches. 1t is
believed the German troops in the vi
entity of st. Hubert, Fort De Paris
and Fernacy are being strongly rein.
forced. French airmen reported great
activity on the railroads back of the
German lines.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
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Berlin official dispatches announce
a German advance in the Argonne re
gion and the capture of some French
trenches south of La Bassee. Paris
says German attacks have been re
pulsed. OF seven British aviators who
attacked Ostend and Zeebrugge, thru
were driven out to sea by German
airmen, Berlin says.
Russian forces are reported to have
routed the Germans near Rawa, west
of Poland. Vienna says the Austrian
forces have begun a drive toward
Tarnow, Galicia, threatening the Rus
sian communications, and that the
cars forces have been checked in
Hungary and Pennsylvania. Berlin
says the Russians have been defeated
In two minor engagements in East
Prussia.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
SUNDAY.

A German submarine made another
raid on British shipping in the Eng
lish channel. and two more vessels
were sent to the bottom near Havre.
This statement vas issued by the
French minister of marine.
A great battle is raging in the Car
pathians and the Austro-German army
has been dealt a severe blow in the
passes of Dukla and Vyzskow. Thj
news was contained In an official din
patch from Petrograd. Southwest OF
Dukla the Russians captured three
lines of Austrian trenches and repulse
ed all of the Austro-German attacks.
A Paris official dispatch says thar
the British forces have recaptured all
of the trenches taken by the Germans
in the region of La Bassee. German
attacks in the Argonnes were repuls
ed. A heavy artillery duel is raging
at other points along the battle front
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06

General Won Hindenburg has cap
tured many positions in the first line
of Russian defenses near Borjimow
and Soehaczew, west of Warsaw. ~
Heavy artillery fighting is reported
in Flanders. Germans. who captured
trenches from the allies between the
Lys and Somme rivers, France, are
reported to have been driven back.
Great Britain has notified the Unit
ed States informally that all fool
stuffs sent from neutral countries Ia
Germany, Austria and Turkey will bel
considered ~contraband, and that fqa1<
cargoes and their carriers will
seized.
The bridge of the Canadian Pacif1
railroad crossing the border at vancel
.boro, Me-, was blown up by dynamiteN
A man who said he was a German of
fcer vas arrested on the Maine side
of the line.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06

Remember the Maine!'' Again that
famous term will bear concrete fruit
In the formal dedication of the ma.
tional Maine memorial in Arlington
the seventeenth anniversary of the
sinking of the battleship Maine in Ha.
yana harbor, this memorial will be
formally dedicated. 1t consists of the.
original mainmast of the battleship
set in a concrete foundation and re
foundation. is a mausoleum, fourteen
feet high and twenty-six feet in diam
eter. On the sides are panels inscrib.
ed with the anne of the victims CT
the Maine. President Wilson, Secres
tary OF. the Navy Daniels and Rear
mander of the old Maine, will speak
at the exercises.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
MONDAY.

German submarine raiders have
sunk four British merchant vessels in
the last two days. Three coasters
were sunk In the Irish sea Saturday
Sunday the Tokomaru, from New
Zealand, was sunk-without warning
it is alleged-near Havre.
Petrograd Russian pro
gress near Gumbinnen, East Prussia,
and west of Warsaw. Berlin claims
progress all along the eastern battle>
front, particularly west of Warsaw,
and says the Russians have been
driven in the %Carpathian mountains.
Vienna that an Austro
German army has begun the invasion
of Serbia.
Heavy fighting is reported south OF
Ypres, France, and along the Aisne
river, in the western field of oper
atoms.
Five hostile airships are reported,
owe Dover, Eng, travelling east. The
were fired at by the forts and driven
off without penetrating inland.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
CHECK GERMANS
WEST OF WARSAW
Russians Claim to Have Re-
gained Lost Ground
COSSACKS NEAR BUDAPEST
Berlin Announces Capture of Village
East of Bolimow and 1000 of Cars

East OF BolimoW M 40oO OF Czar9s
Troops.
Fierce fighting continues in the dis
trict west of Warsaw, and the tide OF
victory is now flowing toward the
Russians as a result of the arrival
there of fresh troops.
Dispatches from Warsaw estimate
the Russian achievements in this re.
gion at 1000, 900 men, and al official
statement issued in Petrograd stated
that trenches taken by the Germans
in the early fighting had been recap.
tured.
While general interest centers in
the fighting west of Warsaw, the mill
tary experts regard the news that an
other invasion of Hungary is in full
swing as of greater Importance from
a s~trategical standpoint. The Russian
general staff reports that large forces
of cavalry are approaching Budapest.
The advancing Cossacks have prac.
tically separated the Austro-German
forces in Bukowina from those in
western Galicia.
The Russian drive against Thorn,
the great German fortress on the Wis
tula, in East Prussia, has been resum
ed. After ~sanguinary fighting along
the lower Vistula and north of that
stream, the Germans have retreated
to Lipno, only twenty-six miles from
Thorn.
The following official statement was
issued in ~Petrograd:
"The engagements in the region Of
Mlawa have continued favorable to
our troops. On the left bank of the
Vistula the battle on the roads from
Borjimow proceeded on Feb. l with
considerable intensity.
1.-THE German attack on the morning
of Feb. 2, north of Borjimow, was re.
pulsed with great losses. A violent
combat was begun south of Gouminei
where we %recaptured advance trench.
es which we lost on Jan. 81.
In the Carpathians the conflict
continued on Jan. 81 and Feb. 1. Our
forces advanced, fighting along the
broad front at Dukla Pass, as far as
the lower San, having crossed the
principal ridge of the mountain range
in the region of Pasliska and Mezo
Laborcz, where we took a battery OF
six cannon, two m~ortars, a number oil
rapid firers and numerous prisoners.
An offensive movement undertaken by
the enemy southeast of Uszok Pass
was repulsed with enormous losses.
The capture of 1000 Russian prison
ers and six machine guns since Feb
l, in the fighting west of Warsaw. is
announced in an official report from
the German general staff, issued in
Berlin. The statement follows:
I'll Poland, north of the Vistula,
cavalry ~onslaughts by the Russians
have been repulsed, while south OF
the Vistula German attacks at a point
east of Borjimow ended with the oc
cupation of the village of Humin
(probably Coymine). Fighting for pos
session of Wolaszye-Lowiczka has
been going on since Feb. L. In these
engagements we have taken more
than 1000 prisoners and captured six
machine guns.
Russian attacks at night against
the German positions nea the Bzurs
river have been repulsed."
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06

Kaiser May Blockade French Coast
The warning of the German admir-
atty staff concerning coming opera
tions on the French coast, is consid.
cred by some Berlin newspapers
among them the Morgen Post, to mean
that an actual blockade is to be put
into effect by the Germans.
The Morgen Post, however, points
out hat many of the essentials of a
blockade are lacking, among them be.
ing a denite description of boundaries
and a warning that neutral ships must
not enter the forbidden zone.
The entire German press prints the
comments made by the English news.
papers regarding the deeds of the
German submarine U-21, which made
the raid Saturday on British steam.
ers in the Irish sea-.
The announcement of the Germann
navy staff follows:
England intends to ship shortly to
France a large number of troops and
a great quantity of war material. We
shall prevent this as much as posi-.
BILE, and we warn ordinary ships to
keep away from the northwest coast
of France. Trade to the North sea is
recommended to go round the north
coast of Scotland"
Discussing the ~torpedoing of the
British merchantmen by German sub.
marines, the Kreuz Zeitung, a Berlin
newspaper, says:
England and France cannot claim
from us in all circumstances and
without exceptions the benevolent
treatment which we hitherto have ac.
corded merchant ships at sea. Ger.
tainly the life of no civilian will be
sacrificed without necessity, but as no
one refrains from bombarding a for
tress or places on a battlefield be
cause civilians may thereby be killed
and as England has not hesitated to
strew the North sea with mines
whereby the lives of neutrals are sac.
rifced, so shall we not refrain from
to%rpedoing English merchant ships,
simply because the lives of a few are
thereby endangered" S
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
German Torpedo Boat sunk.

An official statement received from
%Petrograd, and transmitted by the Ha
vas agency, says that a German tor
pedo boat destroyer was sunk by a
Russian submarine in the Baltic on
Ian. 20. The submarine attack was
made nff the Danish island OF Moen.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
FaIkenhayn's Son Killed.

Details received in Paris of the death
of Captain 0 Falkenhayn, son OF
the chief of the German general staff,
reveal a dramatic tale. The German
was in a Taube accommodating in the
vicinity of Amiens when a French
craft overlook him. An aerial duel
followed, four detonations rapidly
succeeding each other. One of the bull
lets went through the heart of Cap
tain Won FalkenhaYn.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
Sees End of War This Year.

Senator Reverter, who is in close
touch with the Spanish foreign of
fee in Madrid, asserted his belief
in a speech in the senate that a treaty
of peace terminating the European
war would be signed during the pres
ent year.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
WORLD EMPIRE NONSENSE
Kaiser tias No Such Ambition, He
Tells German Author.

Before departing from Berlin for
Wilhelmshaven Emperor William re
ceived the German author G~anghofer.
The emperor told Herr Ganghofer
that the charges made by enemies OF
Germany that he intended to found a
world empire If the wal ended sue
cessfully for Germany, was 'ridicu.
lous n~onsense.2
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
GIRL SOLDIER WOUNDED
Enlisted In Russo Army Under Mans
Name-Gets Honor Emblem.

Among tthe wounded who have ar
rived in Moscow from the front Is
Olga Graslinikoff, a girl of nineteen
years.
After taking part in nineteen battles
in the campaign in Poland she was
wounded in the foot.
The girl enlisted under a mans
name, and this deception has just
been discovered. The Cross of st
George, fourth degree, has been given
to her.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
CANADA SEXES GRAIN
Nine Cars Bound to U. s., Destined
For Germany, Is Chare.

Nine cars of grain consigned to a
New York firm were seized by the Ca
madam government at Niagara, Ont.
Information that the grain was des
tined finally for a country at war with
England brought about the seizure.
According to information that the
government had, the grain was to be
sent to New York and thence shipped
to a European port of one of the bel
ligerents.
The grain was consigned by the
Western Canada Milling company, OF
Winnipeg.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
British TrawIer Sunk by Mine.

The British trawler Howard struck
a mine in ire North sea and is be.
lieved to have gone down with her
crew. Tw rty-seyen sailing ships and
twenty six steamers have been lost
since .Jat /.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
PLAN INVASION
OF GREAT BRITAIN
yaiser to Cover Landing b.
Sea Attack in South
TROOPS READY TO EMBARK
Berlin Newspapers Believe German.
Will Blockade French Coast-Ad
miraIty Issues a Warning.

The London Exchane Telegraph
company has received the following
dispatch from its Copenhagen cores
.spondent:
Emperor williams visit to Will
helmshayen is believed to be in con
nection with the warning of the Ger
man admiralty to neutral shipping
that great activity may be expected
off the north and west coasts of Eng
land as a result of German attempts
to stop England's transportation oil
troops and munitions, as announced
on Tuesday.
This is interpreted in London as a
prologue to important events at sea-
It is rumored that Germany will try
to enage the British fleet in southern
waters, while another squadron goes
~northward at full speed with the OBJ
ject of covering the landing of troops
In England.
Large contingents of troops are re.
ported to have been modified at Will
helmshaven at the time of the Scar
borough raid"
1t was suggested in the house OF
commons that the German submarines
which have been playing havoc with
British shipping recently might have
obtained fresh supplies of fuel from
a ship direct from an English port.
Gershom Stewart, a member, put
before the admiralty a question as to
whether a neutral oil steamer out.
ward bound from Manchester was moi
seen alongside two German subma'
rines within the past week."
Mr.. Stewart also calls on the adj
miralty for the name of this steamer
the shippers of the oil and the con
signees, and asks whether the expor
station of oil ON neutral vessels will bs
permitted hereafter.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
B. & o. orders Rails.

Contracts have been placed by the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad for $4,000
tons of rails, closing options taken by
the company a few weeks ago.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
SCORES NEUTRALITY LEAGUE
British Foreign Office Gets informal
Word From United States.

Word From United States.
The British foreign Office has been
given to understand informally that
the United States government repu.
dates Representative Barthold's So
called neutrality league.
The dispatch refers to the National
German-American league, organized at
a meeting in-Washington last Satur.
day, at which societies said to have a
membership of 100000 were repre-.
scented.
One of the tenets of the league is
that the members shall pledge them.
selves to vote only for candidates who
will aid in eliminating all undue for.
eign influence from official life.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-30
Mrs. Mary Campbell Underwood, sponsor for U. S. S. Birming
ham and founder of the Society of Sponsors.

1850 No, >, ua,,,, ,ha. ,
c~asions
nj.
Na''Ies,ip KANSAS was oaPtiHeu
49," 80. ''rousn II '"HuciCe oi
~ 9, ! oai,ie -,at'o"' pu' ,hat
$500 $50 "nen y na,a' Stew
and not for the S,ata was Iannchad in
1894. The frs, Kansas uos hor,i,aa
by tho breaking Of n ho,,Ie NJ cham-
pagne over her prow and Instead ~
being named on behalf Of the I-nitad
States. as is done ,ha, min
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-30
Mrs. Reynold Thomas Hall, President of the Society of
Sponsors.

have christened or been a sponsor for
a man-of-war or other vessel con-
nected with the United States navy
as n Of is fighting craft or train
ing ships" The purpose Of the or
ganiZation Is 1.-The cultivation of our
country and its form Of government;
and in fulflment of this cit is eX-
pected that the members will take a
pride in the achievements of the navy
and will, within their proper spheres.
be interested in the promotion of a
healthy popular sentiment for the
development and support OF the
United States navy"
AS Mrs. Hall says. 1.-THE Society Of
Sponsors may with propriety. within
its proper sphere. assist in the estab-
lishment Of a more impressive cere-
mony Of bestowing the name upon a
navy vessel. Many beautiful customs
have been carelessly thrown aside by
Americans. but there is a growing
sentiment in favor Of restoring proper
dignity OF ceremonials.
Sponsors may appropriately take
interest in creating sentiment for the
perpetuation on our navy lists Of the
names of our most famous vessels.
which II continued in association with
our national life would be continual
inspiration to our country and to our
navy. The perpetuation OF such
names as Constitution. Bon Homme
Richard. Congress. Hartford, Pam
Jones. Olympia. Oregon and Others
would be a constant reminder OF the
glorious past Of our navy"
Furthermore. the society is taking
interest in the work OF the Navy
League toward the increase and de-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-30

occasion is but a travesty and a sop
to superstition. Mrs. Hall and Miss
Benham show how persistent this
matter of superstition is by recount
ing the many ways In which Ameri-
can ships in the past have been bap-
tized.
There was q time within the annals
Of the new navy when 1t was not on
s.dered good form or lucky to have
a married oma perform the NAM
ing or baptismal rites. Yet a good
many successful ships have been so
sponsored. while men have acted as
sponsors in the cases of historic fight
ing craft.
Grape juice has already marked the
launching Of a man-of-war, though an
unfortunate one. The sioop of war
Housatonic was launched in 1861 at
the navy yard At Charlestown, Ma. 5.
II was then that grape juice was used
at the naming ceremony. The vessel
was sunk by a submarine torpedo
boa of Charleston Bar in 1864.
When the first line of battle ship of
the American navy. the America. was
launched in 1852 Commodore John
Paul Jones figured at the baptismal
ceremony. Capt. James Sever broke
n bottle of wine over the bow of the
Constitution when she entered the
witer, and Commodore cambridge
christened the Independence when she
was launched in 1914. Masculine
sponsors officiated at the launching of
the ship of the line Pennsylvania in
1887, the Dale in 1899. the Princeton
(irst) and the frigate Raritan in lSi3.
the San Jacinto in 1850. the Hartford
in 1858 ard the New Ironsides in
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-30

THE Society Of Sponsors Of the
United States Navy has been
striving for some years to add
greater dignity to the cere-
mony Of launching naval vessels. 1t
has been especially the aim of the
members to do away with the oft re-
curing squahble w the choice OF
wine or water as the baptismal ele-
ment and to establish some appro-
pirate form Of invocation. Partly as
the result of the work Of the society
a prayer was offered at the launching
a few weeks ago Of the s~uperdread-
nought Pennsylvania. sister ship of
the Arizona.
II is the plan to use a similar cere-
mOny at the launching of the Arizona
at the New York Navy Yard on Sat-
urday, June 10, on which occasion
Miss Esther Ross Of Prescott, Ariz.,
Will be sponsor.
The society is composed almost en-
t.rely Of women. 1t was founded IN
1908 through the efforts of Mrs. Mary
Campbell Underwood Of Alabama. who
baptized he L. S. S. Birmingham. Its
present president, Mrs. Reynold T.
Han, and its secretary. Miss Edith
HeHham, also a navy woman. have
compiled a book entitled "Ships of the
United states Navy and Their spon-
sors, 1874 to 1913" which contains a
great deal Of special information in
regard to the launching Of naval
vessels. :
The membership of the society is
recruited from the women who shall
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-02-05
DARING RAIDS
 ON IRISH SEA
TERRoRlZES COMMERCE ON THE WEST COAST OF ENGLAND BY
 LONE GERMAN CRAFT.
CREWS ALLOWED TO ESCAPE
British Sailors Are Ordered to Take To Small Boats, Then Teutons
 Fire Explosives.

Liverpool-The German submarine U-21 began raiding British shipping on the west coast of England, in the path of transatlantic steamships.
 The North Shields steamer, Ben Cruachen, was torpedoed off Fleet. wood, Lancashire. The crew, number. ing 20, was landed there.
 The freight steamer, Linda Blanche. was sunk only IS miles northwest of the Liverpool bar Iightship The crew of II men was brought into Fleet wood by the Fleetwood trawler Neblic
 Another steamer is reported to have been sunk by the submarine, which pursued, but did not overhaul, the Bel tast-Liverpool steamer Graphic.
 All England is greatly disturbed by this latest attempt of the Germans to enforce the doctrine of Admiral Von T1rpitz to prey on all shipping enter ing British ports.
 The captain of the Ben Cruachen, the first to suffer, says he and his crew were given 10 minutes to leave the ship when overtaken by the sub marine Hardly had the crew got in- to the boats, when torpedo was fired and the steamer went down.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-02-05
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