El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-30

field marshal Won HlndenburE attached
! great importance TO the German often
/ sive movement in the region of the
! Niemen river. At present neither army
Z in Poland seems TO be displaying any
! great activity and all other sections
of tie extended eastern battle front
/ seem.-to be waiting the outcome Of the
death apple in the Carpathian noun
tains. There the Austrians are stub
bornly contesting every foot gained by
the invaders
Is Lose Their Lives.
Thirteen members OF the crew Of the
British steamship Agulla which was
sunk by the German submarine U-zS
on Saturday night lost their lives The
! survivors who arrived here today say
the Aguila was sunk at point 30 miles
southeast OF The Smalls. group or
rocks on the southeast coast OF Ireland
The crew was given four minutes IN
which TO leave tn ship, but survivors
say the steamer was fired upon while
the men were getting into the boats.
The chief engineer ana two others were
killed by shell fire and the lives OF
ten other men were lost
The captain Of the submarine hailed
another steamer. the OCtile, and told
her captain Of the sinking Of the
Aguila- The Ottile went TO the rescue.
Capt Zimmerman OF the Agulla SAID
the submarine fired across the bows
of the steamer but he speeded up TO -
knots TO clear the undersea vessel The
submarine was making is knots, how
ever, and quickly overlook them
Germans Become Angry
The attempt Of the Aguiia to escape
seemed to arouse the anger OF the Ger
mans, for they gave the crew ana pas
sengers only four minutes 10 leave Ihe
ship. But before this the submarine
opened fire, which was Kept up rapidly
while the crew was launching the boats.
killing the chief engineer and two OF
the crew and wOundinE several others
one member Of the crew rescued said
that a boat IN which were ten sailors,
a woman passenger and q steWarQess
was fired on and the passenger was
killed while the stewardess was thrown
into the water and drowned flnaily
the boat capsized and sank
The captain of the Ottile, which
picked up the remaining boat. said the
submarine was the US and apparently
Adl-iraIty's Report.
The admiralty issued the following
statement
and three passengers are missing from
the steamer AEuila-
The steamer FaIaba. which also
sank, carried a crew Of about 80 persons
and about 100 passengers About 80
survivors have been picked up, eighI
Of whom. including the captain died
afterward- II is feared many persons
on the steamer were killed by the eN-
plosion Of the torpedo
The Dutch steamer Amstel, a vessel
OF $50 tons. belonging to p. A van rs
and company. Rotterdam. when on
massage from Rotterdam to GoOle, Eng
land. struck mine at 4 a. m. the -5In
Of March in German mine fieid OF
Flamberough, lforkshlre Englanuy-
The crew has been landed IN the Hum
Der by the Grimsby traWler Pinewold-"
says Germans Laughed.
The quartermaster Of the talaoa'
describing the scene Of the desLruc-
zion of the steamer, said
"Au on board helped splendidly IN
the rescue work. There were eight
women on board. One Of them, who
hesitated about entering a hfeboat
throw overheard There was not time
To argue the matter Luckily she was
picked up Two other women who re-
fused to leave the ship were drowned
The scene was awful, with scores
OF people struggling in the water,
owing to the overturning of the boats.
The submarine was in the midst OF
them and I saw at least 20 men on
her. They stood and laughed, the
brutes,
capt. Davis was on the liner when
she sank I pulled him into our boat
with a boat hook. Poor fellow, he
was alive then, but he expired imme-
diately afterward- Our small boat was
within % yards Of the submarine
when she fired and I saw the torpedo's
propeller as it shaved us and went
on its deathly journey
Germans Forced to Retire.
The French war office at Paris gave
out report on the war today as fol-
lows:
IN the Champagne district an svia-
tor Monday threw bombs down on the
city Of Reims and wounded two per-
sons.
a well directed artillery fire from
a French battery forced the Germans
to retire in disorder from the village
Of Jeudicourt, northeast Of st. MihieL"
Landstrum Takes 1000 Prisoners.
Berlin, Germany, March 3O.-CVia
London, Eng, $40 p m.)-The Ger
man war office gave out a statement
today which says:
IN the fighting which led to the
occupation of TauroEgeh, the east
Prussian landstrum. according TO re-
port from prince Joachim OF Prussia,
especially distinguished itself, taking
1000 prisoners.
Near Karsnohol the Russians suf-
fered severe losses. Some 1000 were
killed Our booty in this fighting IN
til Monday evening was 5000 prison
ers, seven machine guns, one cannon
and several ammunition cars
'On the Skwa, near klinki, after &
Russian attack failed, we captured
two Russian officers and 500 men,
Russian attempts TO cross the lower
Bzura failed"