Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-02
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TO- Among the rescued are eight off,.
GERS and six midshipmen.
Teh British admiralty has not IN.
nounced the locality where the disas.
ter occurred and declares that it id
unable to say whether the ship struck
a mine or was torpedoed, but the in.
clination here is to believe that sub.
marine again has been successful iu
an attack.
The rescue was effected under dan.
gerous and exciting circumstances The
crew of the trawler amazed whi4
running before the gale for shelter ii
find a small open boat driving under
their lee, through mountainous seas
with an oar hoisted. bearing a sailor
scarf. After strenuous efforts those on|
the trawler succeeded in getting rops
to the cutter and brought her with
great skill to berth at their stern.
THE naval men began to jump
aboard, but even then there was dan
ger of losing men as the seas wer1
rising thirty feet high. After half ar|
hours labor, however, ali were safeJ
rescued.
One lad Of 10 was so exhausted b1
exposure that he required immediat4
treatment to save his life. When all
had left the cutter her rope was cut
as she was full Of water, having hold
under her hull which had been stuffed
with pair of trousers which one mar
had taken off for the purpose Soms|
of the rescued men had no trouser
and were cared for in the warm en1
CINE room. The naval men had been ii
the cutter for nearly IL hours. TIL
crew Of the trawler distributed hc1
coffee, food and tobacco among th4
benumbed sailors. When they LAM
ed, the residents brought blankets
clothing and boots for the SURVIVOR
and housed them in comfortable quar-
tiers.
The plight sof these survivors from
the Formidable was pitiful. For houn
before being rescued they had bee
battling against the storm, hopin4
against hope, until the brown sails
the Providence hove in sight Durin
the height Of the storm they were a
most continually engulfed in gres
waves.
The news from the front was dwarf
ed today by the latest loss to the Bit
ish navy, although battles of consider
able proportions are taking place aloni
the two lengthy fronts.
The fighting in Flanders and norti
ern France has been confined largs'
to artillery engagements. except nes'
Bethune, where the Germans clan
they have taken British trench. THO
admit, however, the loss Of st. George
near the Belgian coast, which the of
cial report from Berlin says, 1t was de
cided not to attempt to re-take OWE
to the high level Of the water there.
In the Argonne region where 90
battle has been almost continuous 10
weeks past, it has been the German
turn to make a little progress as
Offset to which, however the Frsne
declare they have continued their az
vance in Upper Alsace.
On the whole, the situation seems w
tually to have reached q position
stallmate. Neither side has been so
to make any great impression on the
antagonist lines and both being yer
strongly entrenched, it is considers
not likely that either German or abl
will attempt another general offensi'
until superiority is attained by
Inducements. Much the same situate
prevails in northern Poland, where 10
Germans are reported to have four
1t impossible to get across the BzuI
and Rawka rivers and having be-
equally unsuccessful in adyancn
along tho Pilica river are said to
digging themselves in preparatory
remaining until the hardening OF
ground by the frost makes the mo's
ment of troops less difficult.
The growth of the British army
shown by an army order issued
night constituting six armies OF thf9
army corps each. Thus, several sene
ais, who command army corps at
beginning Of the war now find ne
selves the heads of complete armies