St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 10, 1914

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. . tv a charge of manslaughter. homes of the poor. “TS ita Cl pany to 5 0, 000! One St. Louis woman, now 73 years old, has for 34 Christmases borne cheer into Next Sunday’s ata ar i OUIS POST-DISP Only Evening P Paper in St. Louis With Associated Press News Service. “VOL. 67. NO. 112. H [NIGHT EDITION FINANCIAL MARKETS ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1914—24 PAGES. t | HURT, 3 BADLY, -INFFRISCO WRECK NEAR JOPLIN, MO. All Except Two Cars of Pas- senger Bound From St. Louis to Wichita Roll Dowa 20-Foot Embank- ment, One Turns Partly Over. TRAIN SPEEDING AT FORTY MILES . AN HOUR Many Persons asia Weldon in Their Places by Broken Seats and Parts of Coaches and Are Unconscious “When Rescued. - Special to the Post-Dispatch. JUPLIN, Mo., Dec. 10.—A spreading ' rail is believed to have caused the de- rallment of Frisco passenger train No. 9 ‘at a sharp curve cn a ‘high embank- ‘ment two miles northwest of Joplin, ‘at 12:10 o'clock this morning, when 17 persons were injured, three of them ' dangerously. The train was en route ‘from 8t. Louis to Wichita, Kan., and ‘ jeft St. Louis at 2:10 p. m. yesterday. The more seriously injured are: Sarah Jackson, 72 years old, Sidell, lll.; sprained back, crushed shoulder. J. C. Clover, 6, a minister, Meridian, Ok.; skull probably fractured and in- dternal injuries. T. RR: Reynolds, Coffeyville, Kan.; several ribs broken and internal in- juries. ‘ hese three are in a hospital here. ’ None of the others was injured so badly as to be detained here and after their hurts were dressed continued: on their " journey on a new train which was made ' up beyond the wreck. Samuel F. Stockey, Chief of Police of Belleville, Ill., who was en route to Wichita, Kan., suffered an injury to his left shoulder. The others injured suffered cuts, bruises and sprains: They are: Walter Jackson, Sidell, Ill; A. C. Sherman, | Water Service foreman for Frisco at Neodesha, Kan.; W, M. Reno, Carthage, Mo.; : Homer Milin, Marion- LL.M. Cc. Husted, Mo- clerk; P. R. McNickell, i clerk; L. N. Dowty, ; Mos. Mrs. L. N. Dowty; G. 3 Teaace, rural route No. 1, Golden City, Mo.; Latira Danner, daughter, G. C. Danser; Lottie Jackson, Stoutland, -Mo,; C. BR.. Downing, Wichita, Kan., mail clerk; M. W. Latimer, Joplin. At the placé of the wreck the rail- yoad rvre along an embankment 20 feet high and down this all the cars with the éxeeptidn of sleeper and chair car rolled, the acoupants being caught be- neath broken séats ard parts of coaches. Meny wére pinioned in their places for a long time and were unconscious when rescued. The engine alone remained upon the rails. The chair car left the track but did not turn over. The sleeper remained up- right. The engine tender, mail car baggage car and combination day coach and smoker were hurled down the em- bankment. Engineer J. P. Dwyer of Monett, in charge of the train, says it was running 40 miles an hour when the accident occurred. Workmen today are repairing the 700 fedt of track torn up by the derailed ear, smoking car, chair car and engine tender. Cemmission to Get Report on Wreck Before Acting. Frank Wightman, member of the Mis- pourl Public Service Commission, and the railroad expert on the commission. seid at the Planters Hotel this morning that he had been informed by telephone by the commission’ s secretary of the Frisco wreck. He said the secretary later in the day would give him additional information and he would then consider the advisa- bility of personally going to the scene of the wreck to conduct an inquiry as to its cause and to place the responsibil- ity. | (pr. THOMAS, Ont., Dec. 10.—Joseph Beckley, engineer, Earl Precoor, brake- man, and Sam Courtenay, fireman, were killed in a rear-end collision, 11 milés east of Cayuga this morning. Wa- bash freight No, 12 was running in three sections and the section ran into the second. The trains were traveling at high speed and caught fire after. the impact. ; OSCTOR IN PLEA ADMITS CAUSING GIRL’S DEATH Body Found in Shallow Grave in _ (alee Woods Two Months _ HOULTON, Me., Dec. 10.—Dr. Lionel _E. Dudley today withdrew his plea of ‘not guilty of the murder of Mildred Sullivan, a patient, and pleaded guilty He was remanded for sentence, The maximum penalty ie 20 years in prison. eee | PARTLY CLOUDY AND COLDER TONIGHT AND TOMORROW THE aden or aang 26 10 a. EES CE Pes | OR EE 12 NOON. «+++ ++++ 04-37 28 Ce The Weather Bureau this morn- ing announced that there were indications that St. Louis would get a glimpse of the sun some time during the day for the first time since Dec. 1. On Tuesday the sun was seen for a moment by some residents, but dis- appeared so quick; ly the Weather Bureau did not register it. Fore- caster Hayes said that he did not expect the sun would stay out long, either nee ome or tomorrow. The snow which started yesterday and was very light, continued this morning, and it seemed for a while that there would be a heavy fall. Hayes expected, however, that it would cease by early this evening. Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; slightly colder tonight, with the lowest temperature about 18 degrees. Missouri—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomor- row: slightly colder in east portion tonight. Illinois—Unsettled weather tonight and to- morrow; probably snow flurries in northeast portion: slightly colder vonight. — Heavy Snow and Cold Weather in Joplin, Me. JOPLIN, Mo., Dec. 10.—Heavy snow fell in Joplin this morning. The ther- inometer registered 20 degrees early in the day, but soon rose to 30. -—— Horses Fall and Block Cars on Eads Bridge. East St. Louis cars were blocked on Eads Bridge frequently this morning by transfer wagons being stalled on the tracks. times in climbing the inclines. Melting snow froze, virtually coating* the ap- proach with ice. WOULD LET PUBLIC PASS ON STATUES City Planner Suggests Plaster Casts, to Be Replaced by Per- manent Art if Approved. Trial statuary, to be set up in staff or plaster casta for public inspection, and then reproduced in pérmanent form if the public likes it, was suggested today by George E. Kessler, city planner and landscape architect, as a possible means of solving the public art prob- lem. Discussion of this problem was started by Thomas C. Young, architect, the creation of a Municipal Art Com- mission. and when he asserted, in an interview in the Post-Dispatch, that much of the public art and park adorn- ment of St. Louis was inartistic or ill- placed. Kessler said that he got the trial stat- uary idea from Russia, it having been in use for some time in St. Petersburg (now Petrograd). “Cessler was the chief build- er of the Kansas City park and boule- vard system, and was later connected — the St. Louis City Plan Commis- sion. NEW WAY TO CURE A COLD Throw Cough Medicine Out Window, Says Dr. Wiley. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—‘“To cure a cold take a bottle of cough medicine, set it on a table in the patient's room, open all the windows and throw the bottle through one of them.” Dr. Har- vey W. Wiley, former chief of the Bu- reau of Chemistry, is the author of this prescription, which he made public in a speech here. “Three-quarters of the children who die are killed by love,”’_said the health expert, in condemning “coddling.’’ “Love is the greatest assassin. If a great holocaust should burn down every home we would get rid of tuberculosis. If farmers would burn alb barns there would be no tuberculosis among cows. Fresh air, not cough medicine, is needed for colds.” SAMMY GOT FACTS DIRECT Newsboy Persuades Tumulty toe Analyse Message for School Essay. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Sammy April, the small boy who supplies news- papers to President Wilson, asked Sec- retary Tumulty today what he thought of Mr. Wilson's message to Congress. Mr. Tumulty began a laudatory resu- me. When he had talked a few min- utes he paused and asked: “But why do you ask, Sammy?’ “I have to write a composition on it in school tomorrow,” replied the boy, “and thought I would come to head- quarters for the information.” DRINKS ON SUNDAY FREE Bast Alton Jury Decides Salee-> Keeper Can't Collect Bilin. Bills for liquor purchased on Sunday in East Alton cannot be collected, un- der the decision of a jury in Justice Nathan's court yesterday. East Alton has a village ordinance for the Sunday closing of saloons. Thomas Watson, formerly a saloon pro- prietor in the town, was fined several times for violating it. He lately trought suli against Edward Franklin for $11 and against Elisworth Hunt for $5. on billa which had accumulated on the bartender’s “‘tab,"’ but lost the suit when it was shown that most of the of drunks were pouszht on Sunday. ig Mi he cae mace, > ne > % “a Mg a : {a oo ae ae ee es RIES Si ia RR oh we steerer Horses slipped and fell many | when he appeared before the Public. Fervice Board last week and demanded TOWER GROVE IS | THEBA ~GARS IN BUNCHES Appellation Used at Public Ser- vice Body Hearing on Better Service for Southwest St. Louis. ALINE: JOHN SCHMOLL A WITNESS é Priest Says Poor Accommoda- tions Keep His Parishioners From Attending Church. More than 150 members of the Tower Grove Improvement Association, resi- dents of the Tower Grove Park neigh- borhood, attended a hearing of the Mis- souri Public Service Commission at the Planters Hotel this morning to ask for more cars on the Fourth street, Grand avenue and Tower Grove lines, and to protest against the rerouting of the Fourth street line west on Lafayette avenue from Grand avenue. Herman W. Fay, president of the as- sociation, and formerly chairman of the Democratic City Committee, was the principal witness of the morning. He created some amusement when Henry S. Priest, attorney for the United Rail- ways, testing his knowledge of street car service, asked him how regularly the cars ran. “They call the Tower Grove line the banana line down my way,” he said, because the cars are yellow and run in bunches.’’ Oppose Proposed Change. Fay objected to the recent report of Engineer Harrop of the commission, de- clafing it was ‘“‘not correct, inconsistent and not in the interest of the people.”’ He opposed Harrop’s recommendation that the Fourth street line should be removed from Grand avenue, and urged that it should be extended from Grand and Arsenal in a southwesterly direc- tion. The Rev. Father John F. Reuther, pastor of Holy Family Catholic parish, of 4133 Humphrey street, testified that he had difficulty in getting his parish- loners to attend church because of poor street car service. “I have had plenty of experience with the service,’’ he said, “but I didn’t ex- pect to say anything about it until I Was subpenaed here. We took it like the Turks take it. It’s your fate.” Father Reuther said that when he asked parishjoners why they didn’t at- tend services, they would say: “Father, how can we. We have no street cars to ride on.’’ He said that if a street car line was extended to the vicinity of the church, his people would have no excuse to re- main away from church. John Schmoll a Witness. John Schmoll, chairman of the Repub- lican City Committee> of 326 Utah place, testified that he had resided there eight years and that although there had been great increase in population there had been no increase in street railway facilities. H objected to changing the Fourth street line to run west on Lafay- ette avenue. He said he had a bank two blocks from the terminus of the line and that it, as well as other busi- ness interesis in the neighborhood, would be injured by the change in the route of the line. Nicholas Pelligreen of 1123 Hodiamont avenue also objected to changing the line. He said he had erected buildings at Grand and Arsenal street a few years ago “where there was a hay stack on the corner and the meadow larks were singing,’’ and that the value of the property would be reduced if the Fourth street line was changed. Complain ot Crowded Cars. The hearing of the commission this morning was on a complaint filed by the Tower Grove Improvement Associa- tion that cars reaching the territory !n which its members reside were always crowded, and were insanitary. The complaint mentioned the Fourth street, Tower Grove, Grand and Cherokee lines. Attorney Thomas D. Cannon, at the opening of the hearing, said that the complaint as to the Cherokee line would be withdrawn, and that the sanitary condition of the cars had been greatly improved since the complaint was filed. Cannon called Fay as his first witness. Fay said that on the Fourth street line particularly the cars were ‘‘crowd- ed, jammed and packed” and that fre- quently it was necessary to let two or three czrs pass before a person could get even standing room. “Men, women and girls_are vulgarly herded into the cars,’’ he said. Condi- tions were most objectionable between 7 and 8 a. m. and 5 and 6 p. m., he said. Crowds On Grand Avenue. Because of the heavy travel from Ca- rondelet, transferring to the Grand ave- nue cars, Fay said, it frequently was impossible to get on Grand avenue cars when they reached Arsenal street, and on Fourth street cars very often there was not a foot of standing space for each passenger. Fay read many observations he had made of car service on the Fourth street and Tower Grove lines in October, citing several instances when at Grand avenue and Arsenal street, the terminus of the line, he had to let three cars pass be- fore he could get on one. He gave other observations at Fourth and Wal- nut streets, showing that cars west- bound were crowded even at that point He said that on a westbound Fourth street car at Fourth and Walnut strcets at 5:20 p. m., Oct. 16, all seats were occu- pied, 68 passengers were standing inside and the front and rear platforms were crowded. He frequently referred to the cars as packed to the doors, and At- torney Cannon asked him: “What do you mean by that?” “I mean,”’ replied Fay, were vulzarly aached,"" t- By AS e" RaSiy Yee Oe a CO eo ee eae : & “that they LORE Se rived, evecything had be>n consumed. —————— PRICE ONE CENT. SPORTS What the Fog Sometimes Brings to British Trenches m=EE=I"*™ Facsimile Sketch by Frederic Villiers for the Illustratd London News. Copyright, The German infantrymen in this 1914, by the New York Herald Co. and printed in St. | | AT picture have taken advantage of the heavy fog that hangs over the battlefield along the Aisne to make’ recon- noissance of the enemy’s position. But they have unexpectedly walked upon an English outpost trench and there is nothing for them to do but surrender with their arms raised in the English troops are climbing out of . } i | \ Nv! ila \\ \' Louis exclusively by the Post-Dispatch by special arrangement with the Illustrated London News. in the face of an overwhelming force. air, the trench to make prisoners of them. Through the mist they can be seen indicative of their submission. MAN KICKED ON SHIN IN GAR DIES UF BLOOD POISON Stephen Hoctor’s Death After Slight Abrasion to Be In- vestigated. Stephen Hoctor, 53 years old, of 5886 Highland avenue, manager of the Globe Store’s clothing department, died yes- terday at the Baptist Hospital from blood poisoning caused by being acci- dentally kicked on the shin by another passenger on a Hodiamont car on Oct. 23. Hoctor told his physician he was standing on the rear platform, when the car started with a@ jerk that threw a fellow passenger aijainst him. In the jostle the other passenger kicked Hoc- tor. The kick caused an abrasion, but was disregarded until three days later, when it began to pain him. A week after the accident he was taken to the hospital suffering from blood poisoning. Dr. R. Shepard Bryan of 3710 Olive street reported the case to the Coroner today and said he would igsue a certifi- cate giving the cause of death as blood poisoning. The Coroner told him to withhold the certificate pending a police investigation of the street car accident. Hoctor had been employed by the Globe store about 15 years. He was unmarried. OVER 16,000,000 BALES OF COTTON RAISED THIS YEAR Department of Agriculture Says Crop Is Largest in History of United States. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—The United States this\vear has raised the greatest crop of cottormn_its history. The total production for the season, 1914-15, will amount to 15,966,000 bales of lint cotton of 500 pounds gross weight, the Depart- ment of Agriculture announced today in its final estimate of the crop. Besides this, the linter cotton is estimated unof- ficially at 600,000 to 660,000 bales. The estimated production by states follows figures in locating bales: Vir- ginia, 24,000; North Carolina, 950,000; South Carolina, 1,500,000; Georgia,. 2,650,- 000; Florida, 75,000; Alabama, 1,690,000; Mississippi, 1,275,000; Louisiana, 460,000; Texas, 4,560,000; Arkansas, 1,040,000; Ten- nessee, 865,000; Missouri, 75,000; Oklaho- ma, 1,260,000; California, 37,000. All other states, 16,000. FIRE DESTROYS B. A. DYER’S WEBSTER GROVES RESIDENCE Fire of unknown origfn completely de- stroyed, early this morning, the three- story 15-room frame residence of B. A. Dyer at Lockwood avenue and Berry road, Webster Groves. The loss of the building and on contents was estimated by the owner at more than $10,000, only partially covered by insurance. The family was ten:porarily boarding in the city and the house was unvccupled. The fire was discoverei at 2 a.m. It seemed to have started in the third story. Tue two Webster Groves volun- ter fire companies responded to un alarm. Company A, which arrived first, lacked hose to reach the nearest plug ard had to*wait for Company B. A line wae then laid 17 feet and a stream ob- teined. but it was ineffectual. When Dyer, called by telephone, ar- (AUTHORS CF SIGNS FOR STREET CARS | WILL GET CREDIT Names to Be Printed on Cards Bearing Any Suggestions Which Company Accepts. Here is a chance to get your name in the street cars—right up in a promi- nent place where all the straphangers can see it. All you need do is write a street car sign which will pass the censors of the United Railways Co. Sign your name to it and when the sign is posted in the front vestibule or hung on the front dashboard your name will be there, big as life. The first sign to be posted in ac- cordance with this policy is now dis- played just inside the front exit door on all the cars. It reads: MOVE UP TO THE FROAT ‘ When you enter : THUS MAKING ROOM FOR : : OTHERS, : Suggested by a young lady. Other suggestions are invited. The name of the young lady does appear on the sign, but that is not Gen- eral Manager McCulloch's fault. “If she had sent in her name instead of merely signing ‘A Young Lady,’ we would have given her due credit by making her name known to the public,” said McCulloch. “It is too early to say whether the sign is having the desired effect of mak- ing passengers move up to the front of the car, but I think it will have that result. The effect of our invitation for sign suggestions is already apparent. Suggestions are coming in every mail. Some are flippant. We don’t like those. Others are serious. That’s the kind we want.”’ The writer of a letter to the Post-Dis- patch nearly three weeks ago suggest- ed a ‘“‘Move Forward” sign. His ver- sion was: “Move up closer to the mo- torman. He won't bite you.” McCulloch rejected this sign on the ground that the closing sentence was flippant. TURKS PERMIT AMERICANS TO SEND RELIEF TO JERUSALEM Ottoman Government Will Ald in Dis-~ tributing Food N~w Be'ng Col- lected in New York. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—The Turk- ish Government, through Ambassador Morgenthau, has signified to the State Department its willingness that an ex- redition be sent to the relief of the people of Jerusalem. The expedition is being organized by Hebrew philanthrop- ic societies in New York which plan to send a ship through the Mediterranean to Palestine. Turkey fully guarantees it will facili- tate the distribution of all supplies sent from the United States and assures Morgenthau that no requisitions will be made on any of the shipments by Otto- man authorities. Consequently the re- quest Is made that the Turkish Govern- ment be notified of the name of the re- lief ship, which probably will be sent to Jaffa, the port of Jerusalem. Word that Jerusalem was short of food supplies and that famine was im- minent came in privaie dispatches and a movement was immediately started in organizing a relief +N epee OBE Ree aiid ty manta Piper! As oe Kaiser Keeps to _His Bed; Believed to Be Recovering LONDON, Dec. 10. BERLIN telegram forwarded ° A from Amsterdam by the cor- respondent of Reuter’s Tele- gram Co. says that Emperor Wil- liam remained in bed yesterday, but was able to listen to reports from the army headquarters in the field regarding the war situation. The British public is tmafifesting fully as keen an Interest in thé reports of the German Emperor's iliness asin the news of the naval victory.. From dispatches received here during the night, it appears that Emperor William was seized with an attack of influenza while on a secret visit to Emperor Fran- cis Joseph. The most reliable sources of information, by way of Holland and Copenhagen, indicat¢ that he is making progress toward recovery. It is noted that the Emperor’s quiet and unheralded arrival at Berlin last Thursday night as a sick man, threatened with nervous breakdown, was his first visit to the capital since the beginning of the war. The German newspapers of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, which have just arrived here, make no mention of his name be- yond the brief announcement that the Emperor had returned to Ber- lin. This apparently indicates that the news of his illness was sup- pressed until danger was past. DOCTOR AND HIS WIFE WATCH BURGLAR WORK Pretended to Be Asleep When Ma- rauder Enters With Key—Creak of Floor Alarms. Dr. Bert Owens of 2826A North Van- deventer avenue told the police that at 3:30 a. m. today he and his wife were awakened by hearing someone fumpbi- at the front door. They heard a key being fitted into the lock, then the opening of the door, and the soft tread of a man cautiously ascending the stairs. The intruder entered: their bedroom, and both occupants . pretended to '*oe asleep. The burglar went to the_ hed, felt under each pillow and,. getting nothing, went over to the dresser, Thea a plank underfoot squeaked and,’ evi- dently becoming frightened, the unwel- come visitor fled, taking best: wit him. AUTO 1S HIT BY A GARAGE Hurts Movable Structure on Wag: Man Repairing Machine. The garage has turned the tables on the automobile. The police have made many reports of auto smashing into garages, but not until yesterday did they have occasion to report the re- verse. George D. Fitzsimmons, a plumber, living at 282 Cheroke street, was re- pairing his machine in front of 3115 Gravois avenue when a portable garage being hauled on a wagon hit the auto. Fitzsimmons was knocked down “and one of his ribs was fractured. The driver of the wagon, George Ragan, 2f 3501 Chouteau avenue, was ordered to appear in Police Court, as hé was driv- ing on the wrong side of the street. » © Fire Destroys Villaxse; Three Killed. VASSAR, Mich., Dec! 10.—Three’ lives were lost today in a fire which practical- ly destroyed the yillauge of Owendale, near here. The dead are John Noviac, his wife and sof, GERMANS GIVE WAY SLIGHTLY AT POINTS IN FRANCE Gen. Joffre’s Troops Make} Advances of 200 to 600) squadron -Yards—Germans in Dense Formations, Attack Russians in Poland at Great Sacrifice. LONDON, Dec. 10.—The German bank line that stretches across France for more than 200 miles has given way slightly at points before the attacks of the French, Specific mention is made today by the French War Office of tne capture of trenches, if victories in ar- tillery duels and of advances of 0 to 600 yards. These onslaughts have led to spirited counter attacks by the Germans, who yesterday are said to have nade no less than six of these attempts in the Argonne. The German advance along the Vistula River in Russian Poland is continuing and a small Polish town bas been cap- tured. In Southern Poland, Russian at- tacks were repulsed. In East Prussia, the, fighting has diminished in intensity, apparently pending the outcome of the main battle to the west of Warsaw. Germans Take Town on Vistula by Storm; Aviators Bombard Freiburg. BERLIN, Dec. 10, by wireless to Lon- don.—Today’s official communication is- sued by the army headquarters staff says: “In the -district of Souain the French yesterday confined themselves to heavy artillery firing. “A renewe.! French attack on Ro- croi and Courcullies cid not make any progress. The attack broke down under the fire of our artillery, the enemy suffering heavy loss. ‘*‘Yesterday three of the enemy's aviators dropped about 10 bombs on a town situated, outside the range of operationa—the town of Freiburg (Baden)... No damage was done, The incident merely shows again “that an open town not situated with- in the range of operations has been attacked with bombs by the enemy. “To the east of the Maszurian Lakes (East Prussia) only artillery encounters are taking place. “In Northern Poland our columns advancing on the rigte® of-:« of Weichsel (Vistula) took Przasnysz hy storm. Six hundred prisoners and some machine guns were captured. The attack along the River Wiech- sel is being tinued. “In Southern \Poland the Russian attacks were repulsel.” This is the second time in a week that Frieburg haa been attacked by aviators. It is _— % miles north- east of Belfort, Fra hae Austrians Admit Retirement Befere Stresg Servian Forces. AMSTERDAM, Dec. by the Austrian In Order to avold a co S ee to occupy more favorably situat sition«. “On Dec. 8 we captured 2 wean "and took numerous Repeatedly 19.—The official | communicatton issued at Vienna to ay] * army headquar ers SEAS NEARLY. CLEARED 0 GERMAN oui London par ‘News of “a struction of German Criji- sers Nurnberg and Dres- den, Whit Escaped After Sinking o. Scharnhorst, , Gneisenau ai ‘ Leipzig, — Complete Victory for British in South Atlantic Engage- ment Would Leave Only the Karlsruhe to Menace Commerce. A German Admiral, Von Spa a With 2000 Others in ttle Against Formidable renee Near F — Islands. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. .— Wireless reports received here inditate that the German cruisers Dresden aud Nurnberg, the survivors in the engage: ment with the English fleet, Tuesday, in wnich the Scharnhorst, the Gneise- nau and Leipzig were sunk, are closely pursued by British warships and aré fleeing in the direction of Port Santa Cruz, on the Argentine coast north of the Atlantic entrance to the Straits of Magellan and west of the Falkland Tslands, : It is reported here also that the’ Ger« man auxiliary cruiser Prince Hitel ts cruising in the South Atlantic and that she has on board 1500 German soldiers —— e LONDON, Dec. 10.—London is momert> tarily expecting news of the destruction ot the Germain cruisers Nurnberg and Dresden, which escaped after, the en gugement near the Falkland Islands, ‘* “eo! Jica, Tuesday, in which the cruisers Scharnhorst, Gniesenau Leipzig were sunk with « lose of proximately 00 lives, by @ is commanded by Vice Adm Sir Frederick Sturdee. The N and Dresden are being pursued, less by powerful British ships, and Lan. . don does not believe there is any ohegee for them to get away. J With the destruction of the three ieee man crufsers, the ocean tiade lanes-are virtually free of German w “it the Nurnberg and Dresden ‘disposed cf, only the Karlsruhe, whi has had @ notable career as @&-cOmmerce Ged — stroyer in the South Atlantic, and chantmen will remain to menace Brite isb and French trade. ane admiralty has not announced what _ Ye up Sturdee’s squadron, but ie is presumed he had a formidable collection of vessels, for this was no time “‘to send a boy to mill.” It is bBe- lieved here that there were several battleships or battle cruisers in the Brit ish squadron, which would accounk for the sinking of three warships with only minor Casualties on the side of the victors. = Official Report of Bante. ; The announcement of the engag was made last evening in a stat by the Admiralty as follows: “‘At 7:30 a. m on the eighth of Dee cember the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, Leipzig ana Dresden were sighted near the Falkland Islands by a British squadron under Vice A miral Sir Frederick Sturdee. me “An action followed in the course of which the Scharnhorst, flying the? flag of Admiral Count von Spee, the Gneisenau and the Leipzig were: sunk. The Dresden and Nurnberg made off during the action, and are being pursued. “Tw colliers also were captured). “The Vice Admiral reports at the British casualties are very few in number. | “Some survivors have been rescued’ from the Gneisenau and the Leip. zig.*° The statement makes reference te some survivors rescued from the Gnaet- genau and the Leipzig, but no mention is made of any of the crew of. Scharnhorst, which was the flagship of the German Admiral, being saved, and it is thus presumed that Count Spee, his officers and men went fighting. The British casualties were light, beyond the fact that the British squad- ron was commanded by Vice-Admiral Sturdee no information is vouchsated. regarding the ships engaged, and newspapers are enjoined not to late as ‘‘other combinations may Sole effected.” The greatest a prevailed. im London over the victor¥ and the get eral impression is that it will be comme — pleted, as the Admiralty would not be — likely to send ships that could not oVat — take the Dresden and Nurnberg, whith are %& knots and 2 knot vessels, te spectively, and probably even slower after their long service. They are at a disadvantage also because of their | coal capacity. Naval observers, commenting on @ action off the Falkiand Islands, male note of the fact tut tn all navel Gee gagements in the present war there E great disparity between the losses ef the victors and the vanquished, In t & Saeefeedley Reseed. HOR, ie “ ‘ 5 cast of the southern tip of South Amer- haps one or two armed German mere