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Show British Sink German Battle Cruiser I I BATTLE BETWEEN DREADNOUGHTS STIRS UP THE BRITISH PUBLIC Germans Admit Sinking of Cruiser Bleucher, But Claim One British Battle Cruiser Was Sunk in the North Sea En-gagement En-gagement Sunday English Admiralty Says "No British Ships Have Been Lost" Youngest Admiral Ad-miral in Navy Becomes Hero. BLOODY FIGHTING CONTINUES IN ALSACE Germans Claim to Have Repulsed All Attacks and French Have Suffered Heavy Losses Austrian Claim Russians Rus-sians Have Been Driven Back Through Some of the Carpathian Passes Turks Suffer Another Reverse Re-verse at Khorasan Food Supply Serious Question Before London and Berlin Bread Riots in Austria and Hungary. " Vienna, Jan. 25, via London, 5:46 p. m. The Wiener Tageblatt, which is the mouthpiece of the foreign office, credits to Foreign Minister Burian a statement that he will refuse re-fuse territorial concessions to Italy and Rumania, even if such course makes inevitable the intervention of these slates on the side of Great Britain, France and Russia. Amsterdam, Holland, Jan. 25, via London, 4:38 p. m. A telegram received here from Berlin sets forth that in the province of Brandenburg, in which Berlin is located, there have been called up for medical examination the fifty-year-old untrained men of the landsturm of the 1 886, 1 887 and 1888 classes. Paris. Jan. 25. 2 50 p. m The I French war office this afternoon gave out a report ou the progress of the war as follows. "In Belgium we have made slight progress at a point to the east of St. Georges, on the rest of this front there were artillery duels yesterday. "From the Lys to the Oise there was yesterday an intermittent cannonading. can-nonading. "On the front along the Aisne there is nothing to report, except that at Berry-au-Bac a counter attack of the enemy yesterday was repulsed and the disputed trenches remain in our possession. Y "In Champagne we have demol ished several field works and protections pro-tections of the enemy. "In the Argonne, in the forest of La Grurle a very spirited fussilade was stopped by the efficient shooting shoot-ing of our batteries, "On the Meuse. the destruction of the bridges of St. Mlhiel was accomplished accom-plished by our artillery. "In Lorraine at Embermenil, w surprised a detachment of Bavarian troops and took some of them pris oners. 'in the Vosges and in Alsace thcre has been very heavy fog." German Official Report. Berlin, Jan. 25, by wireless to Say vine Sanguinary fighting continues in Alsace, on the eastern end of the battle line which extends from the North sea to Switzerland, according to the official statement given out at the German general army headquar ters today. The Germans claim to have repulsed all the attacks in this region and that the French have suffered suf-fered heavy losses. In the center of the battle lino in France the Germans concede the loss of a trench to the southwest of Berry-au-Bac. In East Prussia the Germans claim to have inllicted heavy losses on tie Russians in engagements to the north-V north-V east of Gumbinnen, which lies about twenty miles west of the Russian border. The German army headquarters to-10 to-10 dav issued the following statement: "There were artillery duels near Nieu-port and near Ypres yesterday. To the southwest of Berry-au-Bac tne Germans lost one trench taken a fef days ago from the French. "North of the camp of Chalons yes-terdav yes-terdav onlv artillery duels took place and these are being continued today. Fighting In the Argonne. "Infantrv fighting still continues In the Argonne forest, while to the north of Verdun and Toul the artillery is very active. "All the French attacks on Hart-mann-Woilerkopf were repulsed with heavy French losses. No less than four hundred chasseurs were found a dead and the number of French prls- '""p oners increases. W Artillery Duel in Progress. "In East Prussia an artillery duel was In progress on the front from ILoetzen to the east of Gumbinnen and to the northward The Russians re forced to evacuate several poei tlons to the southeast of Gumbinnen "Russian attacks to the northeast ol Gumbinnen were repulsed with heavy Russian losses. "In northern Poland there were nc changes in the situation "To tne east of the Pilica rtvei 1 (Southern Poland) nothing Important ; j transpired." Vienna Official Report Brief, lyondon, Jan. 25, 10:46 a m. Al though Vienna reports via Amsterdan enlarge upon Austrian successes ii ukowliMu. oleOmtna that the JtuMlam are retreating with heavy losses ot munition and prisoners, a wireless oispatch from Vienna early today slv-., ing an official communication issued! there says only Uiis about the fighting fight-ing in that region : "In Bukowina quiet rolprns afbr our last successful battles" The communication also tells of fighting in the Carpathians as follows. fol-lows. "In the Carpathians the Russians worn driven out of several trenches which they had pushed forward south of the passes," German Report of Fight. Berlin. Jan. 25, via London, 11:35 a. m. The following official announcement an-nouncement on the naval engagement in the North sea yesterday was given out in Berlin today: During the advance of our armored cruisers Soydlitz. Derfflinger, Moltke and Bluecher, which, accompanied by four smaller cruisers and two flotillas flotil-las of torpedo boat6, was steaming In the North sea, these vessels became be-came engaged with a British detachment detach-ment composed of five battle cruisers, cruis-ers, several smaller cruisers and twenty-six torpedo boat destroyers "The enemy discontinued the en gagement after three hours time at a point seventy miles west-uorthwest of Heligoland and retreated "According to the information available, avail-able, one British battle cruiser and one of our armored cruisers, the Bluecher, were sunk All the other German ships returned to port (Signed) "VON BE1INCKE." London, Jan. 25. 12 36 p. m. The news of the first battle between dreadnoughts, yesterday's naval engagement en-gagement In the- North Sea, has aroused much more enthusiasm among the British public, than ever the fight off Helgoland or off the Falkland Islands, although both of these engagements perhaps loomed larger with actual results. To the English people tho combat of yesterday means the triumph of their long time confidence in their big gun fleet, and it calms the fear of the east coast of frequent repetitions repeti-tions of the Hartlepool and Scarborough Scar-borough raid Sir David Beatty, the youngest admiral in the British navy has become the most popular hero of the war. No British Ships Sunk. The German official report on Sunday's Sun-day's fight admits the sinking of the cruiser Bleucher. but offsets this loss with the assertion "according to Information In-formation available, ono British CTJlta- r w as sunk" This statement has been directly denied by the British admiralty ad-miralty which says dearly -No British ships have been lost. Sunday Battles Frequent. Thla engagement keeps up the reputation repu-tation of the present war for Sunday fighting which has been so frequent. bo b on land and B?" thf ?K has now come to be a day of increased vi tgonce rather than of relaxation. No important developments In the land fighting on either front have been reported in London but some improvement in the weather in the Test has resulted in considerable ac-7uv ac-7uv which, however, lias thus far .reduced no notable result Austrlans Claim Advantage. The contending forces In Bukowina arc forming a new battle and the Aus-?Hans Aus-?Hans Holm the advantage la the pre-SSlMsWnalflhei pre-SSlMsWnalflhei The Austrian c " m also that they hare driven back . S? JtaSSia advance through some , of the Carpathian peat The Turks, according to London re-11 re-11 port 5 Bartered pother rerr Jfc-LL i - 1 (at Khorasan, in Turkish territory. Food Supply Urgent Question. The question of food supply is being be-ing considered urgently in both London Lon-don and Berlin. The British government govern-ment has appointed a cabinet com mission to consider the matter The labor part has demanded that the government take over control of British Brit-ish shipping As to the food situation in Germany, the Berlin press is reinforcing the demand voiced at a mass meeting that the government commandeer all stocks of food, and by way of Rome there have come reports of bread riots in Austria and Hungary during one of which the governor of Croatia w as oadly wounded and his palace burned down. |