Volume 17 , Issue 3

One Hundred Years Ago, 26 January 1915, Tuesday

One hundred years ago, 26 January 1915, Tuesday, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, out of Richmond, Virginia had the following front page headlines: "Germans Report British Lost Cruiser In Sea Fight." They admitted sinking of the Bluecher and other ships safe. English newspapers still feature Sunday's naval action. The facts of engagement were not given in detail. Admiralty added nothing to original announcement of victory. Austrians checked Russians. They stiffen their front in effort to halt Muscovite Invasion of Hungary.

Back in January, 1915, Austrians were massing forces to push back Russians. Of actual fighting there was little, but in January 1915, new troop dispositions in various quarters seemed to indicate that great battles in the European war soon would be raging again.

This was particularly true in Bukowinn, where the Austrians had massed large forces in an endeavor to push back the Russians, and in the Carpathian passes, where Petrograd reported the troops of the dual monarchy were showing activity.

Berlin noted a movement of Russians in considerable force to the north of Warsaw, and the german military critics were in a quandary as to whether this meant a maneuver in a new campaign in that district, where previously all Russian attempts at an advance had been repulsed.

Nothing definite had been learned with regard to Germany's claim that the British lost a cruiser in the sea fight on Sunday, January, 1915. The British armored merchant steamer Viktor had been sunk with all hands off the Irish coast. The vessel either foundered or struck a mine.

Berlin credits to Vienna newspaper dispatches the statement that reported Austra-Hungarian successes in Bukowinn had served to lessen Russia's prestige in Roumania.

It was stated in London that, owing to reports that Germany was seizing all foodstuffs for military use, the American steamer Wilhelmina, bound from New York for Germany with food, was likely to be stopped by the allies unless a positive guarantee was given that her cargo would not reach the German army.
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