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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1914
Page
1
London reports English forces sink the Turkish battleship Messudiyeh and two Austrian destroyers. The Turkish ship torpedoed by British submarine B-11 in the Dardanelles with 600 crew aboard. Rome confirms dispatches from Trieste about the sunk warships.
Cleveland December 14 Myron T Herrick says the belligerent nations and their peoples are resolved to fight the war to a finish. He notes President Wilson’s stance is supported by the masses and that the struggle will continue until one side is completely beaten.
Berlin reports storming Russian positions in North Poland with 11 000 prisoners and 43 machine guns taken. French assault in France repulsed with about 600 prisoners and many casualties. Western front quiet overall with renewed German resistance and French activity in Woevre. Zeppelin raid plans said to involve 18 super-Zeppelins slated for Britain.
Alstair Ilan Murdoch of Glasgow and Grace Viviene Stevens of Elkins were married at the bride’s home in Elkins West Virginia after meeting aboard a Baltic cruise. The couple, guests at the Windsor Hotel en route to Winnipeg, plan to reside in Edmonton Canada.
An automobile carrying three women and a man skidded on snow along the National Pike at Eckhart Crossing and crashed into a telegraph pole. The pole broke off near the ground and prevented a plunge down a steep embankment. No one was injured. The crash delayed the Cumberland and Westernport Electric Railway briefly while the wreck and pole were removed. The occupants, from Westernport, refused to give their names.
Pittsburg on December 14 Rev John Ray Avers in his third sermon at East Mind Christian Church argued war fails to protect and will not settle disputes. He called war a survival of the beast and warned it worsens hatreds that endure for millennia.
Stockholm reports Sweden’s foreign minister says Germany claims the three sank steamers were due to Russian mines. Finland’s official inquiry finds anchored German mines in Gulf of Bothnia set during the war, with no floating mines found.
An advertisement invites readers to buy a war book for ten cents from The Cumberland Press office. The brief note labels it as an advertising item and uses a call to action for purchase.
Washington seeks further investigation into Burleson’s plan to federalize telegraph and telephone systems. The House bill reportedly totals about 424 million dollars and would abolish the assistant postmaster role in major cities. Civil service expansion for third class postmasters fails. aerial mail and car service not included. Rate hikes for certain publications from one to two cents per pound are omitted.
Mayor Geo Stern discusses adopting a city manager system in Frostburg to improve efficiency and accountability. He cites prior deficits and careless steps under council management, praising Dayton as a model and predicting the change will come and be seen in time.
Buenos Aires reports the German cruiser Dresden may have arrived at Punta Arenas near the Strait of Magellan or sheltered near Puerto Gallegos. Other dispatches claim Dresden was stranded at Puerto Gallegos or hid along Patagonia, with British forces pursuing after the Falklands engagement.
Vienna reports the oldest reservists who guarded roads and public buildings have been sent to the Galician front. An imperial proclamation by Franz Joseph allows reservists to depart from their province for homeland defense amid the heroic Austrian army clash.
At Knocke-sur-Mer on the Belgian coast a young Belgian aided British soldiers to escape German lines. When asked what reward he wanted, he requested clothes and food for ninety Belgian refugees. The Anglo-Belgian Relief Fund rushed thirty large cases of clothing and supplies from London.
Two men, F. H. Kuck and Jose Martinez, were struck by spent shrapnel bullets in Naco Arizona yesterday. The injuries were not serious and the incident followed actions tied to the siege of Naco Sonora. Reports indicate a Provisional President Gutierrez order for Governor Jose Maytorena to halt attacks if Americans were endangered has not been received.
Vienna a new issue of stamps worth five and ten hellers enters circulation with a two heller increase. The raised postage will apply throughout the war and fund aid for widows and orphans of soldiers.
The Norwegian steamer Sigrun, which left New York on November 9, is detained at Newport England as British authorities conduct a search for contraband goods suspected in the cargo.
Berlin reports that 3,000 German troops held out against 60,000 in the defense of Tsingtau before its fall. The outpost, a naval station on China’s coast, had a civilian population and mixed forces, with praise from German press for the defense as a historic page.
Secretary Wilson in his annual labor department report argues ownership failures in Calumet copper region and Colorado coal fields sparked strikes. He says local management bears responsibility despite worker fault and advocates expanded mediation and diplomatic roles to promote peace and mutual goodwill.
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