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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-04-26, Page 7e • 4100.WPIRMOP.0,01POWNINMPAIR.R, ‘1141•.- V1••••• COWARDLY GERMAN WOUNDEO WHINED ON KNEES FOR HELP When the British Hospital Ship Carrying Them Was Torpedoed. British Wounded, as Usual, Stood at Atten- tion and Sang. Londou, April 22.—The Britieh hos- Pitt ships Donegal aud Lanfrane with wounded aboard, have been torpedoed without warning'. They were sunk on April 17th. Of those On the Done- gal 21) wounded men and 12 of the erew are talesing. The Lonfrane car- ried German wounded us well as Brit- ish. Of these aboard 19 Brinell and 15 Germans are believed to have per- ished, ti he placing of Germans on hospital fillips which do not carry the charac- terietic Signs is one of the methods of reprisal decided upou by the British Government because of the unlearned sinking of these beets of mercy. The secretary of tbe Admiralty la- etted the following notice: "On the evening of April 7th the steamships Donegal and Lanfranc, while trap:sporting wounded to -British ports, were torpedoed without warn- ing. The Donegal carried slightly - wounded ceses—all British, Of these 29 men, as well as 32 of the crew, are missing, and are tiresumed to have been drowned. "The Lanfrane, in addition to 234 wounded British officers and men, car- ried 167 wounded German prisoners, a medieal personnel of 52 and a crew of 123, Ot tnese tne following are miss- ing and are prettumed to have been drowned: Two wouuded British offi- cers, 11. wounded British other ranks, one Royal Army 'Medical Corps staff, fire of the crew, five wounded German officers aud ten wounded German oth- er ranks. One hundred and fifty-two wound- ed German prisoners were reeeued be Britten patrol vet:eels at the 11111113- aent risk of being themselves torped- oed. "Owing to the German practice of sinking hoapital ships at sight and to the fact that distance marking and lighting of such vet:eels render them more conspicuous targets for German submarines, it has become no longer possible to distinguish ourhoepital ships in the customary manner. One of these two ships, therefore, though carrying wounded, was net in any way outwardly distingutehed as a hospital ship, The distinctive inarkinge of the other bad not yet been removed. Both were provided with an escort for protection." PRUSSIAN COWARDICE. The story ef the sinking of the hos- pital ship Laneranc will rank with the ' undying historiee of the Birkenhead and Tyndareus, according to a Brit- ish officer. d he British soldiers stead at attention while the dhip waa slowly sinkiegf beneath them. '1 hair conduct wasinmarked contrast to -that of the • Pruteian Guardsmen aboard, who in the -moment of clanger rushed to the -fileboatst "'One Lanfranc wee attacked by a submarine about 7,30 o'clocit Tem day evening," said the officer. "The creek ehook the liner violently, the, exploelon sending /statute:a of lyood and ghats flying in all directioute Within a few minutes the enginee • etopeed and the veceel eeemed to be -.Waking rapidly, but to our eurpriee she eteadied herself, and after a while remained motionless. We bad aboard prisoners of the Prussian Guard and many 13ritieh wounded, including eome serious eases. "The moment the torpedo struck teat Pruesians made a mad rush for , the lifeboats. \Viten tete: were meter- ed toawaittheir ,turn, mau'y showed cowl:la-Mee by dropping on their knees and imploring pity. "The grew and eatt went to teeir paha The streteher eitsee etre low -w- ed Bret to the began, eleanehile. In reapense to distrese calls many ves- iiele eamethurrying to our aaiietence. 'Even Nrnile wounded and helpless Tounnice lay unaided in their cote the cowardly Prussians made another attempt and managed to crowd into a lifeboat, which, however, toppled - ,over directly it wait lowered. Then thee fought with each other to reach another twat containing some grave- ly -wounded. "1 eball never forget the behavior ' of our own ende. They tried to taand • at attention, crippled re3 they were at atteutiop, crippled ea they were. while the graver eves were being • looked tater. The trots' and tate re - untitled at their !mats until the tiee man was taken off. Some doffed their garments and threw them to thoee in the I ifeboats %Yam el oth • • big, and in the midst of the 'distreeo and tragedy our men were able to strike up Some popular ditties." , The Lanfranc was a vette' of 6,287 eye— a tone groes. She was 318 feet in length it and was built in 1907. fier owners before the .war were the Booth ;Steam- ship CoMPana, of Liverpool, The Donegal regletered 1,097 tens gross. Site was built at Greenock In 1004, and was 331 feet long. 7'),e Midland Railway Company. of Ben st'fast, owned the steamer before she wits taken over by the Britieh .Ad- miralty. h, REASON rolt REPRISALS. .lna eupplementara report the 13rit- ish Admiralty saw "The illegal and inhuman sumbarbee „warfare which (terenany has wagett upon merchant ithipping has for some time been openly attopteet agalust hos- e, pital ships flying the Red Oross flag •and otherwise acting In complete cone 4 forMily with the requirements of The. 'Matte convention. This culmination of savagery has brought the world face to faee with a situation that IN without Parallel in eivilized warfare. • It has no Justification in any coacciv- i able (Retortion of international law. nor in the most brutal creed of none - ORO. "The British GeVernment, 111 con 'Mitering fully the IneftaarCS to be adopted itt these circumstance% have bed in review the entire facts .on wItleh the German Governnient einittui to have acted. These luny be rectioltifiated briefly for the eensidera. lion of the civilized world." The etatenteut then reell.eti that on danuarY 29 German addressed inemOrial to the Antericari And Spanish Ernbaesies for transmission to the Itritielt 'and French Governmenta, (*timing that allied lieepital tatipe, and particularly Uwe of Great Bd. win, were emplqed lit tratisportilig troops and military suppliee, and Oe- elared that no hospital ship would be tolerated in the zone between the lines connectiug Flamborough Head aud Terschelling on the one side and thiliant (Oeetisant) and band's End oa the other. On January 31 the. British Foreign Office denied that hosteltal etas were being used contrary to The Hague convention. and requested the Ameri- can Government to inform .Ciermatty that if the threat was carried out, not to tolerate hospital ships in the zone specified by them, immediate rePrh eats would fedlow. Despite the British denia1 of the German claims, and the threat of reprisals, the British hos- pital ship Asturias was torpedoed without warning nn March 20, the lOss of life including a nursing sister and a stewardness. "But the nation responsible for the murder of the nurse, Edith Cavell, appears to have accepted the Intel- Ilgenecs with composure, If not with satisfaction," says the statement. On March 30 the hospital ship Gloucester Castle met a similar fate. and Berlin officially stated that she was torpedoed by a U-boat. The British Governmeutthereupon, au- thorized reprisal,, and on April 14 British and French aeroplanes bom- barded Freiburg with wifht was de scribed as "satisfactory results." WARNINGS IGNORED. The statement continues: "Despte the warnings conveyed to Germany that. her barbarous attacks 011 hospital ships would result in !suet) action on the part of Great Britain, ti e German Government published through a wirelees message on April 16 an abusive protest, which 'cate- gorically contested any justification' tor this reprisal. Nothing could afford a better illustration of the German mentality and reasoning. "On the other band, the spirit in which the Allies exacted retribution is ehown by the purely military cbar- actor of the measures adopted. The airmen who carried out the attack were exposed to, and did in fact in- cur, .precisely the same dangers • from the town defences as they would have in the course of an ordinary action. "It is plate, however, that any re- taliatory measures open to a Govern- ment upholding the principlea of hu- manity and justice would not prove a deterrent to Germany in the 'future.' Such reprisals could -only be punitive in effect, and it was necessary to re- coneider the entire status of hospital ships in the light of the attitude taken by the German Government. "The markings; agreed upon at The Hague Convention, which hitherto guaranteed immunity to htepital ships from Week, rendered them no longer inviolable. The euetom of showing all navigation lights and of illuminating dietinctivo markings at night °MY af- forded a better target for Gorman mthavarines. It Was therefore decided that the sick and wounded, together with the medical personnel and sup- plies, must in the 'future be tranepdrt- ed for their own safety in nips carry- ing no distinctive markings and pro- Ceeding without lights in' the same Manner as ordinary mereantile traffic. Netice has accordingly been given ate; German Government that tife British Government has withdrawn certain' veseels from the list of hospital shim; publisbed by them in accordance Witb International law, and. they will no longer appear thereon. TO SHARE EQUAL RISKS. "During the recent fighting on the a °stern front a very large number of wounded German prisoners bave 'fall- en into our hands. Thee° officers and 'men bo.ve to be transferred to Eng - laud for treatment by the same means that our wounded aro brought over, and practically all the ships transpert- i»g wounded are bound to earry proportion of German wounded. Theee will naturally ehare with the British wounded equal rieks from attune by German submarines. "Whether the policy of the German Government ie likely to be deflected front ite abontinahht comae by the knowledge that. it eau only be pursued at the expense of their own wounded remains to be seen. - "In the light of recent. events, it Keene; reasonable to supposethat the hosnital ehirs Braemar Castle ,and Britannie were ale° torpedoed id itiov• emher, 1016, although the evulance at the time was not considered conelia sive as to whether their lomat Wine oecasioted by miues or torpedoes.' ENEMY SHELLS • GROWING POOR Many Do Not Explode, Others Not Destructive 1••••••••••••••.••••••••I••••1 While British Are All Live and Deadly, (By Stewart Lyon, Canadian Press Correspondent • With the Can. adian Forces. leinctillan Headquarters in France., April 22.—Tbis to again a period of Preparation alth us. 'retie of thou- sand of Men are bonding roads and hauling ap Munitions stores to the new froat Tlte enemy eontinutle to (AM as lurch of the area teenpied by ne ao *'an reeith, but with a. eterstrIcable intik of melte. Experts In big -gun anintnnition eey that bis larger elittlie have greatly deteriorated of late, and that Ititi bombe and grenades, while still capable of Making much ttoltie, no longer have the destractive effect they had at ati earlier period itt the war. Thie (Reline in the %aloe et tiie! lllttij expltelvcs; of the eiteina adds to the tonfidence of our infantry. When they CCP the many unexploded entinty elielle and eeareely one British on the groltild whereon. our Wattle, by the hundred thematic!, were reeentir Poured, the void:lore etre guick to draw their own eenelusione. Moat' iftorite or gallantry la the re- cent attione aro being tail' told. T1l0 tawit coneerne two Ontario artillera officerii aud two eorporale, who, while tattle*, out wire tor an observation post. tu a tunnel witieli the Germane were believed to have evacuated. came imon a vont:adorable eonotany the ezlelny, W110 had with them a Ina. chino gun. In the narrow confiner; of the diatly-lIglited tunnel the wire- layere, armed only with revolvers, tackled the.eneme, and atter illepos- itnhnnaigtv‘t.leiti.otopurtro.nobrreo.aglit back with Late on Friday Met fires were ob- esia'srey.eel within the 0401U3'linen, The eorpe at artillery coutinuee work of making the villagee untenable and rendering* the task Of the infantry BRITISH SHELLS ALL GOOD. Among the guns left unharmed, with amide eupplice or munitione abandoned by the enemy to the Cate einem, no fewer than eix are of eights. inch valibre. Artillery experts looking into the question of the effect of fire upon the ridge have not yet found a single tin. exploded obeli teclinteallY known as a "dad," out et hundrede of 111011. (45.11(15 used. They praise highly the munition workers , without whose faithful eerviee, eopecially in fuse - making, the remarkable accuracy of the barrages would have been lin. poosible, AWFUL HUN LOSS IN BIG COUNTERS Germans Fare Worse Then Than in First Fight But, Fearing French Threat, Continue Them. a• Paris, April U.—Repeated desperate and vain couuter-attacks by tho Crown Prince are yielding to Gen. Nivelle a second ceop of valuable results, of equal importance to the first fruits 01 his advance, which consisted iff the storming of the German strongholds along the Soissons -Champagne front. Since it is a naxiom that the Allies' task Ls not to drive back by the Ger- mans but to destroy tue enemy armies, tho importance of Hindenburg's mad- dened efforts to retake the lost posh tions can bo gauged, By swiftly hurling forward waves of troops and imbedding them, under cover of the throats ot an enormous mass of artillery, in the key positions along the Germans' front, Gen. Nivelle has compelled the German high com- mand to attempt desperates measuree to regain their former vantage points, as otherwise dile 'French Possession of them means a constant menace to their whole fortified line, and it is in the counter-attacks that the full aud complete bloody toil Is taken of the enemy formations. The losses sustained in counter -at- tacking are far greater than those But- tered itt ordinary attack, or under the bombardment preihuinary to an ene- my blow, as for the counter -thrusts the troore, mast be formed among men already nerve -shattered by the • tre- mendous artillery pounding, who must be reorganized and grouped under a pitiless enemy gunfire, and then driven forward in attempts to debouch under a erissieross machine gnt fire and the harrying of the machine guns of low-flying airplanes. , HEAVY DUELS BY BIG GUNS ARE RAGING While at Different Points the French Make For- ward Dr/ves, 33,000 PRISONERS And 330 Guns, Captured in Present Drive by the Allies. ••••••••••••••••••••••••.••••••••• Grand Headquarters of the French Army 00 the Firctich front, April 22.— Smash1ng urtillery duels marked 3e5- Willa-Y*8 fighting all along the front Craonne Plateau to Auberive, inter - Intoned here and there with forward drives by the French infantry. 'Night and day the Germans were incessantly 'tarried. All the . positions carried by the Frettch have been reorganized, and in Places further extensions have been made. Nowhere did the Gentians succeed iniretaking any point Hutto- bise, where the - French are solidly astride tile Chemin des Dames, which alVIIS to titeni the opportunity of rettehing Leon ,plateint, was the point where the Germans to -clay directed their strongest effort to eject them, but tn vain, Atmospherical couditIons have again turned in favor of the Germans, the heavy mists hindering French obsete %ration. THE OFFICIAL IMPORTS. The following War Office report's have been issued the past tiattatils hom s: Sunday night: "13etween the Somme end the -Wee very Waive artillery fight- ing took plebe during the course of the env south of St. Quentin Dna melt of Crvillere. Between Soissons and Ululate the artillery actiOns Were in- termittent in variOne Sector's. The en. Clay violently bombarded Rheims, es• pccially the quarter in Willett the catb. ettral is located. "in Champagne the clay was Marked itv a Series of eueluti attacks On the imitable whith.we hold in the MOssif ot .Moronvillere. A violent Waffle rerted against Mont Haut watt entirely (Amite(' after a epirited engagement. Our machine-gun fire Mid counter-ot. Melte inflicted eanguinarY tomes on the it.% ler nail battalion reported &boat n oek this afternoon nOt.thweet of lont Haut was caught by our fire and dispersed, I aving dead on the ground.. TEfTHOUSAND POUNDS FROM POURED AYRSOIES How a Firm of Dairymen Near Charlottetown, Prince Edward 'Island, Are Making G pod in Winter Dairying- -Their Methods of Management Explained. (BY As J, ('ainpbell.) A farmer who WaS tiling to sell a cow represented the unbind as a Cow" tO the itrospective pareleaver, who thereupon asked: "How much milk does she give?" Oh, I don't kuow, 1 never measured it," replied the farmer. "But Blithe a nice kind cow, if she' e got any intik at all she'll give It to Soil." A visitor to the dairy farm of An- drew 'McRae at Sons at East Royalty. near Charlottetown. Prince Edward Is- land, wail told Brie story, It reeve - vents the haphazaed system at farm- ing once prevalent- in the Maritimes, bee now passing away unregretted, ex. cept, perhaps, by a few lovers ot the pletureeque. It is true that artists' pictures of rural life seldom portray the separator, and bucolic poems are silent about the Babcock Wet, At the same time a visit to ally of the lead- ing dairy farms of the Island reveals •••••••••••••••••••••••• from 7,000 to 8,009 potiutle, wIth tuf average of film 300 to 350 butter fat. The mills is eeparated and the cream :told to the creamery at from 26 to 32 cents for fat. The herd are on pasture front June lSt to October :list. The pasture teed Is euppleineuted by green feeds, a the prteo warrants, a, small amount, up to two potinde, at cotton Peed Meal Is fed to the heaviest producers ae• eording to yiela. Int Winter the cows are fed the usual quantities of hay, roots and ensilage, together with it Meal ration of oats, barley bran and oil cake 'mixed according to price aud fed at the rate of about one pound to every four pounds of milk Orem levery effort Is made to have the cows in prime condition ot the time of tresitening, but two weeks before that time all heating feed is cut off. After freshening the cow le fed for a week .chiefly on roots and:, bran, and then for service. me !lettere retained aro bred when two years The eon of the McRae farm is for the, most part nsandy loam, and un- der a judichme rotation bait been kept at full strength, Last year the farm produted 1,200 bushels ot potatoes, 8,01)0 iniehele 'of roots, 300 bushelh oats, 100 Imsbele of barley, 112 tone of corn, 60 bushels or wheat, 33 tons of clover and 40 tone of timothy. In addition eleven acres were utilized for . the growth of oats, Peas and vetches, corn and white turnips, which were cut and fed in a green state. The soil- ing crops are sown from May 1.st to July lst. For some Gine a fivo•year ro.tntion was foliewed, but finally it was decith eci that tide system was too slow for high-priced land. Now a four-year ro• tation is practised, First year. corn anti mots: second year, grain; third year, clover; fourth year, timothy and botiglit every year for beadiest ..4), COY. era =Imre shed elands beside the stable, but moet of the manure is hauled direct to the fields nue placed 121 long, low iteape, which ere kept well tramped down, Two large slioe stand beside the barn and are tilled to overflowing every auttunn. Thirty Berkshire and Teenwortli hogs are marketed yearly et fUl aver- age weight of 175 pounds. The perk was sold. last year at eleven and one. half cents the pound. The liege are tea all they can consunie .of roots, shorts, home-grown grains and skim. ntea "1 believe in whiter dairying," said the head of thie enterprising firm, "Our cows as a rule freshen in the fall, from September to Deeenther, As a, result of this we are able to devote more of oUr time to their care. We also obtain 'higher priees for our milk • the fact that efficiency may go hand in band with all the attractivettees or old order. Metiers, Andrew McRae a: Sons be- gan .to specialize in dairying in 1906, Tbey have a herd of sixteen pure-bred Ayrshires on their farm of 120 acres. The MeRae's pin their faith to the Ayrshire, the pride of the Scottish breeder. "We believe the Ayrshire to be admirably suited to grazing condi- tions," they said. "She belongs to a hardy, vigorous breed, quick tine ac- tive , and withstands adverse condi- tions admirably. She has a vigorous appetite and give it good account of her food, ' She is a persistent milker and. transmits her good qualities to her offspring. We find thathhe Ayr- shire milk maet be turned at will eith- er into the finest cheese or the choiceet butter while as a market milk none excels it The fat globules are .small in size and hence the milk stands transportation admirable." The mature cows of the McRae herd yield au average Of 10,000 e pounds yearly, giving an average of 400 pounds of butter fat; the heitere yield Is gradually brought out into the full meal ration. The rule of one pound of' meal to. every lour pounds of milk is not, or course, followed in the treatment of the young cow, as she has to produce bone and flesh as well as milk. After the first freshening the heifer is fed on a bran mash, aad if the weather is. cold all chill is taken from her drink. After ten days her feed is increased gradually and as soou as poseible she Is fed well and milked hard. She le developed all that is possible during the first year and she is milked for the full twelve months during the first period. The calves are allowed to get one I good fill or first milk and are then ! taken from their motheis. They are fed whole milk for a. month and then -1 gradually put on a mixture of separ- ator milk and a gruel made by soak- ing oil cake in cold water for some hours. This gruel is warmed before being given. The calves: are fed three 1 .times daily. Tho bull calves are sold at prices ranging from $50 to $500. 1 The surplus betters aresoldwhen fit • • • pasture, Pasture land is summer fal. lowed for roots, end the corn is growa 011 sod that hate been maimed early in the spring, and the gates plowed ender about,1 he first ot June, From twelve to sixteen tons of stable man- ure per acre are applied to the corn land. Potato land is treated to froin eight th twelve tons, supplemented by 200 pounds of super -phosphate and 300 pounds of sulphate ot potash, and oc:asionelly fifty pounds el nitrate of soda. The area devoted to roots is ,given from sixteen to twenty tous of stable manure and about 4C0 pounds super -phosphate per acre. In normal times the super -phosphate. costs the firm $22 and the sulphate $26. Messrs. McRae believe that fresh air, light and warmth and comfort are essential to animal bealth. They also hold that the extent to which these re- quisites are supplied will largely de- termine the measure of success at- tained by any dairyman. Their cows are well stabled with plenty of light and ventilation. The stalls are made thorouglity comfortable for the ant - mats. A large quantity of straw is • 1 and milk products and we fine that 1 we get actually more ponmis of milk from fall freshening than from tiering freshening, Moreover, fall calves are• very much mom easily raised than, spring calves. It must be remembered Rua, the heat, dry pasture and the fly pests of July and August cut down • production, and in our experience off. eet the low -cost or production wheu tho succulent grasses • of June are available. It is difficult and expens ive to handle milk during the bot summer weather, not to mention the extra trouble involved in tho constant effort to keep ad dairy Utensils -clean and sweet. It seems to me the advent 'taste of winter dairying is so appar- ent that arguments in its favor ought to be unnecessary. If it were more generally adopted our province would be in a position to produce more and superior milk from a higher grade .of dairy cows. I for one am firmly 'of the opinion that dairying is and shall be the Inainstay and salvation of the farms of this Island. . .—The Canadian Countryman Another attempt against a height fur- ther to the east was likewise repuised.1 "0» April 21 three German aero- planes were brought .down" Sunday Afternoon.—"Dt the regiou soutlent during the night. Between the 15171 AFROL bombardment ccintinued rather vio- p • south o1' St. Quentin the artillery Aisne and the Chemin des Damee we made new progress to the north of Palley and Jouy There was grenade . fighting in the region of Ilurtebise. "In the Champagne there were Five Attempted Raid op, Dover Eut Mei two 0 GERMAN DESTROYERS skirmish•es by patrols; and grenade fighting west of the Navarin Feral. OD :be rest of the !mutates night was rel- atively ealin. "Aviation: Last night German acre. elanes dropped 'several bombs in the region ot Dunkirk. Three Persona were slightly wounded. The Material dam- ege was insignificant. Saturday Night. ---"Between tbe Somme and the Oise violent artillery duels occurred, especially in the reg. ion south of St. Quentin. "Between the Aisne and the Chemin des Dames we continued our progress on be plateau north .ot Saucy. Gren- aee lighting enabled us to gain ground in the sector of Hui tebiso. Our barrage fire broke down four different at- temets made by the enemy to debouch from trenches north of 13raYe-en-Leon- nols. • "From April 8 to April 20 the num- ber of German prisoners taken by the Franco -British troops exceeded 33,000, the number et canten tate:urea in the same ecriod was 030. DIDN'T NOTIFY A Laugh On Borden Govern. men Over Wheat. For Four Days Forgot to Send Notice. •••••••••....••••• Ottawa, April 22. --Four days after publishing the announeement that "free wheat" bad been granted, the Canadian Government fort -,t or neg• toted to notify the United States. Free wheat wae announced on Mon- day afternoon, April 16. On Tuesday morning Canadian custom ports were thrown open to Unitea States wheat. But mail Friday, April 20, when tele- graphic protests began to .rearit Ot- tawa from the grain. growers bI tee Wed and awoke tho (lovernmeni to its ludicrous oversight, Canadian wheat seeking entry In the United States was held Up at the border, and. shippere and grain growers Were fore. eti to pay demurrage. The statement made by tlte Tiite4 States custom of- ficials was that no nottfieatiou of the acceptance of the re:aroma propose) had yet been resolved at NA aehington trout the Canadian Goveenment, Finally, When protests starttd to pour in. again, and 'western news- papers. queried their Ottawa corres- pondents for explanatio11:1 of the sten. page of filaments of (inmate -1n wheat at the leader the Goverment Was firOnSet1 10 tis OVerFinitt. rind will, haste the offielal connunalention woe despatebed to ,Vns1iInp.tnii. 4 , - while, efforts were .talten to pi:event, If ofielble, news of the inexplicable oversight beim); Made publie, These, however, tor e tweet:net and n11 OitaWa. an %ken, CS intuit parts of illi! West. ie having a laugh at the expellee of a leeltadaisital Meal, aerate, Ropi Navy Vessels. Fiveliriute Fight Ended in llisastor to the Enemy. London, Apri1 22.—The Admiralty announces that two German destroyers, Possibly three, have been sank in the course or a German raid near Dover. Five German destroy -ere took Pitt In the raid. They were engaged be ta.o Dover patrol vessels. The British' suffered no material damage. The British casualties were slight in com- pete:Ion with the resulee obtained. One ennared and .five Germane were saved. The anuouneement follows: '"rhe vice -admiral et Dover reports that on the night of April 20 rivet German de- efroyere attempted a raid on Dover. The raid resulted in their firing a eumber or rounds into a -plowed field a few miles ftont Doefer. The enemy appears then to have Steered In the eirection of Rome of our shipping, poesibly with the intention of attack- ing, but was met by two vessels or the aover Patrol. 'In five minutethee° two vessels engaged and sank at least two, pos.. three, out of the five enemy boats, the remainder making off at . eigh speed during the silent engage-. went. escaping in the darkness. "Our veesels suffered no material damage, and our easualties were ex- seedingly plight in comparison with tee resell obtained. Our patrol vessels were handled with remaritoble gallan- try and dash, and the taettes pursued. &fie only fine examples of destroyer work. We were fortunate in being Mae to save the lives of ten German ' officers and 06 men from the veseeis S,Jfik " NO DAMAGE OCCASIONED. despateb to lanyire WeeklY News 1(2111 Dover 1.03114 there we3 Eonre boo - iris by the crowds ineiembled along the vialle bywithal the German :titre-Ivor:I rum the enuken deetroyere were Illnlched last evenhat under armed team4 to an internment mum. lite bodies 01 abont thirty other 'Ger- man Scanieti, the despateh tattle, have been Welted up in the (*hamle1 by ttitaa lers and landed u Dever. These of tea twat affiecre were among the um- ber Revnoels' Weekly Newepallers seee that at Dover 25 Liebnana and 29 Bra - ib it, ad lie in the nierket hell. BERLIN AlittliTa LOSia Berliu, Am 11 ea -"After ti naval engagemert loridas- night to the, east of Dover," -sates na offielat datement lama toolay by the t et.itrot Atilair elite, "two German torpedo boat de :ereere. lia! (1 55 mad the 0-12, afire itsporiel to have been lost." CALAIS ALSO ATTACKED. Calais, April 22.—German torpedo- boat deetroyers Saturday fired 100 shell% in the region of Calais. genie civilians were killed. •Tweive persons were slightly wounded. ONE AIRMAN'S • GREAT FEAT ------- - Fought Half a Dozen Ma- chines One Day. , Emily Fired On but Re- f • turned Safely. • British 1Ieadquarter:3. April 22.— Here is the record of a single flight ot one of our airmen made within a few days. I cat cut only the naire of the machines and email deta1l:4 that litigate conceivably beam aid to the enemY; otherwise the record IS precisely as written: ."When our machtues !tete attacked on Cambral 1 attacked a aviator at 7.1300 feet J BIt his engine. As we closed aitb one another 1 halt' looped on one ;Ade ot hine Then lin (thee with a large .tratt of blue smoke. I dived after him about 1,000 feet d tired fifty minim into lam, when he went down abso- lutely out of control. I watched mut rpinning down 1.0.00 feet, the trail 0: smoke increasing. I was immediately att.:irked by three enemy machines. whieh aro; e me down to 200 feet. We \tare firing at 0110 another wnenever potaible. When at test t got a goou bieatien I attacked one of them beau 2'IttlfthIi 012 (lin intt'r. rn1111g110 11111'1.1;1 1thin: eo clime Galt I could get 'dein actual* ef the pilot's bead. I saw my beintes strike the Pliet's head, aell the Ina ehine then dandy heeled ever end spite. to the ten:emote The (am0 two inaehatta le1Itchaeirtt'llenIVI;1011.sii,"niZ Tetin7tigehot 1(iliwt.1"; • deliidedetei.efte. Mime at about that lilla4111'e1 n01111..1t0 11%11.Y1 2(411: Itti.itti;eneti eaeitire going (lot tang a email road ha1t-41 and Brea en me: aleo viTti inecidue toms wined fire. "Atter mane a ott 'deal flee utes t Uttflr.lo'ff !IV nn enemy ;Angie :hater. A: he appreeehel I rocked my machine until he was within 50 yards, then 1 side -looped over him and fired a short burst at him. Ife seemed to clear off, then attacked me again, These operations were repeated several times with slight variations in the way. I looaed over him until within anout five min. utes of crossiug the line (tielug against a Strong wind). When he was alma 150 yards behind 1 looped straight over hint and, coming out Of uic leme fired a good, long burst. saw where- I hit the pilot's bapti.th. 3011s4.1 above the edge of the cock immediately dived straight to tht ground. I then went over the Ger- man trenches, filled with soldiers, and was fired on .by maehine guns. ritles and small field guns. There was • lot of artillery -Gripe, going on. Many of our .shelle were bursting about the German trenches SOine- where in the viciulty of Cambrai road. "I saw many small companies of infantry and cavalry • going east alone Vie email made. I noted no convoys or movement of artillery. "I landed first at an aerodrome. when -I saw nitt machine was badly shot about." During this battle, besides their daily job of observation of the eneniyie gun positions, our airmen coutinualle go far into the enemy's country. In these few days alcale they dropped in daylight 27 tons et explositae 01 enemy stations, depots and stores aim4 positions of all' kinds. They eonte down and spray the German infanirt trenehes and roads; with 1111401111te guns, end have even attacked elle killed when there have been no bigger gam: in sight, indiehlual horeemen. U. S. AB,MY DILL. Under Debate in Both Reuses of Congress. •••••••••/.......^••••••••• ••• • Washington, April 23.—The Adenia ietration URI to ereat a big araly be selective draft was under debate in birth Houses of Congress to -day. 11 yrs taken up in the J1oue ter the teat time, end in the Senate debate wee le numed. The House biii, as reported by )1 ma jority of the committee. proviaet far volunteer velletment with enteral taal aray laet risme, and the fight for tilts meneure was lea by Cluarrean itent, t f the Military Commi,tee, whoee eueorteee 1 elt sine that thev would make. a good StlQWiflg. tereng element in the House, hoe tear, hacked the selective eon:writ nen plan advoeated by the army general stati%011d recentinended by the mit t IOV t ouillritfc urn(rity, led by Repass .1) tetiveRalin, 01 Ca1tforp1a, n ttersbli eon. In the idenaat tile hill tneer roa.1:1 eattion wet; to be followed by the - mamas talks. NOT FIGHTING THg GOV'T, Petrograd, Via L011(1011, APriI 03.. ••- 11. Plesident of tt Ceiteell er Workmen's and SoltiliTA. prOjeSied 10 o' 3' 0011111:41. 111t, 11181 00 0. 1(1). ( v.11, latablishing nn imam:ay 111 t alai that of the Peovierea' Government, 1.1e raid that it wee Amply a ease 01 11 elivelt on the pollee • the Government, similar to teat ot a t Oppesition P111 11' aiwaye Nee. eery und0r .t titlinorra le ronstitutior. 11 -1,Apa314,4 WK." 111/1:111:1.,. PRUSSIAN LOSS ONE DAY WORSE THAN THE MARNE 20,000 Foe Dead Lie Among the Aisne Mils After Aisne Fight. AN AWFdt WEEK ••••,..•••••••'.....••••••••••••••• Fullest Preparations .M1 Failed Before French Onsaught. Paris, April 22.- -.The Prussians in one day last week (Thursday) lost more men than they lost in the entire Battle of tho Marne. In the Battle of the Aisue they have kat more than double the casualties for the first six weeks of the war. Ninety thousand of the Kideer's trpops have been killed, sounded or taken prieoner in the ;tattle 01 (110 Alegi°, Their losses hp to *September .17, 1914, it week after von Kluek's enforced retreat, were official - i3' given as 35,786, Last Thursday's toll was more tphamnA4D0:000, rwEINTY THOUSAND PRUSSIAN More than twenty thousand Prus- sian deed lie to -night on lite hills ano -plateaus north of the Aisne, for ibo. fatalities in this new "slaughterhouse of Verdun," in proportion to the length of the battle, greatly exceed the iftlatbers or the Prussians who fCIL on the banks -of the Meuse. The French have Oman' counted more than twenty-five thousand prisoners, end the woundedare roughly cstimat- ed at nearly twice that number. Such a blow is a fatal thrust at the vast Prustilau military organizanon, which is rapidly bleeding to death. According to the testimony of cap. lured °Ricers, Field Marshal von Hin- denburg knew that a great French of- fensive was intended. Preparations were made to resist the coming blow, Every trench was • strengthened, additional artillery was planted on every hill and every wood- ed copse was filled with machine ,guns. Part of the Kaiser's crack forces, the Prussian Guards, was moved forward Mid the first line, and veteran Bavar• lan troops from other sectors filled in the gaps. All the defences crumbled at the first onslaught ot the French. On Monday they came up from the river and canal of tee Aisne with au impetuousness that carried all before it. Reinforcements flung Into the Prus- sian .front lines were used up almost as fast as they arrived. The reserves were called up—regtmeptal cooks, hostiers, bandn2a6ters and every avail- • able man, young and old, who could handle a gun, was sent to be food foe the French cannon. Twelve divlsione, numbering about 226,000 men, ac- cording to the effielal 'Preach re, p•orte, were thrown into the fighting line during the three days that fee lowed the beginning of the battle.' AU Wednesday -night they were pouring to the free t. On Thursday, the day of the most awful carnage, six more dirisious were sent to the (slaughter, meenOng more than 330,000 men added to tbo original 200,000 who manned the trenches on this front or death. Wave after wave of infantry were mowed down by French artillery as they rash - ed to the counter-attack. Then the infantry ebarged. Up the slopes of the Aisne heights, arrors thc bralge• head east of Soiroons they poured, a human hood, carrying everything before them. as .far as Fort Brimont. twenty-five utiles further _east, north of Rheims, whence the Prussians for mouths ave been shelling that his- toric city. Next Veiny fell and the troops, Pushing up from Vregny toward Nan - teen, almeet eacircled Fort Cohcle, wnence the, garrison barely lind time to eecape before the tort was cap- tured, together with the village el the sante name. Yeeterday the French occupied Saucy and a good Part of the Chemin des Dames, which is a road running along the crest, of the Aisne road across the Vaucleic alateau to Craone„ Further east beyond Rheims the French gained Mount Canine, Mont Haut and Tall No..227, thus practically occup'ying ale line of heights which marked the nrehistoric limits of the river whence It has eattled down in Re pi r.11t, betil.CP0 height,* ecnstitUte part of the fames line. the northern pivot of whieh WAS north of 1 ern end whirl% crossed the Aisne telow Weeny, reet•oated the river and con filmed el 11 1> VOID I. below Creon104, wherf., it again leaped the river to Fort Brimota mid continued en eoutbeest aed east to the Ar- gonne and Verdun ifectors. On the north. 1110 Dritishhave broken it twice. above Lens and at limy :Ridge On the south the Prussians admit 111(01(18 1,11,.retirement to the Siegfrid 00- ;,1Thus the Prussiaps have e new from a point between La Tiox.,e0 atir Lens to ft.point north of Auberivc. The southern section, called the Sieg- fried line, is much the strougest part, he vine been under eonstruction for ecarlv five months. The upper part, called the Wotan line, is a series of trenebes (emulate the Vimy ridge, be. tween Dreeourt end Queant, which was more hastily built, within the Met six \Necks, because the Prussians new r eXpeeted to lme 'Only ridge and only began construction when the illsro• for to {hair arniS beCOMe inovi441,,fe. Nic'ther end ef the riles however, is :le strong as the old entrenchment:4, their suectise ill carrying which bee ;undyed the „knit.; with fresh vigor bt the afisilranC0 oe flzial ViCtory. OHIN.A. VOA WAII. Sentiment Against Germany is Grow.ing Daily. lit•Idn, A»ril 23. • Tlie war tient', mein in Clime 1s inerereing ilaily.The see .1' are ineeneed over the netion (ii•rnittev 122 detatnine the (late!, enaelee ill Berlin, pending (be seat arid% el of vou taattee. German 31111- ' 1(01' tot Isticin. 1,, 11750 (PMIlatill11 cm' the of ("d)n- ettelen" e Berlin end .Mmileli. The nartery ;tot: 0f101 f n;;; 110:d (12' Ir t was tee/re-ewe- in Pelcht on April 25. The putlerity of the never. not% and *Parliament faver Near. bet difier titer til'tt:t 1ri, C Seel 1411011111 adopt towurd Thc. lutl:tat 14411.4 tiro, that 1147na v ,, ..1; • v.,1 r 1.41. 113..