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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-10-17, Page 7U-BOATS SINK THREE SHIPS; I OVER 900 LIVES ARE LOST Dublin Mail Eoal to •Holyhead Torpedoed and 400 Perish, Jap Liner Sunk Off Ireland and U, Si Ship Off . Atlantic Coast. London cable; The Dublin mail boat Leinster luta been torpedoed, ac- cording to tho Exchange Telegraph Company. Tho boat was inaaing trip front Dublin to Holyhead. eeour hundred persons perished in the torpedoing of the Leinster, ac- cordIng to a report wbicli bas not yet been confirmed. The reported torpedoing of the Leinster on her regular voyage from Dablin to Holybeed would indicate that. the German U-boats have again eucceeded in getting into St. George's Channel. Nothing has been reported of a U-boat in that water for a long time, •, 300 LOST HERE, 'A. British Port cable:. The Japan- ese steamship Hirano Mar. of 7.935 tons gross', has been torpedoed and sunk. It is feared that 300 lives were loaf. • teehe Hirano Marti was outward bound for Japan and carried about 200 paesengers. The vessel was toe- lueleed and sunk by a German sub- marine early on Fraley morning of last week, when about 300 miles south Of Ireland, The few eurvivors who were picked un: by the American torpedo boat destroeea Sterret have been brought Jure. They declare the torpedo strack the steamer In the forward engine r661n. . -Nothing remained for those on board. including the women and chit drea., Litt to plunge into the ocean A large number, however, went down with the ship. The Teasel disappeared completely within seven ^ minutes after being struck by a torpedo. The scene was indescribable. The, weether was had and rather hazy, The Ories of the drownine were heartrending. Everybody bad been eupplled with lifebelts, but only the strongeat were able, to stand the buffeting waves and exposure. Providentially, the commander of the Anterican destroyer Stant heard the explosion and eteered his vessel for the -point whence the sound came. He Lonna the ship had disappeared and, he aaw a mass of people struggling in the water. There were no small boats avail- able, sty the deetroyer, in the bad weather, eteamed about picking up these who still .were alive. The American warship picked up thirty persons, one of whom died while being brought- ashore. Among the survivors were these passengers in the first cabin: A. A. Young, LouiR Durmonte A. B. Ask - ea, T. H. Butler and Fred J. Kart3eh. About 22 members of the Japanese crew were rescued. While the A.merican destroyer Sterret was engaged in the work of mercy and picking up the men and women struggling In the water, the German submarine fired two tor- pedoes at the warship. Both miestlee happily missed their mark. After making a thorough search for sur - elvers, the Sterret headed for the. submarine, firing several shots and dropping depth charges. Tile Hirano Maru was bullt at Na- gasaki in 190e. and wits owned by the Nippon Yitsen Kabushiki Kaisha of Tokio. The .veeeel was 405 feet long, 56 feet beam and bad a depth at 34 feet. 2e0 LIVES HERE . An Atlantic Port, Oct. le.—Scorcs ot American Sailors and soldiers were killed or wounded by shrapnel fired by a German submarine after it had torpedoed the steamship Ticonderoga, 1,700 miles of the Atlantic coast, acs cording to the story told by 20 sur- vivors who arrived here to -day aboard a British, freighter. There were 250 men aboard the Ticonderago, an American steamship of 5,130 tons, and all but the twenty who arrived here to -day are believed to have perished. The survivors got away in the only boat which was not demolished by the shell fire from the submarine. they said. Seventeen of tile men who reached port were mem- bers of a detachment of soldiers de- tailed to care for horses which were being transported. 'rhe Ticonderago was attackea pre- sumably on Oct. 2, when she fell be- hind heraconvoy because of engine trouble. According to the story of the sur- vivors, the submarine was not sip,ht- ed until she had sent a torpedo crest's' ing into the side of the ship. The torpedo did not strike a vital spa, however, and the captain crowded on full steam in an effort to escape, at the same time ordering the gun crews • into action against the submarine, which appeared about a mile off. FORWARD GUN SHOT AWAY. "Our gun crews did not fire more than five or six shots," one of the survivors said. "The • forward gun was shot away almost at once. The after gun and Its crow was done or almost as gelekly. Then the men went to the boats, but it was no use as the flying shrapnel was spraying the decks and xnen fell in scores,s either killed or badly wounded." _another survivor declared that all of tho Ticonderogas eight lifeboats, with the exception of one, were rid - died with shrapnel before they could be launched. A. number of men who tried to get into the eigth boat were killed by shrapnel as they clambered over the side of the vessel, he said, "Finally," this scrvivor continued, "one of our men, in desperation. swam close to the submarine and hailed an officer, asking him in God's name to stop firing. "The lieutenant who answered him did so with a loaded revolver, saying 'hat if he d.d not swim back he would ehoot him. "When our boat had only 20 men in it we were ordered alongside the submarine and made to tie up; while the shelling of the dead and dying, on the sinking ship continued. "The leader of our boat was asked some questions. which he refused to answer, and suddenly the aubmarine submerged and only the parting •of the tone with which we were tied prevented our going down with it." OF CRUISER TYPE. One of the survivors said that the submarine was of the cruiser type and bad the largest guns he ever had seen on a submarine. One ef the en- gineer officers, he Geld, whose room was pierced by a shell from the sub- marine, declared that the shell Was an eight -inch projectile. Heretofore Only stx-ineh guns have been reaorted on eubmannes. 'rhe survivors, who were adrift for Lour days berme they were picked up, said that a raft with five wounded men on It had put off from the Time - 1 deroga, and that they had attempted 1 to tow it with them, but that it broke away daring the night and disappear- ed. BRITISH TAKE LE gATEAU AND MANY OTHER PLACES Haig's New Liii3 &OM nAdvane of Tea Miles Last of Cambrai. American Forces !iso Drive Forward, Aided By huge Air Hut. A London eablo: Le Canteau has been eaetured by the Britieh, Field inars.tat Haig annoencee in his re- port to night. British troop e reached Let Lateau this morning, The Ger• Mans offered stubborn iesistance at various positions, WhIleat otnee point." they gale ip witnout the sentolance O f a fight, Tne 'Br.tish have advanced rapidly along the whole battle front. They now hold the line of the Selle River from St. Souplee to Solearnes, which tepresents an advanee or about, ten suites east of Centime Many civilian:" have been found in the Captured towns and villages, 2,500 being liberated at Caudry alone. - The official report reads: "At dawn tills morning otir advance was resumed along the whole battle front. At all points rapid progrees was made in spite of tile efforts of tile enemy's rearguarde to hold up the Advance. "Our troops, approaching the large woods east of ttohain. have entered Vaux-Andigny. North of that phtee we have teethed the general tine of the Palle Meer from St. Seetiplett to the netgaborhond of Solesntes, and bare catered Le Cateatt. "West Of Solesines we ettptured Avesttes and Welt( end Thun St. Mars tin. West of the edtheldt Canal we aave, taken retrurt alai the tame mai village's captured at nue advances to dey ntliethere of hove beee found, Whaling 2,00 it the tenet fit Caudre, IR, _aee eseseee Already the. Frelien first army, op- erating Fatah or the Britten leaVo reached the river at Mezieres, alad as they are drawing eloefr to It north- a ward, the British and, Americana are - approaching it Mill further north. There are Gigue that the Germane aro preparing for a general retreat. as they must do, now that euch wide gain() have been undo to the eouth- east of Cambral, and cavalry and pa - trots are worania, far forward. it was Tennessee end North, and South Carolina troops who captured Bussigny after overcoming only slight opposition. 'They then went forward. The powerful mines which the Ger- mans had placed under Cambral seem to bave been rot with a thne Nee, the idea being to complete the des- truotion started by fire, and to kill as great s. number of the allied soldiers as was possible. The explosion went off with a roar under the centre of the town after it had been occupied by the British. The crash and detonation were seen and heard for miles. Great damage, the exact entent of which has not yet been, determined, was done in Cambral. AMERICANS ADVANCE. With the American Army North- am:a of Verdon cable saya: Its way blazed over a wide area by aerial bombers, the American army again moved slightly forward to -day in the territory hold by the Germans. The aviators who participated in the bril- liant offensive that began late yester- day flew over the enemy's Mee (hie afternoon and reported dozens of towns still smouldering; and a signifi- cant quiet in extended areas, which, until now, have been the 'scenes of enemy activity. The aerial operations for the past peat 24 hours have been the greatest ever attempted. They included a bombing expedition of over 350 planes. The towns bombed included then from the point farthest east in the Franco -American aosition beyond the Meuse to Metz. This expedition was caaarrfed out with tao loss of only one ia Observers told the officers at head- quarters to -eight that they had been unable to see any movement on tho roads, where ordinarily German trans- ports are moving, and in towns where ' their presence had not even been re- ported otherwise American temps had been -seen blvouacing. Here and there an --enemy battery was observed, but all reports agreed that in the greater. part of what had been the German ad- vaimed area the guns had been moyed back. :General Pershing's infantry went into action on the left wing of the Argonne forest front atter a violent netillery bombardment lasting all night. Tho bombardment met with Utile reaction on the part of the Germans. - or, "Southeast of Lens our troops have made further Progrese and have cap. Lured Rouvroy," HEAVY GAINS. With the Angio -American Forces on the Cambrai•St. Quentin Sector, Oct. 10.—The British panties continued their rapid ntorement ettetward to -day de - elate desperate resistance which they encountered at. times from stroiag °horny rearguards who were trying to prOtect the main bodice" of troops now in flight. British cavalry, moving astride the Cambia -Le Cateaa road, captured Le Cateatt and moved beyond it after evercoming enemy machine-gun poste. an.et north of here the infantry Inane.' hours ago reached Nouvilly. • The GerMana were in some strength on the Oast side Of the Selle River at this point, and Used their gene vigor- ously, but the town was taken end passed. Caudry. Ineliv and many Other tetens are burning, as the Germans corafinue their ineendiarisia and de- struetiott. Other importer t advenees have beer made atul notwithstanding the enemy's niggle more than 2,000 Wi- t, t al Orleoners here been taken since yesterday and many more to -day. The Others undoebteelly have done as Well. The Germano are still in full flight. but resisterice frosts the tone Male ft^ INVIV HI have ellehtiv !titter:NI mid 't Meld(%) ed not eulikety that the enema inev trv to Make A stand on , the seta hank af the Olee and lila Sambre Caitai, relining nOrtheamt of THE MACONOCHIE GANG We called them tho Islaconochie Gang because, as they were on special work, they got extra rations; and in those days any extra rations were maconochie. They were, in feet, the battalion wiring squad. In these times every man in the battalion is a trained wirer, and screw-picaets and such -like latter-day improvements have made the Job a fairly easy one; but then, only the select few knew the art of ereoting high and low en- tanglements, and they fastened •the wire on to wooden posts. The gang used to go out just after dusk—a sergeant and twelve men— carrying posts, and wire, and hammers 'They "marked" Immensely over tbe othersebecause they wore soft caps in- stead of tin hats, and carried their ammunition in bandoliers Instead of in equipment poaches. They were, for the time being, the hristocracy of the rank and file. After they had been out a quarter cf an hour or so you would hear the muffled "thud, thud" ef the hammere as they struck upon the sandbagged heads of the posts. It seemed a dreadful row, and you thought the Roche, must hear them; until you listened a little har- der, and a more distant "thud, thud" told you that the Boche was at the sante game. It was no nervous man's job. In spite of the fact that he was work- ing in front of his own wire, an occas- ional burst of intlireet machine gue rho would come perilously near; and, If his gunners were in a nervy mood, you never knew when a few whiz - bangs might not land in the centre of the party. Still, the chances were slight, ahd only added excitement to tbe game. It was towards the end of the night's work that the real excitement began. It was a case or the first side in—if the Boehe got in -first he'd open fire on us, and vice versa. Some- times he'd make a real "strafe" of it, and send over rum -jars and rifle - grenades as well as machine-gun fire, and then the wiring belt was e very nice Place to be out of. The time of ceasing work depended mainiy up- on the moon. When the night be- eame light enough for ono to be seen, it was a case cf ''down tools." 440+.44++++.++7+44444-0-44+4444-04±4+++++++++++44+.4+ Four Years In Arctic In R. MIN'. M. P. Service • Stoi7 Tel4 by Nall Wm Hunto Eebdroo Murderers of Ziaplorere. 44.4+++-444++++++++4444-4-f++1.•++++++++++++++++++44-44++++ Telaniteba. Free Prces). After four years of hardships and privations in the sub-Aretie and Are - tie wilds, Sergealej. Caulkin, of the R.N,Whel.P., has returned to Regina, and has armed himself with passports, leave of absence and everything neces- sary to travel overseas, Ile plaits, to leave at once to seek new edventures In the shell -torn fields of Flanders, witle his comrades on former days in Canada, the R.N.W.M.P. cavalry draft. isergt,-Maj, Caulain was prevailed upon by a press representatIva to give a few details of his four years in. the wilds of the uortla. The offIcen was eomewhat diffiaent and did not bite to say much of his quest for the Eskimo murderers of Radford and Street, the two American scientists, who were put to death at Bathurst Inlet, but gave the following outline of the remark- able journey accomplished by Itim- sell: and' companions: During the first two and a half years in the north the expedition un- der Inspector Beyts, of which Sergt- Caulkin was second in coma tnand, did little patrolling oa the was tem of Hudson Bay in the north and preparea for the long trek across the Barren Lands. They secured a num- ber of dogs, prepared sleds and pro- visions and when the time came in March, 1917, Inspector French and Sergtaalajar Caulkin started north- vrestSwTarciR AT ON LONG JOURNEY. "It was 011 March 21, 1917," said Caulkia, "that Inspector French and myself left our base camp at .Baker lake with four Eskimos and three dog teams and sZeds for a jour- ney across the Barren Lands to the arctic coast, taking with us one month's food supplied. Our instruc- tions were to fully investigate tea al- leged, nmrders of Radford and. Street, •tho American scientists, who were said Lo have been killed by a tribe of Killin- eemuit Eskimos, located in Bathurst inlet, along Coronation gulf. After our month's grub was exhausted we were to rely on Um country for furth- er subaistence, and in this respect we Were very fortunate on the outgoing journey, althoughlwice we almost met with disaster on the return patrol. "We left our base camp without an ounce of dog feed on our sleds, but were not long in coming into contact with the barren ground caribou, which were' migrating northward to the Arctic coast.. Having arrived amongst these animals we travelled with them ani were successful in managing to shoot four or five of them each night for our dogs and our own consump- tion. We travelled across 900 miles of barren ground, Absolutely devoid of vegetation; our civilized foodstuffa gradually petered out ana we found ourselves existing entirely on half - cooked caribou meat, similar to the Eskimos themselves. In travelling over this 900 miles of barrens, we en- tered country never before tracked by white men and were able to add a few new lakes and rivers to the geogra- phical department for entry. on the maps. We reached the Arctic coast after a journey 'extending about two months. Here the caribou quit us, and we did considerable tra.volling over the sea ice on ,Coronation gulf and Bat- hurst Inlet and were fortunate in be- ing able to bunt seals, which were on the ice at intervals, thus keeping our meat and dog feed going. THE ESKIMO COUNTRY. "We reached our nest Eskimo cre eanipment about May 14, when we ran into a camp ot about 60 natives. Most of these were primitive and had not, eeen white men before. We were re- ceived in a friendly way and they as- sisted uG in fixing up our snow houses. The majority of these Es- kimos still were armed with bows and arrows, a few old muzzle-loadere were seen amongst them, which they ob- tained from native traders coming from the weet .We remained amonget these Eskimoti all summer and fan, travelling amens the various tribes located in the. Coronation gulf and Dolphin and Union straits. We thor- oughly investigated the murders of Messrs. RaelfercI and Street and con- ducted a Goias of lectures amongst them on tivilized laws, etc. Those were interpreted by one of our coast ‘qusltics taken from the Huson Bay. DEATal OF THE SCIENTISTB. "We found that Messrs, Radford and Street badused no discretion whatever while travelling amongst these people, and had •continually deed violeuce towards them when en- dis:avoring to obtain natives. and dog You could always telt the last half- beur by the soend of tho work. Hammers would be gotta; twenty to the dozen, and fatigue, parties would be running bade to the trench for "wire, Lathed, reels, one." 'The ser- geant would be going raund threaten- ing, in a husk whisper, that any man who didn't flaish his appointed teak would, forfeit his extra einaconchie.". The place would be a hiv3 of industry, until a sharer report, a whistling In the air, and the cry et'euni-jar," or a s;rdr,t1Lett burst of inaohine gun fire all along the wire. The Boche was in But wheu we flnisited first and got safely in, then the word was passed back to the M. G. G. and our Own Lewis Gunners, and it was Fritz's turn • to drop hie tools and: make a dart for the trench. After that, whichever way it went, ding -along dealing for an hour, and then a peanefatnight. That was In, the old days—Peace warfare, we used to eali it. They do things differently nowadays! - • e. 7 1V/ind Study, , A great Pare or our gutsy Mtist be Of the seind, Since this etn'eole the hand, and, AS Wo have atrealy seen, the eye and the ear haste to be (ten. eidered also. In product:An tits liana iti controlled by the Mini end eease fa pArisenount. In distribatIon the mird 'is the great factor anti the hand but a Minor atireante--Induetrian alanaee- Meitt Magazine. driven). Thls they did right up to the time of their death in Bathuret Inlet, when, beating a young num who did not want to accompany them, they were set upon ana stabbed to death elniat beating this young man with a dog whip as bit lay on the ice, Their bodies were placed on the ice and went out in the breakup. The story of these murderers were sub- stantiatedat all the different etemps %gaited, and from our own observes cions and contact with these primitive natives, one could see they were per- fectly peaceable, un'test molested or eat upon, Thee° natives live eutirely upon raw meats, fish. etc., and have no civilized footle whatsoever. We remained amongst them until October, 1917, when we camped at the mouth of the Goppermine river and waited for freeze-up. We occupied our time netting and were successful in pro- curing suffielent for ouselves and dogs. NEAR STARVATION. "On Oct. 16, 1917, wo left evith four sleds and 35 doge and proceeded along the Arctic coast sea ice to return to our base camp. We had practically to exist oft the country for the next three or four months, and were fairly successful 'in this respect during the early stages of the journey. We reached Bathurst Inlet early in Nov- ember, 1917, and were met up with very deep, soft snow, which greatly impeded our progress, and owing to lack of gain() and poor condition of dogs, we were forced to abandon a' canoe, two tents and a stove. From time to time we xnanaged to kill a few deer or hook a few fish through the lee, but not sufficient to keep our the °nein:ling winter. "As we left the Arctic coast we got fine, clear, cold days—the game was too alert for us and we could not get within shooting range of tbenta cons scquently our dogs and eurselves got into pretty low condition. Wo bad to cut up deerskin and sealskin for the dogs, which they socn disposed of. Wben half way across the Barrett Lands we were living on just What we could catch, either fish or foxes, and the dogs travelled sac days with- out a morsel of food. Things looked bad and the dogs were becoming ex- hausted, so we had to rommence shooting the very poor ones to feed them to the others,. In this iraneer we managed to keep sufficient dogs allve to haul our sleds to the Thelon river district, A BANQUET ROYAL. "Here we saw signs of mute: ox and alter a hunt, managed to kill 23 of thee° animals. This was a great relief for the outfit. We camped here for 11 days and had a . royal time, both men and dogs, although the dogs had. gone so tar some of them never regained their former con- dition. Leaving this part of the coun- try, we commenced on the last 400 miles ef our journey. lt was becoming exceedingly cold, and our clothing was very much in need of repair, but we managed to pull through safely, after further anxiety regarding dog feed, We arrived back at our base camp on Jan. 29, 1918, after an absence of 11 months, nine months of whin had been spent in travelling by dogs and sled. Out of 35 doge ana four sleds, we reached our base with 16 doge and one sled, the remainder be- an; shot for food for the others. eWer visited the same tribe et Es-- kinies which lnspecter La Nauze bad visited the previous year, 1910, for the purpese of investigating the mur- der of the two Roman Catholic mis- sionaries from the Mackenzie River district. It will take conelderable time before these Fekimes become con- versant with the white man and his methotIss although some et them have e en several white men, such as oStherearnenxsp°11'olrettnellif nocaleralin.er daanyds. few FIVE THOUSAND elIZSES COVERED. They are happy with their lot, ana satisfied in the use of their bows and arrows and spears in their hunting grctuads ,althoughit is unadvisable for any white mon to (molder travel- ling amongst them without an inter- preter, or unless he can govern his temper in caves where a little discre- tion goe,s a long way and avoids con- flletions of a similar nature to that experienced by 'Messrs. Radford and Street. In atl I think we covered in the neighborhood of 5,000 miles by elects. over the Teat barren areas still remaining unexplored, or surveyed In the sub-Aretic and _Arctic regions. We were fortunate le being able to come up with one of Stefannsen's caches of supplies; in Dolphin and union straits where we managed to obtain a little store of foodstuffs:. Mysiteriousiy Lost Ships Of the American, Navy ""47.4++44-444±" 4-4-111744 41-4 4 44 4-4-41-4-11-44-4!:44 4.444-4-4-4-4-4.4-4.0.++++ (G. lel. Garvin in the National Marine.) : belonging to Commodore Chatineey's ehe suysteriotte disappearance of equital on on Lake Ontario, capsized the naval collier Cyclaps, missing white trying to sveather the enemy's mice March )3 and now practically squadron: All hands were supposed given up as lost with all on beard by to be at quarteri . when the vessel rie Navy Department, is the nixteenth went tinder, 'and none was heard of nivel veseel to bave been lea without again. e trace Once the inseptioa of the One of the meal Names of the meriertit navy, eaeordiug to statistics missing Ship a was the Weep, whielt of the department. However, the figured so 'prominently in the, war of aye:bps is the Matt steam propelled 1812. This ship. commanded by the :easel to haeo bean airli:xxly lost. reuownerl J dime ton Blakely, with eighteen gtme and 140 men, had been The Santee:ea, carrying •e!ghte2n the scourge of the Ceen to 13ritish guns, was loet at sea in tectober, 170 shipping. haying aecounted for tweeve ena was the fan vessel, tteearding ta British statistlas, to be apparently stvallowed merchant vessels and turned over rich 810102 b the Governntent, at) by tee eon State time later the lacluding more t n e1,000,000 in gold. eeneral Clettee, a similar ship carrying Iter tairOentit exploit appears to have eighteens. gime, but of more recent con been her N meets, for after engaging ttruction, disappeared without a trace. clad eantU"Ing the British bile At - The big Picker;ng, carrying four- Meta elle departed upon a cruise on seen guile and with a complement of. slept. I, 1814, and never returned. A iinety officers am men, sailed frOni Swedish brig returning front Rio de aiew Castle, Delaware, on Aug. 2,s, Janeiro reported haling spoken with te00, for Guadeloupe. and was never 'her three weeks after tilts date. While tgain heard from and supposedly V: a - letehag feather wee ever beard from cot in this terrific, gale of Septomb:r, ler, naeal nuthoridee have always lf-00. The Lim -geed vapturel fren, leatittalned the view that she wart Mai Frensh In One, 'wee another vietni le a gale. of thie gale. The sweet yarded thirty • Sca'rcely Imo amazing was the later six guns end 340 men Under 1,11O totw't,A-, nal/ear:0.v at' tles elite Fitment' in inand of Captain P. leleteeer, sailed July. 18,3, while en route:to title cottne bone Hentpten Made en Attg. 8, le0.0. try epre Algiers. Tee.4 ..‘eetdd Tod on a Cutest in the West Wien, and, brit captured from the British by the Was never literd from again, Mat Peeeoek in 1812 awl Was part The next navel tragedy shifted tac Deeatures fleet in the war MCI* seene to the great lakee when on the: e 1 11 $V-110.•. anti when negotiation," f er nbelit (1 .Ang. 10. 19111 the eclioene.r peace were OPeneil that veeeel Wa8.melt HantlitoX1, earrylna nine guns and to this vountry with the peace 1110- eoteill. After paeaing threaten the channel at Citerattar ma July 14, 1815, elle was never heard from again, althotuth it Waii reported that she was sigittea lose than a monte later, Ang. $. in latitude e9' 4" north and long. tiade 61' le" weet. She was a vote); of 477 tone ad carried eighteen guns and had a crow oe12,1 men Tile, Lynse, a email schooner, carry- Insex guns and fifty men, under the senntrana or Lieutenant Commander J. R. Madiaou, sailed from St, Mary's, Fla., on ann. 1, 1821, bound for Jama• lea, and was never heard from after- ward, and later the scliooner Wildcat with three guns and thirty -ono alga, tinder eonimand of Lieut. le. Legere, waa lot while.en route from Cuba to Thompeon's Inland, Title vessel is be Roved to have gone ashore on Caryie Foot Reef, as her arm chest and anchor were later found in that vicin- Ity. On. Sept, 10, 1821, the Hornet, a brig of eighteen guns and 140 men, cotn- mandsd by Master Commodore Otho Norrie, foundered and was lost in a terrific gale off 'Templet). Her loss wee reported by Commodore Elliott, and on Nov, 2, 1829, an anchor from the Hornet was found on the shore neTarhoiTasnatipiaeolci er Slypli If., a small vessel eas:rying one gun, commanded by Lieut. II, E. 12, Robineon, was lost in a gale in the West Indlee in 1839, and the Sea Gull, a pilot boat tender to the Wilkee expedition. carrying two guns and fifteen men. under the joint command of Paesed Midseapman ,L N. Reed and A. W. Bann, wan lora sup- poeedly in a gale, during the same year, This vessel, with the Flying Field left Orange Harbor for Val- paraiso on April 2/3. They parted dur- ing a -severe storm, the Flylne; Visit taking refuge under False Cape Horn. The next disaster came in 1843, when the schooner Grampus, uf twelve gun% commanded by Limit, E. A. Downesdhelt Norfolk early in elarch for a cruise along the coat, Site was last heard from in a letter dated March 4 and mailed at Charleston, re, C., which stated that the ship would be back in. Norfolk between the Sth and 15t1i of April. The largest vessel boat in this man- ner ur to tho time of the diaappear- anco of the Cyclops was the sloop of war Albany, with a complement of twenty-two guna and 210 men, under the command of Commodore J. T. Gerry. On Sept. 29. 1854, ehe sailed from Aspinwall boand for New York, After she became long overdue the steamers Princeton and Felton made a vigorous search for her, but no news west ever beard from her from that (late. The Ittet vessel of the navy to disap- pear wee the Levant, also a sloop of war and nearly as largo •aa the Al- bany, carrying .eightecn guns and 210 mon. Under tho command of Captain William Hunt she sailed from Hilo in the Sandwich Islaud for Aspinwall squadron cearebed for her, but tho only trace found was an oar aud a broken°er.t. 1) ovedue, ceveral vessels in the Pacific 18, 1860. After being long r spar believed to have belonged ton ile The Cyclope is now practically given up as lost. As a last hope or finding some trace of the collier, the Navy Department is now having fishermen of the Windward Islands questioned in the hope, that aome of them might throw some ligbt on this, the latest mystery of the sea. lent authority for saying that not onlr has a great deal of the harvest beet deliberately destroyed, but plans have been worked cut for destructien other areas. The Germans have made theselvea so utterly hated in the Ukraine that the peasants would. soot er starve to death than grow fa/ which might be seized by Comm troopa. As matters are at present, co- ereion is, of course, out of the quea tion. As regards Roumania it Melt: from truetworthy official reports. that the drought, both in Roumania and Bessarabia, has been exceptional, and the total production of corn, maize, sugar beet, oieseeds, etc., in all pro- bability will not exeed. 50 per cent, of the amount required for local con- sumptien. Thia fact, however, will. not weigh very heavily with Om (ice - trans, who are quite ready to carry off what there le, leaving the unfortunate inhabitants to &terve. In fact the Ger- mans have. already requisitioned ev- erything of value, and have levied huge contributions of corn, both front the •occepled parts of Wallachia and front Moldavia and Bessarabia, under threat of seizing everything and leaving the population to starve. Itis evident that such ladies will go far in encouraging production, and it is even likely that the -Weimer of tbe Increine may repeat itself in Retarania. . 8 es e esae < eettaa selees..s . seseagesaseeed • RULER OF THE KING'S NAVY. Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty, who has arrived In the United Stettee on an official \fiat to Washington, He is the fast holder of his office te vent America divine hie tenure of that pot. ----ea • Sweetthing 8001115 to have tt tOnstant sneceesion of new adinirs ere. Shea -Well, that eltows they have at Ina a modicum of intelligence. They can't stand for her very lungs— Itielationd TinseaDitipatch, AMERICANS .CALL SHORT ITEMS GERMAti BLUFF Of THE OS OF THE DAT "Lost" Battalion, IIopeless, Refused to Yield, "Go to Hell!" Was the Major's Reply. besepoi•• 'With tile American Forces North- west of Verdun, Cable.—The est spot In the herein and amazing f h o v 1 mous "lost battal- ion," winch belonged to the 7711t divi- sion, as yet natold, was the camas; to the dearth day of the troops' be- teaguerement in the Argonne forest. When the men were long foodless and almost wholly without exultant - tion, and when many were weak front exhauation, but not one deepairing, an Americen who had been taken Prlsoner by the Germans suddenly appeared. at Um little camp sarround- sent blindfolded eaTihnetimmatalarhleay. dbeen from the German neadquarters with a typewritten note to Major Whit - tie, raeelaicslahaves: you are surrounded on all sides. Sorrender in the name of humanity, You will be well treated." Major Whittlesy did not hesitate a • traction of a second.. "Go to hell," he almost shouted. Then he read the note to those ; around him, and his .men, despite ; their weariness and hunger and in immluent danger every moment, : cheered so loudly that the Germane ! heard them froni their observation posts. None of the battalion could know that relief would come within 24 hours; none felt 'very sure that it could come at all before At was too late, hut the same epirit animating ; them to plunge ahead in the foreet ' to their perilous 1)65111011 maintained . them at that moment, and every living man, wounded or well, in the bat- ! talion enthasiastically approved Major Whittlesv's abrupt answer when the news of it v, as circulated -through the position. 7 SEES TURK QUITTING. Berlin Realizes Meaning of New Ministers. Amsterdam, Cable.—Writing from Constantwome upon the appointment of Tewfik Paoha as Grand Vizier and Izzet Paella as War Minister of Tur- key, the Berlin .correspondent of the Rhenish Westphalian Gazette says that the New 'Turkish Cabinet pro- claims the general de,sire of -peace on the part of the people of that country. Commenting on the situatibn at Con- stantinople, the new epaper says: "Enver Pasha and Taiaat Pasha wore undoubte,d1y the pillars of the TureoeGerman alliance. We certainly do not stray Inc from the truth when we assume that impending events in Turkey will result in a change of policy." TO CIOR MEUSE OF ENEMY MIS Main Reason for Frarico- American Attack. Operation Saccessful, Took 4,000 Prisoners. 'Paris, Cable.—The attack cast or the Meuse begun Tuesday by the French eupported by the Americans had one main roeult In view., That was to restore the battle -line west of ibe Meuse to the place where it Was when the Uermans began their .at- tack aga.nst Verdun in 1916. The plan also was to clear the, right bank of the Meuse ot enemy guns which had been causing considerable trouble, and /deo to secure from the enemy certain valuable observation points. Tho oecration was very successful. The enemy seemingly was taken by eurprese Po had =Seed his troops and gure further east in strongly fort- ified positions, leaving the Austro - Hungarians to hold Ihe point where the main attack was delivered. There was no artillery preparation, despite the fact that a neamally sustained at' Mary fire had been necessary to re- duze the mass of wire which the on- •eney had built in front of and between his • Unce virivally in the Bois de Caures. Tin, advance or the French and Am- ericans was made behind a roll -bar- rage. it was so midden and fierce that many of the eeetroashingarians were taken at their- shelters. Their officers said in tho absence of preliminary artillery preparations they did net ex- pect en attack. and had no idea that the Franc0-A.merieens Were coming until they where among them. This ()aeration its:elf was secOndary to the I larger events that were transpiring on (ther F cetors. it, however, has aid - 1 ed lergoly in further releasing Ver. den from the enemy menstee. About , 4.000 preaieees weee taken. To -day the 1 Greenlee rnritrid un reinfolcements and delivered cannter-attacka. These 1 were unsuaeessful. ..'—,------- British Guns Fired Over 10,000 Tons of SheIls 16 Successive Davi. TL tO Poets. It."inight not be idk to observe that "khaki" Coes not lend itself to ptwtry "NV 0?Y(0,1. notes "I'lice • polls News. Its ores nro more , utiltattan than decorative, In 11 uni- roun It 15 insairlior. hilt In told type it conveys no .ottat Impression. War poets. Ibefore setting out to AV 0 e) the music:, shoutd considor the difficulties or i"klutki." If by so tioing tho overriow- , ing current or war pootrY could be somewhat tmmed a great service would he done A trodbled nation. That NOW Stilt. Straight, narrow skirts the rule. Coats may be hip length or extrem- ely long, Limited colors, principally dark blues, Peking blue.. rurpte, tans, . browns, grey •nnd taupe. Trinamirge of fur, yarn, entbrolds try, silk trateey, beetle, quilting. Gen- servative Pulls have fur trinuninge On , collars only. ViieUe IS not lett to stand ;alone. He who practices it will have IteighbOre, BIG GERMAN THEFT Canada Formally Protests the Long Sault Weir Order. ,Tolin Harmon, a resident of Wind- sor for seventy-five years, died at hie home there, He was 92 years Old, As a result of drinking a quantity of iodine, Hyman (101dstein, of Tors onto, died in the General Hospital at Washington. Mrs. Wellington KO% wife of the ' Chinese Minister, died from pneumoao ia, which followed an attack of Span,* ish influenza, She heti been 111 aboUt a week. The Board of Grain Supervisors or; dered tbat gestriction on shipments ret "wheat, barley and flax" In the Pro* vince of Alberta shall be canceled. A majority of the tramway ampler's* cies at Vienna have struck, demanding increased pay and a war alloWances says a despatch from Zurich, Switzer. land, to the Paris Temps. Lieut. Yung, son-in-law of Prat:der Clemenceau, of France, died at the front from the effects of grippe. He had married the Premier's Wanda, daughter only a few days ago, Kingston city.council will inaugurate the two platoon system in connection with the local fire -department estab• lishment, night and day. Col. R, M. Simpson, assistant direce tor of medicinal services of one of the Canadian divisions in France, has been awarded- the 'diStinguished service o56,. der. Col. Simpson has had a remark- - ably distinguished record in the 'field: During fifteen successive daes red.; ontly. the British artillery hurled more than 10,006 tens of shells a day upon' the enemy, according to a statement by Winston Spencer Churchill, the - Minister of Munitions. A postal sick containing 70,000.904' marks of seeurities and treasury bondfs addressed by the post office to the German Imperial Chateau was stOleit Tuesday. • Roumania is said to have expreased„ a wish to initiate negotiations "for a new solution of the Debrudja quesi, tion," according to the Vienna Nene • lerele Presse, as quoted by the Cologne Gazette. . • The New York city budget for 1919 will be $244,469,885, an increase ovet the current year of e6,30t),000, the Board of Estimate announced.ao-dar The increase is attributed to Gonda. tions arising from the war: Members of the Toronto Board Ofe Control emphatically refused to con - eider the proposal of the Toronto Batas way Company, contained in a letter from Mr. R. J. Fleming, that the com- pany be permitted to charge a straight five -cent fare. Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, . brother-in-law ot the German Emm- en was elected King of Finland...on Wednesday night by the Finnish Landtag. The Republican member of the Chamber did not vote. Lawrence Lazarus, 28 years old, a returned soldier, who as a" Member of the 70th Battalion, of London, served overseas, and was returned to Canada owing to wounds, is under arrest at ' Toledo, clanged with seditious utter- ances against the Governments of both Canada and the United States. A $1g minimum wage for ,adult AIX!. perienced women sales clerks in retail stores in Winnipeg, and St. Bonita -ea, with a clay of rest, Sunday or 'scene other day, in each week, and weekly half -holiday where there is Saturdar night work, is the finding of the Mani- toba Minimum Wage Board. • . . The Canadian Government has Made a formal protest to the International Waterways COmmission itt granting permissioil to the St. Lawrence Power Company to dam the south channel of the St. Lawrence River at Long Sault channel. The Methodist Book and. Ptibliaing House has brought .an actiori against the Dominion Alliance and Ben' H. Spence, secretary, for the recovery of $5,10, alleged to be due for material, supplies and work done bn a contract for publishing 10,000 copies of the Parasite, a book banned by the Canad- ian Censor. • H teresii OP" BRITISH dd.M . A: Sit Arthur Yappt, K.O.B.E., president of the Y.M.C,A. of Great Britain, Who is addressing Canadian audiences{ on the work of the Y.M.C.A. overseas. - • ITS SUPERIORITY. "Ya sh!" pridefully raid Brother Mink. "Dis yell am de men solid aolda plated watch dat I got cum a sin anasah sto' fo' mu* denotes.' "Do it keep time, eater" asked promo, "Do Ite Par lend two docks tits Mg man, salt, ant kin keep m, will die mkt natch when It's right at Itself:" Sleeve Lines. Wide, Looe. Three-quarter, leull length. Cuffs and turned baek. 11:151ritrndbceeritl°4481Y0. .13Ttener. But "set -Iran generally, and MI* armholte.