The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-24
ACCIDENTS Of
STRANGE KIND
HAPPEN IN YEAR
VESSELS OF THE FRENCH NAVY
HAVE HAD A SERIES OF ExPLo-
SIoNS, FIRES AND MISHAPS
WHICH ARE BEGINNING TO
CAUSE UNEASINESS.
BY Associated Press,

Paris, Oct 23.-Ten strange acc1-
dents have occurred in the French
| navy within year, fires on shipboard,
shells bursting prematurely, guns ex-
ploding while at practice, eliminating
in the sinking Of the battleship La
Ltberte while at anchor in Toulon
harbor. The fire on La Liberte broke
out near the apparatus for flooding the
forward magazine which afterward
exploded. so near that the flooding
machinery could not be used. This
circumstance has seemed odd to in
quirers, and even more singular was
the breaking out of fires the same
morning on the Patrie and on the
Suffren, two other battleships. The
official inquiry will endeavor to es-
tablish the facts but in the meantime
sinister differences are in circulation
Either there Is a certain want of pre-
caution which is a theory rejected by
admirers Of the navy, or the accidents
have been caused with malign pur-
pose.
Upon the latter supposition the de-
structive accidents might have been
melted by the communistio revolu-
tionary propaganda carried on in the
navy by civilian agitators or they may
have been detached acts of embittered
individuals in private rebellion against
society aSd all authority. Scarcely a
day throughout the year passes in
France without acts of simple de-
structiveness affecting the public,
such as the cutting of telegraph and
telephone wires, the deranging Of
railway switches or the placing Of OBJ
stacles on tracks, The French have a
word of their own for these acts It
! is Sabotage The word is scarcely
| transferable, although akin to vandal-
ism. In collective movements the first
step is to complain to the Government
H. kh4 fC To
demonstrate by procession or meet
| ing and the next is to destroy some
thing-the Vineyards in the champagne
provinces, the provision shops in
| Northern France or the railway sta
TONS as has happened on the Western
railway, because the suburban trains
were usually behind their schedule.
Now those who know the French
navy and believes thoroughly in the
excellent spirit and discipline that
generally pervades the service, accept
the idea Of coincidence in the number
of violent happenings and attribute
them where not purely accidental to
sabotage"
Revise Lace industry.
Queen Elizabeth Of Belgium has
undertaken to revive or preserve the
failing Brussels lace industry. AL
| though Brussels lace Is admired ana
worn quite as much probably as 1t
ever was the industry is a fading one
The girls of Belgium prefer to do
something else The small profits, the
effect on the eyesight and the long
apprenticeship required to do good work
drive them into other callings. The
picturesque old-fashioned lace worker
| type has almost disappeared from Bel
GUM so that the making Of genuine
Brussels lace is becoming a lost in
dustry. The Queen has formed a CO.
operative society to study how to
make the lot of workers in lace more
attractive, to find higher-priced mar
kets, especially In the United States,
and to encourage lace-making courses
! in the Industrial schools. Queen Eliza
beth has capitalized her company for
| $27 900, which has been subscribed by
some Of the wealthiest men of Bel
GUM, including Count de Merode, En-
nest Solvay, "the Soda King" the Min
lister of State, Beernaert, Baron jan
seen and Baron Empain. The board
contains several professors Of the Uni
versity of Brussels and the Queens
secretary, Nj. Ingenbleek.
A New Terror.
A new terror has been added to the
many in store for the unwary Amer
lean tourist who patronizes the estab-
lishments of Montmarte. The police
has Just discovered that band of an
archist coiners has put in circulation
over $4,000 francs worth of bad five
franc pieces during the past month.
The leader of the syndicate is an an
archist, Maria Llopis, who was con-
demned to death for her completely in
the revolt in Barcelona which proceed
ed the execution of Ferrer. The pro-
ceds are probably for the anarchist
cause. The coins are of unusually
subtle manufacture, composed of prac-
tically the same alloy as the genuine
ones, and possessing such slight de-
fects that only an expert could have
| detected them; hence the facility with
| which they were put into circulation.
| They were made in Barcelona, two Of
the company going there every Fri
day, returning to Paris on Tuesday
with fresh supply. which they deliv-
| cred to the other four who FASTENED
to change them by making small pur-
chases. These four are now safely
under lock and key, but the two who
| brought the goods from Spain either
received warning or stopped behind to
participate In the recent outbreak,
they holding anarchistic opinions like
their chief.
More Revenue.
The municipal government has
| found fresh source of revenue in the
| electric light signs. A decree has been
issued inflicting exemplary taxation on
the thirty-three classifications OF cleo
trio signs. The principle of difference
| in assessment is not the number of
lights altogether, but the amount OF
discomfort they cause the eye. The
aches