Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-22
IN FRENCH NAVY
Ten Accidents Within Year Cause
Loss Of Hundreds Of Lives.
DUE TO SINISTER DESIGNS
OFFICIALS Are Trying Go Trace
Explosions to some COmmun-
Sstie or Revolutionary
Propaganda.

PARIS, oct. 2l-Ten strange accidents
have occurred in the French navy within
n year fires on shipboard, shells burst
ing prematurely, guns exploding while at
practice eliminating in the sinking OF
the battleship la IAberte, while at an
Choir In Toulon harbor. The fire on La
Idberte 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 20 In
qulrers, and even more singular was the
breaking out OF fires the Same morning
on the Patrie and on the Suffren, two
other battleshlps. The official Inquiry
win endeavor 10 establish the facts. but
in the meantime sinister differences are
in circulation.
Either there Is n certain want of pre-
caution. which is a theory rejected by adj
mirers of the navy, or the accidents have
been caused with malign purpose. Upon
the latter supposition the destructive Re-
cidents might have been melted by the
communistic revolutionary propaganda
carried on in the navy by civilian agi-
tators, OF they may have been detached
acts OF embittered individuals in private
rebellion against society and all author
sly.
sabotage IN Common.
Scarcely a day passes throughout the
year in France without acts of simple
destructveness affecting the public, such
rs the cutting OF telegraph and telephone
wires, the deranging of railway switches
or the placing OF obstacles on tracks.
The French have a word OF their own for
these acts. II Is sabotage" The word
Is scarcely transferable. although akin
20 vandalism. In collective movements
the first step Is TO complain TO the gov
eminent or the corporation, the second Is
TO demonstrate" by procession OF meet
ing and the next Is to destroy something
the vineyards in the champagne prov
inces. the provision shops I'm Northern
France or the railway stations, as has
happened on the Western railway. be-
cause the suburban trains were usually
behind their schedule.
Now those who know the French navy
and believe thoroughly In the excellent
spirit and discipline that generally per.
vades the service accept the idea of coin.
cidence in the number Of violent happen
ings and attribute them where not purely
accidental to sabotage"
MOWAu ANCNANN AfAtE AMuuHANAs
Queen Elizabeth OF Belgium has un
dertaien 20 revive or preserve the failing
Brussels lace industry. Although Brus
sells lace IL admired and worn quite a
much probably as II ever was, the in
dustry Is a fading one. The girls o
Belgium prefer TO do something else
The small profits the effect on the eye
sight and the long apprenticeship re
auired 20 do the work drive then int
other callings. The picturesque old
fashioned laceworker type has almos
disappeared from Belgium so that tn
making OF genuine Brussels lace Is be
coming a lost industry. The queen ha
formed a cooperative society to stud
how 20 make the lot OF workers In lac
more attractive. TO find higher priced mar
kets. especially In the United states, an
TO encourage lacemaking courses In tn
industrial schools. Queen Elizabeth ha
capitalized her company for ga. 200. whic