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Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
!. S. DESTROYER
HIT BY TORPEDO
One Man Killed and Five Injured
In U.Boat Attack.
THE VESSEL NOT SUNK
Damaged Warship Returns To Port
cunner's Mate Ingram, OF Ala
bama, Blown Overheard
BY Explosion.

Washington.-An American destroy.
er on patrol duty in the war zone was
torpedoed by an enemy submarine and
had one man killed and five wounded.
She managed to make port in spite OF
severe damage.
U-Boat Probably Escaped.
Vice-Admiral Sims cabled a report
of the incident to the Navy Depart
ment. He gave but few details, but 1t
is assumed there was no fight and that
the U-boat made good her escape after
launching a torpedo without showing
herself.
Gunner's Mate Osmond Kelly Ingram
WAS the man killed. He was blown
overheard by the explosion and his
body was not recovered.
None Of the wounded were seriously
hurt.
In accordance with the policy OF Sc
crecy concerning American naval op
GRAFTON, the department did not dlvulge
the name of the destroyer or the exact
place of the encounter.
First Warship Hit.
This is the first time an American
warship has been hit by the enemy
since the war began. Destroyers con-
voying troops and merchantmen nave
engaged submarines and are believed
to have accounted for some OF them,
and the ships patrolling the European
shipping lanes undoubtedly have had
many an encounter of which nothing
has been heard, but until yesterday
none had been touched by hostile
shot.
Naval gun crews on armed American
merchantmen have not been so fortu.
nate. Many of them have had to
abandon their charges and take to the
boats, usually after an unwarned tor.
pedo attack, and one officer and IL
men have lost their lives, while four
men now are in German prison camps.
Navy Has Lost II Men.
In all the navy has lost one officer
and sixteen men-the only men of
Americas fighting forces actually kill
ed in action.
Lieut. Clarence C. Thomas, COM
manding the gun crew of the tank
steamer Vacuum, and four Of his men
were the first on the navy's casualty
list. In addition to the men lost on
merchantmen and Gunner's Mate In.
gram, two naval flyers have lost their
lives at the French front.
Destroyer Taken Unawares.
Naval officers do not doubt that the
torpedoed destroyer was taken un-
awares by the submarine and had no
chance to bring her guns into play.
They think it probable that the Uboat,
cruising in search of merchant vic
tins, stumbled upon the patrolling de-
stroyer and was fortunate enough to
get into position to launch a torpedo
and dive to safety without showing
more than her periscope:
1t is believed, too, that the destroyer
must have been steaming slowly over
her beat, for at top speed these craft
present an almost unhittable target to
the submarine.
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the engine room compartments.
The heavy loss among the army en-
listed men indicated cannot be ac-
counted for until further details come
In. Probably they and the navy men
we're in their quarters below and could
not make their way on deck before the
ship took her final plunge. The army,
navy and ships officers and the others
who were rescued probably were on
deck or in cabins from which a step
took them to the deck and a chance
for their lives.
Theory OF Attack.
Lacking details of the attack beyond
the fact that the submarine was un-
seen, and the first warning to those
aboard the Antilles came with the
shock of the explosion Of the torpedo,
many theories were current as to how
the U-boat crept through the destroyer
screen, did it's work and escaped un-
challenged.
A majority Of the officers who would
comment thought the transport and
her conveying patrols had run direct
Iy over lurking submarine, which
saw them coming, calculated the dis
tance. and launched her deadly tor
pedo without ever showing more than
her periscope. They regard 1t as
probable that the U-boat commander
picked his place, lay in wait below
the surface until his microphones told
him the patrols had passed and the
transport was upon him; then shot his
periscope above water only long
enough to sight and fire before he
ducked back to safety.
Any attempt to locate the submarine
probably was made impossible by the
necessity of rescuing the survivors.
The vessel must have been virtually
torn in half by the explosion to have
gone down in the time she did.
Probably the attack was made well
out at sea. 1t took two days for the
news to reach Washington, and the
dispatch shows the time that must
have elapsed before definite word
could reach Admiral Sims. The sur
vivors are believed to be already safe
ashore somewhere in France or Eng
land,
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More Protection For Transports.

Washington.-Government officials
are awaiting further particulars from
Admiral Sims and General Per-
shing regarding the sinking by Ger
men submarine of the American Army
transport Antilles with the loss Of 70
missing.
Meanwhile this first blow at the
prestige of the naval convoy system
spurred federal officials to action, and
steps are being taken to still further
safeguard the movement OF army
transports, whether going or coming,
in an effort to still further handicap
the effort OF the German U-boat COM
manders to spot them.
Secretary Daniels announced that
court Of inquiry will be conducted to
make rigid investigation into the cir
cumstances connected with the de-
struction of the Antilles, but the most
important action taken was that OF
Secretary Baker in directing Major
General Henry P. Mccain, the adju-
tant general Of the Army, to send this
brief but highly significant message to
General Pershing, commander-in-chief
of the Army expeditionary forces in
France:
Communicate orders to each organ
ization commander in your division,
that during the time they are in fed
eral service they are prohibited from
making any report, formal or informal,
to the governor or other authorities,
civil or military, of their respective
states relating to any movement OF
their organizations, or Of any other fed
eral troops or personnel"
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All Naval and Army Officers
Saved.
SHIP WAS UNDER CONVOY
Mo Army Units Aboard First Trans
port Sent To Bottom BY Germans.
Officers and Men Were Being Sent
Home On Special Assignments,
invaIided Home Or Discharged From
Service.

Washington.-The American Army
transport Antilles, homeward bound
under convoy, was torpedoed and sunk
by a German submarine in the war
zone About 70 men are missing and
probably lost.
All the Army and Navy officers
aboard and the ships master were
among the 157 survivors. The miss
ing are members of the crew, three
civilian engineers, some enlisted men
of the Navy and 16 of SO soldiers
returning home for various reasons.
Neither the submarine nor the tor
pedo was seen, and the transport, hit
squarely amidships, sunk in five min
utes.
The tragedy of the sea, the first in
which an American ship engaged in
war duty has been lost, is the first of
it's magnitude to bring home to the
people of the United States the rigors
of the war in which they have en-
gagged against Germany. 1t carries
the largest casualty list of the war, of
American lives, and marks the first
success of German submarine attacks
on American transports.
Safeguards Reduce Toll.
That the loss of life was not greater
| is due to the safeguards with which
the Navy has surrounded the transport
! fha nrly of
the conveying warships.
Secretary Daniels announced the
disaster in a statement based on a
brief dispatch from Vice-Admiral Sims,
which gave few details and did not say
whether it was day or night attack.
An accurate list of the missing can
not be issued until General Pershing
reports the names of the Army men
on the vessel and the list of the mer-
chant crew.
Some Cause For Relief.
Quick upon the wave of sorrow at
the news OF the loss of the transport
came a feeling of distinct relief be-
cause she had met her fate homeward
bound and not on the way over with
troops The only soldiers on board
were returning to the hospital or on
special assignment. Had the full
complement of the transport been
aboard the loss undoubtedly would
have been written in hundreds, as she
was struck in the most vulnerable spot
and went under SO swiftly that few
could have escaped.
Officials are confident that those
who survived owe their lives to the
careful attention given by the Navy
Department to the equipping of trans
ports with lifeboats and life RATS. II
is fixed rule that enough boats ant
RATS shall be carried to afford place
for every man aboard, even though the
ship keeled over and put half her boats
out of commission.
| Engine Force Wiped Out.
The loss of the ships engineer Off
GERS indicates the probability that NJ
one of the engine and fireroom force
on duty escaped. Probably most O.
them died in the blast of the explosion
of the torpedo which tore its way int
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VYYHEREAs, the Congress of
w the United States, by con-

NYHEREAS, the Congress OF
w the United States, by a con-
current resolution adopted
on the 4th day Of the present
month Of October, In view of the
entrance Of our nation into the
vast and awful war which now
affiiets the greater part Of the
world, has requested me to set
apart by official proclamation a
day upon which we should be call
ed upon to offer prayer to the A.
mighty God for His divine aid In
the success of our arms; and
Whereas, it behooves great
free people, nurtured as we have
been in the eternal principles Of
Justice and Of rlght-a nation
which has sought from the earliest
days Of Its existence to be obedient
to the divine teachings which have
inspired it in the exercise Of it's
Iiberties-to turn always to the
Supreme Master and cast them
selves In faith at His feet, praying
for His aid and succor in every
hour of trial, to the end that the
great aims to which our fathers
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man sailors at the Belgian port of
Ostend who refused to go on board
submarines is reported by the Bel
gisch Dagblad. The newspaper says
an officer was thrown into the sea and
that 80 mutineers were removed In
handouts to Bruges.
Washington.-Oficia diplomatic dis
patches received here report mutinies
in the Austrian Navy and clashes be-
tween Austrian sailors and crews Of
the German submarine fleet based at
Pola, in which officers on both sides
have been killed and who are said to
have been in collision over decision
to change the base of the German
fotilla. Despite the attempts of the
Austrian Admiralty to suppress the
news, it reached here, coming by way
Of Berne The Austrian crews are
said to have revolted under i'll treat
ment of officers and bad food, while
the clash with the German submarine
crews was caused by the overbearing
conduct of the latter.
The dispatches say the tension be-
tween the Austrian and German crews
became so alarming that extraordinary
measures were taken to prevent the
recurrence of the fighting between
them, which included the decision to
move the German submarine flotilla
from the Austrian base at Pola to an
other point further south on the
Adriatic. The fighting between the
two sets of crews is described as hav-
ing been sanguinary.
The news of mutiny in the Austrian
Navy, received in the capital almost
at the same time as the Amsterdam
dispatches reporting further mutinies
in the German Navy-this time among
submarine crews-created profound
sensation among American naval off,
GERS and among other officials who
have been watching the situation with
expectation since the first mutinies in
the German feet were reported few
days ago.
The first signs of mutiny in the Ger
man fleet were regarded as most sig
nificant, since, unlike the army, it has
endured little of the hardship of cam
paigning. Dispatches from abroad,
however, confirm the opinion of Ameri-
can naval officers that it probably was
due, in part at least, to the drafting
of seamen for submarine crews, a
service which has come to hold terrors
for the German seaman because Of the
infexible British policy of never max
ing any announcement whatever of
the fate of captured or lost crews of
the German submersibles. This sus-
pense as to the fate of comrades who
go out never to be heard of again was
expected to undermine the morale of
the navy.
Clashes between German and Aus
trian crews are regarded in naval cir
cles here as adding much significance
to the situation, particularly when con
sidered in the light of the extreme
situation of Austria. whose fighting
forces are at the point of exhaustion
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THE COUNTRY AT LARGE.

Two and a half million pieces of
surgical dressings, hospital linen and
clothing on their way from American
Red Cross women to wounded French
soldiers, homeless refugees and Ameri-
can hospitals in France went down
with the British steamer Wentworth,
torpedoed last month.
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Robert Caughlin, of Company E, One
Hundredth and Forty eighth Infantry,
Ohio National Guard at Camp Sheri-
dan, Ala, is in a critical condition as
the result of bullet wound inflicted
by guard when Caughlin was return
ing to camp in his automobile.
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AMERICA TO PARTICIPATE.
Conference OF Allied Nations To Be
Held In Paris.

Washington. - While official an
nouncement is being withheld, it is
practically certain that the United
States will be represented at the COM
ing conference of all the nations at
war against Germany, which probably
will be held in Paris. Secretary
Lansing authorized the statement that
1t had definitely been decided that
there would be conference and that
the United States was considering
participating in it with the possibility
that it would be decided to do so.
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SECRETARY LANE ILL.

with Attack OF Grip While On
Train.
nton, N. J.-Secretary Of the In
Eranklin X. Lane. while on his
Washington to New York,
b suddenly III with an attack
81 the train just before reach
I'd when he arrived here
Nreturned to Washing
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U. 8. ARMY PATROL FIRED ON.

Mexlcans Shoot Across Rio Grande.
No One Hurt.
Maria, Tex.-Armed Mexicans fired
upon an American army patrol at San
Jose, go miles south Of here on the
Rio Grande, according to a report
here. The fire was returned, but no
one was known to have been hit.
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WILSON TO BACK THE WEBB BILL

Administration To Push Measure
LegaIizing Combinations.
Washington.-The full power Of the
administration to secure early passage
of the Webb Export Bill at the next
session of Congress was promised by
President Wilson to Senator Myers, Of
Montana. The Webb bill will legalize
combinations of American exporters
for foreign trade.
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U-BoATS BAG 10 VESSELS.

IL Large, Six Small and One Fishing
Boat British Loss.
London. - Twelve British merchant
vessels of over 1,600 tons were sunk
by mine or submarine in the last week,
according to the statement of the Brit
fish Admiralty. Six vessels under 1,6OO
tons and one fishing vessel were sunk.
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TO MAKE 100000 XMAS GIFTS.
Red Cross Will Remember Every One
OF U. S. Fighters.

Washington. - Every American SOL
der and sailor will have the best
Christmas the Red Cross can give him.
Each fighting man in this country or
abroad will receive Christmas pack
age approximating value Of $1.50, and
containing chewing gum, tobacco, writ
ing material, games. dried fruits,
candies, puzzles, knives, mouth organs
or other articles. Each package is to
be wrapped in khaki-colored hand
kerchief and tied with red ribbon.
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CHICAGO WINS WORLDS TITLE.
Captures Fourth Game From New
York With Faber On Mound.

New York.-Coming out Of the West
like Lochinvar Of old, the Chicago
Americans won the worlds series
baseball championship Monday after.
noon, defeating the New York Nation
ais, 4 to 2, in the sixth and deciding
game Of the 1917 diamond classic.
For the first time in almost decade
the titular banner will futter over>the
fans Of the Middle West metropolis
next spring when the series pennant is
raised at Comiskey Park, as evidence
Of the superiority of the White So1 IN
the great national game.
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CAMP GIRL KILLED.
Disguised Lass Who Did Water Boys
Work, Run Over.

Newport News, Va.-Florence Kelly,
a 20-year-old girl, Of Greenville, Tenn,
who has been working at Camp Stuart
here for three.weexs as a water boy,
was killed here by notor-truck dur
ing a Liberty Loan parade. She was
riding on the truck and fell beneath
its wheels. The hung Won nad
been doing boy prk a9l
quarters at the Wit
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PERU AND CHILE MAKE UP.

Diplomatic Relations Severed Seven
Years Ago.
Lima, Peru.-The Peruvian and
Chilean Governments are reported to
have arranged for the simultaneous re-
establishment Of legations at Lima and
Santiago.
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World War in Brief

Mutinies are reported among Ger
man and Austrian naval crews.
The Germans closed their net on
the Russians on Oesel Island and took
10000 prisoners and so guns.
Total casualties among British off.
GERS in August were 5,638, and for
September, 1882.
only two French merchant ships
were sunk by submarines In the week
ending October IA, while the arrivals
at French ports were 85s; clearances,
849.
In naval battle in the Gulf of Riga
between German and Russian warships
the 13,516-ton Russian battleship Slava
was sunk. Nearly all the crews were
saved.
Emperor William, after reading
speech by Premier Painleve, of France
said: 80 he wants Alsace-Lorraine;
well; ne must come and take It,"
The London Times correspondent,
ts state Of anarchy spreadin,
u th7 RnD1Isn prpytnces.
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The House of Bishops of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church telegraphed
10 President Wilson resolutions in
support of the war.
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AMERICAN SHIP SUMMARIZED.

Nine OF Crew Of Steamer Luckenbaek
Missing.
New York.-The American steamer
Lewis Luckenback has been sub
marined off the French coast and nine
of her crew are missing, according to
information received by the owners
here.
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A Californian has inyy lted an ap-
pliance to tell VI orchestra instru-
= tQp1 Ee sgSe
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Directors of the st. Louis Union
Bank authorized the purchase of $10,-
100000 worth of Liberty Bonds on be-
half Of the bank.
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An alleged plot to damage or blow
up a United States converted trans
port in New York is believed to have
been frustrated when the police ar
rested a Scandinavian charged with
attempting to bribe ship mechanic to
90 aboard the vessel.
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U. S. FLOUR CHEAP IN BRITAIN.
Costs 81 Per Cent. Less Than In
America, Despite Ship Charges.

Washington. - American -four in
England, despite the high transporta-
ton costs and submarine risks, costs
$3.50 for barrel of 280 pounds, or 81
per cent. less than the same flour in
the United States. American flour in
this country sells around $13 or $14 a
barrel of 1876 pounds
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AN AMERICAN SAILOR LOST.
Drowned When Norwegian Ship Is
Summarized

Washington.-Alfred Polymar. New
York, was drowned when Norwegian
steamer was Summarized, according to
. State Department message.
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men without arouhng suspicion as to
her sex.
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UNCLE SANS BIG SHOE ORDER.
Contracts For 10000 Pairs-Ex-
penditure OF $s2, $4,000.

Washington. - The greatest order
ever placed for Army shoes has been
given by the War Department through
contracts just completed, calling for
100000 pairs, at an aggregate cost of
$32, $4,000. This enormous order has
been distributed among many factories
throughout the country,
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WANT MlcHAELIS' Retirement
German Newspapers Unite In De
nounclng Chancellor.

Zurich. - German newspapers OF
every shade OF, politics except small
PanGerman and Lutheran minority,
are demanding retirement Of ChanceL
lor Michaelis. acfording to Quotations(
Even the Cologne Hazette. staunch =
government orga1 criticiNd Michd
|for no ssociatt hir frnlIn
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GEN. JoFFRE INsPEcTs sAMMIEs.
General Pershing Acts As Guide To
French Marshal.

American Field Headquarters In
France.-Marshal Joffre inspected the
American troops Monday. General
Pershing was his guide. Everyone Of
the different units Of the Sammies
went through their best PAGES for the
idol of the French poilus.
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Treason spread in the guise Of
academic teaching was condemned by
DR.. John Grier Hibten, president OF
Princeton University, before group
Of eminent educators assembled in
Philadelphia, to define the service of
the college of the state.
The congressional committee con-
Quoting an inquiry into the recent race
riots in East st. Louis began an effort
to determine whether all the rioters
wore distinctive garments, SO they
could be recognized by one another.
The sale Of candy in communities
which have abolished saloons and the
heavy demand from the National Army
cantonments, have brought about
condition hitherto unknown to the
trade in New England.
With $4,000 as it's goal, Vassar Col
lege launched Liberty Loan drive, III
which girl students served Uncle San,
as speakers, statesmen and purchasers
Of the bonds.
The finance committee of the Chi
cago City Council voted a recon-
mendation that the city invest $4,000
300 of its special traction fund in Lib
erty Bonds.
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AN AMERICAN SCHOONER SUNK.

Inc JENNIE -. Ut0ut0T Sont 0owfh
Coast OF Spain.
London. The Amer1cai
Jennie E. RICHTER, Of en-
was sunk. by a Teuton So
Tuesday of Cape villane
nan OF the schooner vi
The Jepnia ~
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WOMAN OF 1o3 IN WAR WORK

Mrs. Emily Hyams Helps Red Cross
and Other Aoencies.
nrAyeport, La. Mrs. Emily Hyams,
Ritoches, 10S years old. has
for acfive war work. She
in Red Cross ana other war
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GERMAN U-bOA!
SAILORS MUT|NY
Refuse to Serve on Them and
Throw Officer Into Sea.
GERMANS FIGHT AUSTRlANS
Mutinies In the Austrian Navy and
Clashes Between Austrian Sailors
and the Crews OF the German
Submarine Fleet At Pola.

Amsterdam.-A mutiny among Ger
man sailors at the Belgian port of
Ostend who refused to go on board
submarines is reported by the Bel
gisch Dagblad. The newspaper says
an officer was thrown into the sea and
that 80 mutineers were removed in
handouts to Bruges.
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Ihe London Times correspondent
ss = state Of anarchy spreading
y The R,lnoian pr55dnces.
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The loss of the ships engineer off,
GERS indicates the probability that no
one of the engine and fireroom force
on duty escaped. Probably most of
them died in the blast of the explosion
of the torpedo which tore its way into
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Mutinies are reported among Ger.
man and Austrian naval crews.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post. [volume] (Seward, Alaska) 1917-1918, 1917-10-26

CINE is successful because it embodies
the best thought of engineering ex-
peuence to date. Not only did cele-
brated consulting engineers, but the
representatives in the United States
Of England, Italy md France cooper
ate in the development Of this motor.
Thirty days after the assembling
Of the first engine preliminary tests
justified the government in formally
accepting the engine as the best air
craft engine produced in any country.
The final tests confirmed our faith in
the new motor in every degree