The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-11-03
No NORTHWEST
BOYS IN CREW
RAIDERS SUNK
British Navy Active Against Ger
man Sea Rovers in Scandin-
avian Waters
FIVE ARMED TRAWLERS
SUNK BY DEsTR0YERs
Another Cleanup Effected Of Craft
Which Menaced Commerce
of Allies

Washington, Nov. 3-The navy de-
partment has been advised that a
picket boat of an American battleship
in home waters has f1oundered and its
crew of IL men are missing 1t is be-.
lieved the men are lost. The navy
department issued the following state
ment:
No Northwest Boys Lost. 4
THE navy department announces
that on Oct. 80 the picket boat Of the
United States steamship Michigan
floundered. Apparently the entire
crew was lost The finding of the
bodies OF three Of the crew and the
failure to find any other trace of
the boat or 1t soccupants leads the de-
partment to believe that all were lost"
The navy department issued the cas-.
ualty list but no boys from the north
west were among those lost. i
Twelve men all the crew Of the
picket sboat Of the battleship Mtchi-
gan were lost when their little craft
fc",dered in home waters.
The brief announcement Of the dis
aster today by the navy department
have no details. Presumably the
boat was on patrol duty and found
cred in heavy sea or met with some
accident. Three, b0diHsse have been
found, and inasmuch as all the 9th.
ers are missing. the navy department
assumes they were lost.
SINK TRAWLERs.
Copenhagen, NOV. IA German
commerce raider and five armed trawl-
ers have bean sunk by British de.
stroyers in Scandinavian waters. The
commerce raider which was disguised,
and the trawlsEs, were sunk yesterday
in the Skagerrak. an arm of the North
sea between, Norway and Denmark.
The British destrOyers thus effected
another cleanup of German naval
forces in Scandinavian waters.
A report from ElsmOre, Denmark,
today said wounded men from Ger
man auxiliary cruiser sunk In the
North sea were landed there.
BOAT DESTROYED.
London, Nov. 3-An attack was
made today on British vessels patrol.
ing the Belgian coast by an electrical
lyf controlled, high speed boat. The
boat was destroyed.
An admiralty statement says 10
armed patrol craft, in addition to the
German auxiliary cruiser, which was
equipped with six inch guns, were de-
strOyed.
Washington, D. c., Nov. 3.-Use by
the Germans of IAN electrically con-
trolled boat" off the Belgian coast
was taken here to mean that a device
similar to the radio-co o?trolled torpedo
with which the United States has
been experimenting for some time has
been developed by German engineers
to supplement their land batteries
along the coast.
The theory of distant control OF
boats, torpedoes or a;rplanes, through
the use of radio apparatus, is an old
.one. In this country, basic patents
for a device of that character were oh,
tanned bv Rear Admiral Fiske approx
mately 20 years ago. -
No practical application of the
theory to boats or torpedoes was of
record until John Hays Hammond. Jr.,
began his experiments and worked out
the plan with which the government
has been experimenting.
RAIDER CAUGHT.
Copenhagen, Nov. 3.-The sinking
NJ the German raider Crocodile and
FIVE armed German trawlers Is re-
ported by men on Danish steamships.
The Crocodile was a new ship Of
roarlv I 600 tons and carried crew