Omaha daily bee., 1917-04-23
TEUT0N WARSH|PS
BOMBARD CALAIS,
CIVILIANS KILLED
German Dsstroyers Firing on
French Port Believed Same
Ones Attacking Britain in
Raid to Get Lloyd George.
BERLIN ADMITS NAVAL LOSS
British Graft Carrying Wound
ed Sent to Bottom Without
Warning and Scores Die.
INJURED SOLDIERS PERISH
BERLIN ADMITS NAVAL LOSS

Calais, France. Saturday, April 2l.
--tVia Paris, April 22,)--Gcrman tor
pedo boat destroyers today fired one
hundred shells in the region Of Calais,
Some civilians were killed. Twelve
persons were slightly wounded,
Calais is the western terminal OF
the main railroad that supplies the
British armies on the Lens-Arras
battle front in northwestern France.
The town lies directly opposite the
British channel port of Dover, near
which places two German destroyers
were sunk in an attempted raid on
British shipping Friday night
May Be Same Vessels.
1t has been suggested that the OBJ
ject OF the Teuton naval raid was to
interrupt the return of Premier Lloyd
George from a conference with the
French and Italian prime ministers.
The German destroycrs which es-
capped from the Dover battle may
have been the vessels which bonn
barded Calais, on their return to the
naval bases at Zeebrugge and Ant
werp,
Hospital Ships Torpedoed.
London, April 22,-Thc British hos
rital ships Donegal and Lanfrane,
with many wounded aboard, have
been torpedocd without warning.
They were sunk on April II.
OF those on the Donegal, twenty
nine wounded men and twelve Of the
crew are missing.
The, Lanfranc carried German
wounded as we'll as British. OF those
aboard nineteen British and fifteen
Germans are believed to have per-
ished.
| Crowd Hoots German Survivors.
| New York, April 22,--Reynolds'
Weekly newspaper says that at Dover
twenty-eight German and twenty-five
British dead lie in the market hall.
The crowds hooted the German sur
vivors from the sunken destroyers
when the landed. on account of the
sinking of hospital ships by German
submarines.
Berlin, Admits Destroyers Lost.
Berlin (Via London), April 22.--
After a naval engagement Friday
night to the east of Doyer," says an
official statement today, two German
torpedo boat destroycrs, the G-85 and
G-42, are reported to have been lost"
The German destroyer G-42 was
one of eleven vessels OF this type built
at the Krupp-Germania yard in 1914.
The vessel displaced go tons and car
ried complement Of seventy-three
officers and men. 1t was an oil burner
and had speed OF thirty fwo and one
half knots. The G-S5 was dstroyer
OF a still later type.
The chancellor OF the exehequer,
Andrew Bonar Law, announced on
April l9 in the House of Commons
that there had recently been further
losses of British hospital ships, which
would be published soon. Today the
secretary of the admiralty issued the
following statement:
"On the evening OF April II, the
steamships Donegal and Lanfranc
while transporting wounded to Brit
ish ports were torpedoed without
warning. The Donegal carried slight
| ly wounded cases--all British. OF
these twenty-nine men, as well as
twelve of the crew are missing and
presumed drowned.
Carried Wounded Germans.
"The Lsnfranc, in addition to 234
wounded British officers and men,
carried l67 wounded German prison
ers. medical personnel of fifty-two
and crew Of l23. OF these, the fol-
lowing are missing and presumed
drowned: Two wounded British Of
hcers, II wounded British, other
ranks; Royal Army Medical staff;
5 OF the crew; wounded German Of
) ficers and 10 wounded German, other
ranks.
"One hundred and ifty-two wound
: ed German prisoners were rescued by
British patrols at the imminent risk
of being themselves torpedoed.
, Owing to the German practice oi
sinking hospital ships at night and to
{ the fact that distinctive marking, and
lighting of such vessels render them
more conspicuous targets for German
submarines, it has become no longer
possible to distinguish our hospital
ships in the customary manner. One
: of these two ships, therefore, though
:, carrying wounded. was not in any
wav outwardly distinguished as hos.
I; pital ship.
.. The distinctive markings of the
Z other had not yet been removed
Both were provided with an escort
i for protection.