Ten Persons Known to Have
v Perished In Chickasaw and
X Winneshiek Counties,
Iowa, Thursday.
MANY REPORTED INJURED
Property Loss Will Run Into
Hundreds of Thousands—
Several Illinois Com
munities Are Hit.
Chicago. May 11.—With additional
reports coming in today the death list
In yesterday’s tornado in Illinois and
Iowa swelled to 18, 11 in Iowa and
seven in Illinois. As wires were still
down in many localities it was feared
that other deaths were still unreported.
IVobably 150 persons were injured and
a rough estimate placed property
damage at $1,000,000.
A list of the afflicted communities
. with the number of deaths follow:
Nashua, la., three: Plainfield, la.,
one; New Hampton, la., three; C’al
mar, la., four: Toulon, 111,, two; Frank
lin. Ill. three; Elmira, 111., two.
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THE STORM IN IOWA.
lies Moines, la.. May 11.—Meager
reports received over crippled teie
^^,1'hone and telegraph wires up to noon
1 Friday showed 10 known dead, with a
possibility that at least that many
more perished, scores injured and
property damage of at least $500,000
in the tornado which swept Chicka
saw and Winneshiek counties in north
eastern Iowa late Thursday.
Four are known to be dead at New
Hampton and two at Nashua, la.
First dispatches received from Cal
niar, received at noon by the United
Press, showed four dead at that place,
Including Mr. and Mrs. Peter Anderson
and- their grand daughter, Alice Burge
son. and Mrs. Frank Sandager.
Tito Andersons lived in Calmar.
Their house was demolished by the
wind. Mrs. Sandager, who lived on a
farm near Calmar, was killed when
her home was destroyed. Her hus
band was killed by lightning less than
two weeks ago.
The railroad roundhouse at Calmar
was destroyed and practically every
house In the town damaged.
Chicago, 111.—At least 13 persons
were killed and probably 100 injured in
cyclones which swept points in central
Illinois and central and northeastern
Iowa; yesterday, according to reports
* early today. Property loss was heavy.
a The known death toll today was:
New Hampton. la., four; Nashua. la.,
two; Franklin. 111., three; Waverly,
11!., one; Jacksonville, 111., one; Toulon,
la., two.
The main part of the storm failed
to strike any large city. The cyclone
was fringed by high winds, rain and
hail In Chicago and other large cities
which suffered heavy property dam
age.
At Nashua, la., where two were
killed, every building in the town was
reported damaged. Near Eldridge, la.,
where six were reported injured, a girl
was carried 300 feet by the wind and
landed unhurt.
A $50,000 sewage plant at New
Hampton. Ia., where four were killed,
■was wrecked.
One boy drowned at Jacksonville. III..
when the river overflowed. Mrs. Lucy
Hart, aged 70, and her granddaughter.
Bessie, were killed in tlieir-beds when
the chimney crashed through the roof.
New Hampton, ia.. May 11.—A cy
clone struck five miles southwest of
New Hampton late yesterday and
moved northeasterly, spreading death
and destruction in its path. About 40
to 50 farmsteads were struck and all
or parts or tlie buildings torn to
pieces. Three, people were killed and
many injured.
The known dead;
THEODORE KUEIGER, Jr.
ALBERT SMITH.
MRS. THOMAS DOWD.
Much livestock was also killed.
Many farms suffered a total destruc
tion of buildings, trees, etc. Bridges
over streams were blown out and wires
are badly down.
The cyclone took a path about two
miles wide, striking only the south
■edge of New Hampton, where smaller
buildings were destroyed and roofs
torn off houses. The city sewage dis
posal tank was destroyed.
The storm then went east front New
Hampton, destroying hundreds of
buildings in its path and uprooting and
twisting trees. Three school houses
were totally destroyed. Debris was
carried for many miles. Hundreds of
people are out earing for the dead and
injured and sufferers of the storm. It
Is the worst cyclone ever heard of in
thi3 part of the state. Most people
were saved by seeking refuge in cel
lii r*bi
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THE DEAD AT NEW HAMPTON.
Des Moines. Ia„ May 11.—Six per
sons arc known to be iload today, six
others are reported dead, more than a
score were injured and property dam
age amounting to thousands of dol
lars resulted from a tornado which
swept Chickasaw and Winneshiek
counties in northeastern Iowa late yes
terday.
Telephone and telegraph wires .into
the storm swept area are down, and
only meager details of die storm have
been received here.
The death list to date:
Theodore Kreiger, Jr., farmer, near
New Hampton.
Albert Smith, farmer, near New
Hampton.
Mrs. Thomas Dowd, wife of farmer,
near New Hampton.
F, Bigelow, farmer, near Now
Hampton.
Roy Husband, farmer near Nashua.
/Mrs. A. G. Carpenter. 05, living near
Nashua.
Six more are reported dead at Cal
mar, in Winneshiek county where the
storm struck with extreme fury.
One tornado struck near Nashua in
Chickasaw and ripped its way norht
east eight miles to Republic. Another
struck five miles southwest of New
Hampton, destroying 40 farmstead.
This storm struck the soutli edge of
New Hampton.
Only meager reports have been re
ceived from Winneshiek county, but
the damage there is reported heavier
than in Chickasaw county.
The towns of Ft. Atkinson. Freder
icksburg. Osslan and Colmar are re
ported to have suffered severe dam
age.
Bor glum Sought to Trade
Pull at White House for
Stock in Airplane Plant
Washington, D. C„ 'May 11.—The
government is in possession of Evi
dence that Gutson Borglum, the sculp
tor, was promoting a private airplane
production company while carrying on
his sensational probe of the aircraft
production board, it was officially
learned this afternoon.
Tlie government first came into pos
session of the evidence last Febru
ary which explains tlie sudden diffi
culties Borglum had in carrying on his
investigation and^liis resulting com
plaint to President Wilson.
Henry Harrison Suplee, chief en
gineer of tlie Dodge Motor Car com
pany, with whom Borglum was to lie
associated in the proposed new stock
company, has presented evidence to
the government alleging that Belgium
used his acclaimed personal association
with President Wilson and the aircraft
board as a means to furthering his
own interests with-the company.
Through his “influence" it is alleged,
lie was to overthrow tlie existing per
sonnel of the aircraft production hoard j
and the signal corps and bring about
the appointment of individuals more
friendly to him. Suplee had a con
ference today with Vice President
Marshall and Senator Thomas rela
tive to reading the content of his dis
closures Into tlie Congressional Record.
Negotiations , between Borglum.
Hugo Gibson, connected with the
British war mission in the United
States, and Kenyon Mix. of the Dodge
Manufacturing company of Wiscon
sin, began last December, the
documents show. A statement by Mix
included in the documents tells how
lie withdrew after becoming suspicious
of Borglum’s activities and reported
the affair to Howard Coffin, then head
of tlie aircraft production board.
Facts Given to Senate.
The documents which have been
supplied from the official files of the
war department and are now in the
hands of senators mosl intimately con
nected with the aircraft investigation,
declare that Borglum continued liis ne
gotiations after President Wilson au
thorized him to make an inquiry into
the aircraft situation.
A summary of tlie negotiations
signed by Henry Harrison Kuplee. who
participated as a consulting engineer
for Mix, declared Borglum was to be
represented in the corporation by- a
Mr. Harris and that Korglum’s “sole
asset in tlie transaction was to bo
first, liis personal friendship and as
sociation with President Wilson, whom I
lie stated, “ho could do anything he
wanted with.”
“As a further asset,” Suplee’s state
ment declares, “Borglum gave every
one concerned in this matter to under
stand that his position with tlie air
craft production hoard and the aerial
section of the signal corps, U. S. A., )
was such that he could obtain for their :
use plans and technical details which i
this company could use and thus save ;
considerably, both in time and money, 1
in beginning operations.”
Mix Turned Him Down.
Tliis statement, the documents show,
was made to Mix after Borglum had
shown his presidential authority as in
vestigator, and at this point the sus
picions of Mix were aroused and lie
withdrew from the negotiations.
The documents also declare Borglum
told Mix that “through his friendship
with the White House and acquaint
ance with Mr. Gibson, the engineer in
the employ of tlie British ministry of
munitions, he would have access to the
best foreign and American designs and
practices.”
Suplee’s statement further declares
that Borglum gave him to understand
that tlie personnel of the airoraft board
was "highly distasteful to him" and
that lie proposed to change it “by
virtue of his friendship with President
Wilson” and asked Fuplce to suggest
men for the places.
Tlie statement by sjjuplee in tlie war
department official flies, is in part as
follows: I
"l-—That in all the relations concern- j
ing the matter of promotion of stock ;
company for flic manufacture of air
planes, during which i was present at
several conferences with the projectors
of this enterprise, as consulting engi- j
neer, I desire to state that there was
never any other understanding of this
project, but that M». Belgium was to
be represented in t->? corporation by
Mr. Harris, and that his sole asset in
the transaction was to he, first, his
personal friendship and association I
with President Wilson, whom he stated
he could do anything lie wanted with. ■
“2—As a further asset in this com
mercial venture, Mr. Borglum stated,
and gave' every one concerned in this
matter to understand that his position
with tlie aircraft production board and
tlie aerial section of tiie signal corps,
IT. S. A., was such that lie could obtain
for their use plans i.n.l technical de- ’•
tails which this company could use and
thus save considerably, both in time and
money, in beginning operations.
3—That one of tlie partners of tliis '
concern was to have l^en Mr. Hugo
C. Gibson, who is connected with the 1
British ministry of war in tlie United
States, offices at 120 Broadway, New |
York city, who proposed that certain
patents which he controlled would he
used by litis company and who also
stated that he would be able to in
fluence orders for airplanes in such
a way that this company might re
ceive the benefit therefrom. j
A statement by Mix. made as was
Supice’s to tlie army intelligence, takes
up his story of the proposed aircraft
corporation when he encountered on
a train enrollte to Washington on De
cember 8, 1917, two men who later
turned out to be Borglum and Gibson.
[ He says he was attracted by their
conversation as to the progress of the
Dayton-Wright Aircraft company on
government contracts and on getting
into conversation with them himself
later told of the desire of his own com
pany, tiie Dodge Manufacturing com
pany to enter the field of aircraft pro- .
duetion.
TAMPICO FIELDS NEAR
CAPACITY PRODUCTION
Washington. D. O., May 11.- Produc
tion activity in the Tampico oil fields
of Mexico, the source of supply of
much fuel oil used in the ltrltish navy
and in the United States is becoming
greater daily, dispatches to official
Mexico sources received here say. The
dispatches declare practically the en
tire petroleum region, the center of
much revolutionary disturbance, is un
1 der control of Mexican government
, forces.
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TO STOP WHEAT HOARDING.
Winnipeg, Man., May 10.—Canadian
, government agents today began a sys
tematic search of western Canadian
farms for "0,000.000 bushels of wheat
reported held by farmers. With the
completion of seeding, officials say
flint farmers must give up all surplus
wheat held,
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GUTZON BORGLUM.
RAIN CEASES;
NEWATOCKS
BY HUNS DUE
Fighting of Local Character
Continues Along Western
Front With Both Sides
Taking Initiative.
YANK ARTILLERY ACTIVE
Yesterday's Effort Intended to
Be on Large Scale But
Drive Was Broken Up
By Allied Guns.
By Associated Press.
With the British Army in France,
-May 11.—The operation by which the
British regained in a counter assault
t Do small portion of trench north of
Albert which the Germans had cap
tured yesterday, while a small one, was
important. The positions in question
lay on high ground which had been
hotly contested ever since the Germans
stormed their way into Albert.
By Associated Press.
Latest reports indicate the German
effort in the north was to have been
in great strength, but that the British
artillery on the east and a French in
fantry attack and barrage on tlie west
broke up the enemy divisions waiting
to join llie attack. As a result only
two divisions attacked on the scant
five miles between Voormezcele and
Laclytte. After much heavy fighting,
these troops had gained nothing and
hud sustained heavy losses. Berlin re
ports tlie capture of G75 Anglo-French
troops in successful attacks.
The weather has Improved in north
ern France. Probably the Germans)
have been waiting for this to launch
another strong blow. Allied airmen,
however, have token advantage of the
change from rainy conditions to drop
many tons of bombs on important
railway and concentration centers be
hind tlie German lines. In air fighting.
British aviators have accounted for 29
German machines, 22 of which were
destroyed. One enemy airplane was
brought down by rifle fire.
Rostov-on-the-Don, the largest city
in tlie Don Cossack territory and near
the mouth of the Don river, has been
occupied by the Germans.
BY FRED S. FERGUSON.
United Press Staff Correspondent.
With the Americans in Picardy, May
9.—Fierce bombardment of German
position,! by American artillery has de
molished the church at Cantigny and
several adjacent buildings, blown up
machine gun emplacements and post
command positions at Fontainc-Sotis
Montdidier and Courtemanche, and
started a fire at Mesnil-St. Georges.
The church at Cantigny was being
used for observation by the enemy.
The bombardment lasted all night.
The concussion of the heavy guns,
rocked {in* entire front. At .the same
lime, tin, 75s poured in a Dot. haras
sing tiro.
Not a single American prisoner lias
yet been lost on tills front.
Forty of tlie enemy attempted to rush
a section of our trenches, throwing
grenades tis they advanced. They were
repulsed before they penetrated our
entanglements, leaving two dead on
the wire. Their other casualties are
not known.
Later another attempt was made to
capture one of our advanced posts but
it, too. was repulsed.
An American sentry who shot a
German dog found a note in tlie mes
sage box on its collar from an enemy
officer, asking permission to change
Ids post of
CLAIM LOCAL SUCCESSES.
Berlin (via London, Thursday), May
9.—Completely successful local at
tacks southwest of Vines on Wednes
day resulted in the capture of G75 pris
oners, according to tlie official state,
meat from German general headquar
ters today. German troops, it is added,
took by storm strong fortified positions
on a front of more than a mile.
RETAKE LOST TRENCH.
London, May 10.—British troops yes
terday evening recaptured the small
portion of a trench (150 yards) which
tlie Germans took north of Albert in
tho morning. Field Marshal Haig re
ported today. Klsewhero there was
only artillery activity.
‘‘A small portion of a trench which
tho enemy gained northwest of Albert
yesterday morning was recaptured in
the evening." tlie report said. "We
took a few prisoners.
"Hostile artillery was active last
night between tlie Homme and the
Ancre (in Picardy) and at different
points on the Lys battle from (in
Flanders)."
I
NEW WAR INDUSTRIES
WILL BE MOVED WEST
By United Press.
Washington. D. C„ May 11.—Big
tvar industries henceforth will go west.
To speed war work, the government
has determined to place a virtual em
bargo on new plant construction in
the great war belt of Ihe east. The
action lias been determined upon for
three reasons:
1— Concentration of war industries
in the east has produced a state of
congestion seriously interfering Vilh
maximum war production.
2— The west offers new reservoirs
of labor and much needed power.
3— War industries expansion in llio
west will restore to an even keel the
financial structure now overweighted
in eastern territory because of most
war contracts going to eastern con
cerns ■
Officials are now working on plans
to curtail orders to plants in the Penn
sylvania, New York and Atlantic coast
districts where congestion is now mak
ing rapid production and movement of
supplies impossible. New factories
will be forbidden to locate In tills dis
trict, according to present plans, and
will lia urged to go to the middle west.
The first step in this direction is to
bo the establishment of the great new
ordnance factory at "some interior
point" to demonstrate the advisability
of war factories getting outside the
present eastern belt.
it is stated that failure of ordnance
manufacture to meet expectations is
due to the fact that industries in this
belt arc overloaded with contracts
and lack of power, lack of labor, and
congested rail facilities has kept down
production to only 75 per cent of what
is actually needed.
Laborers can't find places to live and
leave with their families. The United
States employment service announced
today It could use 10,000 mechanics in
the eastern belt within 24 hours if they
were available.
Tills labor lack In essential industries
is developing a government campaign
to switch skilled labor from relatively
unimportant into vital war activities.
VICTORY BY LLOYD GEORGE
LEAVES POLITICAL BREACH
BY ED L. KEEN,
United Press Correspondent.
London, May 11.—With Premier
Lloyd George’s victory, by a vote ol
293 to 10G. the General Maurice affair
is seemingly closed in so far as it af
fects the government, adding another
to the string of the premier's political
triumphs. The chief feature outstand
ing is the evident appearance for the
first time during the war of organized
opposition to the government.
Some of the newspapers supporting
Lloyd George declare it marks the
turning point in the war relations of
the parties. They think an open po
litical war lias been declared and see
the whole affair as a political plot to
oust the government. They regard the
vote on Herbert Asquith's motion for
the appointment of a parliamentary
committee to investigate the charges
against the premier and the chancellor
of the exchequer as a rout for the for
mer premier. The same note ran
through Lloyd George's defense ol
liimseif and liis ministry.
The opposition press asserts that
Lloyd George evaded the issue, side
stepped an inquiry by withdrawal oi
the offer of a judicial investigating
board and won a parliamentary vic
tory by legerdemain on the floor of the
house.
The public is greatly interested in
America's attitude regarding the Man
rice affair. Long quotations from the
American press are published in the
London papers.
Immediately after the introduction
of Mr. Asquith's motion the premier
took the floor and spoke in defense of
the government. He refuted the
charges of General Maurice and de
clared that statements made in liis re
cent speech to which Maurice's
charges referred, were made on infor
mation received from General Mau
rice's department of tiro war ofiice.
Ho showed also by documentary evi
dence that the extension of the British
line was made because of pressure ex
erted by France, and that the derision
was taken on the advice of the mili
tary authorities in agreement with
Field Marshal Ilalg, the war cabinet
having interfered in no wav in the
I matter, although-tt approved of the
dispositions.
W lien the premier left the house he
was loudly cheered.
"Lloyd George turned the accusa
tions Inside out.” the Evening News
said. "When lie had finished there
was not even a rag left. Asquith’s per
formance was feeble.”
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PARIS IS PLEASED.
i Paris, May 10.—“Wo rejoice that the
j unprecedented conspiracy against Pre
mier Lloyd George failed," the Paris
I Matin declared editorially today.
I
»ll SOLDIERS
Car Wheel Breaks and Coaches
Roll Over Trestle—More
Than Score of Men
Are Injured.
Columbia, S. C„ May 11.—Five sol
diers were killed, two were so badly
injured that they died en route to the
base hospital, four were seriously in
jured and IS less seriously hurt when
a wooden passenger coach loaded with
soldiers of the 321st infantry and the
317th machine, gun company, jumped a
trestle at Camp Jackson today.
A wheel under one coach broke just
as the train reached the trestle. This
caused the car to drop, finally going
over Lhc trestle. It pulled over the
other coaches, one old wooden coach
and one steel. The trucks from the
latter fell on top of the first coach
which had fallen over and ns it
smashed in, the men inside were
crushed. There were 65 men in this
roach. , , . 4l
The men had just entrained for the
army cantonment at Camp Sevier, at
Greenville, S. C. Nearly all of the men
in two wooden coaches either were
killed or seriously injured, according
to early reports reaching here.
Two wooden coaches jumped the
track first and a steel coach followed
and crushed them. It was reported
no one in the steel coach was scii
ously hurt._ __
HAIG EXPRESSES THANKS
TO BRITISH ARTILLERY
London. May 1.—Field Marshal
Haig today issued a special order of
the day, i onveying his appreciation of
tiie “splendid service rendered by the
Royal artillery at all stages of the
Somme and Lys battle, despite the
difficult conditions of a defensive
fight against greatly superior numbers.
REVOLUTIONARY PLOT
UNCOVERED IN LIBSON
Lisbon. May Jl.—A plot against the
government lias been uncovered and
numerous arrests have been made.
Sixty-three bombs were seized.
Doctor Pass bus officially been pro
claimed president.
President of Brazil Says War
Policy of United States
Will Promote Pan
American Policy.
By ROY W. HOWARD,
President of United Press Associations.
Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 10.—"Brazil
will follow the course of the United
States to the end of the war. Tho
change Of administration will no' alter
our policy of backing up the leadership
of the United Stales in the most
friendly and genuine way."
The speaker was President-elect
Rodriguez Alves, who will return to
tlie presidential chair of Brazil for tho
second time on November 15. In a
most convincing manner and without
equivocation, the next ciiief executive
in an interview Thursday, the first he
lias given since his election, outlined
his war policy about which specula
tion has been rife.
Before making it's statement, the
president-elect read very carefully tho
original copy of President Wilson's let
ter of January Jii toftlio United Press,
in which he outlined the aims of tho
United States. Speaking slowly and
seriously, he said:
"The sentiment expressed in this
letter is worthy of tho best tradi
tions of the United States. It carries
the same conviction which has tnado
the recognized spokesman of the allies
a man whose genius was not suspected
before the war crisis. The attention
drawn by his commanding style and
unquestionable sincerity, based on cx
I tremo prudence and patience before
action, has enabled him to carry South
American thinkers along with him in
sentiment if not always In action. The
self abnegation of the United States In
offering themselves as sacrifices in the
war, and in abandoning the pursuits of
peace without selfish individual ambi
tions and without a single objective
which is not guaranteed to till peoples,
has given President Wilson unprece
dented moral authority, and has raised
the United States In universal estima
tion to a position from which It can
: accomplish the absolute solidarity of
I the democracies of the western hemi
sphere without inciting the slightest
' envy or suspicion.
Horses fed partly on an "alimentary
seaweed" ration in Prance thrived,
gained in weight and the lymphangitis
from which they suffered at the begin
ning of the experiment disappeared.
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X Germany Must Have an Early ♦
: Peace or Rebellion, He Says t
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♦ — ■ " ’ ♦
Copenhagen, May 11.—“If Germany does not achieve peace, there ♦
♦ will he u revolution." *
♦ This statement was made here today by a traveler who has just re- J
▼ UII H' W llVMll U I*". VV.IH> *11 ' «
♦ "The German relchstag, however, will make an honest effort to 4
♦ bring about a peace founded on President Wilson's program,” lie eon- 4
♦ » Untied.
4- "Austro-Hungary must have iteace at any iirice. *
4 ‘ The Czechs, determined upon a southern republic of the Slav races, J
4 are more than ever opposed to the Hapsburgs. 4
4 "The one desire of the Poles In I ho dual monarchy Is tlifct tire ♦
4 allies will win. Their cry is: "Long live Wilson!" 4
4 "Strikes are frequent in Vienna and Prague. 4
4 "The huge losses on the west front, stated In parliamentary cir- J
4 cles to reach 600,000, are carefully concealed.” J
RAID OSTEND;
BOCHE NAVAL
BASE CLOSED
British Sink Old Cruiser Filled
With Concrete Across Mouth
of Channel and Block ,
the Harbor.
SUFFER SLIGHT LOSSES
Navy Duplicates Zeebruggo
Feat, Adding to German Dif
ficulty of Carrying on
U-Boat War.
Dover, Knglaml, May 11.—Some of
Iho participants of tho naval raid on
Ostend returned hero this morning, and
wore greeted with the greatest enthusi
asm. The engagement lasted from one
minute after midnight until 3 a. m. The
guns were plainly heard.
By United Press.
London, May 11.—British naval
forces again raided the German naval
base at Ostend, on (he Belgium coast,
blockading the entrance to the harbor
by sinking the old cruiser Vindictive,
which participated in the recent raid
on Zeebrugge, it was announced to
day.
"The Os tend-Zeebrugge operation,
designed to close the .ports, was com
pleted last night,” the admiralty de
clared.
'Tho obsolete cruiser Vindictive was
sunk between the piers across the en
trance to Ostend harbor
"Since the attack on Zeebrugge April
S3, tlio Vindictive had been filled with
concrete.
"Our forces returned to their base
with tho loss of ono motor launch. It
was damaged and was then sunk to
prevent it failing into tlio enemy's
hands. Our casualties were light."
Tne previous raid which was carried out
early on the morning of April 23 was con
dueled simultaneously against Ostend
and Zeebrugge. The latter port is be
lieved to have been completely blocked
through the sinking of two concreto filled
cruisers in the cha,.neic. The mole also
was domagod by the blowing up of an old
submarine Ulled with explosives, and
through the planting of bombs by a
boarding party.
Tho raid on Ostend, however, was frus
trated when a high wind dispelled Ui«*
smoke screen protecting tho British ships
and permitted the German shore bat
leries to sink the blockade ships before
they gained their objective.
• One British destroyer, two motor boats
and two launches were lost at Zvebrugge
and tho casualties wore exceedingly
heavy.
Ostend Is located on the North sc a.
eight miles east of West Knd, where tho
batile lines touch the coast. It is 51
miles from Dover and 115 miles from Lon
don. Zeebrugge Is 13 miles from Ostend.
Both Ostend and Zeebrugge are con- ■
nected with Bruges, the principal Ger
man submarine base In Belgium, by can
als. Bruges Is 13 miles directly east of
Ostend Unlike Zeebrugge. however. Os
tend Is not protected by a big armed mole
such as defends tho former city from tho
v/ost and north. Two short jetties- pro
ject out on both sides of the entrance to
the channel
The channel is about 100 n.ctore wiua
and 000 meters long. At the point whore
it joins the canal there are several roomy
basins on each side. The town, which
has a population of about 45,003. lies on
the west side of the canal.
The old cruiser Vindictive, which was
sunk last, night in tho Oiteral channel,
was the "flagship" of tho previous raid
Oil Zeebrugge. and landed the boarding
party in the mole. She was built in 1897
and had a displacement of 6,750 tons. She
was 320 feet long, hat! three funnels and
carried a complement of 480 men. Iter
main battery couslstad of 10 pinch guns.
_JL_
ZEEBRUGGE IS RAIDED.
Amsterdam, May It.—Strong allied
Hying squadrons bombed the mole and
the village of Zeebrugge. the German
submarine taso on the Belgian coast
at noon and in tho evening Thursday.
No military damage was done accord
ing to the official etatement issued In
Berlin. Two of the hostile airplane*
were shot down by German airmen.
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EXPLOIT WA8 SURPRISE.
Dover. Kngla.rul, May 11.—Tbe deci
sion to 8end the Vindictive to Ostend
was made a few days after her return
from the Zeebrugge raid and the task
of filling her with concrete was begun
immediately.
As in the joint raid on Zeebrugge and
Ostend this latest Brltsli naval exploit
was kept a. well guarded secret.
SHE PUB..II
Military Affairs Committee May
Become “Committee on Con
duct of War” to Check ,
Up Ail Expenditures. i
BY L. C. MARTIN,
United Press $ia*f Correspondent.
Washington, D. C., May It.—Th*
Senate military eoi.nnitua is about to
become the "committee ou the conduct
of the war."
tienate leaders, long believing that
congress should have a war body to
keep in direct touch with the work ot
executive departments Wi carrying out
programs authorized b.» the legislative
branch of the government have taken
tho first step to tills end by en'arging
the military committee.
Senator Iloke Smith, of Georgia. I*
tho new democratic member, and Seni
tor Knox, of Pennsylvania, probably
will be the republican addition.
The second step is pending- -in th*
form of a resolution now before tho
Senate empowering tho military com
mittee or any subcommittee thereof."
to investigate every phase of war de
partment activity to sit while congress
is not in session, to spend money, bring
In witnesses and employ investigators.
Adoption of the resolution, introduced
by* Senator Chamberlain, will be fol
lowed by appointment of subcommittee*
on aircraft, quartermasters' depart -
merit and other divisions. The ord
nance subcommittee already lias begun
its work.
These subcommittees will not vijt urn
until the wnr ends. They will nmt.
constant touch villi everything de
partment does.
