THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1917.-.
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TEUTONS PAY DEARLY
TO CONTROL PART OF
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Two DreadnaughU, One Cruiser, Twelve Torpedo Boats
and Transport Sunk in Fierce Battle About Moon
and Dago Islands; Rum Outnumbered
From the Start
Location of Naval Battle In Which
16 German Vessels Were Sunk
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' ' Petrorrad, Monday, Oct 22. Two German dreadnaughts,
one cruwer, twelve torpedo boat and one transport were put
out of action by the Russians in the fighting around the islands
in the Gulf of Riga lt week, but their ultimate fate is un
known, says an official statement issued tonight by the Russian
admiralty.' ' '
: RUSS LOSE TWO SHIPS. 9 : ; t , .
t. ... h.M fhliticl tht it leait D,ed him to carry out debarkation
It ha. been Mtabhihed that at leait d nd Buccesjfull 0ur fleet
ix German torpedo boat were sunk on, WJ8 ab,e ,0 do jtg f,t t0 hinler
in the fighting. The Russians lost the i these effortg and t0 Jnfict maxinlum
battleship Sltva and a large torpedo
boat. '
The admirality staff In Its review
of the report says the Russian units
fought excellently against the supe
riority of the Germans. The state
ment reads; ,,;
Clearing Away Obstructions.
"During October 21 important
enemy naval forces, together with
transports, were sighted by our out.
posts in the Gulf ,'ot Riga. In Moon
sound the enemy, seems to be clear
ing "the water; of obstructions which
we laid thercv There was no naval
action during the day, but enemy
submarines were discovered in -the
Gulf of Finland. . . .
- "The naval operation's in the Baltic
isles having now ended, it is, possible
to, review them. The task of our
fleet in- this region was, with the or
ganization position of Moon sound a
base, to prevent enemy, attempts to
seize the Gulf-of, Riga i-and Moon
sound. So long as the 'German fleet
only employed in such, an operation
elements of minor importance as in
1915 namely, two dreadnaughtsour
naval forces could cope with them,
i :f v . All Attacks Repulsed.
s"In 1915, although our position in
Moon sound was organized incom
pletely; we. repulsed successfully all
attacks -and the enemy during three
days' possession of the Gulf of Riga
suffered losses so grave that he was
obliged to depart. A similar attempt
in 1916 with unimportant forces failed
completely.
;r "In the recent operations the enemy
employed the major part of his fleet
and his Overwhelming superiority en-
losses. With this object we delivered
a series of attacks, using all the naval
resources in our possesion.
Germans Lose Heavily.
"As a result of these operations the
enemy lost through mines, submarine
attacks and artillery fire, two dread
naughts, one cruiser, twelve torpedo
boats and one transport and numerous
mine sweepers, all of which were put
out of action. Their ultimate fate is
unknown. We have established the
actual loss only of six torpedo boats,
two of which were of the small type
and were sunk by gun fire from our
position on Moon island. The other
torpedo boats were sunk in combats
or blown up by mines. The wreck of
the torpedo boat T-69 is visible on a
sand bank in Kassar bay. Further,
our coast batteries sank four enemy
torpedo boats. -
"Our losses are the ship of the line
Slavs ahd a large torpedo boat de
stroyer of the Grom type. The ef
ficiency of our other ships has been
maintained; completely." ,
German torpedo boats of the T-69
class were built in 1891, displaced 145
tons ; and had a complement of 16
men. They are 154 feet in length.
The Russian battleship Slava, whose
loss has been reported previously, dis
placed 13,516 tons. It had com
plement of 825 men and was 370 feet
in 1 length." The Russian destroyers
of the Grom type were built in 1914
and displaced 1,1 10 tons. They had a
complement of 93 men, and a length
of 321 feet.
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Enemy Property In U. 5. To Be
Converted Into Liberty Bonds
Washington, Oct 23. Subscription
to many million dollars worth of Lib
erty bonds will be one of the first
official acts of A. Mitchell Palmer,
newly appointed enemy property cus
todian. On opening offices and as
suming his new duties today Mr.
Palmer found scores, of letters report
ing money, credits or other property
held by American interests for, alien
enemies. These wilil be tabulated late
this week and a Liberty loan sub' -rip-tion
made for a sum probably much
in excess of the actual amount re
ported, in anticipation of later reports.
Many officials estimate that enemy
property subject to custody of the
government custodian amounts to
hundreds of millions of dollars.
Mr. Palmer gave assurance today
that corporations or other business
interests operating with German or
ally-of-Germany funds will have as
little interference from him as neces
sary. He said he would guard against
placing any obstacle in the way of
smooth operation .of. business, and
through his representatives to be. ap
pointed in various parts' of the coun
try would co-operate with companies'
business plans. ,
Several companies announced in let
ters recieved today that virtually all
their stock was owned in Germany
and expressed solicitude lest their
business be halted when the govern
ment custodian assumes trusteeship
of the stock. One man wrote he owed
a German firm a large sum of money
and asked permission to spend it for
Liberty bonds, which he would turn
over to the custodian.
Mr.. Palmer said he had not yet
worked out plans for seizing enemy
owned real property, including cotton
and other material held in storage.
He said he expected to take up the
question of appointing attorneys and
other representatives in the leading
cities within a few days to act for him
in supervising enemy credits.
Consumers Must Cut
Sugar" Supply One-Half
New York, Oct. 23. Consumers
must curtail their supply 50 per cent
to avert a sugar famine in New York
City, Henry Muskowitz, commission
er of markets, told a meeting today
of refiners, wholesale and retail deal
ers called to devise means of insur
ing an equitable distribution of the
sugar available here. The meeting
ended m the appointment of a com
mittee which is to perfect details of
the distribution scheme.
Coppers Miners' Strike
'v 5 In Arizona Settled
Washington, Oct. 23. Settlement
of the strike of copper miners in Ari
zona was formally announced today
in a telegram from President Wilson s
labor commission in the west.
RECENT AIR RAIDS
PARALYZE ZEE FORCE
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German Advance on England
Uesults in Teuton Loss of
1 Probably One -Half of :
. Super Aircraft.
Washington, Oct. 23. Germany
probably lost one-half of its total ef
fective fleet of super-Zeppehns as a
result of the raid of October 20 over
England, according to official cable
grams received here. All France is
exultant over what the dispatches de
clare to be the greatest defeat ad
ministered to an air fleet since the
beginning of the war. The raid was
an attempt to carry out a fearful
threat of. .vengeance made four days
Detore,
On that occasion the German gov
ernment sent out a warning to both
France and England of dire punish
ment to follow what the Germans de
clared to be unwarranted and in
human attacks by British and French
aviators upon peaceful German towns.
Reprisals were threatened in an of
ficial German communication, which
in part reads:
Threatened to .Destroy Paris."
'.'For every brick which falls from
peaceful German homes whole rows
of r buildings will be . overthrown . in
Paris."
The official . French report of' the
attempted German raid reads as fol
lows: - , , '
"The first Zeppelin brought down
fell at St Clement, on the borders of
the forest of Mondon, 10 kilometers
from Luneville. It was seen at 6:20
a. m., journeying with two other Zep
pelins. It was at once attacked by
one of our army's' defense aircraft
guns. At first a series of shells were
fired at the Zeppelins when- it was
distant 4,000 meters. The Zeppelin
promptly rose to a height of 5,500
meters. In a fresh attack by the air
craft guns the fourth shell struck the
outside envelope and the , Zeppelin
caught afire. It remained a mass of
metal and India rubber and broken
propellers. Five dead bodies, hor
ribly mutilated, were found near the
Zeppelin. Others must be buried
under the ruins, which are still smok
ing. There could not have been any
bombs left in the Zeppelin as no ex
plosions were hea 4. The apparatus
had four propellers. x
This Zep Is Intact
"About 2:20 p. m. Zeppelin No. 49
was forced by our aviators to come to
earth near Bourbonne les Bains. It
is intact The commanding officer and
17 men of the A crew are prisoners.
(This is the airship referred to at
length in today's table dispatches.) '
"A little later the third Zeppelin,
the L-50, came down at Dammartin,
near Montigny le Roi, and two officers
and 14 men of its crew were captured.
Two of the crew were slightly
wounded.
"The Zeppelin s crew detached a
car, which they entirely destroyed.
The Zeppelin without ballast went
off with four men. From the decla
ration of the prisoners this .Zeppelin
left Oldenberg for London October
19, but was unable to reach the Eng
lish capital . ,r 1
Two Totally Destroyed.
"Twp Zeppelins entirely, destroyed
were attacked by our aviators and by
our anti-aircraft guns and came down
in the valley of the Saonne, alighting
in the region of Sisterton. The crews,
after having burned their 'Zeppelins,
attempted to escape, but were taken
prisoners.
"Two other machines were seen in
the south; one landed at Larange, in
the lower Alps. One was seen by the
aviation center at Frejus drifting to
wards the sea in a vertical position
and disabled.
"Thus probably the Germans lost
five of their Zeppelins, which were
all of the new type, frou 234 to 244
meters in length and carrying seven
and nine engines, with from 1,500 to
2,000-horse power."
Summing up the extent of the disas
ter to the German air fleet the report
says that Germany altogether has con
structed probably 100 Zeppelins, of
which 16 were destroyed before the
war. The losses officially reported by
the allies were six in 1914, 16 in 1915,
25 for 1916 and three for 1917.
, Thus the minimum of sixty-six Zep
pelins have been destroyed, to which
must be added half a dozen more lost
by accident and in experimental trials.
Deducting machines loaned to Bul
garia, Germany now has on the west
ern front only 25 super-Zeppelins. The
greatest air fleet concentrated against
England in Belgium and northern
Germany has never amounted to more
than 16 Zeppelins.
PADEREWSKI GIVES
. AID T0C0L. HOUSE
Pianist to Assist Agent of Ad
ministration in Obtaining
Data for Use of Peace
Commissioners. rj
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(By AsHoclated frwu.)
Washington, Oct 23. Ignace Patf
erewski, pianist and leader of the
Polish nationalist movement in the
United States, will assist Colonel E.
M.' House in. gathering data for use
of peace commissioners at the end of
the war, it became known today
when Colonel House' paid another
visit to the White House.
Mr. Paderewski has established
headquarters in Washington, can
celled most of his concert engage
ments and will devote his time to col
lecting and arranging the mas of
details concerning Polish politics,
business and nationalist ideals on
which a peace conference would need
to be informed before agreeing on
Poland's future statm.
Mexican Federals Battle
With Yaqui Indians
Nogales, Ariz., Oct'. 23. Eight hundred-
Yaqui Indians working north
ward presumably to seize recently
harvested bean and corn crops were
engaged in battle Sunday and yester
day by Mexican troops in the La
Colorado district, according to min
ing men who arrived here last night
from Hermosillo, Sonora.
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