Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1919, Page 6

Grp jee ee Mie Sesiet THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE re : {6,70 MINES LAID BY AMERICAN SQUADRON AT SEA ‘FRISCO CAPTAIN HAD WILD CRUISE ON GERMAN BONT sstisssartcc. ins sk.te1'nes Qtatomer, then nets koe a considered a dangerous characte. | that it’s my own yard, andthe inside ° ° ° ¢ ry ° o ° ° .¢ ° | “I was on the Wolff eight months, | of that, for me.” | ;which meant freedom of the decks! In his travels the captain has ac- RETURNED CAPTAIN TELLS OF EIGHT MONTHS ON SEA wten we weren't in action, and thet, quired an Iron Cross and sundry other i | they put all the prisoners in the hatch| German medals, which he says are H . jand stationed half a dozen Germans! cheaper than bread in Germany. For lat the door with grenades to throw/a cake of soap you can get a barre! (By United Press) ed to go north of Iceland and along| if we showed any fuss. I’ve been in| of them. He is bringing back a collec- ;,, BELGRADE, Swiss Border—(BY Scandinavia toward home, but the |several German camps during the last! tion of souvenirs for the Golden Gate | Mail.)——Among the most popular of ice floes wouldn’t allow it. So they!year, but longest at Villingen. | Museum. i: ithe officers liberated from German! took a chance south of Iceland and| “I’m not much on this military! oo - prison camps in a trainload of Amer- pulled up just north of Denmark. _ stuff, and I don’t salute anybody bur| ATTENTION BROTHER MOOSE cans from Switzerland which ar- " “By that time the Wolff had laid|Germans, and then because I want! Don’t forget entertainment at the rived today is the “Skipper. more than 400 miles around Austra- to live to go back to San Francisco.|Moose Hall Thursday, Feb. 6, at 9 | “The Skipper’ is Capt. Robert D. lia and along the east coast of South! They call me captain and salute, but! p. m. Bring your families. Appli- ;Trudget of San _ Francisco, com- and North American. They laid up|it’s all overboard, this saluting, now cants invited. |mander of the four-mast schooner week near Denmark, waiting for or-| that we’re away from the German, . ‘ J. N. KRAUSS, Secy. Winslow, which left the Golden Gate ‘ders to proceed to Kiel, and when the! “It was a good enough experience, 2-6-1t | two months before America entered | demonstration was all prepared, she but at my age I’m not looking for va TAO-MILE TRAIL BLAZED ACROSS NORTH SEA BY YANKS STORY OF WONDERFUL FEAT 1 TOLD FOR FIRST TIME WASHINGTON, Jan nerican 1 rt junction with there were four other deaths among squadron, which, in the 4,000 men which might have oc- the rBitish navy, curred under any coftditions. There trail Af mines! was no other loss of life nor other a from the Ork- injury and, despite the close naviga- ay has re- mine fields, no ship ever of how came to grief, thanks largely to Cap- of turned home with the to the coast > this great achievement in the cam- 3utler and N ator Cunning- the war. _ The Winslow was captured | pulled up to the harbor. There were’ periences. I’ve had to fight with all! We will buy your second hand fur- paign to throttle the German sub- ham, of the flagship San Francisco, by the German raider Wolff, and | salutes by the men of war, and every-' kinds of nationalities since I’ve been Niture and pay highest market price. marines was contributed. “In addition to the value of the Capt. Trudget was a prisoner on|thing was decorated. They sent dowr.| prisoner, just to get food, and son | Phone 249. 121 West First st. voard the Wolff for eight months 4 carload of iron crosses from Berlin, times it was pretty rough. But there 1-13-26) | before she finally returned to Kiel and everyone got them, even the is no kick coming from: me, just“so 1 oo | snd)ine yas pout dniaycarp, cooks, get back to the Bay alive and find the SAVE YOUR MONEY—Buy a meal The captain is a little man, 50 “We were ready to quit cruising, ticket at The Harvey. Lig FIRES | years old, who has a fine sense of|though it wasn’t much to look to, go- Goldwyn Pictures | humor, and one ambition in the world ing to Germany. Out at sea we'd run Tomorrow. |—that being to get back to San’ pretty close to the boards sometimes, | Francisco to ‘the Old Woman,” as, but we always prayed to bring along! |he affectionately calls his wife, and/a ship, and one came along, and we, 'to his two strapping sons and one had food to live on, sometimes gooc daughter. He hasn’t seen them for! and sometimes bad. | \two years. “Well, those of us who were pris- The captain is the best man to tell; oners were sent to camp. I had a his story. ‘When I get back to San| crew of Swede sailors and a Japanes« . F i Captain Reginald R, Balknap, com-| barrage itself, in keeping the enemy mander of this fleet of ten ships—j)submarines in or from their bases, two light cruisers and eight converted the mine squadron was expected to ant craft graphically de- serve ait to draw out of the scribed in a stPtement today the ¢ fleet. This ever present poss- work of laying the 70,100 mines ibility and the fact that the working which made up the so-called North ground lay in the principal thorough- | Sea barrage and announced that at fare of enemy F with at- least seventeen enemy submersibles tendant incidents of periscope sight- in attempting to pass thru this field.’ charges, smoke — screen: floating The American ships lead 56,570 of min the total number of these American ing by mere ‘OLD AGE STARTS : WITH YOUR KIDNEYS Science says that old age begins with; action and enables the organs t: weakened kidneys and digestive organs. oF the ‘pelsons: which cause rematnre Thi to believe] © lew life and strength increase that ie Pong trite it eens) and Gigek: as yuu continue the treatment. When ilors float- tement to the work, and dead German s lent ex invented and manufactured engines which was often hard but never dull.” | tive organs cleansed and in proper work-| Completely restored continue taking a A Rime ” ri 7 8 cape le or ach“day. G MED. of destruction The field averaged The manufacture of these special rancisco, I’ll never venture out of cook. The German hired the Swedes| ing order old age can be deferred and By ecEt we ¢ GHP coe EDS 'm go-|to work on the Wilff and the Jap life prolonged far beyond that enjoyed by the average person. For over 200 years GOLD MEDAL R Haarlem has been relieving the| have settled down for g eke nee weaknesses and disability due to advanc-| sign that your kidneys are not working ing years. It is a standard old-time properly. §9 to your druggist and get home remedy and needs no introduction, | box of GOLD MEDAL Haarlem On GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil is inclosed| Capsules. Money refunded if they do in odorless, t less caps not help you. Tree sizes. But re- re woud at, “wit a abate St] GOLD MiBae and 9S need ates ou rill, a swallow o 5 ° ater. The oil stimulates the kidney| ages. peg cern baa 8 | my own yard,” hé declares, SHIP STRUCK HUN MIN ing to retire. I’ve been roving the! was imprisoned with the crew of a seas for 40 years and then to wind —— up this way! Im thru, and I’m going NOTICE to lash myself to the old Woman and LONDON—(By Mail) — Corre- stay with her. | spondence of The Associated Press.) “It was almost two years ago when| for them there, too, and one touch! contractors, who delivered them at =o ord Kitchenoeyenu his: ae H var ae eee ean recieaiera (ace Company of Scotland, No. 106,- 3 ~ to take some cI 1 was enough. Norfolk. There the mine spheres ish cruiser Hampshire after she foctto San Francisco, after I'd made | 820 to No. 106,874 inclusive, Casper, = € i ISCO, rged with 300 pounds of T. struck a mine off the coast of Scot a | Wyoming Agency have been A j & e Scot-t g boldt down to the’ 2). r ner said Captain Belknap, and with other parts, were Jand one stormy night in June, 1916, aa ae eee my last trip, Mislaid or inadvertently destroyed > RE barrage began to yield results. y ed into mine carrier steamers, according to a warrant officer who j i ‘old the /2"d cannot be found. % x in July, 1918, after the second zed by the s trans- has just told the story of the sinking Passos poke tarred ‘He want-|,. While it is believed that the poli- cursion of the mine layers and from! port serv It required 24 of these to a correspondent of the Manches- ed me to go just once more, and cies have been lost, all persons are time to time reports would come of Vessels, running constantly, to keep ter Guardian. that’s how I happened to get caught. advised and warned that in case any submarines damaged or disappearing the ten mine planters supplied with Questions concerning the sinking «Well, off the Samoa Islands we|°f them have been or shall be mis- in that area. From the nature of mines. The carriers were slow and of the Hampshire have been asked in sigiite Wolff and|told| sPerepriated oF illegally” issued. by were sighted by the Wolff, and told anyone it is without the knowledge SUNKIST LEMONS 25 miles in width and nowhere was mines, developed by navy experts it less than 15 miles across, an hour’s from an invention of an American, run fora submarine. If a safe course began in the United States in Decem- were sought underneath, several lines ber, 1917. The many parts, small of mines would be found there equally and “ze, going into the makeup of nd if the submarines went a single mine, were being construct- down even deeper, mines were ready) ed by the thousands by numerous in health and vigor and prevent a return of the disease. Notice is hereby given that blank Fire Insurance policies of the Scotch {Underwriters of the Caledonian Insur- —_ > case it may never be known defi-. 00d prey for submarin One of parli asa carrera \ heise foe Pua eae Tea them, the Lakemoor, was sunk last ee ene peceuse/ of the ie poeren co) surrender eee uldiwetdo tit or consent or approval of the Scotch i Sbat Whe Be ilwvithia Minien AnalS 60 ssel had begn sunk wasn’t a fighting ship, i i 5 to grief there, but the best informa- | April.with a loss of 41 men and 3,000 by a submarine and Lord Kftchener Sane So they. Fook us off, loaded Underwriters of the Caledonian In tion gives a probable ten before the Mine anchors and other All been carried off a prisoner to oy cargo into the Wolff and fired eich ne eee or i peeniesang middle of October, with a final total the other mine cargoes were safely Germany. No detailed statement, 36 shots into the old Winslow. Even one ee icies are invalid and of no of seventeen or more, In addition to | delivered, however, has ever been officially {hen she wouldn’t go down. I think “0° this toll the squadron should be cred- ited with two submarines lost in the fields of British mines laid by the Baltimore off the Irish coast.” The American squadron arrived at Inverness last May 26 ready to be- gin operations and later started on its first mine-planti “excursion.” On these trips which lasted from 40 to 80 hours, the squadron was part of the British grand fleet, and for protection ainst submarines and raiding cruisers, it was accompanied by British destroy- ers and battleships or battle crui: On the second mining excursion said ain Belknap, “the sixth ba tle squadron was the support, ing of four Amer Vn battleshi velve d The flagship San Franc was commanded by Captain H. V. Butler and her consort, the cruiser Balti- more, by Captain A. W. Marshall. Four of the merchant vessels used in t were former Morgan liners, ht between New York Iveston, now named the Roa- aptain C. D. Stearns; Canoni- in T. L. Johnson; Housa- noke, ¢ cus, € toni ptain J. W. Greenslade; and Can Commander W, H. Rey- nolds. Two were the Old Dominion passenger liners Jefferson and Ham- ilton running between New York and Norfolk, now named Quinnebaug, _! Commander D. Pratt Mannix: and Saranac, Captain Sinclair Ganno. The remaining two were the fast given out. The name of the officer who tells the story has not been dis- closed. Four days after the Jutland battle, according to the officer the Hamp-! shire took Lord Kitchener aboard on June 5, and set out with about 800 persons on board in weather known in that region.” She was ecorted by two destroyers who were unable to face the storm and returned to port. Everything on board the Hampshire was lashed down « only the hatchway was left open. About 8 o’clock in the evening the ship was shaken by a terrific explo- sion and the crew scrambled for the deck. Officers quickly took their! posts, but their orders could not be; “the foulest ‘ the cargo was meant for the Wolff, because they needed fuel and food, and the fire brick to repair a boiler they'd burned out. “Then we started our eight months’ cruise. First they sailed around Africa, attacking defenseless vessels whenever they found them. The Wolff was equipped with fine wire- less instruments, and they could de- tect fighting ships at long distances. | The Wolff kept away from fighting ships, and we never had a fight dur- ‘ing the entire cruise. \ “Altogether they captured and sunk 14 defenseless boats between Samoa and around Africa, across to South America, and up the coast al- The Germans wan’ CHICHESTER S PILLS If any of the above numbered poli- cies should be found or information leading to their recovery come to hand, kindly return same or notify the undersigned. W. E. KING, Agent. C. D. Cobb & Company, Genl. Agts. 1046 Gas & Electric Bldg., Denver, Colorado. Pub. Jan. 29, Feb. 6, 12, 19, 1919. fee 114 South Wolcott 3 for $1.00 Best on the Market Grape Fruit—2 for 25c Fresh Shipment Oranges and Tangerines Fresh Eggs—45c Fresh Vegetables Received Every Day. i CITYF Telephone 247 Two Stores RUIT MARKET ea EC: ri most to Icelan | Boston and New York passenger @ard because of the raging storm DIOS mmanded by Rear Admiral Hugh s b ni steamers, M. husetts cer and the terrific sound of escaping 0 3 Rodman of the United States navys Hi oe the Basten So he eke? steam. Immediately after the plas COO TIT EA : in the flagship New York. One may) oration, renamed Shawnut, Captaiq io” there was another and all lights / 1} | er. ul er 1} | er q imagine arn nat fen we Aw |W. 'T. Cluverius; and Aroostook, Gan. went out, which added to the con- y 100 Per Cent Wool 100 Per Cent Wool 9 ) our flagship file out of § Flow, ah > 2 Ss ©@P> fusion. ! — ——— > form Tine “and slowly disappear in {200 ty Marsey Tomb. Each ship car- “rhe officer, with a companion, cut ° ° ; : the haze as they swept off to the | Pease on Sa "" the lashings of a life-raft and it be-! a southeastward. It will be readily | 4nd is armed only lightly for defense ing impossible to launch the boats in rriva 0 pring amp es SPECIAL ‘ understood that the way had to be) “##nst submarines and aircraft. the terrific , and the raft was made smooth for the mine planters slipped over the side. It turned up-! Fresh Churned—salted or unsalted PID aaa we, ore than the amount that devastated hatchway was open, the only men Efforts ¢ —__—.___- A single well placed t mine, side down, but finally righted and he ° a 5 or a few enemy shells, would certainly with others found themselves afloat. Order your Spring Suit finish one vessel, and prot S i Almost immediately the ship went stroy all ten of them, E » down, not more than five minutes NOW and have it ready s) planter carried from 24 to 120 tons of after the first explosion. The officer 5 it. high explosive, a total of nearly S00 did not see Lord Kitchener on deck, when you need tons in the squadron, many — times and it is his opinion that as only one e on foot to change the FREE Halifax name of the oil field south of Chey- Who reached the deck were those who “The operation as a whole was enne from “Roud Butte,” which it Nene stat wey fithe much confuses S ‘ = = —— —— done "0 et with a British|has been named by officials , he recalls x to open z nae Buinge sak ir f ee a wae ee een ones other Raven Sehile trying to reach \ Extra Trousers at one- sels, which worked from a base at shing” structure The effort. to; the deck and found them all battered half price on winter a rona ul er (i) Grangemouth, Edinbu under com inge the name is being made own. : A \ F . mand of Rear Admiral Clint through the United States geologien! _ The raft drifted with the gale for ) weights. five hours, during which time many sur of the men were washed from the \ + a mee 112 N. Durbin Phone 943 of the Royal navy having been held ee CLL AANA AA AA A db and British) mine n Cheyenne recently attended by cer- : i went out at the same time, ain state officials and other promi raft, while others died and rolled into protection of the sa he 1 pn, Who ta request to the {he net in tng center: The marl Wes “ 5 | but ex Sat ns they cological survey to list this oil field then tossed thru an opening \ k P. tt ll le ntifferet’as the “Pershing” structure rather Tocky reef and beached on an island. ac e ing Warteot th i (han und. Butte," ‘The netion _ The officer scoffed at the sugges- \ Kitchener had been cen on the request by officials of on that Lord Exclusive Tailor saved, and was quite sure the Hamp-) “Alt merican squad the geological sur will be made ron ms 15 excursions, the Britist E y j je pee mearaieche eon ee public within a few days. Whether shire had been mined and not tor- \ Room 214 0. S. Bldg. 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