Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 7, 1916, Page 4

i | { | i § i * British channel steamer Bussex, with DESCRIBES ATTACK UPON THE SUSSEX, French Rear Admiral Certain Tor- pedo Responsible for Disaster, REPORTS T0 GENERAL STAFF WASHINGTON, April b A graphic account of the wreck of the the assertion that the vessel was deliberately torpedoed and without warning by ap enemy submarine, s contained in a report by Read Ad miral Grasset to the French general staff, made public here tonight by the French embassy The report, dated at Boulogne, March 30, says “In econformity with your instructions, I phocsoded to Roulogne, where | con ducted an Inquiry relative 1o the attack on the Bussex, On March 24, the Bussex bolanging to the Mtate Mallway compuny, And running the reguinr servies between England and France, left Polkstone at 136, p, m. tor Meppe. Many Women and (hi “Thin bost earried ahout 52 paasengern of Il nationalities, n great number of these being women and children, as weil #s the indian mafle This spproximate figire 1 given by the captain. Accord Wgito the company thers were 9 pas sengers, The offieer In charge of the control of tgketa wan severely wounded and taken to Dover, HWe s not in a fit wiafe 1o turnish particulars B war not possessed of wny Krma ment The crew consisted of fiftyAhres mep. ¥rom the siart the speed was set AL I8 note; aftor having passed one mile from Dungeness the captaln heasded pouth 8 d4groew ennt| the wenther wan very fine ha sen almont calmn, most of the passen | Kern were on Aeck | Buddenly, without the shightest warn Ing, the captain, who was on the bridge, Mew before the port beam, some 10 meters away, Lhe track of u torpedo. It Wan now 28 p, m.; the time of the dis nnter being exactly registered by the stopping of the clocks on hoard the ver wal. The second officer and decl offlesr, who were on the bridge, alno Alstinetly “aw the torpedo | Kxecnted wt One With great presence of mind, the cop- | ®in ordered the helm hard-a-port, anA Slapped the starboard engine In order to Avold the torpedo hy turning (o sar howrd, There two orders were exscuted Immodiately, as I8 proved by the state ments of the engineern of the wateh “The shidp woe beginning 1o swing of elght seconds after the Lovpsdo had been ween, a territic explonion took plac throwing up an enormovs colimn of Water. caloeulating from (he distance wl which the torpedo fhemt hnd been woon and the time which passed before tie exploston, the speed of the torpedo musl have been Uirty-slx knots, the norms #paed of a torpedo “The whip wan cut fn two opposite 1y bridge. the wfter part, thenks to the solldity of the bulkhends, continued 1o flomt. 0N Beck wevern! passengers who hap. pened to be on the port lde saw the 1orpede when auite olorg 40 the ship, ons A them evgn telling biw nelghior to Jook At that great fish swimming toward the hip AN Diseppear, “Everyhody who happensd (0 he In the bows disappesred with that portion of the ship, which was enguifed. among sthers Lhe passongers on the foredeck and In the sploon, The men of the crew who were In the ferecastle, the lnokout fn 1he Yows, and the lookout In the crow's nest on the foremast, also disappesred “The captuin, who had been knocked dowm by the column of water resulting from the explosion, ordered the crew to their emergency stations. The firemen #nd engineers went (o thelr stations after having stopped the port engine and closed the draft plates of the furnaces AL ghe wameo time the wireless operator teled “to wend out distress wignals, but without sneccoss, wa the antenme had fallen with the foremast, The crew pro- | coeded o (helr stations 1o launch the lifebouts and rafta (there were alx lifo- | Lonts capable of carrying I8 persons iwenty-two rafta capable of carrying M4 pornons and in addition X6 e belts, It appears from deposttions i that these life belts were on the spar deck and that A number of them were 'n bad condi ton), but the crowding on deck at the tme made It very difficult 1o move about Torpedo Ple Vaund | A number of pleces of the torpedo were found on board the Bussex. some of them having heen handed over tn the | American delegution which had procesded W Boulogne. The others will be for. | warded (o the miniatry of marine oy the | maritime authorities The » Aunsex o rine which torpedosd the | ild not be tgnorant of the faet that It was attacking the mall packet | of the regulnr croms-channel seryiee tween Fngland and France; not only are ‘ the outlings of these boats woll known (o all sablors, but the course of the Niussen and the time of its crassing were u..ml indloative of it rvive. 1t ia therefore | abviously & premeditated attuck on an | ANREINGG Mo cha Ip, carried out with. | Sut the slightest warnings One It faot shows up still mors | cloarly the premeditated and Hl\l-ll‘nl‘»lvl eharagler of (he submarine's oporations A Bout wan dispatohed st ¥ pom o L Colbart Hahiship 1o trophe, This beat arrived at the fight | Ahip ot 118 pom e crew was poked W by & British torpeda boat destroye Al 1 polock In the morning. Duries () AR AIpIeNt & torpede was flisd Al the destroyer and AN AF 11 Thie faet has been 3 Prsnsd by the Battieh sdmiraiiy " | I by (he course wred by (s boat | e Hahiship o ha wen & N B soven Wiles o the # I follaws That the subimati Bave fvimalied in the nelght ™ the Bussss in et | tespado s ol \p whish might eoms | wscis of Ity RLET Y R Haw ta Frovent Cronp When (he ohiid s sublent 1o aiia T T O B WAL A8 A6 mveriaaded soma b BHIRE WR An Aback ale waleh far the | red aymptom hoarsens and gl Hamberiain g Couah Nomedy as soon as A0 oMM besoes hoares, Obising Wwarywhete Advoi s insut Blars Bemmine Boaek Beer Gvar ihe 1 bt B OAR sent homs Tab ihiy bt w 5 Wb i 'r'.l AHA, FRIDAY, APRIL Why are you holding out #7000 of nat- uralization fees that by rights belongs n the county treasury 7 s / (a//// have tried to steal | Why did you pocket near}r f/2000 /nsanity fees unt// the court M Hosewaler /s a bad made you = pa/ /i back ? (Twes L agamst He Why dfdb)ma start Home flule suit on Broadwell's [\ graft and then hire & /ib’/!/' / felp him keepit 7 So you could keep yours too e’ Competition Among Dr. Waite Wanted to Packers Very Active, Study Germs of the A Witness Testifies thon or work in agreement was made Lo bas confessed the murder of his father dny by J. 1 Wrown, ediior of o live stock Wdaw, John ¥, Peck of Grand Na puper, before the house subcommittes| necording to a statement made tonight AtLorne wann, Among conmdering the Borland resolution looking | by Distric to n packing industry wnguir s of the reolution instet & Inck of com petition among buyars 18 one of the chief catinen of Jown to producers There usvally In more than one bid on | #Vidence that arsenic was used in em & batch of Hve stock,” sald Brown, 1| "elming Mr. Pesk's hody repeatadly ase sevarnl buyers bid on one| NP Awann made public tonight a fet consignment, Of course there are in wtancan of bad markets where s man may not get & wingle bid, Hut thos captions. Brown also disputed the frequently re pented churge thit buyers enter the yards 8 body, Many times, he said, he had weon one buyer abrond in the yards bid ding batore other buyers appeared, The [ T THE T hat amoant 816 Kane, ambalmer, to wh brokerage firm with which he had deal Ingx ™ oox letter wnid piy (hese to your necount and well suf fickent mtockn-sny New York Central bidn of different Luyers often vary, he g 10 pugene 0, Kane and mall satd declared, but he agreed with witnesses | .ok 1o me Immediately? for Ahe producess (Nut offen (ke was the morning The primary purpose of Brown's ap- pearance was to dey dn allegation made earlier In the hearing that: the packers control trade journals, Brown alto ex- plained he was one of two men who sup- | ply estimates for ticker servies on the | cashed Chicako market { quentions,” Packers have no con Both sider have agreed to closs testl- | Mower hospital in this oit mony today. Brown was summoned by |dentist ix sald to have expremsed a Ao neither #ide and insisted that he .‘n'tmlr to obtaln siides of the most virulent cultures In ex neutral, but his position was questionsd nee. by Walter 1. Fisher, attorney for the producers Do you mesn to infer,” Brown de manded, turning on Mr. ¥isher, “that am standing here in defense of the pack Acen d Men In Conrt, At Cortland last wook suspected of < bé era? in the men who robbed the ¥ ards That Ix exactly what ‘| think," Mr, |)"* . 8 dward L hardware store st Vieginia on March Visher replied ™, were arralgned tod I Just) " More equal distribution of stooks at the | o eI AETRKNEC L0FRY T JuATie Cort yards, which could be made possible hy co-operation between raflronds, packers, | o050 L e nd shippers was one suggeation Mrown |0 T G T ame of the stolen | made for bettering market conditions. | goody was found In possesnior f Lmen when they were arrosted American of Teuton Blood Loses Position Mayor of Bloomfield BLOOMIPIELD, Neb., April 6. —(Bpe al)-There was only n eitigens’ tioket TN TR s o R e e Sy Hoyt, clerk, C. T Maeht, treasurer; N NEW YORK, April 6,~Hermann Win- [N, Baker, engineer; councilmen, 6. G, | ter, an Amerioan, born of naturalizsed |Court and . Lol German parents, who since July, 1911 has been ansiatant 1o the general agent of the Cunard Steamalilp sompany in the United Htates, announeed today that at 1A pequest he had w A ha connec ] | tlon with that company. He was asked | o do w0, Mi, Winter said, hecause of | | vepeated critiolam regarding the retentior ’ ‘ | by an Fngl impany a man e ervicen, " meon | Mrs, Wynn Tells How Lydia M Winter, one of (e best wnown | Compound Helped Her peamabip nen In (hie sountry. Jee wern | - DuringChbange of Life, was representative and spokesman for the Richmond, Vo = *“*After taking seven bottles of lwlln E Pokham's getahle Con ..,.....u 1 fool like & NOW Worman l M arious transatiantio lines o oo hold here and st Washingten of Gering Viects Ha Viest Mayor WRING. Nob, April & - (Npooial 1 The during the Change of Life nnd wasnlen troubled with other bad feelings com Won st that time dinny wpells, nervous foelings and hoat fashes, Now | am ety form of ¥ Wi stilted he following 1 i chosen whlk " \ | than 1 evar was snd recommend your remedion toall my frionds, Mrs Lina Winn, 3513 B O Btreet, Richmond, Vs While Change of Life & & most erit Maet s hune A AV, Ta A . annoy ing symptoms which aceom pany L1 may be contrelled, and normal health rostored by the tnely use of Lydia K o Piakham's Vegetahle Compound Hueh warting symplons o . . W be s | of sulfoention, hot fashes, hondaches, seimin | haekaches, dread of lmpending evil, o of the hoart, sparks bofore tha oy, larttion, constipation variable ap b s Maniness " For theas abn 8 do it fuil o " table Compmumd Most Dread Diseases WAKHINGTON, April 6.-Denial of | NEW YOWK, April 6.~Another arrest charges that cattle buyers for the Chis| probably will be made tomorrow In the ngo puckers are not In nctive competls | case of Dr. Arthur Warren Walte, who Hupport- | those who will be questioned tomorrow by Mr. Kwann will bo Bukens Oliver n Walte says he gave 9,000 in the hope of obtaining ter written by Waite on March 20 to & [ want you to do me a favor,” the [ wend n check for 81,00 and o draft for 9.8 Wil you pleass to bring this amount up to $15,000, and You might put this letier away s no unnecessnry delny In° starting VIOAIDE 10| one slue cnn rofer th 11, and of course I depend upon you to faver me with the uemont discretion at all times and o all The letter was written the day on which Kane admits recétving from | Walte a oheck for #9400, which he says he nevér AdAitional evidence was obtained today nection with those estimates, he inaisted, | regarding Walte's study of germs st The young YEATRICY Neb April ¢ Apecial (| Telegram. ) —Mike Wiley, Marry ‘Williams |and Georse Brown, who waere arvested ways hind & hoadache | FToFe oo FoFo o FoTo ol in battar health | tonl poriosd of & woman's existonce, the | A sehae Umidity, sounds (n the eare, papitation weahness ad | tude, COAST DEFENSE BILL LARGEST EVER| Measure Introduced in House Appro- priates Nearly Hundred Millions, FOR GUNS AND AMMUNITION WABHINGTON, April 6 The third great element of the pational prepuredness program was today brought into the house It is the lurgest fortification bill gver re gorted, and the ftirst of four annual | r.eamires under which it is proposed to spend approximately $100,000,000 for Increasing and modernizing the, connt defenwen, alroady officially de clared Lo be superior to any in the Included in the WIl are provisons for | Ch ar county mounting sixtesn-ineh direct fire vifles | CTIAIAN coun to gunrd New York, Bowton, #an Vran- | olnco und other great cities from lonk range naval bombardment, Provision | alwo made for mounting twelvedneh rifles now in reserve so thay will have o rungs of mors W WO yarde, fiftesn nea milen, No abip could live within that distance of the guns. Mobile Guna Provided The plan will add sixteen-inel mortar battarion to the present twelve-dnch am placements heonise of the Ipereassd armor proteetion of modern batile e In addition it provides for sixteen-nch mobile howitzers and fourtesn inch guns on ralirond cars to defend points not protacied by established forts In approving the bill the comm tes acoaptad mimost without aiteration the proposals of the War department snd the officers, who have studisd the sib ot of cont dafennen for years The bill carries approprintion of 4, W% and wddithonal wuthorizations 1o rench total of WAOMN. It is the first of the bills mapped out by former Necrstary Oarrison (o cover a four-year program of expenditure fotaliing 82,004 W1 on the continantal const defensen and resorve matorinl, The Panama canal Ae fense will add 14,0500 Lo the project renching n wrand total of V9,00,51 The committes eut down the 1917 ant) maten $128,00, An the bl stands, how aver, it ropresents an incres oxpend ure over last year of $16,9% 88 AR Lo reserve smnmunition the repori anys: A review of the sulij t In the light Georgn Hall City, dled at the home of his daughter, 7, 1916 of the Kuropean war caused the boar to very greatly Increase the amount of iition thought to 1 o, and It hias submitted this ye o 38,0000, with a contra 0 of 85,000 to expende authorizat oward securing a New reserve committes han milowed In its entirety the ostimate submitted, making an appro pristion In effect of #,M0,000 for this Jurpose #A akainst previous annusl ag propriations of $200,000,"" The report shows that four of the ne wixteenth-inct Cupe, Henry, VA, two st Rockaws Beach, N, Y., others at San Francisco and Han Pedro, ('al. Long range twelve Ineh guns will go to New York, Bostc and either Portland, Me,, or Kan Fran ciuco DEATH RECORD Georke Hall PAWNEE, CITY, April 6,—(Bpecial.) Mrs, Vernon Baseom, In Los Ankles, Cul | March 27, and was burled here yesterday world, and to mnyly an ample store | Mr, Hall lived in Pawnee county for of rewerve aminunition for the guns, |many years. He had | health for some time, He was born in , 1ilinols, October 18, 159 Mo werved for thres years Auring the « war In the Forty first 11inols volun teern. Thres brothers and his daughter wurvive him Men, William Rose, NEHAWKA, Neb, April 6, ~(Bpecial ) | Mrs, Willlam Roke dled yestorday of oncumsion of the brain, caused by falling down the cellar steps of her home Hone was born in Norway, eighty nko, Bho wus married to Mr, Rose snd ame 1o Nehawka In 181, Bhe was the A mother of thres enlldran, William and Anna Norris of Avoca and Fred, V. of Nohawks, The funersl services will |take place I'riday Mrs, Mary Sehroeder, AVOCA, Neab, April 6.~(Bpocial,)=Mrs #hroader, aged ahout 2 yesrs, wife of Carl Behroeder, died at her home north of town yestarday of pneumonis M Bl wan wick only one week, Bhe s sur fvad by her husband and four small ohildren Arthnr Ritter, LYONS, Neb, April 6.-(Bpecial,)~The body of Arthur Titter, aged 54, wan brought haere todasy for burial, from Vort Madison, Ia, whers he died sud denly. He was & won of James Ritter who lived here in plonser days Mate Employe 11, LINCOLN, April 6,~(Bpscial,)=Asmstant Bate Kngineer William Steckisbers loft yesterdny for Excelslor Bprings, He has been wuffering for some time from a e vers attack of rheumatism, which has re silted In his having to o about on erutehes V dddzgz g //////////////////////////////////’//////—\ 7’, S N /// ////////4 ey ////////////////////7 N come to'em. 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