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V WMMrMfM 1 -t&: ' THE WILMINGTON DISPATCH, DNESDAylAOERNOb MARCH 1918. ' ' : m 1 '.'.,. . ARMED MERCHANTMAN 4-Cruiser! Galgarian' Sent to the Bottom Along, With 48 of Her Men SHE WAS STRUCK BY FOUR TORPEDOES K Vessel Carried 610 Persons When Attacked Was T ' Sunk Off Irish Coast March 1 500 of Crew Landed VfxadQn, March 6. Official an nouncement was made by the Admi ralty Ytoday that the British armed mercantile cruiser Calgarian was tor pedoed and sunk on March 1. Two 3trs and 46 men were lost. Struck by Four Torpedoes. Belfast, Ireland Saturday March 2. The British liner Calgarian has - been torpedoed( off the Irish coast. - There were 610 ' persons aboard nearly I I DV Ul V UUlil UCT2 VslX i"vu Irish port. The Calgarian was struck by four torpedoes. The Allan liner Calgarian was a 3 vessel of 17,515 tons gross, 568 feet ? long, and 70 feet of beam. She was built in Glasgow in 1914. , . There are no published records of , the recent movements of the Calga , rian which for sometime has been in the service of the British government. The last report given out concerning i the liner was in April, 1916, when she feailed from Halifax for England with Y Canadian troops. A most unusual circumstance in connection -with the sinking of the .-Calgarian is the fact that she was struck by four torpedoes. So far as ' published reports have shown in no y previous case has a merchantman f- been subjected to such a heavy at , tack by submarines. Evidently the '. Germans concentrated U-boats to en- cure the sinking of the liner. A Converted- Merchantman; New York, March 6. The Allan liner Calgarian, torpedoed off the i Irish coast, has been for some months " serving as a'British cruiser, convert ed from the status of a merchantman, WAR AGAINST SUBMARINES IS GAINING (Continued from Page One). chiefly with the naval situation in home waters. That is not due to a lack of appreciation of the impor tance of the other theatres, includirg the Mediterranean." . Sir Eric alluded at this point to the if ;r fact that the waters around he Brit . Jsh Isles had been! the enenty's chief iA field for submarine operations airl I f that with American help, the greatest j successes against the submarine had been obtained in those waters. He is stated, however, that 30 per cent, of j i.-the losses of merchant ships was ac i p Counted for in the Mediterranean and that conditions there had been more Hf difficult to meet: ' - , 'It became increasingly evident," continued Sir Eric, 'that as our re ,1, sources improved, we would be able j ; to turn our attention more"to"the Med , J lterranean. I recently went to Rorne J for a meeting of the Allied naval com mittee of the Greek navy. British naval officers are assisting the Greeks In the re-orgarilzation of their navy which Is already co-operating in the r Mediterranean and rendering valuable eervice. "The meeting of the committee in ' Rome was representativ of all the Al .'lles with naval forces in , European . waters. It accepted fully the anti-submarine proposals put forward by VVice Admiral Calthorpe, British com-mander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. It agreed we should forthwith adopt . and adapt to the Mediterranean the : - same measures which have given sue- m me waiers oi me .oriusn lSies and the main anti-submarine opera tions decided on will be undertaken : under Vice Admiral Calthorpe's or- ders." Sir Eric described briefly his tour of the Mediterranean and then touched on the smooth working of the naval re-organization in Great Britain and the work of the Allied naval council at Versailles. Touching upon the re lations with the Allies and remarking . that the naval, forces In European wa iters would shortly be augmented by 'S CHEON TEA The Best Tea on Earth Kenny's High Grade Cof fee 25c lb. .' Baking Powder! r ; 'RICE At Cut Price. C D. Kenny Co. V T : convoying cargo ships between Brit ish" ports and Nova Scotia, according to .officers here of tha Canadian Pa cific Ocean Service, limited, owners of the Allan Line. The head offices of this company are? in Montreal. Has Carried Distinguished Men. MontrM March ' 6. While the British steamship Calgarian has been on cruiser duty along North Atlantic trade routes, virtually since the war began, she has also made several spe cial trips between England. and Hali fax, with distinguished passengers. One one occasion she carried Sir Rob ert Borden, the Canadian prime min ister, and on another she brought over the Duke of Devonshire, Govern or General of Canada, after taking his predecessor in office, the Duke of Connaught, back to England. The Calgarian's navigating officer, Captain H. G. Kendel, commanded the Empress of Ireland when she sank af ter a collision with the Storstad, a collier, in the St. Lawrence, in 1914. In the recent Halifax dlsater he had a narrow escape from death. It was Captain Kendal who identified the murderer, Crippen, on the steamship Montross, when Crippen tried to es cape from England oa that ship which Kendal then commanded. Irish Hospitality. An Irish" port, Monday, March 4. The people of this town, who recentlv won the gratitude of the American people by their kindness to the sur vivors of the Tuscania, have extend ed hteir hospitality in the last few days to nearly 500 men from the Cal garian, one of the finest auxiliary crui sers in the Atlantic service. The CaV garian was torpedoed in the late after noon, not far from the place where the Tuscania met her doom. The ship's bell had just sounded 4 o'clock when a torpedo struck. The shock was so slight that it was thought the vessel had merely touch ed a mine astern. It was hoped to get her safely to port. A considerable time later a second torpedo struck her, followed quickly by two more. By thsi time there were several trawlers and patrol vessels in the vicinity and the work of dis embarking the crew was hastened. By good fortune th vessel remain ed afloat some time on an even keel. a force of Brazilian war vesels, the First Lord continued: "It is perhaps natural that the co operation between ourselves and the United States should be extremely close. I wish publicly to pay tribute to the whole-hearted and generous de votion to the prosecution of the war which has governed the action of ev ery representative of the United States navy with which we came into contact. The personnel of all ranks has. the respect and esteem of the of ficers of the British navy. "We have the advantage of constant consultations with Admiral Sims who attends pur daily staff conferences. We have American officers working in various sections of the British ad miralty on exactly the same footing as British officers. The co-operation between the two nations is as nearly complete as possible." Turning to the mercantile losses, Sir Eric said: "I having stated that the curve of the losses of merchant shipping con tinues downward. That statement i3 as true today as when previously made. The loss to the world's tonnage during February was little over half the loss in February last year. The loss for the five months ended in February is 10 per cent, less than the loss in the corresponding months the year previous, although during four months of the latter pe riod unrestricted submarine warfare had not been proclaimed by the en emy. If during the past five months the rate of loss had been maintained at the same rate as for the immediate preceding quarter, that is, the third quarter of last year, the world's ship ping would be 600,000 tons less than it is today." At this point the First Lord exhibit ed to the House a large diagram show ing the curve of the shipping losses. He then took up the question of ship building. "There is no lack of material in the yards today," said Sir Eric, "and there are more men in the yards, but the output only reached 58,000 tons in January. It should have been much larger. instead of a rise in ship production, we have a serious drop Why? The main fact is that owiug labor unrest and strike difficulties the men In the. yards are not working as if the life of the country depended on their exertions. "Our allies are making every effort to increase the production of ship, but there is no doubt a considerable time must elapse before the desired output is secured. "We had hoped that before the ond of the second quarter of this year the output of tonnage would overtake and pass the enemy's destruction. That is still possible, but only if we pull logeiner. "As to the destruction of German suDmarines, I have no reason to fie part from my opinion that the sub marine is held but not mastered. Snh marines are being destroyed in m creasing numbers and as our methods develop, the numbers will further in crease. There is a growing reluctance on the part of the German crews to pui to sea. The chances of a sni.mn rine returning from a voyage in the waters around England are one in four or one In five. For some months we Deneve we and the Americans 1 . mc oiuwag suumarmes as last as tney are built. "The efforts of the British navy and tne navies of its allies are being steadily developed and we and our allies are now able to devote more re sunk wm&"issmr vjmmmm j): ATE UP THE WINDOW. ViTUART PATON. like every other director, has -had experience of the manly looking, six-foot Apol lo, who has to have a double in a fight scene so that he will not get his face scratched up. It is his meal ticket and he will not have any more holes punched in it than he can help. So when he was introduced to Ashton Dearholt and told that he might have him to support Carmel Myers in "The Girl In the Dark," which is the name Ithe Bluebird is usinr for Charles Ed- mond Walk's popular novel, "The Green Seal," he gave him a chance to back out. "This role calls for three real stunts and they are some stunts, and must be done close up. I can't use a sub stitute. Are you game, Mr. Dearholt ? " "I eat them alive," replied Dearholt. i"The more stunts there are the bet- Iter I will like this job." The first stunt consisted of climb ing to the roof of a porch, kicking in a heavy latticed door, knocking out three Chinamen and rescuing the girl by taking her down the way he had come up. It was all carefully ex- Slained to Dearholt, and he said that e did not need a rehearsal. "All right," said Paton. "Shoot." . The climb to the roof just warmed the actor to his work, and when he came to the door he did not stop to kick it in as directed. He jumped right thru it and landed in the room in a shower of glass and splintered woodwork. "If there's anything left of that boy," panted Paton as he dashed up the stairs in alarm, "he'll get away with the rest of the stunts all right. He certainly does eat them up." TWO STAGE SUCCESSES. Two of New York's most success ful successes in a stage way are mak ing their appearance this week in the films. They are A. H. Woods' "The Guilty Man," and Maurice Maeter linck's "The Blue Bird." Both are said to be universally good. Thomas Inee produced the former and Maurice Tourneur the latter, which is an Easter offering. Since it was adopted 35,000 ships hava been convoyed with very low losses. "One result of the convoy system has been to drive the enemy closer to the shore, thus rendering the open sea safer for navigation. During the first months of the unrestricted sub marine war 50 per cent, of the losses occurred more than 50 miles from land and only 21 per cent, within 10 miles of the shore. Today, the losses out side the 50 mile line have fallen to one per cent, while the losses close to land, have risen to 61 per cent. "This transfer of attacks nearer the coast gives increasing opportunities for attacking the enemy by patrolling surface craft and airplanes and en ables us to save many vessels which would otherwise have been lost. The improved salvage arangements have made tremendous demands on lanor and materials. Repairs are today oc cupying more men than new mercan tile construction. The salving is so efficient that of all British armed ships damaged last year, only eight were abandoned." More Serious Than Is Realized. An Atlantic Port, March 6. The submarine warfare in the Mediterran ean is much more serious than Am erica realizes, according to Captain Sato Yamamoto, of the Japanese navy, recently attachd to this country's em bassy in Rome, who arrived here to day on an American ship from Eng- and. He said that the submarines oper ating there are mostly German, the U-boats being shipped In parts to riesta and there assembled and sent to sea. Since the Italians got help from England, France, Japan and America n fighting the U-boats," the Captain said, "we are getting them faster, but doubt whether we are getting them as fast as Germany is building them. During the month before I left Rome we got 15." Captain Yamamoto added that l& taly was rapidly recovering from the setback it received from the Ger mans. fL Blk Mi Pip Sate 593 ASHTON DEARHOLT 1 1 FILMS FOR THE CAMPS. At last a working agreement has been reached between the Commis sions on Training Camp Activities of the War and Navy Departments and the film industry which will enable the picture men to place at the disposal of the camps thousands of feet of the lat est and best photoplays produced by all the companies. The film men were always willing to give their film, but not through the channel which had blocked their patriotic impulses. Ray mond B. Fosdick, Chairman of the Commissions, has appointed by let ter, P, A. Powers, treasurer of the Universal, as chairman of a commit tee to co-operate in bringing thia about. And Mr. Powers will do it NO DRAFT OF F. LABOR tINTIL JULY 15 Farmer Boys May Begin Work at Home Under Gover nor's Assurance (Special to The Dispatch.) Ra-efgh, N. C . .Mprrh 6. Nd lurthc: diift of farm laborers will S3il beys to the training carc.v? ear or than July 15, Governor Bickett announced today, and thr'jigiout the iiep"-rt-mencs ic is regaraAhe gKeat-tsCi news o: vtv-ks. "I fcin gi'.in.? this opinion in order that farmers and farm labor ers may proceed to cultivate their crops upon the assurance that they will not be disturbed earlier than July f 15th, by which time crops will be laid by," Governor Bickett declares. Ho adds that colored men who were Halle to call In first draft are liable to be called any time. Prominent Men to Speak. Birmingham, Ala., March 6. The Southern Sociological Congress will meet in Birmingham, April 14 to 17, inclusive. Among those who will ap pear in the program are W. H. Taft, Samuel Gompers, W. J. Bryan, Henry Van Dyke; U. S. N., Col. C. U. Derek, French army medical corps, Sir Grim wood Meares and Jane Addams. Gov ernor Brough,- of Arkansas, the pres ident, will preside. Packers' Wage Cast Closes. Chicago, March 6. Closing argu ments of counsel were delivered today in the packers' wage controversy. An nouncement was made that the hear- ing would be concluded before the end of the day when Federal Judge Samuel Alshuler, the arbitrator, will take tb.3 case under advisement for decision ARM PROHIBITION PARTY IN UVELY CONVENTION ' i- . Much Speech Making and Fre quent Heckling Featured Second Day, Chicago. March 6. With the debate interrupted by frequent heckling dele gates at the 13th National Conven tion of the Prohibition Party today began the second day of the special session called to decide upon a mer ger with the new National Party, Ten minute speechse favoring the merger ended during the forenoon and the op position, which thus far has wen sev eral Ust clashes; opened its attack, led by Dr. Worrell, of Illinois. Yes terday Dr. Worrell Introduced a reso lution favoring the merger, provided none of the principles of the prohi bition party be sacrificed, but an nounced today he had changed his views. George Harger, of New York, favor ing the merger caused mild excite ment when he called Samuel Gompera, president of the American Federation of Labor, the most important member of President Wilson's cabinet, al though not really a member." Gompers' name was 'again mention ed by Burton Rockwood, Michigan State chairman, who said in connection with a rumor that the latJor head was to be a member of the National Party, tiat Gompers has fought bitterly the things the Prohibition Party has sought for fthe last 40 years " To permit the Prohibition Party del egates to attend the opening session of the National Party Convention, it was announced that the party's meet ing would be held late today. NOT jOJPTIMISTIC Some of Them Can't See Any Great Victory in the East Amsterdam, March 6. Despite or ders from the high command to the German people to beflag their wns and rejoice over peace with Russia, notes of doubt are not lacking In the German press In regard to the future in the East. The Vorwaerts says that Russian territory is not the place the Germans longed for or is German oc cupation calculated to endure. It adds: "We Bhould regard it as wiser and more far-seeing if the German gov ernment bad not exploited to the ut most the helpfulness of the Russian peoples and forced a peace for, which the only historical parallel s that which crushed Prussia was 6bliged to conclude at Tilsit in 1807. "The German Social Democracy must now take up the fight with the object of preventing the new neigh boring states from being treated by Germany as subjugated peoples." George Bernard, in The Vossischo Zeitung, confesses to uneasiness as to whether the same coalition which confronted Germany before war "and is now momentarily broken as a fighting organization," will not, af ter the war, re-constitute itself. He hopes that peace in the West, when it comes, will not show the same lack of imagination characterizing the Russian peace. Herr Bernhard soundly berates Dr Von Bethmann-Hollweg. the former Chancellor, regarding the German de mandr revealed by M. Pichon, the for eign minister, to be given Verdun and Toul. He declares it was a piece of stupendous folly which made the en try of Great Britain into the war in evitable. Austria's government In the act of tryine to hold its nolyglot Deo trie a to- ! gether recalls the negro's chameleon that was placed on a piece of Scotch plaid and "tlone bust hisse'f tryin' ter make good!" Chattanooga News. GERMAN NEWSPAPERS Advance S Greetings F: torn at tne Stop of Fine Wares tiONNET Conservative Progress i MAJOR PETERSON IS NOT, IN COURT (Special to The'TiUspatcb.) Ralegih, March 6.-4Judge Stacy, holding regular term JOf court here . - - . i, : L. Peterson, of Camp Sevier, who "b cuiww late hour his attorneys are be?ging juugc ouiw - "" uDi-i forfeit the $10,000 for Peterson'? ap pearance. WARANT AGAINST A FRENCH BUYER Washington, March 6. On a war rant sworn out by Counselor Ber geron, of the French embassy, charg ing larceny of from $3,500,000 to $6,000,000 from the French govern ment by means of truck and automo bile contracts, Frank J. Goldsall, for merly a private in the French army, was arrested here today, and the Fed eral authorities were asked to return him to France. POLICE INVESTIGATE DEATH OF INNES Baltimore, March 6. Investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of the man thought by the po lice to be Captain Alexander Innes of the United States Army, whose body was found in' his room at a West Fayette street hotel here last nighr, was continued by the authorities to ddy. The police are hunting for the woman who was with the man when he registered at the hotel last Sat urday as "A. Hamilton and wife." She disappeared about two hour3 be fore the discovery of the body. While the coroner has decided the man's death was due to natural causes, the police are anxious to question the woman. A passbook of a savings bank ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY Statement of Revenues and Expenses Month of Januarv - iftia 1917 l9l! Onaratlnir Revannno ODeratine ExDenaes Net Operating Revenues Deduct Taxes ... Operating Income The C. W. Polvogt House Furnishings Arrival of New Floor Coverings DELTOX AND CREX RUGS in all sizes suit able for Dining rooms, Bed rooms, Halls and Offices. WALL PAPER suitable for any room in the House will be found in our stock. WE MAKE AWNINGS for Homes Stores. Let us give you an estimate. prmg the Season s Disnlcin at Hampton, Va.. and two unifoims "crc luuiiu aiiiung nis ettects. xuC puic uuuk. ne was station m amp lueaae. 'I'll I o fnvan rvi-n K t i HvoW irl ort rA .-. U . ' luunucu as mat, or taptaiu Id- . sa'u iuues was auacriecl to the in? is lery school at Fortress ,was unmarried and formerly he enlisted in the Regular Armv -.' was a top sergeant when thf w. 17 if h flormoTT irmn 1 i which time his promotion had m rapid GERMANS INCREASE WESTERN ARMIES London, March 6. The Germans sn still adding to the number of the:: divisions on the western front. Gen eral F. B. Murice, cnief director o; ri'litary operations at the war oiliop, decifiied in his weekly laLi witli the Aof ociatde Press. The Germans now hove sixteen divisions more thai th; ta'iof In the west, he saiJ, !iut tto did r.ot mean that they were in sn feiioi strength as the alliea ibblm were numerically lars:?r. Application Approved. Washington, March 6. The Inter state Commerce Commission twh? tentatively approved an application by the Merchaals and Miners Steams, Line for increased class and cot n caity rates between Baltimore at F.j.'adelphla and Savannah, Ga., as: Jacksonville, Fla. Another Request. Washington. March 6.-The sitia tion in Eastern ship yards as it t fects the wool working trade awt ed the outcome of another request tc President Wilson trjat .the carpenw be given representation on the wM adjustment committee m sni; ing disputes. A 010 ftCK (17 9 71fi 4QQ fiS 3.075.051 2 uo 4RS S8 2.2 4 4.041.83 1,974,211' 1,264,516.49 1,466,457.85 l,100 8lj 190,000.00 180,000.00 16 1,074,51 6.49 1,2 8 6,4 5 7.85 937,851 il Phone 67$ 16 So. Front sources to the Mediterranean. 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