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BiiPMrai WEATHER. North and South Caro lina: Cloudy, Probably local showers tonight and Saturday, some- HOME EDITION VOL. XXIV. NO. 121 WILMINGTON; NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 1 0, 1 9 1 8: FIVE CENTS . EIGHT 26 MMED ASRESULTOF COACH JUMPING: A TRESTLE The Troops Were on Their Way to Camp Sevier. FROM THE CAROUNAS Victims Were Members 321st Infantry, From Carolinas and Tennessee. EIGHTY MEN IN THE CAR i Steel Coach Jumped Track, Hurling Light Wooden Car Down Embankment Shal lotte Man Injured. Columbia. S. C, May 10. Five sol diers were killed outright, two were s badly injured that they died en route to the base hospital, four wero very seriously injured and eighteen more or less seriously injured when a wooden passenger coach, loaded with soldiers of the 321st infantry and the Zl 7th machine gun company, jumped a trestle at Camp Jackson this morn ing. The soldiers had just entrained for Camp Sevier, at Greenville, and the train was pulling out of the camp at a very low rate oi speed. As It approached the trestle a big steel coach struck a spreading rail. Thl3 hurled the wooden car immediately in front down the embankment. The front part of the steel coach jumped the track but the car di dnot turn ever. The wooden coach was badly demolished and it is considered miraculous that any of the 80 men In it escaped alive. The hospital train at the camp. was called out immediately after . the v.rech. una in en uiiuu.yso .mw men had been removed and thk In- inred tfere in the base hospital t Mffitary . authorities at tte&xeZXtM announced ed that a .statemr beastvinlautrx, Rv F. D. No; 3. issued at the earliest minute ."possible giving the names of the dead and the injured and their home: addresses. A Boldier coming into,, the city ; told of the wreck. He was standing it the quartermaster's depot when, he heard the crash Qf the falling cart. Calling some officers, he hurried over to the place and was appalled at the spectacle. The soldier had seen the train pulling out and says that it was proceeding slowly. The light coaches, he ; said, were crushed like cigar boxes. He had no idea that coaches could be so com pletely "crumbled. He hid no idea of the extent of fatalities, but saw. at a glance that there were many in jured and perhaps many dead. The men in the coaches were mem bers of the 321st regiment, made up almost entirely of North Carolinians and South Carolinians. They had en . trained on their way to Camp Sevier, at Greenville. 10 C1EUP LATER Postponement of Considera tion of the Measure Form ally Announced. Washington, May 10 Formal an nouncement ofthe definite postpone ment of consideration of the women's suffrage resolution was made in the senate todafhy Senator Jones, of Mexico, chairman of the woman suffrage committee. As soon as suf cient vftes can be obtained to in ure its adoption, he said, the meas- 'win be taken upr Senator Smith, of Georgia, said Jjen women in his state desired suf re a constitutional amendment atn Lnot be necessary to get it. Sen n. I vln' ma3nty leader, said he mm a slad to 8ee the Question sub adrt .t0 a referendum in Virginia, ung that when a 'majority,of white win V1 ln Vireinia desire to' vote," he e in favor of eivine it to them. Senator Curtis nf Vonooo naoortiul that two-thirds of th rftnuhlicans arc - , ui tiic icli ready tn AJ ,, Thirty . " '"LC. ujr "me- ODTmo vote for the amendment, 11 and one is doubtful, enator Reed, of Missouri, insisted . ui.e today, as did Senator flfll- -r, minority leader, An Important Qaln. ,klth the. Rritiov. a . fay 10.-The .riny m jpranc, the Britiei, operations by which assault Tt, ie5dmea m a counter north nf A6.Bma11 porton of trench 3ad cant,,; ?ert' v'llich the Germans ne, wS; ?d yesterday. while a small ?8tion iPrta-, The, position in L? Mgh groWd' AiberL Ds Bt-ormed their way into j uie r. wiMicu ever Hinci SUF1GE RESOLUTION WRECK VICTIMS. Following is the official list of the dead and injured in the train dreck at Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C, this morning: I -J ' -DEAD. ; Private Edgar Simmons, Com pany K, 3:21st Infantry; father, William E. Simmons, Patmos, Ark. Private Philetus C. Swann, Co. K, 321st infantry; mother, Mrs.1 Ninna Swan, 101-2 North Pack Square, Asheville, N. C. Private Marion O. Hawkins, Company K, 321st infantry; fath er, S. A. Hawkins, R. F. D., No. 2, Marion, N. C. Private William E. Lowery, Co. K, 321st infantry; father, Samuel Lowery, Alta Pass, N. C. Private Jesse Reno, Co. I, 321st Infantry; father, Tom Reno, Sod dy,.Tenn. Private Andrew Scoggins, sup ply company, 321st infantry; father, Arch Scoggins, R. F. D., No; 1, Coltewah, Tenn. Private James L. Leatherwood, Co. X, 321st infantry; brother, Thunnan I ,Leatherwood Waynesville, N. C. Private Benton Goolsby, Co A.,"" 321st infantry; father, John Goolsby, Pauls Valley, Tenn. THE INJURED. Private Dewey Kilpatrick, Co. I, 321st infantry; home address AshevUle, N. C, 19 Silver street; slightly injured. Private Richard Gray, Co. F, 321st Infantry, R. F. D., No. 2, Shallotte, N. C; slightly injured. Private Chester SIrcy, Co, I, 321st infantry; Defeated, Tenn.; seriously Jnjured. .Prlvata Robert C. Rogan, Co. N, 321st istfntry, Othello K. C.;: senouBly Injured, Candler, N. C; seriously injured. Private Hugh Aldrldge, Co. G, . 221st infantry, Baldwin, Miss.; slightly injured. Private Ritvt A. Moore, head quarters company, -321st infantry, Trio, S. C; slightly injured; em ergency address, J. M. Moore, Clio, S. C. Private Roscoe Braswell, Co. M., 321st infantry, Montesuma, N. C, slightly injured, f Private Willie South, Co. K, 321st infantry, Ashland City, Tenn., slightly injured. Private Lonnie E. High, Co. G, 321st infantry, Whiteville, N. C, slightly injured. Private John E. Hyatt, Co. L, 321st infantry, Weaverville, N. C, slightly injured. Private William Ledford, Co. L, 321st infantry, Almond, N. C, slightly injured. Corporal Thomas I. Fitzgerald, Co. E, 321st infantry, R. F. D. No. 1, Trenton, Tenn. Corporal Leftwich P. Ramsey, Company I, 321st infantry, Ashe ville, N. C, 141 Woodfin street; slightly injured. Private Andrew Shoulders, Co. I, 321st infantry, Dierks, Ark., slightly Injured. Private Elsie McKinley Henry, Co. L, 321st Infantry, Willets, N. C, slightly injured. Private John W. Frost, Co. A, 322nd infantry, Gillikin, N. C; slightly injured. ' Private George W, Stokes, Co. F, 321st infantry, R, F. D. No. 3, Louisville, Miss.; slightly injured. Private George S. Thomson, Co. I, 321st infantry. R. P. D. No. 1, Swayney, N. C, seriously injured. Emergency address,. Supt. Chero kee Indian school, Ela, N. C. Corporal Franklin P. Poindex ter, Co. C, 32lst infantry, Moon ville, N. C, seriously injured. Corporal Charles M. Deal, Co. C, 321st Infantry, home address, 719 Ninth avenue, Hickory, N. C. ; slightly injured. Cook Jacob M. L. Kluttz, Co. C, 32lst infantry, East Spencer, N. C, slightly injured. Private John W. Rook, Co. G, 321st infantry, Bethel, N. C; mother, Mrs. Stanley Brown, Rob insonville, N. C; slightly injured. Private William A. Brown, Co. H, 321st infantry, Ramseur," N. C. ; slightly injured. Private Robert S. Harris; Co. C, 321st infantry, 640 Sunset avenue, Rocky Mount, N. C; slightly In jured. Private William J. McKinnon, Co. H, 321st infantry, R. F. D. No. l. Henderson, Tenn., slightly .irijured. Vacations on the Farm. Washington, May 10. Government employes who have 30 days leave dur ing the year are beingasked by the federal, employment service to spend their vacations working on farms. A farmii?T reserve" has been organized iarmu'A r to assf. 'rrners in Maryland 1 Virginia. IW HOME CO. i0;SMr Annmrn ia s 1 w r uimr irn Hill. IIUUI I tmW rV - Initial I .ting of Directors ;rJdatNoon. TO APPLY FOR CHARTER Capital Stock of Million Dol lars Authorized One Quarter Subscribed. STOCK WORTH $100 PAR Various Committees Named , at Today's Meeting Get ting Ready For Actual Building Operations. The naming of committees to look after the various phases of the work Planned featured the initial meeting of the directorate of the Victory Home company, the city's, million dollar house building corporation, held at noon today at the court hm.. The meeting was presided over by J. A. Taylor as temporary chairman. Roger Moore was named as secretary. One of the first actions taken was to strike from the board of directors the names of those elected at the initial mass meeting of Tuesday but who have not , as yet subscried for stock in the company, all agreeing that one could not be a director with out owning stock. There were seven ofj these names to go off the list, leaving the directorate number 2y. The name of the corporation was quickly decided upon. Two or three names were suggested, including the Liberty company, the Victory ' Build- fnc- r.TV,rvQr,,r A . - , " t fin the name, but the majority were agreed that the name should be as short and significant as possible and the name Victory Home company was aaoptea. The authorized capital stock will be $1,000,000, a quarter of this having already been subscribed for. A charter will be applied for at once and will probably be received back by Wednesday of next week. The next meeting of the board will be called by the chairman and sub scribers for stock will be asked to waive their rights and allow the meeting to be held two days after called. This action is taken because time is one of the chief essentials in the undertaking if It is to be suc cessful. This will not take any priv ileges from any one but will greatly hasten actual building operations. The committee appointed to apply for the charter and draft skeleton ized by-laws is composed of Marsden Bellamy, T. W. Cooper, J. B. Rice, J. A. Taylor, C. C. Chadbourn, Roger Moore and W. D. MacMillan, Jr. The advisability of starting with an au thorized capital stock of half a mil lion was discussed, with the under standing that it would be later in creased to a million but action of this nature was not taken, the board not caring to lend-the impression that the project was' of a "pike's" nature. Another committee composed of Dave Chadwick, C. C. Chadbourn and J. O. Reilly was appointed to gather information and report with sugges tions and recommendations as to the nature of houses that will be builded. No effort will be made at this time to determine the location of the prop erty that is to be acquired for these houses. Another commitee, compos ed of Roger Moore, Louis Shrier, C. C. Chadbourn, Dave Chadwick, J. O. Reilly and W. D. MacMillan, Jr., was named to handle the subscription blanks. This committee will name other committees from the board of directors and in this manner the sub scription blanks can be completed in a very short while. The par value of the stock is to be $100 per share and a call will be made for 25 per cent of one s subscription when organization Is completed. Just when and how the remaining 75 per cent will be called for has not been determined as yet, but "will be made public a little later. The houses to be builded are to be rented or sold, the object being to sell as rapidly as they are completed. The question of setting aside a block of the stock to be taken in $10 shares by the ones unable to invest in a more substan tial manner was decided against. This, however, will not keep the smaller man out for in all probabil ity an arrangement will be made per- Tnitinsr him to buy one or more shares on the installment plan, the stock to be turned over to him when it is paid for. Hoke Smith on Military. Washington, May 10. Senator Smith of flanrda has heen. annotated a member of the senate .military cdroH mittee. the membership of which .was increased from 17 to 19. SenatorV iKnox Is the other txbm member. British and French Have Rees tablished Their Lines. SOME LOCAL FIGHTING . .. . .. . .-. . Raiding Parties Sent Out by Opposing Armies and Ar ;.. tillery is Active. HEAVY HU N LOSSES Enemy Attacks , in Last Few Days Have Proven Costly Better Weather Condi tions Airmen Busy. British and French troops south west of Ypres, having firmly re-estab lished the line attacked"' on Wednes day, are awaiting the next move by the Germans in their efforts to drive through behind Ypres. The latest re pulse was the second the Germans have suffered "along the VoVormezele Locre line since the capture of Mont Kemmel, but further attempts by the enemy are expected. Attention is being paid by the Ger mans to the British line north of the Somme in Picardy, and for the first time in several weeks the enemy again has attempted to advance his lines west of Albert. In a local at- ktack against the British, after suf fering heavy losses, the Germans have captured 160 yards of the first British line, but were repulsed elsewhere. A similar local operation at Bouzincourt, north of Albert, was smashed by the fire of British rifles and machine guns. Elsewhere along the Flanders and Somme battlefields, only the ar tillery has been active. Paris reports violent firing in the sector north of Montdidier to (Hailles. Latest reports, indicate the German effort in the north was to have been In great strength, but that the Brit ish artillery' on the ejast and a French If afitry attack and Jbarrage on -' the DTOM. ,W U1B enemy ' UIVMSlUnS ff" ZUrvnm on the scant five miles between Voonne- zeele and-LaClytte. After much heavy fighting these troops had gained noth ing and had sustained heavy losses. Berlin reports the capture of 675 Anglo-French troops in suudcessful at tacks. 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 taken advantage of the change from rainy conditions to drop many tons of bombs on important railway and concentration centers be hind the German lines. In air fight ing British aviators have accounted for 29 German machines, 22 of which were destroyed. One enemy airplane was brought down by rfle fire. . Rostov-On-The-Don, the largest city in the Don Cossack territory, and near the mouth of the Don river, has b4en occupied by the Germans. "Premier Lloyd-George and his gov ernment have passed successfully an other situation which threatened to provoke a crisis and the probable re tirement of the ministry. The gov ernment won in the house of com mons when the members, by a vote of 293 to 106, refused to accept the motion of the former Premier As quith that a select committee investi gate the charges made by Major Gen eral Maurice. The premier addressed the house and denied that he or any other minister had misled the public as to the status of the British army as charged by the former chief direc tor of military operations at the war office. PUBLICITY TURNED ON THE ACTIVITIES OF GUTZON BORGLUM Washintgon, May 10. The flood -light of publicity was turn ed today upon the activities of Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, while he was investigating the aircraft production situation as the personal agent of President Wilson. Letters, telegrams and sworn statements placed in the hands of senators from the official files of the war department show that Borglum's . own inventions failed of test and that while acting as the president's agent, he carried on negotiations for the formation of an aircraft corporation In. which he was to be a Silent part ner, and which, the statemeht de clares, was to have special ad vantages because of Borglum's association and friendship with the president. ' GIVE SECOND TREATMENT MONDAY MORNING NEXT. Wrightsboro school pupils who have taken the first treatment of anti typhoid vaccine .are advised, to meet - P - Arnold Rtovall. county psician at -the ' school ,Mouday. -morning when tne second treatment will be adminls- House of Commons Voting 293 to 106 Sustains Ministry STRATEGY OF PREMIER Lloyd-George Again Showed Himself a Strong Pleader of His Cause. VICTORY WAS DECISIVE Cabinet Changed Tactics and Successfully Met the Crisis Brought on by General Maurice's Charges. London, May 10. The quick and successful manner in which the Lloyd-Georgie ministry in the jhouse of commons dealt with an unpleasant Incident which had caused more po litical bitterness than any preceding chapter of this troubled administra-" Hon, was brought about by a sudden change of tactics on the part of the cabinet. Premier Lloyd-George again show ed himself a keen political strategist and a strong pleader for his own cause. He withdrew the cabinet's plan for a court of honor to deal with the .charges of Major General Mau rice which Andrew Bonar-Law on Tuesday said concerned the honor of the ministers. The premier made it clear that adoption of former Premier Ausquith's motion for a select com mittee would be regarded as vote of censure which would be followed by the government's resignation Mr. Lloyd-George detailed in a burning speech his version of the controversy which Major General Maurice began. The debate was brief and the premier's explanation was its dominating feature. .- The cabinet rode safely over the crisis by a vote of 233 to 10. The malority was even larger than, news papers had predicted, aodjahof that the -hoqse of commons t least teax&tt foi a change ot government, which v w osild hae been the result of adopt-hg-Mr. Asquith's proposal. Former 'Premier Asqufth's speech was short. He - expressed surprise that the government would tike his motion for investigation by a com r'Htee as a vote of censure and he had the house with, him when he re- Ibuked Chancellor Bonar-Law for as- A a iv-i i j i. in serting LUitt liieiuuei s tuuiu uui uo found who would give a nonpartisan udgment. The principal point of the premier's defense was that the disputed state ments had been based on Information furnished by Major General Maurice's department of the war office and that Major General Maurice never had daily conferences with the cabinet. He said that General Maurice had ceased to hold office "for good or bad reasons." EARL CURZON IN A PESSIMISTIC MOOD London, May 10. Speaking to the Primrose . League today, Earl Curzon, government leader in the house of lords and member of the British war counsel, said that grave times were ahead and that the British soldierB might have to give ground. Encour agement was to be found, however, he said, in the unity of command, in America s effort and in the resolute ir.dominable spirit of the British peo ple DESERTER'S FATE IN HANDS OF PRESIDENT , Washington, May 10. The , case of a soldier in 'the American expedition ary " forces condemned , to death -for deserting in the face of the - enemy Iwas sent ,to President Wilson today for final acion. The records of the trial were careully reviewed by the judge advocate general's office to make certain that every step taken had been ln legal order. The president recently commuted the death sentences of two soldiers convicted-tfor sleeping at their posts and of two others who ' disobeyed gt ders. Chaplain Franz J. Feinler, who was sent1 back from France by General Pershing, and afterwards was sta tioned in Hawaii, has been sentenced to a long term of imprisonment . on charges of disloyalty. His case was -jceived ' at the war department to day for review. , NINE DOGS ARE BEING DETAINED AT THE POUND Nine tiogs, Including one valuable bird dog, whose lease on life expires tonight, and which pound officials dis like very much to execute ,are being Retained at the pound and owners of missing dogs are advised to Inspect the assembled lot at the city sta bles before the axe of the execution er has fallen. The bird dog referred to is ' an intelligent animal and pound officials, heartless-4 as many ; imagine them, would like .very much to .see him reclaimed during the af ternoonj W&S'E. A T OSfENB IS COMPLETLEY v.. , x , - Peace Offensive Directed To ward President Wilson failed A PERFIDIOUS O F F E R Hertling Sent Emissary to Prof. Heron, a Friend of President GOT COLD RECEPTION The Proposition Submitted by Germany's Agent Was Turned Down Ignomini ously by the Professor. London, May 10. A story of how an attempted German peace offensive directed toward President Wilson was turned lown ignominiously by Prof. Heron, an American living in Geneva, is told by the Swiss correspondent of The Daily Mail in his dispatch dated at Ahnemasse, on the Franco-Swiss frontier. Prof. Heron is described as a friend of President Wilson. The German government, according to the correspondent, tried to get peace offers sent to h.e president through Prof. Heron, who was visited on April 19 by Prof. Quidde, of Mu nich, a friend of Count von Hertllng, the imperial German chancellor. Prof. Quidde was accompanies by the Dutch pacifist, Dr. Jong Van Beek. Prof. Quidde said he had come to prepare the way for a merciful peace and gave Prof. Heron to understand that he spoke .for Chancellor von Hertling, and the. German foreign of fice." He assured the American pro fessor that the peace party in the reichstag was about to gain predomi- nance in Germany- and ; that he wisk-i ea io prepare . tresiaent wrison to . wermany; rror. 14 maqe saw, was willing to make he following termf : First. . To stfant autonomy to Al sace-Lorraine within the limits of the German empire, provided the allies would not broach the subject of Alsace-Lorraine at the peace confer ence. , Second. The Brest-Litovsk peace treaties not to be discussed at the peace conference, although the allies might submit claims for the revision of them and Germany might make cer tain concessions. Third. No economic war against Germany after the war. Fourth. German colonies to be re stored. Prof. Quidde asserted that the pres ent offensive in France had the ultl-, mate objective of achieving a dura ble peace. Prof. Heron, The Dally Mail's cor respondent, writes, after listening to the German educator, exclaimed: "I wonder that you have the, ef frontery to ask me to lay such a rig- amarole of a cant deceit before the American people. Far from creating a spirit of conciliation it would sim ply strengthen the American will to smash, the perfidious' and nerarious of ferer of such proposals. "The Unted States Intends to con tinue the fighting until the PPrussian military power and, if necessary, the Prussian state along wtt, JV-is ex" tingulshed forever ,as a power for evil, whether it takes one year or ten. "If you call the. remorseless sacri fice of two million men a peace of fensive and if you want the United States to recognize your Shelling o Parisian congregations and churches as a part of it, you are making a monstrous and foolish blunder. "When I listen to your false and treacherous overtures I feel ashamed of humanity," Prof :s Ludwig Quidde was a delegate dent, left the house weeping. The next w$ek Prof. Heron was besieged by new offers by telephone, one of the speakers saying he was Dr. W. S. Solf, German colonial minister. Prof. Heron talked straight to all of them, telling them, among other things, that "the. United States no longer wants peace. It wants to sweep out the Aegean sables of. Potsdam." Prof. Heron, the dispatch adds, told the story to the correspondent and laughed triumphantly. Be said. he be lieved the Germans were at last con vinced that the United States intends to stay in the war until its righteous objects are achieved. - r The Professor , Quidde referred to j the " Russian Bolshevik! government, above Is probably Prof. Ludwig; in the high court yesterday was seri Quidde, a historian of the University tenced to five years penal servitude of Munich in the Bavarian capital. -under the defense of the realm act. German -Chancellor von Hertling is a 1 Bavarian and was formerly Bavarian prime' minister. - , Prof. Ludwig Quidde ws a delegate to the twentieth universal peace con ference at The Haeue in j the fall of 1Q13 Tn iwArfnv hafnre h.t rnnfon. I ence a: proposaj ; for gradual disarm- ! ment, Prof. Quidde severely Tilamed Germany for the Increase In arma ments in Europe:" He waid that there would have been increase, by France, but for the "action of Germany. BLOCKED British Naval Forces Mads 5uccessful Raid Lasi Night VINDICTIVE, WAS SUNK Obsolete Cruiser Filled WitK Concrete Sunk Across , Entrance. i' THE CASUALTIES LIGHT British Force Returned With the Loss of Only One Motor Launch? and Small Number of Men. Great Britain's naval triumph of April 23 at Zeebrugge when this im portant German submarine base on the Belgian coasty was: apparently blocked by the sinking of concrete laden ships during a daring raid, has been virtuallyy duplicated at Ostend, another valuable base for the U-boats just to the east. The feat was ac complished by the sinking last night of the old cruiser Vindictive, likewise filled with concrete, across the entrance to Ostend harbor. Ostend was originally attacked for this purpose at the same time as was Zeebrugge, but the blocking vessel sent in there were turned slightly off their course and the success was not equal to that attained at Zeebrugge. The operations begun -with a view to closing these two ports, the admiralty announces, have now been "success fululy completed." r The Importance of the blocking op erations lies in the fact that if they have been as successful as is be lieved, and the Germans have 'been, deprived of both their Belgian bases, they will now be forced to. revert, ; for some time at least, to their home ports as starting and returning points for their undersea raiders. Their -craft would therefore have to tra ,"H verse far longer, more difficult and more dangerous routes to "attain their cruising grounds with the consequent increase bywnany times "of ;tba chances pf tae& being iurfi backer destroyed. . -A - .OfRefar Report - marine base of "Ostend, on the Bel gian coast, "has been blocked as a re suit of a new raid by the Britisbrna' val forces, the admiralty announces. The obsolete cruiser Vindictive, filled -with concrete, has been sunk across the entrance to the harbor. - The announcement 'follows : "Operations designed to close the; ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge were;, successfully completed- last nigfttl when the obsolete cruiser Vindictive; j? was sunk between the prers and .' across the entrance to Ostend harbor.; "Our light forces, have returned to ! their base with the loss of one mo- tor launch which had been damaged: and was sunk by orders of the vice) admiral to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy. "Our casualties were light." , Apparently the British have carriect1 out another raid on the German aub-; marine base on the Belgian coast sim' ilar to the one on April 23, when: so much damage was done to the har bor and works at Zeebrugge. In the raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend On April 23 the light cruiser Vindictive landed British storming parties on the mole at Zeebrugge, the attack ers doing considerable damage to the mole after storming German batteries. Commander Alfred Carpenter was pro moted to be captain for bravery In ac tion. The Vindictive was damage v v, I sefjly in the action at Zeebruggl 3 The .Vindictive was built at Chat- ' ) ham in 1897. She displaced 5,7501 ,. tons and her complement was ; j men. Decision Reached Some Time Ago. Dover, Eng., May 10. The decision to send 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. . ' ' t In the joint raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend, this latest British naval e. plolt was kept a well guarded secret; As an evidence of this, it is recalled that alter the battle-scarred cruiser returned from Zeebrugge an urgent : request was made that she " be sent up the Thames to London tor. public view. The authorities did t encour age the proposal, however - and the agitation subsided. All the time the old vessel was being overhauled for her last voyage. ' Russian Consul Sentenced. ' 1 Edinburg, May 10. For making' speeches prejudicial : to recruiting. John MacLean, consul in Glasgow of The evidence showed that -'MacLean publicly had urged working men to break all laws and to replace parlia- after the Russian Soviets: 1 ' :' ; - Rumanian Parliament Dlto4vll. - Amsterdam, May . 10-Th Human- Ian parliament nas Deen ciisoivefl Dr - royal, decree, accordingr'to "a Ulspatch, from Bucharest. wewveiectiOHS'have been, ordered and the newarliaiaeaV wlll convene on June 17 - ,; , j 1 1 j. 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