St. John's Daily Star, 1917-10-22

              The St. John's Daily Star  5 afottifotmdland 70LUME lIL ($3.00 per Annum)] MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1917. On^O&nt) No. 242. LONDON RAIDED ATTACK'S CONVOY. I TWO DESTROYERS SUNK IN ATTEMPT SAVE MERCHANT SHIPS RUSSIAN FLEET IS RETIRING FRENCH DESTROY FOUR ZEPPS. OR RETURN VOYAGE British Destroyers Sunk By Huns In The North Sea Two British Destroyers Gave Battle To Heavily- Armed German Cruisers BOTH SUNK WITH HEAVY CASUALTIES BUT MERCHANT SHIPS ESCAPED LONDON, Oct. 21—Two German raiders attacked a convoy in the North Sea on Wednesday and sank two British escorting destroyers, it was announced officially by the British War Office. The text of the Admiralty statement reads: Two very fast and heavily armed German raiders attacked a convoy in the North Sea about midway between the Shetland Islands and the Norwegian Coast on Wednesday. Two British destroyers, the Mary Rose, Lt Commander Chas. Fox, and the Strong Bow, Lt. Commander Edward Brooke, fought till they were sunk after a short and unequal engagement. Their gallant action held the German raiders sufficiently long to enable three merchant ships to effect their escape.Anxious to make good their escape before British forces could intercept, no effort was made to rescue the crews of the sunken Britishers; but British patrol craft which arrived shortly afterwards, rescued 30, Norwegian and others, regarding whom details are not yet known. The German Navy by this act has further degraded itself by disregard of historic chivalry of the sea. g^IlL The German official report  subject states that the attack took place within territorial waters m the neighborhoodneighborhood of the Shedand Islands, and that all the escort vessels, including the destroyers, were sunk, with the exception of one escort fishing steamer. The statement as to the locality of attack is untrue, as also is the statement regarding the destruction of escort ships. It is regretted that 86 officers and men of the Mary Rose and 47 officers and men of the Strong Bow were lost. Reached Bergen London, Oct. 21.—Ten of the crew of the British destroyer Mary Rose, probably the only survivors, have reach ed Bergen, according to a Reuter despatch from Christiania. They will not be interned, as they were saved by a Norwegian life boat while clinging to two buoys. German Version Berlin, Oct. 21.—The Admiralty statement reads: On Wednesday light German forces in the northern part of the North Sea, within territorial waters in the neighborhood of the Shetland Islands, attacked a convoy from Norway to England, consisting of 13 ships, including in the way of protection two modern destroyers G. 29 and G3l. All ships of the convoy and protection vessels, including destroyers, were destroyed, with the exception of one escorting fishing steamer. Our fighting forces sustained no damage. ALLIES HOLD GAINS NEAR YPRES-German attacks astride the railway north of Poelcapelle (1) and east of Broodseinde (2) broke down. SURVIVORS TELL HARROWING TALES Germans Shelled Open Boats and Steamer Even After the Crew / Had Surrendered. fHRISTIANIA, Oct. 22.—A despatch from Bergen says that several survivors of the German raiders attack in the North Sea arrived there Friday night and related harrowing stories of their two days sufferings and privations in small boats before landing. The captain of one of the Norwegian steamers, the sole survivor of that vessel, said that he ordered his crew into the boats, but the Germans began firing immediately after the boats were lowered, and a shell hit one and killed nine men. The crew in despair returned to the steamer and signalled to the Germans to cease firing, but their appeal was not heeded. The bridge was then hit and knocked overboard with the captain and rest of the crew. The captain managed to save himself by swimming to a raft, and he was picked up two hours later by a boat from one of the other sunken steamers.FRENCH CAPTURE UNINJURED ZEPP. esse: Eight Zeppelins Appeared Over France —One Captured Absolutely Intact —Four Others Destroyed pARIS, OCT. 22—There were eight Zeppelins in the raid over France Friday night and Saturday morning. According to latest accounts opinions differ as to whether all of the dirigibles belonged to the same group or whether part of the number were returning from a raid on England, and the others had crossed the Alsatian frontier from Germany and were making for Lyons and other points in Cen, tral France. A Zeppelin brought down at Bourborne was compeled to land by five battle planes on an escadrille; all the battle planes came down at the same time and rushed to the crew of the Zeppelin, thereby preventing the destruction of the airship, and making all the members of the crew prisoners. /This dirigible is absolutely intact. The Zeppelin brought down at Sizteron in the Lower Alps was burned by its crew, all of whom were escorted to Laragne; the one shot down at St. Clement in the Department of Heurtheet, Moselle, met its fate at the hands of a section of the aircraft artillery. Another airship was sighted at two o'clock in the afternoon. It was .pursued by a battleplane and disappeared over the Mediterranean. When last seen, the Zeppelin appear - have been lost at sea. The Zeppelin : which landed near Largarne, leaving - fifteen members of it* crew t and one of its can, and tak> ing the air again with four members - of its crew, has not been heard from since, and is supposed to have been r lo*t somewhere in the Alps. Two > | were_-seea - flying — *wex- Gap late in the afternoon, and another in the evening, in the region.of Lon* le Sauaieck ZEPPS. AGAIN VISIT LONDON Moon Had Set and Nobody Expected or Saw Anything of Raider— Only a Few Bombs Dropped on London. CRITICISM BY "EVENING NEWS" |ONDON, Oct. 21.—Artec an interval of 12 months, London last night experienced another Zeppelin raid. Nobody saw the raider, which flew at a great height and dropped only one bomb on London and a few missiles in outlying districts. The people, who had been given an early warning of approaching aircraft, had leit their shelters and were going home when the bomb fell from an unseen and unheard airship, breaking many plate glass windows. The sound of the bomb was unlike anything in previous raids, it was less shrill and heavier. - The Evening News, commenting on the raid, says: Last night another of our fond delusions, due, we suppose, to the phlegmatic perversity of our national character, was shattered. Statements from authoritative quarters made at various times had led us to believe the airship menace had been mastered. How far this is from being the case is .shown by the official report. It may be pointed out that the moon set at eight minutes past seven, it seems, therefore, that the moon is not the factor in German calculations, which most people supposed. The silent raid is the name given to the Zeppelin's visit to London last night. Many Londoners awakened this morning with a feeling that there was a good deal to say for the official view against the warning of night air raids. Although the warning was given early in the evening the people, after waiting hours for the sound of gunfiring, went to bed believing the raiders had been interrupted. Suddenly two loud reports startled light sleepers, but as nothing followed the majority thought it merely was firing of antiaircraft guns in distant districts. FRENCH DOWNED FOUR ZEPPELINS Eleven Zepps Pass Oyer France From Raid On England, and Four Are Brought Down. JONDON, Oct. 21.—Renter's correspondent at British headquarters in France telegraphs that the four Zeppelins brought down in France, were the ones that had taken part in a raid on England last night. It is believed, say the correspondent, that a fifth was destroyed. The text of the despatch says: A fleet of Zeppelins returning from England was routed by French air defences last night. 'Four of them were brought down, all being forced to land in France. It is believed a fifth was destroyed. There were eleven Zeppelins in the original group that appeared' over French territory. Later they scattered over various parts of the country, when attacked, after a general warning was sent out. They dropped no bombs in France. The first Zeppelin was brought down by artillery at St. Clement, the second was forced down by an aviator near Bourbonne les Banes, the third was forced down at Laragne near Sisteron, the crew of four officers and 15 men were taken prisoners after they had been burned; the fourth was brought down in the same region about 2 p. m. The fifth and sixth airships were reported passing above the gap, and were out of control. The seventh landed at Montigny le Rei, debarked its wounded officers, threw out its ballast, and then departed. It was chased by an aviator in hot flight, and later was sighted together with the eighth, and escaped. In its comment the Matin says the German airplane fleet experienced the most complete disaster it ever met. Dawn was chosen for the attempt, as the mist from the valleys hide them. Russians Leave Moon Sound Berlin, Oct. 21.—Russian naval forces which were behind Moon Sound after an engagement last week with a German squadron in the Gulf of Riga, has left Moon Island and are sailing in a northernly direction, it was officially announced by the German War Office. • ■ — Liberal from Nova Scotia. Ottawa, Oct. 21.—1t is believed tonight that Sir Robert Borden will tomorrow have a representative of the Liberals of Nova Scotia in his Union Government, in the person of A. K. Mac Lean, who for the last six years has sat in the House as junior member for Halifax. TRAGIC STORIES OF THE AIR RAID Miraculous Escape of a Young Woman and Little Bey—Widew and Her Children Kitted. JONDON, Oct. 22.—While a vain search was made for any military advantage gained by Friday night's air raid several tragic stories came to light. Perhaps the most pitiful was the killing of a widow and her children in addition to a lodger in the house. It appears that the mother went to the front door and inquired of a neighbor whether the "All Clear" sigal had been given, and turned to go back when the bomfcr dropped. A few minutes later the neighbor found the mother unconscious in the street, her home was wrecked and her children buried in the debris. The woman regained consciousness long enough to ask for her children. Another remarkable case was that of a young woman, who was dug out of the wreckage in the basement of a fish market, where she worked, and all with whom she took shelter were killed. She was pinned there for hours but escaped serious injury. A little boy was found buried under a table in a wrecked house, where several persons were killed or injured, but he was unharmed. IN MESOPOTAMIA British Carry Oat Successful Actions Against the Turk*; London, Oct. 21.—British troops in Mesopotamia Friday began an uivuoping movement near the Persian frontier north west of Bagdad and drove the Turkish forces in the vicinity of Kizil Robat across the Liala River. An official statement issued today reporting these operations says: "We have carried out successful operations in the vicinity of Deltawa and Kizil Robat. Our columns began an enveloping movement on Friday and drove the enemy across the Diala. "The Turks destroyed the bridge at Kizil Robat and retreated to th© southern hills of Jobel Hamrin ridge. We took some prisoners and captured waggon loads of ammunition. TOMMY AND FRANCE.—A soldier at his billet makes friends with a very youthful ally. British official picture.INHUMAN ACTS OF THE GERMANS American College President Describe* Treatment Accorded Citizens of Captured Belgian Town J[EW YORK, Oct. 22— President Lyman Powell of Pebart College, who has just returned from * tour of England and France, where he was sent to investigate conditions as the representative of the President's Association of Colleges and Universities of the United States, in an address here yesterday, declared that the French vil'ages and towns recently evacuated by German troops have been sacked beyond description. Dr. Powell described the fate which befell the town of Chauny, in the Aime Department of France. The little city, he said, was of ten thousand inhabitants and almost from the time of its foi\nding in 1664 it had been the centre . of glass manufacture. It came into the hands of the Teutons,, in the course of their invasion, but last June or July they evacuated it. 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