, ' 8li X '- ' ja rj r v . '. r . &J Wr v j ' OFrfANTmLE LOSS Survivors Declare No One Saw Either Submarine or Torpedo cfENERAL AMONG SAVED Trartspdrt's Boilers Explode Just Before She vSinks Sixty seven Total Casualties ' "' PARIS, Oct. 23. Etve of the American soldiers aboard the sunken American transport Antilles were being sent home because they had German niames and were of German extraction, according to a brigadier general who is among the survivors. ', TAIUS. Oot. 23. THe torpfdo,hi;h dtroycd tho Amer ican transport Antilles, homeward l.ound, causlns the death of Blxty-sevon Amer icans, struck the .vessol ht 6:45 In tho rhornlnfr, accordlns to PAnIs Mills, ot Chi cago, a former ambulance driver, who was among tho survivors. The majority of tho pas-enKers wero In their staterooms and barely had t mo to don their lifebelts before the essel went down. II. II. CummtnKS. of Philadelphia, a itudent at Temple Vnixcrslty and formerly a member of transport section G2 of tho American tleld serMce. was n" seen tra ins vainly to KM into a boat It Is thought the ship sanK before- the boat was lowered. Cuntfnlnirs came to France In July. "fn he Vnlted StWs look over the section he did' not rc-enllst, but embarked on the An tilles Mllla. who Is twenty-two years old. Is tho son of JohA Mills. ft G23 Sorth Unit axe uue, Oak Park lTo was rescued by a life boat after swlmmlnc and keeping himself afloat for more than two hours. Ho ar rived In jn. Frpnrh boat on a rescue ship clad In a pair of pajamas, an overcoat and a HtepiH- Mills was a student In the Onk Park High School. Ho came to Franco seven months ago tb drlvo In American Ambulanco feec tfon No. 13. ' AWAKENHD BV EXPLOSION' "I waB asleep In my stateroom and was awakened by the explosion of the torpedo," Mills said. "It bit amldshlp right under me. I' wasted no tune in nressms, u h.,.. rriy lifebelt and overcoat and rushed for the lifeboat. 1 do not think any one on the ship saw the submarine and hono of 'the survivors saw the torpedo. "I had been assigned to a certain life boat and I mado my way directly to It. I found It was being lowered and was ha f way to the water s edge. I Jumped for It and made It ' " " 'iTh wer onlv two others In the boat. tha ship's purser and a brigadier general of ,. TTnltprt States nrmv ueiore wo rcuuuvu i, TOoter nnn pnd of the boat slipped on the davit "ropes and we all went Into tho i sea heid first When I came up I saw the purser swimming pehlnrt mo. no swam is harnessed in the waterfalls of Norway for, awhile, but suddenly butted Into an oar. j Later a process similar to this was devel I. grabbed one end od called to tho pur- j oped on the Canadian side of the Niagara ser to take1 hold of the other. We used the i rtlver. utilizing the falls, oar to support ourselves for nn hour. j Wnen tho war br(yke out Germany W1B ln "The sea was rough, so that we were a position where she had to make her own not sighted by tho lifeboats which had nitric acid. It Is Indispensable to the man- made the water safety, nunougn wo cuum . ihom nlfnround Finally a boat sight ed us and took us In " Later wo saw the brigadier', general swimming about. Ills hat was still on his head. When we rowed to him one of 'the boat's pxew reached over h iHn .mil nullsd him ln by the seat of his rii rrt a mi h trousers. Just then his hat. fell off and he almost overturned the boat ln grabbing for It. The hoat conta nea one peuy oniccr "" f. . - t. ... and twenty xnmbersr-f tho crew. ANlflLES SINKS RAriDLY "The Antilles sank quickly.. Just before I made for the oar I looked back and saw the boilers explode. Following this the boat was enveloped In a cloud of steam, and I saw a crowd of ten or so persona rush frantically to the stern And Jump overboard. "Before the explosion there was no Con fusion. Every one took his lilace ln tho life-' boats In a'n orderly maimer, some of the officers even smiling. ' After we were safe ln the boats, we began to wander about, picking p survivors." The brigadier general, who Is back In Paris, said: "t lost all 'of my belongings except the clothes I was wearing The story of how I Ifept afloat b- swimming Is quite tru. I jjwe my life to a lifebelt, which I seized hen the Antilles was struck. $ SINKINQ IS STRANGE SIGHT "I entered a lifeboat which threw all of lis occupants Into tfie sea. While we swam fbout we looked for something to grab. The flnklng of the Antilles was a strange sight, for It went down so quickly ln about Jive Alnutes, I should Judge and Its disappear ance probably was hastened by the explo sion of the boiler after tho torpedo struck. fi "The two ships which rescued nil of the Survivors who were floating and ln small fcoats spught In vain for the periscope of .the subma'ritit, .which, rbejlvo,.no person ' 'The Aptlllei settlecf'by ths stern very wpldlyleavlng the boat almost perpendicu lar ln the water A naval officer remain ing on board was slightly injured by a, tonokestack, the boat went down bo quickly. Another person was severely cut by the freless mast tylres. "After floating about for a while I was liulled aboard a lifeboat and later was taken 'fSboard a rescuer." V ; , -. WASHINGTON, Oct 23. The War De partment yesterday received from General Pershlnar the complete casualty list ln the destruction of ""the homeward-bound, array, tfanspnrt Antilles by a German submarine jAst Wednesday. - He gave no additional de tails of the disaster. j! Sixty-seven men. Including sixteen sol diers, went down with the ship, another is Unaccounted for ahd 170 were rescued by the naval convoy Many of those killed wero foreigners of the transport's, engine dni boiler forces, and some of the missing eldlers also were of foreign, birth. 'Vn.n.,,1 DaHklnrf rlt nnt AVnlftln tarhv he soldiers were being sent home. FOR HALLOWE'EN AND OTHER OCCASIONS 1 Pound 15C 2 Pounds 25c, Cora Poppers, 20c and 25c. Plants for Home Decoration. JPpfm in large, assortment, 10c each, SI per doz. &jr Ues, 25c, BO&t&W Paltas all sixea, 50c, 75c 'ii'il? D.tefe BolU in stock. Plant oy. - a u 'I a if 'hi 4 iiiSi Wiw" wr iSatcSPF Jtewr WEs J3 8 U.S. STARTS GREAT MUNITION PROGRAM Muscle Shoals Pr, o v i d e s Quick Means for Making Powder and Fertilizer NITROGEN FROM THE AIR By WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY WASHINGTON, Oct 23. The Government last week launched the program so long contemplated which will take Innumerable tons of nitrogen out of tho air and make It atallablo for tho production of smokeless powder with which to4 fight tho war, and th6 fertilizer that America's broad acres may be mora productive. The act which put tho project actually on tho road to operation wns a proclama tion by tho President which chose Muscle Shoals, on the' Tennessee Illvcr In Alabama, as the site for the Government plant. This ended a cemtest of yoars, In which many localities displayed their charms and nd nntages for the operation of this sort of plant. The plant should have Immodlatoly available water power, sulphur, sulphurtd acid and coal. Tho President's decision camo after much tortsldcratlon. The plant to bo erected will produro 60, 000 pounds of ammonia per day. and ammo nia Is nitrogen In Its mrst usable form Tho plant will cost $3,800,000. Near tho ammonia plant will be erected a secondary Industry that Is a part of tho scheme of utilizing this product of the nlr. It will bo a plant costing 600,000, which will convert the 60,000 pounds of ammonia Into 24,000 pound1? of 100 per cent puro nitric acid. In this form It Is ready for use. This means that the I'nlted States Is preparing to derlaio lts Independence, In the first place, of Chill, from which sodium nitrate has always been Imported In great quantities. Chill, In fact, hns supplied the nltrato of the world, since it had this ma terial In great natural deposits and could furnish It cheaper than It could ho procured In nny other way. Kven Germany, before the war, was dependent upon Chill for Its nitrate. Before the United States was In the war Congress appropriated $20,000,000 for tho trectlon of a plant to extract nitrogen from the air. It hns long been one of the alluring schemes to make farms fertile, and It was as an agricultural measure that the appro priation was made. A year ago the proc esses by which this cxti action were possi ble wero much less developed than they are now. Twenty million dollars will go ten times as far ns tho legislators thought It would. It will probably produce all the nitrogen that this country can use. It will make so much -of It that the experts think It ndvlsable to Bpend not more than ine fourth of tho monev. The first of the great plants for the ex traction of nitrogen from the air was established In Norway and used what was known as the arc process. By this process the oxygen and the nitrogen at the air wero caused to unlto by the rending of great electric currents, making nitric acid. It was a spectacular method of forcing together these elements that (111 the lungs of all the world, but which never unite except under some such unusual circumstances. It re- quired great quantities of cheap power, and the moat economical power in all the world ufacture of explosives. Chemists had various processes of get ting, nitrogen, .from the air, even before tho war, but the plant In Norway was almost tho only commercial compotltor to the de- ' Pslts ot CnI" Germany had what was . known ns the Haber process, which turned "ul- """" " ",li, oelore n - . ....., . When the bars vr nn nm hpi- nnt!fln sources wer"e cut bff. ALL MUTHODS STUDIED After the United States had set aside Its J20, 000,000 for nitrogen fixing, It studied all these methods. The National Academy of Sciences and the American Chemical So ciety were asked by the Secretary of War to appoint a committee of scientists and engineers to Investigate the whole subject pnd report with recimmendat!on3. Tho com mlttee sent a representative abroad Like wise did the Government send nbroad Di Charles L. Parsons, chief chemist of the Dureau of Mines This took place before we were at war with Germany, so we were able to see what even that nation had done since the war broke out and to study the fannus Haber process. The world was thoroughly combed to determine how we might best spend that twenty millions. After examining all foreign methods, a look was also taken nt what was going on here at homp. And It was found that an American or ganization had developed a process that far surpassed that of tBe Germans or any other people on earth. . WILL ENTER RESERVE SYSTEM Wilmington Trust Company Votes' for Move Unanimously WILMINGTON. Del.. Oct. 23. At a meeting here yesterday directors of tht Wilmington Trust Company voted unani mously to make application to enter tho Federal Reserve The concern is the largest bank In Delaware It has a capital stock of 11. 000,000. a surplus of $500,000. undivided profltB of J318.303 and assets of oer $12, 000,000. It Is the first trust company ln Delaware to make such an application. EVENING LEDGERr-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1917 HAIG PRESSES TOWARD PASSCHENDAELE Vlamcrtynghe V YfjSSrWfc ft1 i ?e" A I y'fePSSSgfe TcrhLdl2 Dickebuschf X ffevfjfineluvfilt - y 'ii.wvol j--. Wj Jk&& HouthcmckV2!Kn WulvorghemiTa Bousbecquef NL & C7Varneton V Ncuvc-Egliso rTv'i C ) l v -jpsij, IVloDeulemont Linscllcs TourcoIng Armcnties Scale of Mile I yRoubaix Tho Wack lino shows the battle front in north Flanders at the beginning of the present British drive alone; the Passchcndaele ridge, paralleling the railway, as indicated by tho arrow. This is the immcdkte objective, and dispatches indieato its accomplishment. The ultimate aim is the capture of tho Menin-Roulors Railway, a supply feeder to tho German U-boat bases nt Ostcnd and Zcebrugge. on the North Sea, further north ward. Tho broken line shows the battle line on July 31. SHIPS AND MORE SHIPS, NORTHCLIFFE'S APPEAL Victory Is Certain if Supplies Can Be Sent to Fighting Men, He Says CLEVELAND. Oct 13 Ships and a.. craft aro going to win tho war, Lord North cllffc, head of tho British war mission to the United States, told an enthusiastic audience here. Lord Northcllffe Is not worried about the success of the recond Liberty Loan. He as sumed In his speeches and chats wltl busi ness men here that every sensible Ameri can realizes that unless each Liberty Lo.in was promptly oversubscribed tho United States would suffer defeat and tho nation be fettered with huge indemnities. Neither Is he worried about the ability of the United States to supply nil the men and munitions the Allies need. I3ut ho Is worried about the ability of the allied nations to get the essentials or mod ern warfare food, coal, munitions and men on the far-flung battletronts of Europe. "Where nre our ships?" Lord Northcllffe pleaded. "War materia; and food, millions of tons of it, are lying Idle in tho harbors f tho United StatCR whllo the valiant llght is urge tho mercantile marine to epecd up its resources "Build ships, nil kind", so long ns they r fast enough, only give us ships," was the burden of Lord Northcllffe'.'i appeals to the nation's citizens "Put every man you can spare Into the oii'nViulldlng Industry and keep on building ships," ho reiterated time and time ng.iln. PLAN TO SAVE RUSSIA Retired Rear Admiral Would Invade Neutrality of Denmark ATLANTIC CITY, Oct 23. An Allied In vasion of the neutrality cf Denmark, with American dreadnoughts ln the forefront, fo. the purpose of smashing the German equad rons now operating In the Baltic Sea nnd saving Russia from the Teuton legions u tnat eastern theatre of wnr, was urged hi 1 e by Rear Admiral J D Howell, I". S. iRTir.EI S.B. COUGH DROPS 700,000,000 sold last year. Think of all the coughs and colds they prevented, the throats they soothed. At druggists, grocers, confection ers i also news and cigar stands. IVIann & DlLKS 1102 CHESTNUT ST. Qyp) Ladies' & Misses' Plain X ailored Suits and Top Coats Tyrol Wool Suits are the prevailing style their sim plicity has character. Tyrol Wool it positively the best fabric ever made for outdoor use. Needs no pressing and has endlets wear. Tyrol Wool Suits and Coats in girls' sizes 10 to 15 years. Also Stetson a Vclour Hats Mann & Dilks II2 CHESTNUT STP N , retired. Ho Is a Virginian with n gal I" it lighting record He tald: It would establish no precedent for ... "- l,rl"sl. .French and Itnllan bat tleships of wnr to Invade the neutral waivrr c I'Mimark for the purpose of bhatterlnx 'hi- Herman licet there nnd thus relieving t' pressure upon Itunsla and the offensive -,1'nlnst Petrogind. after what Germany did i, nelRium " The The German military system is a cancer that threatens the life of civilization all over the world. War is no more pleasant than a surgical operation, but when an operation is necessary, when an opera tion will save life, restore health and continue useful ness, the operation is a blessing. We are not at war because we want to be, but be cause we have to be. War is the operation that will cut the cancer out of civilization and leave the world prepared to live a healthy ,happy,useful life once more. We have ta pay for war. The Liberty Eonds of the United States Government provide the money. Better buy them now, better help the Government pay for the operation than let the disease go m and ; end in a national funeral. Winning the war is the only cure for the military disease that threatens every person in the world today. ' . Buy Liberty Bonds and do your bit, and do it now. Make your subscription through anu Bank or Trust Companu ', LIBERTY. LOAN COMMITTEE ; v Third Federal Reserve District ' Lincoln Building Philadelphia ThU gjwrce has been donated by the Bank, Bankers and Trust Companies of Philadelphia AMERICAN SAILORS CITED Twenty-two Men of Destroy er Cassin, Hit by Torpedo, Are Honored CREDIT FOR CAPTAIN WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. Commander Wulter II. Vcrnou Is 1 i llevcd to have saved tho American destroyer Cnssln from destruction In tho encounter with a German submarine In the wnr 7one on October 16 by his coolness nnd qulclt action Tho Navy Department yesterday received from Vice Admiral Kims the full report of the fight IWnrc shh had nn opportunity to fire a shot the destroyer was hit on the stern by the torpedo, which killed Ormond Kelly Ingram, gunner's mate, slightly wounded Ave others of the crew nnd put one engine out of commission The following men were cited by Vice Admiral Sims for showing coolness and qualities of leadership: Oniric Ilnrfmnn, quartermaster father, Peter Hoffman, oil iasi Eighty-fourth street. New York Kdivsril Ilenr.v WerrhbroiH. machinist's mate ; wife. Nettn Werchbrodt. 32 Church street. Newport. It. I. U'llltnm Arey Itrnth, blacksmith ; wife, Phoebe P ileath, Norfolk County, a John nonlun, bollcrmaker ; father, Joseph Gordon, 253 Fifty-fifth street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Wulter George Petermnn. electrician : father, Frank Pctcrmap. Brooklyn, N. Y. Jnnifd Tlmmss Connolly, yeoman : father. James T ronnollv. 815 Forty-second street. Brooklyn. N Y ONK rUOM WILMINGTON linns Otto I.Bwrenrii Sillier, seaman; father. Francis Julius Miller, 1203 Conrad street. Wilmington, Del John I-eo l)ntl, i-eaman ; mother, Elizabeth Dunne 810 Jackson avenue. New Orleans. George Trunk Klein, chief pharmacy mate; Only sister, Anna Taylor, 702 rotomao avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. Di-nnls Murray, seaman; mother. Mary Murray. 2427 Maclay avenue, New otk. Hfilph Wiildn Ilmerson Slnirv, yeoman; father, William II. Shuey, 846 Edgar ave nue, Effingham, III, John Urn In McCiinn, chief water tender; mother. Mary McCann, Sanburn, N. 1 William Jonepli Murphy, chief electrlclnn ; wife, Mrs. Mable Mary Murphy, 378 Thirty-fifth street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Walter ltolililnn, chief machinist's mate; fBther. John II. Bobbins, llocky Hill, Conn , l'rnnk Ittiell Mulier, chief machinist's mate; mother, Betnlco Fisher, Eagan, Texas. John 1'rederlrk Htnulttkl, chief gunner's inato; fa,ther. Frank Htawllzkl, 133 Itced street. Buffalo, N. Y. Alfrrd Henry Orlil, boatswain's mate ; father, Budolph Oehl, 289 Barrow street. Jersey City. N. J. llufUH Wnllnre Owens, chief boatswain's Jeweled Brace lei An elegant stock of reliable movements in odd - shaped cases. Exceptional is a small oc tagonal watch of white gold, the border studded with dia monds wrist band of black moire ribbon $150. S. Kind & Sons, 1110 Chestnut St. DIAMOND MERCHANTS JEWELERS SILVERSMITHS &T Cure Trill Mfe? ST8- 20I1 M. dans llratton, chief 'carnt,i-i.r . Tl miner. John C Dratton? : Bank. $1 and Dahlgren '".SMK ,R?! jBSf KEi ""IS-.'. nuartermastJr ,',;. 1 r.iier, no waveriy avenue. BrL8llf i . - -"wMyn, ' William Joufpli rCW.B'"5J'"i. moiner, Jessie s-9mnTn7harn.?,Vtl negle avenue. JiS" TL i T( Vfvsiano, Ohio '"rI. The Casein had been ..!.. . 1 hour for a submarine, first lL hi" ? , miles away, when Commander V.r av LI donly saw a torpedo 400 yard. jf. 1 1 nm,, n. iui pcao loo yards lii """""""J r me snip nt great .B,K ive.tiiuiK null niH VCSRel was In I ". ii. t..wt .. miiintniiuer o rue red fti i ahead and the wheol hard . patrol bout was Just clear of th, .. ? pain wnen ine projectile broached -.I' surface, turned sharply and V , Watches fcai-, , 1 & 4MTMjair 4M t . - JL ahjaftcafrjfrjafe. fst , T isiS.yii.iiJ HK I 1 ' ,vMPH MtiHitJf ifri " m x ' . r- - .- TbI . "". ' WT-'jW -. t f .. fctr : i . -k ,. . .
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