18 LANDING AT MOLE PROVES DISASTER Admiral Bacon, in Book, Re veals Thrilling Tale of "Dover Patrol' London. Dec. 19.—1f you suddenly learned that at most vulnerable point, In some of the most critical mo ments of the late war. Great Britain •was being guarded by two men and a boy, armed with two popguns. one of which was away you would experience something ot the thrill given by Admiral Bacon's book, 'The Dover Patrol. 191-li. •writes a London reviewer. For the one fact t hat ®tands out most clearly In these fascinatllng volumes is that for the veiy gate of England, from which we had to send every man and every cartridge, and every mouthful of food 101 the fighting line in France, the ad miralty could only spare a few 0( ?^ 8 and ends of obsolete vessels, be cause, for a chance that never came, we hid away at Scapa all our boast ed naval strength. And yet the Do ver Patrol was the one unit of the fleet that was always in touch with th AimiraV Bacon is i * nd ready to carry on chcerfull} and im provise good-humoredly with two men and a boy. if my lords of the admiralty could spare him noth In* more. But his facts are startling. How splendidly he was wined y his men he is eager to te l. "The men were mostly plain fish erfolk; the vessels ordinary fishing craft The little drifter —with the armament of a single rifle an <* a few rounds of ammunition—who used to accompany us on our bom bardments and be shelled with ap parent enjoyment, had crews of hardv fellows who were seamen in the truest sense. Often they stood unarmed as outposts in the Straita of Dover, with neither gun to fight nor speed to avoid the German de stroyers ... ... "The trawlers, with their brother fisher-folk, swept for mines at the rate of 250 miles a day. and during the first three years of the war swept a total distance equivalent to twelve times round the earth! These pie i saw their comrades blown up. and vet wept on stendilv and unfal teringly with their duties. Eccentric. Monitors Of regular navy boats —except for monitors, of whose navigating ec centiioitlca Admiral Bacon tells some amusing stories —there were <ew: "The Interesting feature is the phenomenally small force of de strovers with the four-inch guns in the patrol. For two years four was the greatest number available find once we were reduced to a single four-inch gun destroyer to hold the straits, with a dozen or more Ger man boats barely sixty miles away, each superior in armament to our ■ingle boat." Little wonder that, with all their cheery confidence, the men of the Dover Patrol, up against the war as no other part of the navy was, sometimes coveted, at least, one of the countless boats hoarded and cherished In other harbors far away from the work. But Admiral Bacon made tha best of things—and what a Jolly good best it was we can realize now, •when we know how much he did for our national safety with such Inade quate arms—and the cheery spirit in which he writes is well illustrated by his description of the monitors that were entrusted to him. The Marshal Ney was a special pet: "Her engines not infrequently ex ploded when asked to start, her engine room was scarred as if by shrapnel from the fragments of burst cylinder heads, and the es capes of the engine room staff were miraculous. * * • • When they did not burst they usually would not start, and when once started no one liked to stop them for fear of not being able to start them again." It was when a new captain had her in a gale in m'dchannel, and she was doing everything hut steer, that the ndmiral wirelessed him to chepr him up. "The Marshal Nov usually navigates the waters of the patrol sideways." Unahle with the forces at his dis posal to fight the enemy, as his sailor's heart urged him to db. Ad miral Bacon was reduced to bluffing them, and he has some amusing stories to tell of this: "To give the enemy a fright and to give a wakeful night to several thousand men, I sent Commander Evans with two small torpedo hoats off Ostend to fire two bouquets of 100 rockets each to give the mili- Gifts Useful Christmas Shoppers buy sensibly as well as economically. Table Lamps, Floor Lamps, Snutll Lamps, Domes, Ranges of all des criptions, Water Heaters, Waffle Grids, Cake Grids, Toasters, Irons, Self Lighters, Radiant Fire Heating Stoves and a score of other appli ances that appeal. 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Huge pontoons, which were in reality 2,- 500 ton ships, were constructed, and the scheme contemplated the land ing of 16,000 men in twenty min utes. A replica of the Middlekerke sea wall that would have to be tackled was set up In France, and tanks were taught to climb it. Plans For a Landing Admiral Bacon gives a vivid ac count ot the landing as it was to have been, but our troubles on the Passchendaele Ridge made the pro posed combined attack impossible, and the scheme was never brought off. .After assuming that plans for run ning the huge pontoons (laden with troops, guns and tanks) end on to the shore had been safely accom plished. and that the monitors were keeping the German shore batteries amused, he continues: "One yell, and the first 400 troops burst ashore. The tanks began to move, nnd almost at once reached the wall. Then a tense excitement; the tanks gripped, up the tanks climbed. • • • A fi#od of troops swarmed over the wall, and the ac tion began. As soon as the troops were clear, carts, gun lumber nad sledges began to move off the pon toons. • * • Such is the descrip tion of what it was hoped would happen, but, alas, it never came off!" Of the plans for the famous at tack on Zeebrugge and Ostend Ad miral Bacon has much to say, since these were all worked out while he held the Dover command, though the actual operations were carried out by his successor. On these af fairs his comment is: "It is impossible to have a better example of how want of experience I wrecked a # scheme. • • • instead of this operation, the last naval , | operation of the war, being a model, i a classical model, the Mole landing j ' was a disaster and Ostend. after our i 1 having patrolled close to it for near- j lv a year and a half, was not found ; sum. u uatfM uoisaooo Xjuo uo j really necessary." To Probp Methods of Shipping Aniirals in Zero Weather . Pliiladelphla, Dee. 19. —The So-1 'eiety for the Prevention of Cruelty ito Animals will make an investiga j t'on of the method of shipping ani mals in zero weather. I The action was taken after 15 | horses, shipped from Delaware to i Philadelphia )in open-lattice stock | cars, were frozen to death yesterday on their way here. They were consigned to a fertlliz j ing plant at Greenwich Point, and ! were diverted to the Pennsylvania Railroad freight yards at Thirtieth and Race streets by mistake. Huddled together In an effort to shield themselves from the biting cold, the horses, which were on their ; way to slaughter, perished slowly as I the train raced north. Convict Ends Life by Hanging in Cell j Philadelphia, Deo. 18.—William \ Stehlik, 27 years old, hanged htm ; self in a cell in the Eastern Peni -1 tentiary Wednesday night, where he was serving a term of from two to ■ three years for highway robbery and | assault. 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Dec. 19.—Five year old James (Buddy) Blake, whose body was washed aahore nt Ventnor last Sunday, came to his death at the hands of h's mother I while she was laboring: under a state j of mental aberration, according to I the verdict of the Jury at the oor | oner's inquest last night into the i boy's death. j Coroner Stoddard announced that he would hold Mrs. Blake to await the action of the grand jury, j More than lu witnesses were i heard by the jury, many of them I testifying as to the mental condition lof Mrs. Esther Miller Blake, the • boy's mother, who is charged with . his murder. Mrs. Blake, who is I under police guard at the City Hos | pital, was unable to appear at the J inquest. Several physicians, includ ing Dr. L. It. Souder, county physi- i eian, testified that Mrs. Blake was I | mentally irresponsible. James M. 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