-------- YEAR 85. NO. 139 16 PAGES BO PIDs lh | The Daily British KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1918 Whig | : PAGES $15 |. SECOND SECTION MOTOR BOATS SINK WARSHIPS Story of Attack by Halian Smal Craft on Big Austrian Dreadnoughts. SOME ANOS MOMENTS THRILLING ADVENTURE BY COMMANDER RIZZO. Who Was In Oémmand of Thirty Men---RBroke Through the Destroy- ers and Torpedoed the Big TOLD | Dreadnought, Venice, June 13.--Two Aus- tria's four dreadnoughts of the oe | of bus Unitis clags have been torpe- doed in the open sea, six miles from | an island oft her own coast, by two] tiny Italian motor craff.- The first of them received two torpedoes, one immediately below her funnel and) close to her engines, if not directly | into the engine-room, and the sec ond aft near the munitions holda Bhe was seen In a heeled-over posi- tion. The second battleship was, struck full by another torpedo. The man who did it is Command- er Luigi Rizzo, a sailor who has already won renown by sinking the battleship Wien in Triest harbor, and by innumerable other acts of daring against Austrian coast har- bor ships I saw him a few hours Ago, He had come straight from the ex- ploit of two nights ago, and had had no sleep, but wore few traces of fatigue. He was cruising off the Dalmatian coast, along its islands, in one of those motor craft flotilla which he commands. One other boat was with him, commanded by a midshipman named Aenzo. He was just below the Island of Lusasin, 30 miles south- east of Pola, Thirty Men With Rizzo, Two small craft which between them had 30 men abroad were quiet- ly going along the coast when a Breat column of smoke was seen. 'A "Wondering What it was," sald Commander Rizzo, "I changed my course and was soon running north- ward, I could make out In the dim dawn----it - was about 2.15 on Sun- day, and, strangely enough, was the anniversary day of the sinking of the Wien six months ago---that a powerful enemy squadron: was ap- proaching. There were two s ps of the Viribus Unitis type, preceded and flanked by ten destroyers. "1 sald to myself, 'You'll never get & chance like this again. You've got to go about it." T ordered Aenzo to atack, as I though it best to do $0, and I made straight for the squad- ron. They did not see or héar me. When T judged the moment had come 1 slipped between the second and third escorting destroyers. As I passed the former they caught sight of me, and an alarm whistle was blown vialently. She began fir- ing, but her shells passed over us, I was already through the line, a dis- tance of between 400 and 600 foot. "I let go my torpedoes. One struck on a level with the funnels and the second struck further aft, but also exploded with full force," There was Commander Rizzo in- side the Austrian line in a motorboat with torpedoes gone and weaponless, 80 at least the second Austrian de- stroyer seems to have judged, for it turned to run him down, but he had another resource left--two depth charges. Judging the speed of his own little vessel, and that of the de stroyer, ho flung one in. It did not explode, and after another lightning calculeation, in. went the second. "I saw the destroyer life in the sea," he says, "and roll like a drunk- en man." + -- ¢ Badly Hit, _ She was badly nit, and in the gap made, though the third oncoming oyer tried to ram him, Rizzo slipped away. The whole thing had Bot lasted more than 20 minutes, Meanwhile Aenzo's boat had, in its turn, sidied up to the rear of the convoy and fired two torpedoes at the second Viribus Unitis. The first past her bows, but the second full towards the stern. Those in Aenzo's boat saw the first battle heling over deeply, and Aenzo's oat sped away after its companion. There was a little desultory firing in their direction; but they were not later over the Italian air- i needed at present. back to Pola, so the nat come from her. Alrcraft have since visited Pola and report that there is now only one dreadnought there is now onlyetaord dreadnought there, where once there were four. A Viribus Unitis were re- cently torpedoed in Pola, Rizzo is a Sicilian and has a sim- ple, unassuming manner. As a mer- chant captain he has been all over the world, WOMEN WOULD LICENSE ALL BOARDING HOUSES 80 That Tendency to immor= alities In Some Might Be Eradicated. Brantford, June 14.---Resolutions advocating Government licensing of all boardi houses, as well as ho- teis, 80 that the tendency to 1m- moralities in some of them might be eradicated, also along tl line of providing voluntary workers to pro- tect young girls on the streets and other places were 'strongly endorsed and passed by the National Couneil of Women here to-day. It was inti- mated by several speakers that lezis- lation along these lines much being towed wreckage hod | The Man on Watch Toronto is pot the only place that can stage a school sensation. When Portsmouth does anything goes into it with both feet. it The next teacher who goes to Portsmouth had better learn before- band that the Hatter's Bay kids in- gist on singing the National Anthem all through. No abbreviated version for them, : Why shouldn't Portsmouth have a union church? It has a prison where men and women of all religious de- nominations are incarcerated. Of course the autoists have some rights on the streets we must admit, Foot passengers are not the only peo- ple. There was a time when driv ers of horses looked upon automobiles as too dangerous to be permitted on the streets, forgetting that it was the horses that made things dangerous, The middle aged boys up at Cooke's church were brought up on the gospel that there is no good go- ing on outside after 10 p.m., but they want to see just what is going on, According to the Salvation Army leaders, the Devil is not dead. They dispute the assertion in Revelations that the old boy was cast into a burn- ing lake and destroyed. Perhaps he was tossed in, but he did not burn. There are just as narrow escapes in these war days, . If any person has been missed in the latest list of English decorations de should make application to those in authority béfore midsummer vaca- tion time begins. . The people are eagerly awaiting "Doc" Bell's official announcement of the milk tests. They want to see if their milkmen maké use of the pump. They have long memories out-in Kennebec township,an assault case of twenty months' standing being only now heard. 'To love your enemies is not Kennebec doctrine, The Mayor had better proclaim a holiday on the 22nd of June to en- able the people to get registered, for the Lampman predicts tedious delays and & high old time. William M. Baillie, late. police chief, was as straight a man in ta ture as he was in his dealings with his fellow men. He was a man of boner and lived a happy and content- ed life. His old friends and young ones miss his presence, but cherish his memory, ~--THE TOWN WATCHMAN, ---- te tao SIGHTED A SUBMARINE Heading Back to Germany With Cop= per Spoils, New York, June 14.--A big Ger- man submarine, carrying two deck guns, was sighted last Tuesday, 300 miles off the American coast, head- ing eastward, by passengers arriving here yesterday on the Holland-Ameri- can liner Nieuw Amsterdam. The submarine made no effort to halt the liner. Tt is now believed that this U-boat is the one that held up the Norwegian steamer Vindeggen off the Virginia coast and looted her copper cargo. The submersible is evidently en route back to Germany with the spoils. aL The tobacco substitute supplied to the German army has proved more injurious than taemy gas attack, De- and | puty Mueller, of Meiningen, declared in the Reichstag on Tuesday, ; The Governor-General and party spent a busy time on Friday ins = ing the Ontario Agricultmsal and other leading institutions of Guelph, ol BIG TANK STEAMSHIP, VICTIM OF U-BOAT, BUT NOW REFLOATED " - PI Ne. NN 1 Sa, DISEASE TELLS ON HUNS BAD FOOD CONDITIONS PRO- DUCE EPIDEMICS IN GERMANY. Trouble is Impending--=Grave Crisis Probable if This Summer's Offen- sive is Not Successful. American. Army Headquarters on the Marne, June I4:~~Evidence of the greatest importance as to inter- nal conditions in Germany has just come into the possession of the Am- ericans through captured documents and testimony of a captured medical officer. On May 8th at Heidelberg there was held a meeting of scientists and physicians from all parts of QGer- many, at which resolutions were sent to the Kaiser, the Chancellor and the Reichstag, demanding imme- diate Govermental aid to combat serious health conditions. This re- solution set forth | that the death rate among infants and women and children had risen to 68 per cent. and pointed out the increasing peril to the German civilian pepulation. It was pointed out that sanitary conditions were 'bad and getting food had placed the civilian popula- tion. in a position where it could not cffer, normal resistance to disease Especial attention was drawn to t ravages of spring epidemic, due to malnutrition. he Hiness of Factory Hands. Physicians reported the great pre- valence of abscesses among war fac- tory workers. It was also learned that the decree of May 16; Feaueire the bread ration from 200 grammes to 160 grammes, stated that the re- duction was decreed until crops ar rived from the Ukraine. It was stat- ed that the German people wére coming to doubt the receipt of food supplies from the Ukraine, and there was general dissatisfaction with the peace made with the Russians. The recent treaty with Austin aroused the suspicion that the peopie would be vietims of the annexation- ists' hunger for territory; dnd *the prospect of a fifth winter 'of war brought a serious situation for German Government. According to captured German of- ficers, the German people have the greatest dread of America's coming strength in the war. While this has ben partially assuaged for a while by promises from Hindenburg and the Kaiser of victory before our full weight can be felt, they said the foil- ure of the Somme drive to end iho war as promised made the people doubtful. Evidence from a number of sources indicates that if the German Government does hot win the war in the next four months there is a pro- spect of a grave crisis in Germany, Prisoners insist the situation is be: coming desperate. A very intelligent officer exprags- ed the conviction that the capture of Paris would not end the war. He even said that if the Germans went as far as Bordeaux the war would not bé ended, with the Americans in it. an i AHEAD OF DESTRUCTION American Production Five Times Lost Tonnage. . 'Washington, June 14.--Since Ger- man sumbarines began their raids off ne output of shipyards building vessels for the shipping board has exceed- ed the sinkings of American ships by more than 100,000 dead-weight. The production during this interval has been 21 ships, totalling 130,642 tone, excluding the vessels salvaged. ton Anos p SU ri destroyed can ships, totalling 26,000 tons, ais oo NRG The above picture shows the tank stéamship Herbert L. Pratt, left above water. The bow was buried fa the soft mud. The Pratt, the 1 800n as she was struck her captain pointed her bow, Tioated and was towed Into an Atlantic port, where worse; that four years of not enough | the Atlantic Coast on May 25th, the a she will be repaired, ns Public Library Bulletin Some Classed Books of Interest for June «= These Books Are Free To All Citizens, J. H, Douglas. co est thes Dawson 2 Pools Wyre, the British--A, T Peat MacFall, Pat---George Private H. R Gérmany Ak Bay---H, Escape of a Princess Pearson. Winged Warfare--Major Bishop Story of the Salondea Army--G Prince. Face to Face Gerard Pigeon Raising---A. Home Poultry Book~ x Canadian Home Vegetable Gardening. Business of War--I. IF. Macasson. A eA % THE SOUL OF A NATION. Ww. with Kaiserism--J W. Macleod, 2. 1. Ferrington, Pundah, > The little things of which we lately chattered---- The death of taxis or the dawn of spring; Themes we discussed as though they really mattered, Like rationed meat or raiders on the wing. : | How thin it Sesm#to-aay, this vacant i prittie, { Drowned by the thunder rolling in the west, Voice of the great arbitrament battle That puts our temper to the final test; of Thither our eyes are turned, our hearts are straining, Where those we love, whose cour- age laughs at fear, Amid the storm of steel around them raining, Go {o their death for all we hold most dear, New-born of this supermost hour of trial, In quiet confidence shall he our strength, Fixed on a faith that will not take denial Nor doubt that we have found our soul at length, O, England, staunch of nerve and strong of sinew, Best when you face the odds and stand at bay! Now show a watching world what stuff is in you! Now make your soldiers proud of you to-day! ENOUGH U. 8. TROOPS ARE NOW IN FRANCE Their Entry Into Line Will Make Up For Lack of Effectives. Paris, June 15.~--Comtmenting on the battle situation to-day the mili- tary eritic of the Temps concludes his article, which is in an optimistic vein, as follows: ! "We have done and are doing all that is possible. To-day we are hold- ing the German attack until the en- try into the line of all the American troops in France makes up for the lack of effectives. The enemy's com- niuniques recognize that he is engag- ed in 'hard combats' He must have a decisive victory rapidly. The valor of our soldiers will prevent him from obtaining it and if our army, facing numerically superior forces, must still withdraw step by step." From the unprecedented number of prisoners who surrender without serious resistance, the Echo de Paris infers that the morale of some of the German soldiers has been lowered. The Matin expresses & similar opin- ion, based frightful on the exhaustion and losses of the enemy. violent assauits on a Journal says will net obtain , of the Standard Oil Company, lying in shallow, ~water off the Delaware coast. ! argest of the freight carrying vesselsf was torpedoed by one of the U-boats that is preying upon coastwise shipping. As which was filling with water, b 1 - , p ; bp p yyy 3 aa SS Her bridge and most 6¢ the stern werd toward the coast and succeeded inirunning her aground on a shoal off Cape Henlopen. She has ba Spring Overcoats ! $15.00 To $28.00 Tweed Rain Coats. Large stock of all wool and worsted suitings, Indigo blue serge. JOHN TWEDDELL Civil and Military Tailor. 131 Princess Street Feed Your Poultry Purina Baby Chick Feed. Purina Chicken Chowder Purina Scratch Feed. More Eggs and Sturdy Chicks. For Sale By D. Couper 341-3 Princess Street, Phone 76. it will only bef ivered by five German] slight progres was made | Register Ahead of Time Where You Can | TERE is good sound advice in the old saying--" Come early and avoid the rush." Come early to the registration booth on Registration Day--but better still--register before Registration Day, if 'you can. It is going to tax the powers of deputy registrars to the utmost to handle the crowds on June 22nd. Realizing that to be 80, many of these deputies are arranging to take beforehand the registration of any persons who care to present themselves, The Board urges you to read the papers carefully for news items in regard to prior registration in your locality, and to take advantage of any facilities offered in that connection. Enquire of your employer as to the arrangements in effect for advance registration at the place where you work. He can readily make such arrangements, if he has not already done so, 1 REMEMBER That registration ahead of time is valid registration--it is complying fully with the law. . That by so registering you will almost certainly be saving beforehand is so much of the yourself great inc on Registration Days. job done--so much of the load lifted from the overburdened