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iHlftrf ESCAPE
FOR NAVY CREV
^Raftington, July 2.?An unusua
.'Jhqy off hardships, daring and nar
Tam orxpe from death during thi
mvus brought to light for th<
SbttSme today when naval officer
mA jeblic an account of adven
1 mt the crew of the navy dirigi
SfeS-12 which was given up for los
Apartment in July, 1918, af
Jhafting around at sea for mor<
81 a~" /Toxto /)iirincr whifh th<
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jb iad practically nothing to ea'
<4n3xu short of drinking water. Th<
jiifTBn finally was forced to descem
?i4i surface of the sea and th<
zrer was rescued by the Swedish shij
"Me B-12, wtih Ensign W. B. Grif-Sk
ob commanding officer and pilot
'Jknpi W. . Briscoe, an assistanl
jHj. in J Machinist's Mate A. E. Upmechanic,
was ordered to leavt
ftfian, Mass., early July 19 on a
jfttaSSng expedition. German subvon
were then operating off the
MartSc coast and the dirigible was
3u3 onded with bombs when it left
Mas asr station. Scanty food supplier
anrar carried as Ensign Griffin ex:#adbat
to return to Chatham that
The radio equipment had on-Irian*
partially installed and could
' vft Be used to send or receive mes4HBEHL
'Sine B-12 patrolled to the north
xbng the coast and sighter a transanttjAout
3:30 p. m. Ensign Griffin
^rnirf-f towards the vessel, intending
atr-xzuart it toward port when the
Ifcetfieace on the rudder was carried
H, making it impossible to steer
&te<osfL High winds were prevail-3q?
jft.this time and the B-12 was
ftiusi to cruise around in a great
xintfa -vfrile the crew attempted tc
4Rnx? the attention of several ships
pailmo seaplanes then in sight. Nc
:<triSa was paid to repeated sigfinally
Ensign Griffin order
jdhfflx motors cut off in order to save
fBrgnBtine for ballast.
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200 feet in the air and was virtual!
j a free balloon. Darkness was cow
ing on and the big gas bag was drift
1 ing northward at a speed of about 2
. miles an hour with an increasing
wind behind it. A sea anchor wa
5 j rigged up and an effort made to re
sjtard the dirigible's progress by drag
.j ging it in the sea. After a few mc
_l ments, however, the towing cabl
I parted and the northward progree
. was resumed at an increased speed.
? About 8:30 o'clock that night :
? ship was sighted and nine rocket
(. were fired from a pistol. The vess
, apparently saw the signals and di
l! rected its course toward the B-12, on
, ly to turn away in a few moments
, and leave the helpless gas bag to th
mercy of the wind. About that tim
. the pipe line leading to the emergen
? fllfl loflj
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? was discovered all of the oil was lost
. causing a considerable decrease o
} ballast. The B-12 began to rise an<
t ascended steadily until an altitude o:
3,000 feet was reached.
A1 night the dirigible continued it
( wild dash northward, the crew mean
. time consuming the small amount o:
( food aboard. Ensign Griffin had n*
idea of his whereabouts.
; Early on the morning of the secon<
. day the gas bag buckled and the hori
| zontal fins dropped to a vertical po
. sition. Throughout that day the bi|
bag alternately dropped until peril
t ously near the sea and ascended ti
, altitudes of more than 2,500 feet
i Every available article was throwi
-> overboard during the variations ii
i altitude to keep the ship from plung
[ ing into the ocean.
Not a vessel was sighted during th
. day or that night. The crew, mean
i time, was commencing to suffer fror
; hunger.
> On the morning of the third da;
j of the involuntary cruise, the su:
> shone brightly and as the gas in th<
. bag expanded rapidly the B-12 start
. ed to rise. Ensign Griffin, after i
t conference with the other member
of the crew, decided to bring the B
; 12 to the surface and take a chanc
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y of being picked up. ti<
i- To avoid the risk of ascending to 0(
>- a high altitude with only a small
5 amount of ballast aboard, gasoline, Si
g water, sand, bombs, bomb launching pr
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(- parts were dumped overboard and ar
the B-12 brought to the surface safe- sa
>- ly. cl
e Shortly after descending a ship
s was sighted and it directed its course M
toward the dirigible, the crew of re
a which meanwhile were having great a
s difficulty in keping clear of the wa- sa
(1 ter. of
i- The vessel proved to be the Swed- B<
i- ish steamer Skagern bound for Hali- th
\, fax. A small boat was put over ithe di
e side and the crew of the B-12 taken n<
e off. Then as the increasing heat m
- from the sun caused the gas further to
Ic to expand, the dirigible rose a few de
feet above the surface, was pulled
f over to the Skagern, the rip cord ?
i pulled and the B-12 salvaged without
f much damage more than 300 miles
from its home station.
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. ARMENIAN GIRL'S
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HORRIBLE STORY
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New York, July 3.?One of the
most pitiful stories of savagery prac"
ticed by Turks or Circassians upon
l fVio A rmoni-a-na rennrfod ^rtfinc
war, from their homes into the country
of the Arabs is told, by Victoria
51 Varshabdian, a girl of 18 years. Her
" story has been made public here by
1 the American Committee for Armen1
ian and Syrian Relief. The girl was
~ the daughter of a well-to-do merchant
who had a shop in Constantino6
pie and another at Nevsher, Turkey,
" where the family lived.
I In her narrative to a British physician,
she said that her father and
Y four brothers wee deported and that
II her father died while on the journey,
e from a blow inflicted by a gendarme.
^ Carrying their little fortune of 2,000
a pounds in gold, they were marched
3 south to the vicinity of Deir-Es-Zor
" (probably oh the Euphrates river.)
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While at Deir-Es-Zor, Murad or g
ivar, the girl said 20 Armenian I
iests were taken from among the li
fugees, bound together, sent away I
id killed. In the river at Suvar she i,
w 100 bodies of men, women and
lildren, some with their heads off. r
After collecting a ransom, the s
utessarif ordered the men of the t
fugees brought before him "to sign e
paper." The next day she said, she k
w the Circassians shoot down 300 t
1 them. Then the Mutessarif, Zeki i
sy, ordered nine of the bodies of s
e Armenians placed in the road and r
ove his carriage over them. He an>unced
that he would kill all the i
ale refugees over two years old. Upj c
that time her brother had escaped (t
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aid to his mother: "Mother, I am
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will kiss it. Forgive me anything I
tave done wrong to you. Goodbye."
ler brother was shot before Victora's
eyes.
She declared also that she saw Arnenians
killed by driving wooden
takes through them, that two were
turied alive by the Arabs and that
ventually the Circassians began to
all all the women and children with
heir knives. Her description of this
nassacre is too awful to be told, for
he gives details of the fiendish manter
in which it was accomplished.
Afterward Victoria was separated
rom her mother and sent to the tent
if an Arab, where she remained for
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kicked into the river.
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ter was allowed to go her way. After
a year and a half she reached Aleppo,
where her story was told. She has
been informed that her mother Mtd
one brother escaped from the Circassians
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