The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 31, 1917, Page 7, Image 7
BERLIN
POSTED BV SPIES.
U-BOATS SET MIXES FOB I. S.
DESTKOYEKS.
Four Days Before Flotilla Arrived at
Queenstown Harbor Entrance
Was Mined.
~ Washington. .May ?Four days
before the American destroyer flotilla
arrived abroad Berlin knew it
was on the way and to what port it
was going and the day before the
little vessels steamed into Queenstown
German submarines had strewn
mines about the harbor entrance.
This startling information, revealing
that German spies not only still
are at their work in this country.
? but that they have a swift and sure
means of communicating -America-?
war secrets to the Fatherland, came
to the Navy Department today in a
cablegram from Rear Admiral Sims
at London.
Positive Information.
The admiral said his information
was positive. His dispatch was not
made public and for obvious reasons
nothing will be given out concerning
how the news came into his possession
nor about the precautions which
defeated the German plans and enabled
the flotilla to speed safely
* through the mine fields.
Immediate publicity was given the
salient fact, however, the department
making clear that its purpose was to
let People know of the activity
and success of Teutonic spies and to
nar?Assitv for absolute
Cuiyuaoi<>c tut .
secrecy in connection with naval opperations
or shipping movements.
The destroyers aiding in the hunt
for submarines in European waters
under the direction of Admiral Sims,
put into port at Queenstown on May
4. How long they were in crossing
the Atlantic or from what port they
f sailed never has been announced and
until word of their arrival came by
cable only a few people in the United
States even knew of the government's
* decision to send warships to Europe.
Officials Silent,
No official would comment tonght
on the possible means by which the
news was conveyed to Germany. If it
did not go from a secret wireless
plant, it must have been carried in
some code dispatch that the Allied
cable censors passed as innocent.
The result will be to redouble the
vigilance both of the censors and of
every agency of the government engaged
in rooting out the spy system.
Every German known to have been
connected with the espionage work 01
his government already is under arrest
or under surveilance. Other arrests
may follow at any time and now
that the country is at war and the
revelation of its secrets may mean
death to its sailors and soldiers
swift punishment undoubtedly would
be dealt out to any convicted spy.
Different Now.
Men already in custody operated
when the United States was a neutral.
Spying now is a very different
thing and is likely to lead to the gallows
instead of to comfortable def
tention quarters.
In announcing Admiral Sims's dispatch,
the Navy Department, through
i the committee on public information,
said:
"The department calls attention to
this fact as proof that the German
spy system is at work in this country
making imperative the need of secrecy
in connection with our naval operations.
The premature publication of
such movements is particularly a
source of danger."
MANY KILLED IN AIK RAID.
i Aeronauts I h*op Bombs In Busy
Street?At I>east 175 PerWh.
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England, May 25.?Women and children,
who had stood in a long line in
the busiest street here waiting to
purchase potatoes were the principal
victims of the German aeroplane raid
last evening. Intent only on not
losing their places in the line, the
women and children had little warning
of the raid and were easy victims
of the air vultures who dropped their
deadly bombs indiscriminately.
? The raid, which claimed the lives
f of seventy-six persons and caused injury
to 175 others, proved more deadly
than any raid which the Zeppelins
have made on England since the be
ginning of the war.
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Flying so high that they looked
like a flock of ducks, the raiders rained
a dozen bombs on the busiest
block of the main thoroughfare whicn
was chocked with shoppers of every
age and sex.
A correspondent of the Associated
Press visited the destroyed district
today. He found a grocery store that
had collapsed and was told by the
grocer, who lost two members of his
family, that ten dead persons were
found in the debris of the building.
A dozen more were killed and three
score or more were injured by flying
glass and bricks and shrapnel-like
fragments scattered forcibly by the
bursting bombs.
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MVSTKIIV OF HI I5KKXATIOX.
How Some Creatures Sleep Through
the Winter.
If you were to dig out of their
burrows any of the millions of hedgehogs.
dormice, marmots or woodchucks.
or take out from the mud at
the bottom of ponds any of the lizzards.
turtles or frogs: or take from
the crevices of rocks any of the toads
or snakes: or pick from the roots of
caves a bat or two of all those clinging
there, you would find each one
sound asleep, and no ordinary thing
you'' could do would awaken it. for
this is its long winter sleep.
This sleep is one of the greatest
mysteries of nature. Xone of the
scientists can explain it. . They have
been studying it lately, in different
parts of the world, with more than
usual attention, and they have discovered
some new things about it. It
has always been known that in the
few weeks before the hibernating
period is to begin those animals
which are to sleep through the winter
begin to put on fat. Why is that
you may ask. No one can answer why.
By spring fat is gone and the animal
is lean and scrawny, so it is supposed
the fat supplies energy to keep the
heart beating, although the process
of feeding and exertion are suspended
throughout the long sleep.
In the Ozark hills of Missouri is a
huge cave wherein millions of bats
hibernate each winter. In the fall
they come flying in clouds from all j
directions and they attach themselves I
to the rock roof and hang in great
clusters until spring, when they go
forth again to their summer haunts
to feed and nest and multiply.
When the woodchuck crawls into
his hole for his winter's sleep he
stops breathing, but his heart beats
on, feebly, and his blood circulates, j
slowly. You may pull him out when
he is thus hibernating and hold him
under water for a long time and he
will not drown, because he is not
breathing and his lungs will not fill
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brain and his entire spinal cord, and
his heart will beat for 12 hours. You
may cut off his head and his heart
will beat three hours., I
But it is possible to freeze the
warm-blooded, hibernating animal to;
death. If it gets too cold the animal
will begin to stir, and if it stays too 1
cold for a long time he will die; but
frogs have been known to have their
blood frozen to ice and yet they
lived. Mosquitoes and spiders may
be frozen so they are as brittle as
snow flakes and break to pieces when
touched, and yet they revive with
warm weather. But each freezing
and thawing their vitality lessens,
and after a certain number of them
they fail to revive.
When warm weather comes the
hibernating animals begin to stir and
soon come out. What strange instincts
or impulse it is that urges the
hibernating animal to put on fat for
his long sleep; that suspends breathing
but keeps the heart pulsating
that wakes him when the weather
drops to the danger point or when it
is warm enough to come in the
spring?\ That is one of the mysteries.
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The Bravest of All.
The bravest battle that ever was
fought!
Shall 1 tell you where and when? |
On the maps of the world you will
find it not?
'Twas fought by the mothers of
men.
Xay, not with cannon or battle shot,
With a sword or noble pen;
Xay, not with eloquent words or
thought
From mouths of wonderful men!
But deep in the walled-up woman's
heart?
Of a woman that would not yield.
But bravely, silently bore her part?
So, there is that battlefield!
Xo marshaling troops, no bivouac
song.
Xo banner to gleam and wave;
But, oh, these battles, they last so
long?
From babyhood to the grave.
Yet, faithful still as a bridge of stars,
She fights in her walled-up town?
Fights on and on in the endless wars.
Then, silent, unseen, goes down.
0 ye with banners and battle shot.
And soldiers to shout and praise.
1 tell you the kingliest victories
fought
Were fought in those silent ways.
0 spotless woman in a world of
shame,
With splendid and silent scorn,
Go back to God as white as you
came?
The kingliest warrior born.
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