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NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second and Fourth Tuesdays
At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER
Secretary
M. V. TYLER,
Dictator.
NOTICE
A meeting of the Nenana t'.ul
will be held at the club room ir
the Union Hall on Tuesday, Marcl
11th, commencing promptly at f
o'clock in the evening.
All members are urged to be ii
attendance.
Dr. R. R. MYERS
DENTIST
ARCTIC HOTEL
At Union Hnll on Tuesday*and
Friday nights, commencing at ^9:30
and ending at Midnight.
Fox Trotting a Specialty. Rates
on application at Union Hall.
Mrs. Belle Campbell
HYLAND'S CIGAR STORE
CIGARS POOL TOBACCOS
Soft Drinks Candies Fresh Fruit
Warm Comfortable Rooms
Berber Shop in Connection
Mike Hyland, Prop.
Phone 84
Front Between C and D
Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
PRICES REASONABLE
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YANKtt
HELD
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WASHINGTON.—The American j
11 i
, mining squadron, which, in conjunc-1
tion -with the British navy, blazed a '
230-mile trail of mines across the
: North Sea from the Orkneys to the j
! coast of Norway has returned home
with the story of how this great
achievement in the campaign to j
throttle the German submarines was .
contributed.
Captain Reginald R Belknap, j
commander of this fleet of ten
ships—two light cruisers and eight I
converted merchant craft—graphic-;
ally described in a statement re
cently the work of laying 70,100
mines which made up the so-called
North Sea barrage and announced
that at least seventeen enemy sub
mersibles were known to have come
to grief in attempting to pass thru j
this field.
The American ships laid 56,570 j
of the total number of these j
American invented and manufac- j
tured engines of destruction. The j
field averaged 25 miles in width1
and nowhere was it less than 15
miles across, an hour’s run for a
submarine. If a safe course were
sought underneath, several lines of
mines would be found there equally;
deep, and if the submarines went |
down even deeper, mines were!
ready for them there, too, and one i
touch was enough.
“Before the barrier was half
way across,” said Captain Belk- \
nap, “the barrage began to yield I
results. Early in July, 1918, after J
the second excursion of the mine1
layers and from time to time re-!
ports would come of submarines j
damaged or disappearing in that
area. From the nature of the case !
it may never be known definitely!
how many actually did come to
grief there, but the best informa-!
tion gives a probable ten before j
the middle of October, with a final
total of seventeen or more. In ad-:
dition to this toll the squadron
j should be credited with two sub-1
j marines lost in the fields of British |
i mines laid by the Baltimore off the j
, Irish coast.”
The American squadron arrived
i at Inverness last May 26 ready to
begin operations and twelve days
later started on its first mine
planting “excursion”. On these j
trips which lasted from 40 to 80 j
hours, the squadron was part of!
the British grand fleet, and for j
| protection against submarines and I
j raiding cruisers.it was accompanied j
by British destroyers and battle- j
I ships or battle cruisers.
sion,” said Captain Belknap, “the
sixth battle squadron was the sup
port, consisting: of four American
battleships, commanded by Rear
Admiral Hugh Rodman of the
United States navy, in the flagship
New York. One may imagine with
what feelings we saw our own ships
file out of Scapa Flow, form line
and slowly disappear in the haze
as they swept off to the southeast
ward. It will be readily under
stood that the way had to be made
smooth for the mine planters. A
single well placed torpedo or mine
or a few enemy shells would cer
tainly finish one vessel, and prob
ably destroy all ten of them. Each
mine planter carried from 24 to
120 tons of high explosive, a total
of early 800 tons in the squadron,
many times more than the amount
that devastated Halifax.
“The operation as a whole was
done in conjunction with a British
mine-laying squadron of four ves
sels, which worked from a base at
Grangemouth, Edinburgh, under
command of Rear Admiral Clinton
Baker of the Royal navy. The
American, and British mine squad
rons often went out at the same
time, under the protection of the
same heavy squadron, but except
on two occasions they always work
ed separately, in different parts of
the barrage area.
“Altogether the American squa 1
ran made 15 excursions, the British
squadron eleven and the barrage
was finished at the end of October.
On the first excursion the squadron
i • iiinca iui^, :
containing 3,400 mines, in 3 hours
ind 36 minutes. Everything went
vithout a hitch. The new mine
nstallations worked perfectly. On
his first operation one ship emp
■ied herself of 675 mines without
i single break, one mine every 11 Vz
seconds through more than two
lours, the longest series ever plant
id anywhere.
The squadron was always ready
;o make excursions as fast as the
nines could be furnished and never
tailed in any operation.
“Not only that, the casualties
vere very few. One man fell over
board at sea from the Saranac and
chere were four other deaths among
the 4,000 men which might have
bccurred under any conditions,
rhere was no other loss of life
lor other injury and, despite the
dose navigation, near mine fields,
io ship ever came to grief, thanks
argely to Captain Butler and Navi
gator Cunningham, of the flagship
San Francisco.
“In addition to the value of the
barrage itself, in keeping the enemy
submarines in or from their bases,
he mine squadron was expected to(
>erve as a bait to draw out the
jerman fleet. This ever present
bossibility and the fact that the
working ground lay in the prin
cipal thoroughfare of enemy sub
marines, with attendant incidents
>f periscopes sighted, submarine
•eports, depth charges, smoke
screens, floating mines, and dead
jerman sailors floating by, lent ex
citement to the work, which was
bften hard but never dull.”
The manufacture of these special
mines, developed by navy experts
From an invention of an Amercian,
began ir, the United States in De
cember. 1917. The many parts,
small and large, going into the
makeup of a single mine, were be
ng constructed by the thousands
by numerous contractors, who de
ivered them at Norfolk. There
:he mine spheres were charged with
300 pounds of T. N. T. and with
bther parts, were loaded into mine
carrier steamers, managed by the
laval overseas transport service. It
•equired 24 of these vessels, run
ling constantly, to keep the ten
nine planters supplied with mines,
rhe carriers were slow and good
brey for submarines. One of them,
he Lakemoor, was sunk last April
vith a loss of 41 men and 3,000
nine anchors and other parts. All
:he other mine cargoes were safely
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delivered.
The flagship San Francisco was
commanded by Capfain H. V. But
ler and her escort, the cruiser Bal
timore. hv Captain A. W. Marshall.
Four of the merchant vessels used
in the fleet were former Morgan
liners. carrying freight between
New ^ ork and Galveston, now
named the Doanoke, Captain C. D.
Stearns; Canonicus, Captain T. I,.
Johnson: Housatonic. Captain .1.
M. Greenslade; and Canandaigua,
Commander W. H. Reynolds. Two
were the Old Dominion passenger
steamers, Masachusetts and Bunker
Hill, of the Eastern Steamships Cor
poration, renamed Shawmut. Cap
tain W. T Cluverius; and Aroos
took, Captain J. Harvey Tomb
Each ship carries about 20 officers
and 400 men and is armed lightly
for defense against submarines and
aircraft.
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NOTICE
The health officer has received
a supply of small pox vaccine and
all persons desiring will be vac
cinated without charge. They should
present themselves at the Commis
sion hospital at the following hours
only: week-days, 11 a. m. to 12 m.
and 4 to 5 p. m. Sundays, 11 a. m
to 12 m.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
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L. C. ISABEL
BARBER
Shop in Portland Building
Now Open for Business with
Full Line of Requisites
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CLEAN DRV WOOD FOR SALE
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