BAYONETS THREE HUNS, BRAINS
A LUCKY TROOPER
SCHWAB IS CHOSEN
U.S. NAVAL COLLIER
FOURTH, SAVES DAY FOR
Steel Magnate Given Supreme Control
IF
of- Nation's Shipbuilding Work
Will Be Greatly Expedited.
WORLD
HAPPENINGS
WEEK
CYCLOPS IS MISSING
"Bob" Hanna of Vancouver Wins Victoria Cross for Bravery in
Action One of the Most Thrilling Narratives of the War,
if Not of All Time Blows Up Hun Machine Gun
and Fights Single Handed in Trench.
No. 76,361, C. 8. M. Robert Hanna,
Canadian infantry. For conspicuous
bravery In attack when his company met
with most severe enemy resistance and
all the company officers became casual
ties. A strong point, heavily protected by
wire and held by machine gun, had beaten
off three assaults of the company, with
heavy casualties. This warrant officer,
under heavy machine gun and rifle Are,
coolly collected a party of men, and, lead
ing them against the strong point, rushed
through the wire and personally bayo
aetted three of tho enemy and brained
the fourth, capturing the position and si
lencing the machine gun.
This most courageous action displayed
courage and personal bravery of the high
est order at this most critical moment of
the attack, was responsible for the cap
ture of a most Important point, and but
for his daring action and determined
handling of a desperate situation tho at
tack would not have succeeded. C. S.
M.'s outstanding gallantry, personal cour
age and rtctormlned leading of his com
pany Is deHorving of the highest possible
reward.-From tho British Official Oa
lette. Fought Huns Single Handed.
And bo Sergeant Major (Now Lieu
tenant) "Bob" Hnnna, of Vancouver,
B. C received the Victory cross. The
reprint from the Official Gazette rends
almost like a hundred other thumb
noil sketches of the bravery of the
boys In tho trenches, but the last few
lines give It more or less distinction.
To Hanna it merely was a dny's work.
To the men of the twenty-ninth Van
couver battalion the . Victory cross,
which Is securely pinned to Banna's
waistcoat, 13 emblematic of one of the
thrilling personul narratives of the en
tire war, If not, In fact, of all time.
Stories of gallantry and self-sacrifice
will be told (whlle the world endures,
but It will remain for a new race to
roll up a single record to overshadow
that of Hanna, who dropped In a
trench all alone and single handed
fought the cream of the Prussian
guards the men who never were de
feated till then and who went down
one after another before this medium
sized young lumberman from tho for
ests of British Columbia. One moment
Hnnna's Ufa wasn't worth a penny. A
few minutes Inter he had saved a btit
tallon, and a little while Inter he was
transformed on the field from a ser
gonnt major to a lieutenant.
The government has had Hanna sit
for his portrait for the Natlonul Gal
lery. Over the Top Twenty-two Timet.
It all happened ut the battle of Vlmy
Kidge. This particular Incident took
place at Hill 70. Hanna had been In
many of the worst battles of the war.
Before tho, valiant Caniullans settled
down to their part of this slaughter of
Vlmy Ridge Hanna had been "over the
top" twenty-two times; had been at
grips with the Germans on numberless
occasions, and, although stumbling
amid death and bursting shells for
days at a time, had escaped Injury.
Vlmy was n bloody spot. The Cana
dians were there as they were at the
Sonmie, Ypres, Lens and Passchen
daele. Near Hill 70 was a stub of a
trench which the Canadians had come
to realize was tho worst spot they had
to face. It was only a link and hardly
could he seen, but It was known to
be a nasty point, and the twenty-ninth
battalion was told to take It. For two
hours, walling for dawn, the battalion
crawled out on Its belly In No Man's
Laud, waiting to rush over and sur
prise the Huns, whose trench was 500
yards away. Unknown to the Cana
dians the Huns were crawling out from
tliolr dugout to Initiate the same move
ment against the Canadians. At the
same moment two barrages started
one from the Germans and one from
the CimiHlians guns. Tho two lines of
crouching men arose and plunged
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Blindfolding a Turkish prisoner before be Is token through the British
trenches at Jebel llnmnrln, la Mesopotamia.
toward each other. The bayonet clash
was brief. The ground quickly was
strewn with dead and the Germans
backed up to the stub of a trench
which was, to the soldiers, like the
root of an aching tooth. . Wire en
tanglements stayed the pursuit of the
Canadians, who, however, hewed their
way through.
He Blows Up Machine Gun.
Six hundred and fifty men went
"over the top" with Hanna. Perhaps
two-thirds of this number went on to
ward the trench, but this remnant was
decimated by a machine gun which
the Huns had set up on the parapet.
The crew of this gun played It on the
Canadians like a hose and all the of
ficers were killed or Injured. Hanna
plugged on In the face of the dreadful
fire. He had n Mills bomb and this
he hurled at the machine gun and
smashed It, killing or -Injuring the
men who were feeding In the bullets.
It had done Its deadly work. Hanna
was standing alone. All about him
were lying his comrades, either dead
or badly wounded. Part of the bat
talion had spread and, he assumed,
would come around back of tho trench
and enter It from the other end. He
jumped Into the trench and In a sec
ond snw a row of stalwart Prussians
coming single file this was neces
sary because of the narrowness of the
excavation townrd him. They rushed
him. As the first one was about five
yards away he pulled the trigger on the
only cartridge he had In his rifle. The
cartridge was well aimed and No. 1 of
the Fifty-fifth Prussian guards was out
of the war forever.
The second one charged over his
fallen comrade, but met the bayonet
held In the viselike grip of the young
lumberman from Vancouver. A third
Prussian also of the Ffty-fifth
dropped down In the trench as If he
hud collapsed, but as this was no time
for, taking chances Hanna, now realis
ing that he was olone In a nest of the
enemy, used his bayonet with effective
results. A fourth Prussian appeared
almost from nowhere. He had the
stock of his rifle In both hands on a lev
el with his shoulder and was prepar
ing to drive the other end home In the
form of the Canadian. But Hanna was
too quick for him. There was a mo
mentary grinding of teeth, a clash and
the fourth Prussian measured his
length on the earthen floor.
Blows Up Two Dugouts.
Hnnna then tells of what hap
pened during the next few minutes.
"I then discovered that I was alone
In tho trench and I was wondering
where the other men were. I moved
along, and ut the entrance to a dug
out, which was, of course, dark, I
heard the buzzing of voices, I, of
course, knew that I was In a dangerous
position. I had no bombs, I hnd used
my last one on the gun. I looked
around and discovered a German bomb.
About that time I heard the Prussians
coming out of the entrance to the dug
out and I waited till they were about
on top of me when I let the bomb fly.
It went off right In their faces. It was
quiet then.
"I moved on n few feet further and
saw another dugout entrance. It was
the other end of a U. . There I heard
more voices. It didn't look very prom
ising for me. I hunted qrouml quickly
and found two more German bombs.
I threw the two Into the dugout, hold
lug them Just long enough so they ex
ploded n second after they left my
hand. There wits no more noise In this
dugout."
Hnnna's story stops here when he
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This Canadian soldier who was dee
orated for bravery was saved by a re
volver which he had taken from a Ger
man prisoner. During a fierce battle
on the West front a bullet from the en
emy struck the captured gun which he
carried, smashing It. He Is here seen
wearing his gas mask and a big, broad
smile shortly after he received the
medal for gallantry.
TECHNICAL AIEN ENEMY
NATIONAL GUARD OFFICER
Denver, Colo. Although he
Is said to have an even dozen
brothers serving as officers In the
Austro-Hungarlan army, George
A. Stadler drills four nights a
week as ranking sergeant of
Company F, Third regiment,
Colorado Natlonnl Guard. Tech
nically, Sergeant Stadler Is an
alien enemy. . He had not com
pleted his citizenship at the be
ginning of the war with Ger
many. Before coming to Ameri
ca Stadler served four years as
an officer of the Austrian army.
His first two years ns a military
student were under the direction
of German officers.
tells It. He was the only man of his
company to be left by the withering
fire of the mnchlne gun he had stilled
with a lucky throw of a bomb. There
were no officers anywhere about. Some
soldiers of another battalion appeared
presently, and he took command of
them and led a charge through the en
tire trench, "cleaning It up," as the
saying goes.
He Saves Two Battalions. '
The whole maneuver was quickly
understood. A battalion which had
been despatched to join the Twenty
ninth had gone by the trench. Some
of the Twenty-ninth also had gone by.
Ilnnnn alone had stopped at the ob
jective. Those who hnd not gone too
far hnd not beeu able to get far
enough. The Prussians had figured on
the Canadians passing the. trench.
Their program undoubtedly had been
to rise from their dugouts and with
the machine gun, which they did not
expect to lose, wipe out the men of the
two battalions. It nil might easily
enough have been done but for the
pluck and the quickness of Hnnna.
It was some time later when the
young man from British Columbia was
called to brigade quarters. The com
mander had learned all about his dar
ing exploit. The young sergeant ma
jor, who twice before this bad been
recommended for honorable mention,
was promoted to the rank of lieuten
ant and now he Is back In France
waiting for another opportunity to add
to the glory of Canada, and, as he
proudly says, to do whnt an Irishman
should.
BROKEN HEARTS PRICED $2.98
Jury at Dawson, III., Fixes That
Price In Breach of Promise
Suit
Dawson, III. A "broken heart" Is
worth only $2.93 here.
Such was the verdict of a Jury try
ing the breach of promise suit brought
by Miss Myrlnn Cooper against Thonv
ns Peddle. Miss Cooper asked $35,000
heart balm.
It took the Jury five minutes to de
cide the case after the defendant
proved he "wasn't always" mentally
responsible.
The Bed Cross benefited by the trial
to the extent of $70.50. The court per
mitted them to charge an admission
fee from the public.
Answers Questionnaire at Front
ra tenon, N. J. A questionnaire,
duly answered, was returned to the
draft officials here from the firing line
In France.
William Donlevy of this city, enlist
ed before receiving his questionnaire).
It followed him to camp, across the
Atlantic, and to the firing line, a dis
tance of approximately 11,000 miles.
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Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
The first American prisoner to es
cape from Germany, says the Temps,
has reached Basel, Switzerland.
Beryl Hall, 12 years old, of Pomona,
Cal., flying his kite with a copper wire
instead of a string, was killed instantly
Monday when the wire touched an
electric power line.
Shells from the long range German
guns killed one woman and wounded
one woman and one man in the Paris
district Monday night, according to
an official statement.
Isidore Costanzo, U. S. Becret serv
ice operative at San Francisco, has
been suspended pending an investiga
tion of charges of embezzling $300
from a woman, it is announced.
(secretary oi war Baker arrived in
the United States Tuesday from Eu
rope on one of the large steamships
which flew the German flag before the
United States entered4the war.
"Victory now is a synonym for bread
in Germany," declared Baron Rhondda,
lood controller, at London, in explain
ing to the Press the bearing of the
German food problem on the offensive
in the West.
Paul O. Stensland, of Chicago, ' con-
fessed embezzler of $800,000 from the
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank, which
failed more than eight years ago, died
Monday of a complication of ailments
at the age of 71.
Lieutenant Cendelaria, of the Ar
gentine army, Tuesday crossed the
Andes by airplane from Zapala, Ar
gentina, to Curico, Chile, a distance of
180 kilometers. The machine crossed
the mountains at an altitude of 3200
meters.
Alleged tojhave baptized an infant
in the name of Kaiser Wilhelm and to
have made seditious utterances, J. D.
Klein, German Methodist evangelist,
of Dennis, Kan., arrested Monday at
Shamrock, Kan., was lodged in the
Federal prison at Amarillo, Tex. .
Spikes in logs ruined two saws, en
dangered several lives and hindered
war work at the Donovan plant, at
Aberdeen, Wash., Saturday, sffhe
presence of the spikes is attributed to
either German sympathizers or I. W.
W., whose leaders preach sabotage.
Four lives were lost when the Ley
land line steamship Etonian was tor
pedoed and Bunk by a German subma
rine off the Irish coast on March 23,
according to members of the crew who
have arrived at an Atlantic port. Two
of those killed were American horse
men. Miss Katherine Schmidt and Mrs.
Stanley M. Dixon, American mission
aries, formerly of Springfield, S. D.,
who were captured by Chinese bandits
April 8, have been released. The
whereabouts of George A. Kyle, of
Portland, Or., who was captured by
the outlaws March 11, has for the las
10 days been unknown.
Ten German trawlers have been sunk
by gunfire in the Cattegat, between
Sweden and Denmark, the English ad
miralty announces. Their crews were
saved by British ships. There were
no British casualties. The operations
in the Cattegat, the statement says,
were underaken by the commander-in-chief
of the grand fleet.
Conscription of incomes cannot pro
gress much beyond its present scope
without interfering too seriously with
production, asserted Samuel Unter
myer, New York lawyer, and the gov
ernment's legal expert on the inter
pretation of income and excess profit
tax laws, in an address he delivreed in
Pittsburg Monday night in the liberty
loan campaign.
Unfilled orders ot the United States
Steel Corporation on March 30 were
9,056,404 tons, according to the cor
poration's monthly statement This
Is a decrease of 232,049 tons compared
with the orders on February 28.
The sinking of British merchantmen
by mines or submarines last week
reached the next lowest level of any
similar period since Germany began
her Intensive submarine campaign
early in 1917. Four vessels of more
than 1600 tons, two of less than 1600
tons and two fishing boats were sent
to the bottom.
The Bolshevik government has ask-'
ed Germany for permission to post
pone the demobilisation ot the Rus
sian army In consequence ot the Jap
anese landing at Vladivostok, accord
ing to report! in circulation In Petro
grad and forwarded by Reuter's cor
respondent The Butte, Mont, board of educa
tion voted to retain German as part
ot the high school course. The move
Is purely selfish, the board explained,
being baaed on a belief that better
competition can be offered German
merchants after the war If Americans
understand their language.
'Washington, D. C The building of
the great merchant marine which will
transport America's men and resources
to. the battle front was intrusted Tues
day by the Shipping Board to Charles
M. Schwab, steelmaker and shipbuild
er, who becomes director general of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation, with
unlimited powers to put through the
vast building program already under
way.
' Mr. Schwab will have complete su
pervision and direction of the work of
shipbuilding," said an official an
nouncement from the White House.
Control of policies, which include de
cisions as to the number, size and
character of ships to be built with the
millions appropriated by congress, still
will rest with the Shipping board.
Mr. Piez, at his own suggestion, re
linquishes the position of general man
ager of the Fleet Corporation, which
is abolished, to give Mr. Schwab a
free hand.
Mr. Hurley remains chairman of the
board and president of the Fleet Cor
poration, in charge of policies.
Mr. Piez continues as vice president
of the board, attending to administra
tive details of construction, including
the placing of contracts, and Mr.
Schwab will organize and carry for
ward the work of putting the ships
into the water.
Mr. Schwab is the fifth man to be
put in charge of the Shipping Board's
building program, but his appointment
was attended by none of the friction
which marked some of the previous
changes in management.
The suggestion for the appointment
of a practical builder of National
prominence came this time from the
Shipping Board itself and Mr. Hurley
chose Mr. Schwab.
First of all was wanted a man who
could inspire the yard owners and
workers with the supreme importance
of building ships as fast as they can be
turned out.
MILITARY TRIAL FOR SPIES
Senator Chamberlain Introduces Bill
With Broad Provisions.
. Washington, D. C A bill to bring
all persons charged with violation of
the espionage act under the jurisdic
tion of the military court-martial was
introduced Tuesday by Senator Cham
berlain, of Oregon, chairman of the
senate military committee.
The measure was referred to the
military ' committee and Chairman
Chamberlain announced that hearings
would begin at once.' A number of
Federal judges, as well as represent
atives of the department of Justice,
are expected to be called.
Senator Chamberlain in a brief
statement declared that the one pur
pose of the measure was to expedite
the trials of persons charged with sedi
tion. Under the existing system, he
said, a man could be indicted for mak
ing seditious speeches and, after giv
ing bail, continue to make such utter
ances. "The war cannot be run in the crim
inal courts or by the department of
Justice," declared the senator, urging
that authorization be given by con
gress permitting the army to deal with
enemy activities.
The bill defines spies, subject to
trial by army or navy courtmartial or
army military commission, as persons
violating the general espoinage laws,
legislation prohibiting destruction of
war material and the draft law, those
inciting military insubordination or
transmitting to members of the Amer
ican military forces any matter favor
ing the enemy's cause or persons giv
ing false reports.
The measure's terms also broadly
apply to acts which "endanger or in
terfere with the good discipline, order,
movements, health, safety or success
ful operation," of the American mili
tary forces.
The bill recites that "owing to the
changes in the conditions of modern
warfare, whereby the enemy now at
tempts to attack and injure the suc
cessful prosecution of the war by
means of civilian and other agents and
supporters behind the lines spreading
false statements and propaganda injur
ing and destroying the things and util
ities prepared" for the military forces,
the United States is constituted a part
of the zone of operations conducted by
the enemy.
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Berlin After Rusa Fleet.
London Dr. Richard von Kuehl
mann, the German foreign minister,
has telegraphed to M. Tchitcherin, the
Bolshevik! foreign minister, to the
effect that the Russian Black Sea fleet
has separated into sections of unknown
nationality and, in violation of the
peace treaty providing for the disarm
ament of Russian warships, is attack
ing allies of Germany. Dr. von Kuehl
mann gives notice that all Black Sea
warships continuing to attack in viola
tion of the Brest-Litovsk treaty will,
after April 20, be treated as hostile.
French Youths Training.
Paris The 1919 contingent of the
French army (youths of 19 years) is
just going to the barracks to begin
training. Although called out a year
before the usual time, these young
men are in better condition physically
than any of their predecessors.
They are starting out in as high
spirits as the army did in August,
1914, shouting from the car win
dows that they will beat the Germans.
Big Vessel is Overdue for More
, Than One Month.
ALL SEARCH FUTILE
Craft Leaves West Indies Port March
4 and Completely Disappears
War Department Alarmed.
Washington, D. C The big Ameri
can naval collier Cyclops, carrying 57
passengers, 15 officers and 221 men in
her crew, has been overdue at an At
lantic port since March 13. The Navy
department announced Sunday that she
was last reported at a West Indies
island March 4 and that extreme anx
iety is entertained as to her safety.
The vessel was bringing a cargo of
manganese from Brazil.
The Cyclops left the West Indies
with one of her two engines damaged,
but the department said this fact
would not have prevented her from
communicating by radio, and all ef
forts to reach her by that means have
been unsuccessful. A thorough search
of the course which she would have
followed in coming to port has been
made, and continues, it was an
nounced. There have been no reports of Ger
man submarines or raiders in the local
ity in which the collier was, the de
partment's statement said. The
weather had not been stormy, and
could hardly have given the collier
trouble.
The fact that the collier had been
missing nearly a month became known
here April 11. The naval censor re
quested the press not to publish the
fact, on the ground that the ship had
not been given up for lost, and that to
publish the fact that she was overdue
might expose her to enemy attack,
while she might be disabled on the high
seas. The official announcement by
the Navy Sunday does not give" the
ship up for lost,, but merely Bays "the
Navy department feels extremely anx
ious as to her safety."
U. S. SENATOR STONE DEAD
Missouriaa in Public Life Nearly Half
Century, Passes Away at Capital.
Washington, D. C Senator Wil
liam J. Stone, of Missouri, chairman
of the senate foreign relations com
mittee and for many years prominent
among Democratic leaders, died here
Sunday after a stroke of paralysis suf
fered last Wednesday.
Senator Wiliam J. Stone was in pub
lic life 45 years and during that period
probably engaged in as many political
contests as any man of his time, rang
ing all the way from controversies
over county offices to the broadest na
tional issues. At the entry of the
United States into the war Senator
Stone performed the trying feat of an
tagonizing his own party administra
tion, later aligning in a generally sat
isfactory manner.
It was in connection with the bill
proposing the arming of American
merchant ships that he took sharp is
sue with President Wilson. He stood
with the dozen senators whose opposi
tion caused the failure of that measure
at the close of the 4th congress and
brought down the denunciation of the
President upon "the wilful twelve."
While Senator Stone made no apolo
gies for his course on that occasion, he
always contended it was in strict line
with his duty as a senator, because in
accord with his convictions.
His opposition to the declaration of
war upon Germany was also pro
nounced, and he declined to take
charge of the war resolution, as would
have been expected of the chairman of
the committee on foreign relations.
He did not seek, however, to place ob
stacles in the way of a consideration
of the measure and transferred the
leadership to Senator Hitchcock, next
ranking Democratic member of the
committee. He believed that Ameri
can participation should be avoided if
possible, but when the die was cast
for war he changed overnight.
Federal Building Waits.
Washington, D. C To save money,
labor and materials during the war,
Secretary McAdoo Saturday withdrew
equests for minor appropriations ag
gregating $4,300,000 for extensions
and improvements of Federal buildings,
which are not essentially necessary.
Few of the items withdrawn provide
for new buildings and in all cases gov
ernment work would not be hampered.
It was explained at the Treasury that
withdrawal of the appropriations will
not interfere with building operations
now in progress.
Liberians Hit by Shells.
London The German submarine
which on April 10 bombarded Monro
via, the capital of the African republic
of Liberia, in addition to destroying
the wireless telegraph station, sank
the Liberian armed vessel President
Grant, it was announced here Sunday.
A number of casualties were inflicted
on shore by the shells from the Uboat
After the bombardment the activities
of the submarine were interrupted by
a coastal steamer.