PLAN AERO EXPEDITION
TO LOCATE STEFANSSON
NEW YORK.—The recent sugges
tionof the Aero Club of America to
arrange for an expedition in an at
tempt to rescue Vilkjalmur Stefansson
and the members of his exploring
party has met with much encourage
ment. Prominent men have become
interested in the project, including
Robert E. Perry, Alan R. Hawley anti
Burt M. McConnell, meteorologist of
the Canadian Arctic expedition of last
year.
it will be remembered that the small
schooner King and Wing picked up a
detachment of Stefansson’s party at
W’rangell island. That was in Septem
ber, and this detachment had made its
home on the island after wandering
over the ice following the crushing of
Stefansson’s ship, the Karluk. north
of Siberia, on January 11 of last year.
Stefansson and the ten men still miss
nlg broke up into two detachments,
one composed of three men and the
other of eight. It is believed that these
men are safe somewhere on the drift
ice north of Alaska, and tnnt an aero
plane that really looks over this area
will find them.
The idea of the Aero Club is to send
a steamer next summer Into the Arctic
Ice ns for as possible along the north
coast of Alaska. From this base it Is
proposed that aeroplanes should fly
out. with the Arctic sea north of them
mapped off into a checkerboard. A
full month of good flying weather
could he counted on between the open
ing and closing of the northern waters
to navigation. During that month It
would he possible for one aeroplane,
if good lin k should attond Its flights, to
search practically the whole area with
in the zone of Stpfansson's possible
movements.
The flyers, who would return to the
same base each day, could report any
signs of human presenc a on the lee
fields or any sign of a habitation the
explorers might have put together.
In addition to its service as a relief
measure the proposed use of aero
planes in the Arctic was warmly ap
proved by the Aero Club because the
high and long flights above the Ice
might result in the discovery of now
\retie land. It was considered cer
tain that the flyers would at least
bring In much valuable data about
the Arctic air oceans above the surface
winds.
Knowledge of these air oceans Is
badly wanted by the Aero Club officials
for use In the projected plan of map
ping the air against the day of pos
sible transoceanic flight, it is expected
to equip the expedition with fifteen
men as a crew, for less than J126.000
It is expected to receive considerable
assistance from the Canadian govern
ment. Mr. McConnell acted as secre
tary to the lost explorer during the
fore part of the last expedition, and Is
anxious to have a rescue party start
as early in the spring as navigation
opens.
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THE EFFECT OF THE
GERMAH SHELLS IH AHTWERP
The bombardment ol' Antwerp be
gan about ten o’clock on Wednesday
evening. The lirst shell to fall within
the city struck a house in the Here hem
district, killing a fourteen-year-old
buy and wounding his mother and little
sister. The second decapitated a street
sweeper as he was running for shelter.
Througlit the night the rain of death
continued, the shells falling at the rate
of five a minute. The streets were ab
solutely deserted. Not a living being
was to be seen. The few who had re
mained in the city were cowering in
their cellars. Though the gas and the
electric lights were out, the streets
were Illuminated by the glare from the
blazing oil-tanks at Hoboken, which
had been set on fire by the Belgians.
The racket was deafening. The pave
ments trembled. The buildings seem
ed to rock and sway. Tlie very air
vibrated lo the incessant concussion.
Jt was indeed a City of Dreadful Night.
There would come the whistling shriek
of a shell passing low over tile house
; tops, followed, an instant later, by a
'shattering, rending crash, and the
whole facade of the house where it
had struck would come toppling into
the street in a cascade of brick and
plaster, it was not until Thursday
night, however, that the Hermans
brought their famous forty-two centi
metre guns into action. The destruc
tion wrought by these monster cannons
was appalling. The projectiles they
rained upon llie city weighed a ton
apiece, and had tile destructiv e proper
ties of that much nitro-glycerine. So
terrific was the noise of their discharge
that it seemed at first its though the,
German butteries were filing salvo*.
We heard them as they came. We
heal'd the roar in the air which they
caused, sounding at first like an ap
proaching express-train, but rapidly
increasing in volume until the atmos
phere quivered as before a howling cy
clone. Then came an explosion thai
seemed to split the very earth. Huge
geysers of dust anil smoke shot high
into the air above the shivering city.
When one of these projectiles struck
a building it did not merely tear uway
its upper stories or blow a gaping
aperture In its walls: the whole build
ing collapsed in utter ruin as though
flattened by a mighty hand.
From "The Taking of Antwerp," by
K. Alexander Powell, in the January
Ssribner.
PLEA FOR PEACE
BY UEBKNECHT
BERLIN, via London.—Dr. Karl Lle
bknecht, Socialist member of the
reichstag, has addressed the following
appeal to Socialists in England and all
throughout the world:
"As a labor leader I am pleased to be
able to write a message of brotherhood
to the British Socialists at a time when
the ruling classes of Germany and
Great Britain are trying by all the
means in their power to incite blood
thirsty hatred between the two peoples.'
“But 11 is painful to write at a time
when the radiant hope of previous
days, the Socialist International union,
lies smashed with its thousand ex
pectations, when even many Socialists
of the belligerent countries in this
most rapacious of all wars of robbery
willingly put on the yoke of imperial
ism.
“Just when the evils of capitalism
were becoming more apparent than
ever, the British Independent Labor
party, with their Russian and Serbian
comrades, saved the honor of Socialism
. against the madness of national
slaughter.
“Confusion reigns in the rank and
file of the Socialist army. Many So
cialists blame our principles for our
present failure. It is not our prin
ciples which have failed, but the re
presentatives of those principles.
“All the phrases of ‘national defense'
and ‘liberation of the people,’ with
which imperialism decorates its instru
ments of murder, are deceiving tinsel.
The liberation of each nation must be
the result of its own work. Only
blindness can command the continua
tion of slaughter until the enemy is
crushed.
Nowhere have the masses desired
this war. Why should they, then,
murder each other. Tt would he a sign
of weakness, it is said, for any one peo
ple to suggest peace. Well, let all the
peoples suggest it together. The na
tion which speaks first will not show
weakness hut strength and will win
glory and the gratitude of posterity.
“Already among German workers
there is far greater opposition to the
war than is generally supposed, and
the louder the echo of tho cry for peace,
in other countries, the more vehement
ly and energetically will they work fur
peace here.”
ITALIAN FLEET MINE
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CLEARING IN ADRIATIC:
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ROME, May 29.—The Italian Adri
atic fleet have opened a blockade of
'the upper Adriatic in this vicinity of
Trieste and Palo and has begun the
work of clearing out the great mine
fields along the Istrn and Croatia
coasts.
ITALIAN AVIATORS PERFORMING
GREAT WORK.
ROME, May 29.—Italian aviators
are distinguishing themselves along
the Austrian frontier. Already much
damage has been done to towns along
the border and several desperate sky
battles have occurred between Italian
and Austrian aviators in the majority
of cases the Italians coming off vic
torious.
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By order of the Town Council.
J. H. MUSTARD.
tf Health Officer.
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