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NAVY DID
THE WORK
WASHINGTON. Dec.. -I— On
month before 'in* aimistict with («*
main ended the war. the American
Nav\ v- as operating a total of l.:*
vessels of all descriptions, of v.hi. t
•Jt>4 carrying 42,000 men were active' v
participating in the war in Kuropean
waters.
These figures were disclosed to
day in the annua! report of K a A
miral Griffin, chief of the bureau
steam engine** ing. Diil\ i xp* n t a
of the bureau during the war yc:
cove ml oy the report exceeded '77
000.
Admiral Griffin said the rogu
navy on the date of hi> repo t eon.
ed of .770 ships, supplement • 1 i»
f*i- front the Coast Guard. I.ig*v
bouse Service Coast and CJeodetic Su
-vey and Kish commission. In udditi '
the navy was then operating 0-7 coi
vert«*d merchant craft, yachts and tii
like, and the Naval Over>.*as T X ’.’v
port service, consisting of 247 SI*
ping Hoard and other supply ves e
with 112 more about to die commit
ioned. Construction under way for t1'
regular navy at that time include.’
new ships of all kinds and 52 tugs.
••Since the United State.s became t
b lligerent’’. the repo it states, "the
magnitude of the engineering work of
the navy, both mechanical and electri
cal. not only in its actual amount but
,n ’he rapid development of facilities
‘•»r its execution — has been without
;i!el for the same period of time
n : u history o the world's navies
To k • *p up the fleet abroad, three
• . ah l*a>os were established in hra*t
« , .*n.* i U <*at Britian. one at Gibra
a d t* o in the .Mediterranean
w • .? supplemented by six »v
ah hips which achieved remarkab’ •
in n pairing vessels at sea.
Th** r»*j)ort makes the first official
•c- meat regarding development
submarine detection devices ar. i
i hat American equipment fu
:* > t irpose has been placed abroad
*•’ I; iti<h and French naval craft
‘‘Vi aiv not disclosed , however
he • oort in this connection confining
’self to the following paragraph:
"Previous to July 1, 11)17, there
were two devices for submarine de
t 'ction in service. Oue was the Fess*
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! emlen oscillator, primarily intended
for sending and receiving underwater
signals; the other was a device de
veloped by the General Electric Co.
Since then eight other devices for
; submarine detection have been dove1
oped and made in quantity, not on y
! for our own navy, hut for the British
I admitulty and the French Ministry of
Marine. Modified forms of these de
vices have also been designed for us**
in protection of the Atlantic coast of
| the United States.”
Taking up naval radio development,
Admiral Taylor shows that through
the new Tiigh power plant at Annapol
is and the station built by the navy in
Fiance and nearing completion, pro
vision had been made which would
have kept the United States govern*
, meat in touch with its forces in Eur
ope constantly even if every subma
rine cable had been cut. The rad:o
communication system has been ex
tended vastly, S4 additional main
stations having been built during the
year.
Striking achievements arc noted in
development of radio outfits for naval
aircraft. Communication from machin
es in flight to shore stations is now
possible at a distance of 200 miles, tin
report says, while the land station can
communicate with a machine in air
, r>0 miles away. Through the radio
telephone, the aircraft can talk to
st itions 00 miles away and receive
vernal instructions from station 1*
miles distant. Both systems have he* i
employed with the coastal pat'ol
maintaino I by aircraft.
Tables annexed to the report show
that the battleship Mississippi, twelve
destroy er>, eight of which are 35
knot boats, and 14 submarines had
been delivered prior to the first of
last July. At that time destroyers No
70 to 344 inclusive were under con
, struction, all but the first two being
35-knot craft. The chief difficulty to
be overcome in carrying out the hug**
destroyers project was building the
engines, yet on July 1 the driving
plants of the 275 boats then building
i
were well advanced. Many of the ves
sels since have been delivered.
Of the big ships, engines for five
>ut ol eight new battleships had pas >
ed the 20 percent mark. No work be
yond propa at ion of plans apparently
had been d.me on engines for the six
authorized battle-cruiser and work
had not much more than started or
for three of the six authorized
-scout ciuisers.
Submarine building on July 1 num
>oivd 100, and the tables show the en
gines for 23 were more than fit) per
cent ready: fourteen of them being
well past the 00 percent.
NAVAL BATTLE IS
FOUGHT
VLADIVOSTOK, Dec., .°>l— (Cor
respondence of The Associated Press}
—A naval battle on Lake Baikal, Sib
»ria, and a land battle near Masovaia
>n the eastern shore of the lake ,
broke the Bolsheviki resistance along
the Trans-Siberian Railway at one
time virtually clearing the route ol
the Czecho- Slovaks from the south
of Russia to the Pacific. In the land
battle Colonel Oushakoff, commandei
of the Cossacks cooperating with the
Czechs and Slovaks, was killed but
the Bolsheviki and the Hungarian wot
prisoners cooperating with them were
so badly beaten that they were nevei
able to rally again.
The Czechs and their Cossacks al
lies were moving eastward along the
railway line toward Irkutsk but wevr
blocked at the southern end of Lake
Baikal when the Bolsheviki blew up
i one of the railway tunnels running
through the mountains there.
While the Czechs and Slovaks went
around the southern end of the lake
Colonel Oushakoff captured two lak«
steamers, fitted them with guns and
started across the Lake towing barges
fillet with Cossacks. Several Bolshe
vik craft including two large lal:<
steamers attacked the expedition but
a shot from one of the Cossack ves
sels set afire one of the Bolshevik
craft and the other fled.
Landing at Masovaia on the ean
shore of the lake, Colonel Oushakoff
attacked the enemy as they were mas
sing for the expected assault upon th*
Czechs and Slovaks approaching from
the south end of the lake.
The battle which ensued was the
most desperate of all those attending
ihe eastward progress of the Czechs.
Colonel Oushakoff fell a victim to his
own error in mistaking a group of
Bolsheviki for his own men. They shdt
him down as he walked up to tham
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holding out his hand.
Six thousand was the estimate o'
the number of Bolsheviki and thr<
thousand war prisoners, K i I led in the
battle. In addition two thousand pri *.
oners were taken. Many of these lat
ter paid the penalty of the killing < •
Oushakoff. In parties of four or fh
hundred they were mowed down ny
machine gun fire.
When, however, General Gaidu, ti •
Czecho-Slovak commander, learned of
this occur ranee he issued orders aga:u
•>t any further executions withoi.t
dial by courts martial. As the result
of this battle the Czecho -Slovaks caj
tured forty trains of provisions a;:
»
ammunition. The way through to Chi
ta was opened by the flight of t!;<
Bolsheviki and General Gaida and hi
officers moved eastward thereaftf*
without serious opposition.
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YUKON WOMAN
MODERN DIANA
pallid hiyn on ute wails oi Hit* lio.
•viniu iv no.aeiry at ine .hmui r oi'k ...
a iKUitisoinc pan1 oi moose noiiis, air.;
«i t..o njie-ucttcu meat cucuc uuCtt w
.i»f iiou.iu uir ioui iiic ijuaiteiv> • .
.noose Una., untie outsim; liie cam
Jii a line iiuuga a u.y ak.u. m..
. isibie e\ uli.net;;> oi suo.ic»*iiiiui u«/i i
ui mose day?. oi proliteeuny are tin
<n opines oi me rule hamlieu with u>.
or. iiiy precision by the most adept
woman hunter oi the \ukoii, a*..#.
Jack Hollcnback.
The biy moose whose horns an.
carcass now lot ms the silent evident-,
of the prowess of the Yukon Uian
was killed Friday eveniny within .
mile of the Hollenhack home. Mi
Hollcnback brought down the huy
monarch of the woods with a
rifle. She planted two shots in the
biy fellow, and in each instance h:i
him v\hile on the run.
Nut without persistence, pluck and
skill did Mrs. Hollenback made he»’
kill. Twenty-nine successive night*
she went to the moose lick at sunset
and remained there until sunrise.
Usually it grew dusk between 8:80
and 9 o'clock and it was 4 or 5 in the
morning when the shadows lengthened
so that she went home. Twenty-eight
nights she sat alone in the silent
shadows of the Klondike hills, keeping
watch with rifle in hand, and evei
ready to fire at the first sign of ap
proach of a moose to the lick. Th
twenty-ninth night her reward cam *
It was the first moose to approach the
lick in all the weary time she had
been waiting. It was about 8:80
o'clock.
“I was sitting in my accustomed
place,” she said, “and the first thing
I knew the moose was right at me.
I arose and he ran. I fired two shot-’
into him. He weighed 600 pounds
dressed.”
This is the twenty-sixth moose Mrs.
Hollenback has killed during her ex
istence in the Yukon. She has lived
on the Klondike river for several
years, and not only has she killed
many moose but also has shot many
bears. She once killed six bears in
three days. Some of them were the
largest ever seen in the section.
Mrs. Hollenback also has trapper
many fur-bearing animals in the win
ter, and when she wants a set of er
mine, marten or fox, she goes out and
catches the animals herself.- Dawson
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