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...presence of Swede Broberg two flights above the pool cut both crowd and interest at the meet to a minimum. Ed Hewitt's win over up and coming Dave "Torpedo" Van Vort in the quarter provided the evening's best race...
...British destroyer, the Exmouth, struck a torpedo or a mine (probably far out in the North Sea) and sank with her entire complement, about 188 men. Thus in the war's 21st week Great Britain lost the fifth of the 185 destroyers she had when the blockade of Germany began last September. During the week German mines and torpedoes sank below-average tonnage: 8,111 Allied, 35,178 neutral. Meanwhile, the sea war did not change in character, but an announcement from Germany suggested how it may change...
...173rd subsidiary for lame Associated, authorized was a $32,000,000 issue of bonds, notes and stock to form Virginia Public Service Generating Co., seven layers below Associated's teetering top. SEC's apology for adding to an "already overly complicated" system: new customers, including a torpedo factory, required additional service, and none of the Associated Gas tribe was strong enough to raise money for new generating capacity, so a new member had to be created...
...Crew members of the sunken Norwegian steamer Lappen testified in Marine Court at Bergen last week that no mine or torpedo sent their ship down, but an explosion set by one of her officers to collect insurance for the owners. None of Lappen's crew was hurt...
...knowing that since the late Rawalpindi's encounter (TIME, Dec. 4) capital ships have been out looking for the raider Deutschland, and also convoying Canadian troops, some U-boat commander lurked for big game off the west coast of Scotland. Last week he found and hit with a torpedo a battleship "of the Queen Elizabeth class." In this 30,000-31,100-ton class, besides Queen Elizabeth, are Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya, all commissioned between 1913 and 1915, all improved since with antitorpedo "blisters" of heavy armor amidships. From the British Admiralty's curt statement it was evident...