Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1918 — HAS THEORY AS TO CYCLOPS [ARTICLE]

HAS THEORY AS TO CYCLOPS

Senator Phelan Says Missing United States Collier 'Wes Blown Up by Bomb. Washington, May 3. —Senator Phelan of California told the senate mines committee he believed the missing American collier Cyclops probably was blown up by an explosion charge pur in her cargo of manganese by Germans.-' - ’ “I was told by naval men that she was loaded at Bahia, Brazil, with ore,” he said, “and that the port was full of Germans from a cruiser and other ships interned there. Opportunity to put a plant in her cargo was ample.” The committee was considering a bill to conserve ores.