Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-09-25 | Page 3 | Herbert C. Hoover has Narrow Escape

HERBERT C, HOOVER has nam ESCAPE Head of Relief Commission Stands Beside Man Wounded. LONDON, Sept. S4. 30:17 p. m The ! Dutch mail steamer Prins Hendrik, which was se:zed by German naval force? while hound from Flushing for London and taken into Zeebrugge, was in great danger dan-ger when, as the jtep.mcr was being escorted es-corted toward that port, an entente allied aeroplane dropped a bomb, intended for a convoying German destroyer, within twenty feet of the vessel. One Dutch passenger and two sailors were wounded, according to passengers of the Prins Hen-drik Hen-drik who have landed here. Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the American commission for Belgian relief, was standing beside the wounded passenger passen-ger and narrowly escaped injury. The huil of the vessel was punctured in twenty-three places. The trip to Zeebrugge was due to the i fact that a research of the ship was ordered or-dered when a special courier threw over a package that sank immediately. An American courier was not molested by the Germans. The only other American aboard. Isa-dore Isa-dore Polak, was taken ashore protesting vigorously. Fellow passengers were ignorant ig-norant of the cause of his detention. The only woman landed was the wife of Baron de Andrient of tne Belgian diplomatic diplo-matic service. M. Beniot of the French diplomatic service, was removed, but his wife remained aboard. The only belligerent who avoided capture cap-ture and detention was a 19-year-old French soldier, who had escaped from a German prison camp. He remained for several hours in a wooden tub that had the open end propped against the deckhouse. deck-house. The passengers report that the Germans conducted the examination courteously. Tlie most prominent Englishman aboard was W. Irwin, chairman of the fish commission, com-mission, which regulates the disposal of the catch of the Scandinavian and Dutch fishing fleets. The Prins Hendrik on her final trip out from Zeebrugge was escorted, in addition ad-dition to destroyers, by three German aeroplanes, the pilots of which amused themselves by shooting wild ducks with their machine guns.