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Show CYCLOPS DESTROYED BY BOMB, IS BELIEF WASHINGTON, May 2. Senator Phelan of California told the senate mines committee today ho believed the missing American collier Cyclops probably prob-ably was blown up by an explosive charge put in her cargo of manganese by Germans. Ger-mans. ' "I was told by naval men that ehe was loaded at Bahia, Brazil, with ore," he said, "and that the port was full of Germans Ger-mans from a cruiser and other hips interned in-terned there. Opportunity to put a plant in her cargo was ample." The committee was considering, a bill to conserve ores. |