NARROW ESCAPE OF TRANS-ATLANTIC LINER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2413, 19 March 1915, Page 5

NARROW ESCAPE OF TRANS-ATLANTIC LINER

CHASED BY SUBMARINES PIRATES SINK TWO MORE VESSELS ~ , , . London, March 17. Ihe Anchor Irner Cameronia eluded a submarine off the Mull of Galloway, but a quarter of an liour later two submarines appeared, one on either Bide of her. The liner zigzagged for ttwenty minutes at a speed of ei"hteen N > knots, aud escaped. ° The Cameronia is a steel twin-screw steamer of 10,963 tons ems. built ■in 1911- The Mull of Galloway is.a bold headland, the southern extremity of the peninsula known, as the Rhimis of Galloway, in Wigtownshire, and the most southern point of Scotland. SIX LIVES LOST IN TORPEDOED STEAMERS Official.—The steamer 'Atlanta was torpedoed off Inishturk, Ireland 1 *The crew were saved. The steamer Fingal was torpedoed off the Northumberland coast. Six persons perished. ALLEGED SINKING BY THE PIRATES. <m, a j ■ ii .-L m „ . London, March 17. a t -Lii-n that tli© small steamer Atlanta was torpedoed off Inishturk on February 14. The crew were landed. The vessel reached harbour. It is reported that the men on the submarine which torpedoed the steamer Atlanta, tned to snipe the crew of the vessel with rifles and revolvers. [l/loyd s Shipping List includes twoAfclantas—an Austrian steamer of 5022 tons, and an American steamer of 2094 tons.] The steamer Fingal was torpedoed on March 15, off the Northumberland coast. Iwenty-ono or those aboard were landed, and -sis (including the chief mate ana stewardess) perished. The vessel sank in a few minutes. There was a .'tremendous explosion. ' The first boat got clear, but the second, containing the victims, failed The boilers burst as the 6_teamer foundered. . [In Lloyd's Shipping List three steamers named Fingal are described. One is a Swedish vessel of 1640 tons, and the other two are British, of 1562 tons and 124 tons respectively.] COAL STEAMERS ATTACKED BY OVERHEAD FOE. .. „ i it -i n London, March 1". A Gernan aeroplane, three miles from the North Foreland (on the east coast of Kent), on Monday dropped five bombs, which narrowly missed the colher Blonde.

DRESDEN'S EXIT REACTS ON FREIGHT RATES

AN UNWELCOME VISITOR AT JUAN FERNANDEZ. (Bee. March 18, 5.15 p.m.) t res ! llt th ®, Dres^ ll ' s the grain rates'"oTtVwe'st Coast of North America have dropped. The Peruvian barque Lorton has arrived at Valparaiso with the crew of the British barque Conway Castle, the last vessel to be sunk by the Dresden on February 27 last. ' Reports from Valparaiso state that the Dresden put into Juan Fernandez and requested permission to remain there a week for repairs, but the authorities compelled her to leave, because she was not damaced —("'Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Kec. March 18, 11.30 p.m.) to jj r in<. «. -n , Valparaiso, March 18. Wounded Germans assort- that the Dresden's commander ordered the magazine to be blown up. BEPORTED END OP THE KAELSRUHE. T , . ~ ~ , . . . „ Copenhagen, March 18. . « 1 n s nl r ? po i: t ®? th , at a ? e3t P losl ? rl s ? nk th ? Gorman raider Karlsruhe at the end of 19]4 oft the American coast. A supply .ship saved nearly of the crew.