LINER SUNK WITH AMERICANS ON BOARD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2504, 3 July 1915, Page 5

LINER SUNK WITH AMERICANS ON BOARD

'PB' UTEST PiRATItJAIi' OUTRAGE , ' 'GREAT'SENSATION: IN AMERICA / |3y v Tele(rraph-^Prcss'As6ociaUon—Copyright , , London* July I. • A'-submarinetorpe'doedandsank the. L'eyland. liner Armenian (8825 tons)', ' Islands onMonday-: night. A number of Americans were on boardi • The incident lias ; caused a-sensation in/America,, and Mr. Pago (American 1 '' to in. London) and Mr.' G.erardy(Ambassador'at .Berlin)/have beeii in- . '• strueted to report on'tho/matter. . . . ) 'whiob'ivas;builfc-in.ylß9s;vwas"ta;l4-kribi; boat. The "latest 1 ' ' iplass of German,-o<;ean-going submarines" can travel at 18 knots'on the surface.] N i ' . Statements by Survivors, . x . 1 The 'Armenian's'survivors who have arrivedyat'.Cardiff, sighted the- sub- :. .' 'liarine when two;:3iundred';nalos ; .off the;yScillyiislesi . The vessel : wont at full speed, m a!desperate effort to escape. ■ -w 1 ; •.: , j; _ Tlie .raptairi ; r defiea U3B's- orders to stop uhtil.a shell crashed into the;eri<" jpne-room and brought the-ship to a standstill. . 'y-' :: ( Men from tho submarine boarded Her, and placed two large bombs, on L \ board. The liner sank • in. thirty minutes,, Five boats got clear,. But the ropes ' - v ■ ,'£tf another wero cut by-a.shell, and the :occupants thrown into the sea • • - , y.:; The' submarine-firedion - : a ■Belgiah'trawlor.'.whichywas coming to the rescue, ytout eventually-desisted, and the trawler' secured the ', occupants of 1 the five : fvv believed .that'thirty wero drowned. . . - r' : ' •J" Bio liner Tanjuah picked up tlo Armenian's wireless messages. l - s y--. ■'- ; -~ -yyy<Vy. v..y/V^). ; y ■.yy ; * ; -y jf - •' iTho Captain's Story. I ' 1 . ,' 1 London, July 1. ; , CaptainTrickery,'cf the 'Armenian, in,an interview, said:. "The submar- I ■ v ine signalled us to stop by-putting a couple of gunshots across otir bows . ( N. :,when four miles:off.N'l put my-swrn to hira,y:and 'ranyfor'it; '■ \ • "Ho shelled, continuously, and shrapnel, killed several.of tho crow and • yff;< precipitated some-into »the seaJ I realised-that the '.enemy was gaining,-. but ,i .struggled One-shell .knocked tho'steering gear ;;out of.'order; another'fell' ' into the -engine-TOom.- a-third carried- away the Marconi house; and a'fourth! ' cut down tho_ funnel, and disabled tho men-iuy'tho' ; st6keioldiyahd- prevented jne from getting steam. '• 'i'vy ;-V,-. V.-j.;- -. ■ • • - "The ship was on fire in three places' wh'on I decided to surrender." T had then resisted for an hour . Twelve or . thirteen, men'woi'b lying dea'd'on .-'deck'.- '.-Tho submarine commander made ine clear .'tho ship,' and the Armenian spnk. _ ' . . , ' >i /' "After -showing every fairness, the siibmarino picked up some of the' crew, .who: were : floatmg. ; .with' lifpbelts; r -Most:. of the crew' / who-'.'*perished ;-wero' -'I ■ r V-- ' " v {THE S.O.S. OALD/-S r , I • : » ■ i, , f , ' >, <Reo. July 2, 10.40 p.mj \ m. , ■ r t .i , • london, July 2 . •' ■, !' .captam. of..the 'ArDiGman bsheyos. .that .tlie sußinaruie rescued tlireo ofi i pho crew. , v - • The mate states that', the first shell killed ten-meu. The-wireless operator - continued -call •until a shell destroyeid-'his" apparatus.-7' \ ;I , ;after tprriblo euffpriiig, ydied of 011-board t-ho boats,. . :y- : : ■> 0 : . j^WENTYr'AMERICANS REPORTED DROWNED. ' rm rt * j. n * 1 1 , , - , Washington, July i. ■ : y-ao Lousui atJiristol reports that twenty Americans wero'-drownad- Tliis - • a sensation in official circles, particularly hecauso it was expected ' .;that Germany s reply was. favourable to the American', Note/' 1 , : . ; llio officials contend that the ship should have been-.searched and thiTcrew y : -.' -.y=,%ratg§g3jE!d- s t«isalet3s before .the xosseLv/as, destroyed/-'y' :■ , -. " y , :v.. : " --.v. ARMENIAN ,WAS .ON: 'ADMIRALTY BUSINESS, v '(Rec. July 2, 9 p.m.):. "> j -v- ~~2. ■ ~ 1 • >r :> ti m • • ' •" ' Washington, July : t "iMr. -Page) (United States Ambassador in London) has: cabled his Govern- . • •inent stating that the British Admiralty had'notified'him th.at. the Armenian - ' .was-.engaged-on.their .(tho Admiralty's) business,, . '1 • ' ' AND, INDISPENSABLE PART OF, GERMAN WAR-; FARE."- - - ~ , , ** . ; -iT.-U ■ j '-'(Reo.'July 2, 9.15 p.m.j :. Amsterdam, July 2." ' ThS'."Hamburger, Nachtrichten"- is disappointed at the. views ' expressed -bu 'America's attitude..towards Germany by Dr. Gerhard (who recently visited the United States, and 011 his return said that there was 110 -.general feeling §f ..hostility to Germany-in America, and that "orders for munitions in Amcrica, . iwere being confused with deliveries)., •' . . - V: .;. -The: "Nachtrichten'' declares-that there;is-no evidence that tjie 'Americans y are opposing the delivery of supplies and ammunition to the Allies, aiid'tlier'e- "/ fare the submarine war, to which the LusitaniOi-was a' vietinij is a -powerful af'd ....'■y,' part, .of Gcrmaii'-vvarfare.-. ' • " '' ' T -' , , '" 1 BRITISH DESTROYER MINED OR TORPEDOED ' I'OUJITEEN; ,OE THE CREW- REPORTED MISSING. ■ '- , : ■ London, July 1. : , The' Admiralty announces that a niine or a torppdo damaged the destroyer , lightning.olf tho.Epst Coast last night. She-is now in harbbur. Fourteen .pi her crow aro missing, i: [The-Lightning is an old destroyer (built 1895) of 252 tons, armed witli f . j'one 12-pounder ar.d,five 6-pounder 'guns- and two torpedo tubc3. Slur has a \y\.sp<?idjjywfintx.-iey.en somp]emeiit is fifty, officers and meiii]-

MORE PIRACY AND MURDER , •' (Ilec. July 2, 0.15 p.m.) London, July 2. Tho steamer Lamas,'from Buenos Aires to Belfast with maize, ..was torpedoed forty-live miles west of'tho Scillys, on Wednesday. Her second niato was killed by sholl-firo The rest were -landed at Milford Haven. A Norwegian wheat harquo'was torpedoed off the Fastnet Light. Part of tho crew were lauded on tho Irish coast'. : The Sardonßne, from West Australia, was torpedoed and sunk without warning off tho coast of Cork. Two were,'killed and sey.eijal -..wounded- or miisiug. Soven .wore saved, • 1 '• ' /■ ' ■ -: