STOPPED BY A TURKISH SUBMARINE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2632, 1 December 1915, Page 5

STOPPED BY A TURKISH SUBMARINE

BRITISH STEAMER SUNK

"WE ARE NOT MURDERERS"

fly Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright New York, November 29. tl A Turkish submarine stopped a British steamer off Buru Gol. After twenty- B live persons bad been drowned the submarine assisted many of the 250 passen- o gers who bad 1 jumped overboard. One, is Mrs. Egan, has arrived here. She v. states that there was a panic when the ri submarine was sighted. The passengers b and the crew (mostly. Greeks) made for I the boats, three of which capsized. The submarine launched a collapsible boat, J and an officer shouted: "Be calm ii not murdorers." After standing by for a five hours and assisting in the rescue I work, tho submarine disappeared. THE ATTACK ON THE MERCIAN 1 London, November 29. Regarding tTae attack 011 the transport Mercian, a Lincolnshire Yeomanry corporal states that the.submarine attacked her for an hour on November 3, firing a hundred shells, the second of which demolished the vessel's wireless £ apparatus. The troops sheltered wherever possible. Tho captain manoeuvred the ship wonderfully. Some of the boats were picked up after those on board ( had suffered two days' privations. j [The transport Mercian was attacked 1 with gunfire by an enemy's submarino ( in the Mediterranean on tho 10th in- j stant. She was not sunk, and reachcd harbour safely. Tlio casualties were: | 23 killed, 30 missing, and 50 wound- . ed.3 j