FORCED TO ADMIT THE TRUTH

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2769, 12 May 1916, Page 5

FORCED TO ADMIT THE TRUTH

SUSSEX CRIME SHEETED HOME GERMAN NOTE TO AMERICA By Teletrraph—Press Association-Copyrijrht Washington, May 10. A new Note is on its way. from Berlin in connection with the Sussex outrage. It explains that the aifair was due to Ibe negligence of tlie commander of the submarine, and promises due punish went. Reparation is also offered. Amsterdam, May 10. A. semi-official German Note abandons tho view that tho. Sussex was not torpedoed. The Government lias notified America that it admits that a German submarine was to blame.

I The Brighton Railway Company V steamer Sussex, viti". ?S0 passengers, mostly women and children, on board, was. torpedoed on the evening of March 25, between Dieppe and Folkestone, near the French coast. Thirty of the passengers were Americans. The Sussex did not sink, and was towed, very badly damaged, to Boulogne.. There was a panic on board, and about fifty people were killed as the result before the rescuing vessel took the passengers off. Germany at first declared that the vessel had struck a mine, but promked, if the Sussex actually was torpedoed, to disavow the act an<l punish the commander. Ail official denial that any German warship was responsible was sent to Washington, but it was admitted that another vessel in tho vicinity was attacked. It was later reported that there were indertiuctible proofs that the vessel was torpedoed: thirteen pieces of a torpedo ,'aad been found, and that the submarine commander's name and movements were known.] TEE SINKING OF THE CYMRIC AMERICA ASKS FOR REPORT. (Rec. May 11, 9.50 p;ni.) Washington, May 11. . President Wilson has asked Mr.'W. H. ■ Page (United States Ambassador in Iondon) to furnish a report on the sinking of the White Star liner' Cymric. TRANSPORT SUNK BY FRENCH SUB- : MARINE. ■ (Rec. May 11, 9.50 p.m.) Rome, May 11. .A French submarine, in the Lower Adriatic, sank one of the enemy's transports which'was laden with raw material.