HIGH SEA PIRATES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2881, 20 September 1916, Page 5

HIGH SEA PIRATES

THE ATTACK ON THE \"- I KELYINIA ; AMERICANS TELL THEIR STORY Australian-New Zealand Cable Association New York, September 18. : The Americans who escaped deatfbi when the British steamer Eelvinia was torpedoed on September 2. havearriv.;' ■'■ ed by the Tuscania. They report thai* it is unquestionable that a- German submarine attacked the vessel, on which] .! there were twenty-eight Americans*. mostly muleteers. It is stated that the ■ j Department took their depositions, ouij ■ ' it is understood there wilL he no fnrJ ther action. ' ■ . Later. Twenty-seven Americans who wer*i i on board the steamer Kelviuia arrived! - to-day j Thoy informed tiie State De- J partmont that a submarine torpedoed the. steamor vritliout warning at 2 .• i o'clock in the morning. The torpedo l struck the port side of the vessel. AW though it was ovident that the shin ' ' was sinking, the submarine did not! ' j attempt to render assistance, and tha ■-} crew was forced to remain in a small ./ ] boat for fourtee.i hours, until thej ; • were rescued by a British trawler. j