America.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 67, 19 July 1915, Page 5

America.

A TORPEDO THAT FAILED.

ANOTHER LINER ATTACKED.

United Press Association. New York, July 17

Passengers arriving by the Ordnna report that a German submarine attempted to sink the Ordnna, hut the captain steamed up and escaped. The submarine used both torpedoes and shells. The passengers made a presentation to Captain Taylor for his bravery on the occasion. There were many Americans on hoard. Taylor, captain of the Ordnna, reports that the submarine was sighted three miles south of Queenstown, ami eight minutes after a torpedo had been fired. There was not the least warning. The torpedo missed owing to the Germans misjudging the Orduna’s speed, allowing fourteen knots instead of sixteen. Nearly all the passengers were asleep, and it was almost another case of brutal murder. After the torpedo passed, the stewards woke up the 226 passengers, who assembled on the upper deck with lifebelts. Shells passed over the passengers’ heads while the captain was sending out tho wireless “5.0.5.”

REGARDED AS DIRECT INSULT. Washington, July 17. Tho torpedoing of tho Ordnna is regarded by America as a distinct insult from Germany, as it was confidently believed, pending the exchange of notes, that Germany would refrain from attacking passenger ships on which Americans were travelling. It is presumed that a further note will be despatched thereon.

THE NEBRASKA INCIDENT.

New York, July 17

The newspapers point out that the German Note regarding the Nebraska seeks indirectly to secure recognition of previous contentions, inasmuch as it explains that the accident was due to th© absence of means of identification, and this is a direct contradiction from the captain’s testimony. The explanation is silent regarding the failure to search unarmed merchantmen.

THE EFFECT ON COMMERCE. London, July 17. It is semi-ofiicially announced from Washington that the meat packers will persuade the Government to actively push their case against the British Admiralty. The Germans in America are delighted at the reappearance at this juncture of American trade grievances, realising that the last German Note was impossible of acceptance. They are trying, through ,Gbunt BornstorfF, to persuade the Americans that the only terms on which Berlin will withdraw its present stand arc that President Wilson will approach Britain to secure a compromise oi the blockade. Nobody believes that the move will be successful.