Show AMERICANS PE S WHEN LINER SINKS 1 AMERICAN MULETEERS PERISH WHEN DOMINION LINER IS SUNK DY BY GERMANS action of united states government depends on whether ship was wag given warning and attempted to escape from submarine washington the dominion freight liner liner armenian flying tile tho british flag and carrying mules from newport news newa va to england was torpedoed and sunk on monday night by tho the gorman german submarine U 38 oft off cornwall england and nearly a score of american muleteers mule teera were reported lost according co arding to messages received by the state department wednesday fron from consul john S armstrong jr at bristol tanty nine men in all were lost and ten injured from froin messages received it appears that in addition to tho the torpedo at least one shot ahot was tired fired front from it a dilall rifle the consuls report said bald the wireless house was taken by see second secand shot it was not made clear whether bother the armenian was ordered to halt and resisted ca capture iture requiring it ii second shot or whether tile the submarine attacked without warning the fact t that tat the number of the submarine was given indicated that she bhe had come to the surface to make the attack it Is 13 taken for granted that the armenian was unarmed as such yes ves sc ls Is usually earn carry no guns of any description even I 1 she actually had been under chartr charter by the british government there it a an understanding between the united states and great britain that none of the batters lat ships shall be ghea clearance from american ports it armed mules are contraband cor cov of war according to all the lists of the bellig arents so there can ile be no doubt as to the contraband character of the ar men ians lans cargo officials will make an effort to learn hover hov how ter er ft whether h ether ane vessel vessel was armed unit and it if she was a part of the british naval forces before the opinion of tre me state department on the case will be disclosed |