| Show LiNER MENACED ON OUTWARD TRIP Two vo Sticks of Dynamite Found on Board Night Before She Left New York New York Aug Aus- 20 P. O.-P. P. P A. A S S. S Franklin Frank Frank- lin Un vi vice co president and antl general manager lof of the White Star line stated late lato lust last night that the tho company compan would suffer sulCer little If any loss through tho the sinking cf Gt the Arabic Tho The liner had bc boon beon n insured in- in Aured lJ by Insurance companies M for approximately ap- ap proximately he said Mr lr Franklin stated there was no contraband contra- contra band on board and only onh about tons of ot freight Tho The loss of or tho the freight will vill have hae to be borno borne h. h by the tho shippers It wn was said The Tho Arabic carried mall mali from Crom European points for Cor America Tho The Arabic's tonnage Is 15 1801 tons and net Sho Is feet long GG Gli feet beam and 47 H feet In depth She lie was built In Belfast in 1903 by Harland Wolff On her last e eastward stward trip the Arabic arrived ed In Liverpool on August 6 from Crom New ew York Following the receipt of oC a cablegram announcing hor her safe arrival the bureau of combustibles of New NewYork NewYork York CIt City allowed llo the tho fact tact to become becom known that two sticks sUck of ot dynamite had been discovered on board on pa July luly 27 the night before sho she sailed 1 from New cw York The Tho explosive was under a n settee In th the women's parlors In iii tho the cabin Once before since the tho beginning ot of I the tho war var the Arabic Amble had a 0 close call A A cable cabio message from London on March 27 said the steamer had been pursued by a German submarine In the Irish sea e on the tho voyage which ended on that day According to this account a periscope was sl sighted as the steamer went Vent in from St St. Georges George's channel and It soon became obvious that a hostile submarine submarino submarine sub sub- marine marino was In pursuit Tho The Arabic Arable put on full tull steam and outdistanced the sub sub- On her recent trips the Arabic Amble has carried far tar more passengers than on normal oya voyages n 8 In times of ot peace There Thera were ero 1 passengers In tho the cabIn cabIn cab- cab In In of ot whom five o were Americans and 80 so In tho the steerage on the last voyage oage to Liverpool The Tho Arabic has hns been used to carry great quantities fJ of or war munitions purchased purchased pur pur- pur- pur chased chasM In tho the United States for tor or Gre Great t Britain Fo Fastnet of off which the tho Arabic has been reported to have gone one down lies close to the line of ot steamship traffic 1 between England and America It is about forty miles went vest of ot Old Head of ot Kinsale near which the Lusitania was wan sunk mink German submarines submarine have o been active in these waters since tho the dee dec b by tho the German government In February of a naval war zono zone around the British Isles The Arabic a twin screw steamship arrived In New York on her maiden trip tripon tripon on Jul July 1 5 Ii 1903 having been launched at Belfast on December 18 of the previous previous pre pre- Ious year ear At that time she was one of ot the largest steamships engaged In trans trans-A trans Atlantic lIan tic trade |
