Show 1 I OFFICIALS UNPREPARED I FOR NEWS OF DISASTER I New York Aug 10 The l-The The White Star line received word ford a at o'clock this afternoon from irom its Liverpool office that the liner Ara Arabic ic had been sunk by y a 1 German submarine submarino at o'clock this morning morning- off the south coast const of Ireland Press dispatches from irom London had told of the tile sinking sinking- an nn hour before Almost at the time same moment that the tue cn cables were cro telling of the tho sinking the line received a R message C from front London announcing that tho the vessel had sailed from Liverpool yesterday afternoon This was followed in in a n. few minutes b by another me message S ge stating that the steamer had aboard cabin passengers anti and 43 15 in the time steerage For nearly neady an nn hour this was the anI only information that the line linc could g give gc c to the tho hundreds of inquirers who besieged besieged be be- the office in person and b IJ by telephone for news Then the stor story came through a few words at a time lime Fifteen boatloads of survivors an nn early dispatch said were on their way to Nearly four hours boum after the fin t message a cablegram was received conveying con- con the intelligence that survivors had been landed at Queenstown that only 48 were unaccounted for and that the captain of the liner Will Finch of the roa royal navy reserve had wired that his ship was torpedoed without warning and s sank in ill iii eleven minutes At 0 6 ocIo o'clock the tile line had the name nano of only one survivor Mr 11 De Do Lorrimer Lor- Lor rimer of Canada son law of the Canadian a minister of marine Wn-t Wn time War secrecy cloaks all sn sailings lIn s I i neared the e war zones n Widespread e but ut irom nom ports until the tac vessels are aro well on their wa way out of ot tho German war var zone Steamers slip In and out of ot British ports unheralded with darkened dark dark- ened lights and shrouded port holes holet and steam at top speed through th the thu war zone boats swung outward In momentary readiness for Cor a n death blow the lines' lines representatives explain P. P A. A S. S Franklin receiver of oC the tho In International International In- In Mercantile Marine company compan which operates tho the Star line asked tho the Liverpool agents to send at once tho names of ot Americans aboard LITTLE I- I FEAR EAn PELT FELT The line apparently was was unprepared for tor news of ot the tho ho sinking of oC the Arabic Within the past three months there have been Instances notably those of ot the tho Adriatic the Baltic and tho the Transylvania Transylvania Tran Tran- sylvania syl when the New ew York agents of ot the trans lines have havo 81 spent Ont many tenso moments as ns their vessels u i vo vuI-e vuI In II CirCUlatiOn that German submarines had destroyed the vessels or were lying In wait walt for them off ott tho Irish coast But there thero was x no advance rumor concerning tho the Arabic's fate It was not even en known officially hero here that she ahe had left Liverpool till after tho the word came that she eho had been sunk and no pa passenger list had hod been prepared here hero for tor publication CARRiED SA DIUG Tho The Arabic Arable was waa one of at the tho largest of at tho the fe few British vessels remaining In the trans Atlantic service On her recent trips she has carried far tar fewer fower passengers and especially Americans than In time times of ot peace When sho she sailed from this port Jul July 28 8 she was shielded so ao far tar aa az possible against gun gunfire gunfire fire which might destroy destro the steering gear b by bags of ot sand piled high above o it I |