Show DIOMED SUNK SLINK BY SUBMARINE t Steamer teamer Chased Four Hours Captain and Two Others Killed by hY Shell Fire r Queenstown Au Aug The Th 23 The British steamship Domed Diomed has been boen sunk b by a German submarine Her captain quartermaster quartermaster and steward were killed by shells fired tired b by tho submarine during a pursuit of oC four tour hours An officer of ot the Diomed who landed lande here today with other survivors says saS that two submarines were sighted According According According Ac Ac- cording to his report thc they were rigged with dummy funnels tunnels One of or them this officer asserts subjected the f Diomed to a n hea heavy shell fire tire The liner Uner attempted to escape but surrendered rendered after atter being pursued for tr Z four four hours Two boats bonts were lowered i r nUll and forty tort members of ot the crew Jot got awa away taking with them the bod body of oC the captain S Shortly afterwards one boat was M Two Englishmen and five tl Chinese were drowned The others were Wel C picked up by the second boat This boat being overcrowded was wa I Jr r. r danger dang of CC heln being swamped but Its occupants were saved by the arrival ofa of 01 ofa a ft steamship Survivors say that durin during the purI pursuit pursuit pur pur- I suit the Chinese firemen of ot tho the Diomed refused to continue stoking and the work was undertaken b by dockhands deckhands Tho TJ submarine rne stood off oCt at a distance of oC About bout h half lC a mile until the Diomed sank The Thc assistant quartermaster master of oC tho the Diomed states that another steamer was In sight at the time and apparently apparent rent I ly was sinking This vessel In his opinion was attacked attached b by a second sub sub- marine Tho The steamship med was a 1 freighter freight freight- tor rr er of or 1673 tons gross She was owned by hy the Ocean Steamship company of ot Liverpool She was last Jast reported as having arrived at Swansea on Jul July 2 1 1 from Amsterdam on a voyage to to ew York o Jc The British seb loner Martha Edmonds Ed- Ed monds monda 18 tons gross ross and ando owned o ned nt at nth h his has 6 been sunk Junk Her crew ere was landed |