Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 5 | Bold Italian Shipmaster Tricks Fleet of U-Boats

BOlD IT At IAN SHIPMASTER TRICKS fLEET Of BOATS U-BOATS Escapes Attach b by hy r Sailing b Through Unknown Channel Channe Channel Chan Chan- ne nel 1 Between Coast of Spain and Island at Midnight r THREE OF CONVOY J i 4 TE F FIVE ARE RE SUNK r Occupants Reach Shore in ill Bo Boats Crew of Torpedoed i Mir Mar Caspio Spanish Saved h by hy r Liner Spared I A TL 1 PORT Feb 23 Hon Ho How q 11 the master of r an Italian passenger er liner the Dante Alighieri dodged a fleet of submarines I lying ing ingin in wait for him in the Mediterranean by venturing a n mi midnight night passage through an uncharted channel between between between be be- tween a small island anti and the coast was related by passengers of the ship on her arrival here bere today loday The wisdom of or the captains captain's move was demonstrated the following mornIng mornIng morning morn- morn Ing thc they said when lifeboats were sighted carrying carrY ng passengers and crews S of ot three torpedoed vessels out of ot a acono con o convoy of ot five which the Danto Dante Alight Alight- erl enl had passed only two hours before the captain decided to risk wre wrecking his ship In the tine channel rather than take chances with the thc U The names of ot tho tine three ships sent to Continued on Page 2 2 J I ROMANS ROMAS TRICK i BOAT U-BOAT FLEEt Continued From page Tage PaJe 1 l. 1 the tho bottom were th the thE Duca ell di 11 Geneva Genova Geno a a passenger vessel esol the tide yule de do Verdun and the tho Caprera all nl Italian Time The I pres presence reM reM- ence once of oC tho timo submarine in III their path was as learned b by tho time master of ot the thc Dante Dan to te through h wireless warning warn warn- ing In Th Time The lifeboats were not picked pIckel up I as QS tile the they miles of or time the thoI I were welo within a f feW w Spanish coast const anti and the tho occupants slI signalled sig sl- I nailei that the they preferred to land laud Pa Passage ag through tho the anti and dangerous crous channel only feet wide WilC I was made 0 after the thu master mastor r of ot the time liner Inel had notified ill all al his passengers rR of ot tho timo danger anJer The steerage o passengers comprising com corn the time majority were blou brought ht to the cabin decks deck lifo were ere distributed dis boats boat lowered and all al preparations made mado to abandon time the vessel yes ves sd eel sel should he ArikA th the rock rocks I Capt ii D D. M. M 1 lc i a and f several members mem mcm- bers hers of ot th tho crew of or the thc American steamship a torpedoed December I 20 off the timo Italian coast were among anong the Dante passengers He lie said his ship was one of oC four COU torpedoed torpedoed torpe torpe- I within twenty minutes out Olt of oC a acono con o convoy of oC five e. C He lIe le succeeded in jim beaching beach I ing h her r and nud when he left Italy Iah the tnt task of her was Wa under er wa way I Tho Time captain brought home tho lie proPeller propeller pro pro- peller blade hlado of the time German torpedo as asa asa R Ra a souvenir Mar Camilla CONtlo Crew CI U. U Up Vp 1 Madrid Fe Feb The The crew of oC the time Spanish steamer Mar tar Caspio sunk unk b by a submarine on her wn way to NO New ew York with wih a cargo of oC cork was picked up b bythe by bythe the Spanish steamer Claudio Lopez y Lopez which also was stopped h by the submarine but later was allowed to top p proceed roce cd Th The Tho captain of ot the time Claudia lo Lopez had i the time greatest difficulty In Inducing the I commander of ot the s submarine to allow alow I him to continue the o voyage ago Tho submarine submarine sub sub- marine commander wanted to sink thelner the tho liner because she wa wn carrying a n number num ber of oC cars con consigned to tho the Spanish h Northern railroad which Is part partly French owned The sinking of oC the Spanish steamer Mar makes tho the third such Ilch oc occurrence occurrence occurrence oc- oc currence ii In less than four fOUl weeks On January 28 S a n German submarine sunk punk th the tho Spanish steamer Giralda and February Feb Fob mary 13 the Spanish steamer was destroyed I b by a n U boat U-bont U February 10 the time Italian steamship MIca Ica de tie Genoa GeneVa Geno- Geno va a was sas sunk within Spanish territorial torn terri tonal waters Madrid advices Thursday reported that the Spanish government gO would publish the text of oC three not notes s sent ent to tho the German government concerning the sinking of ot the tho Giralda and Duca dl di l Genova In the time ease case of or the Italian steamer Spain demanded lel cemal that Spanish territorial waters be respected 1 Destruction of oC Spanish steamers b by German submarines has been becoming moro more frequent Early In December the time Germans announced that th the Darrel zono zone had imad been extended to Include tho the Azores islands and In imm mid mid- January tho tIme zone was extended to the Madeira Islands and anti the Cape Verde Islands thus covering all aU the steamship steamship steam steam- ship routes between Spain and North and South America o o I French r nc l' l U n 8 Paris Feb 23 No 21 No 0 French merchantmen merchant merchant- m men memo n and no 10 fishing vessels vossel were sunk stank by Gorman German submarines or mines 8 during dUIng dU dur ing the ending February IS 18 1 Three merchantmen successfully es escaped ea- ea submarine attacks Steamers Steamer entering French ports totalled Gl CIO and departing SiC