| Show 1 1 AMERICAN SOLDIERS DIE DIEAS AS AS HUNt HUN I 1 t TORPEDO SINKS BRITISH CRUISER f I Two VESSELS MANY ABOARD FALLS PREY TOSEA ASPS Armed Merchant Ship Moldavia While Carrying Troops From England to France ranee Is Torpedoed American Warriors Being Trapped in Com Com- Compartment Compartment Compartment as Explosion Rends Craft raft Asunder 37 7 Drowned When hen Another Steamer Is Struck and Sunk in Four Minutes in n Trip From Ireland By Associated Press T LON LONDON ON DON DO DOllay May lay 24 The 24 The British armed merchant troop ship M MH Io of H da davia ia with A American erica troops troOp a d ha has b be t iP t ci sunk I unk acv a ac official rin in li n b by the 1 hi hiI j I evening The text of the a admiralty statement follows The arme armed mercantile cruiser l Moldavia ja was torpedoed anti and sunk yesterday morning There were no casualties es among the crew but of the American troops on board 56 up to the present have not been accounted for fOI It is ic feared feare they were killed in one compartment by hy the t he explosion I The rhe Moldavia was torpedoed without warning warning- warning It was a moonlight moonlight moon moon- r- r I light night and although a good lookout was kept the attacking submarine was not sighted before the torpedo struck Most host of the men aboard were in their hammocks when the cm c.- ex explosion occurred d amidships The fhe sailors and soldiers alike sh showed no panic They The fell calmly into line and awaited orders When it was tas I seen that the Moldavia was settling down all on board were ta taken off by the escorting ships I The men lost all of their belongings but w were ere supplied Sul with new clothing at the different naval ports where the they were taken Jt H It is believed that the American soldiers missing Mol Mol- Moldavia from the Moldavia Mol da davia via were sleeping on the bottom deck and were overtaken by th the great inrush of water after the explosion when they thc were trying I to reach the main deck It also is presumed that some of the ladders I were destroyed j I The Yes vessel el was struck below the bridge b She steamed ahead fori for i some time lime after being struck and at first it was hoped that lice her LI L- L water ater tight compartments would enable her to reach port I Survivors agree that the Moldavia was torpedoed and not notI mined One seaman said I We We were proceeding up the channel bound for an English port carl early Thurs Thursday a morning The weather was fine au and the there e ewas was a bright b moonlight We TC felt an au e explosion amidships 1 The he sill ship shit 1 had bad been struck just belo below the tine bridge but we could see no 0 submarine I There were sonic some destroyers convoying us and they at once scattered around in ln search of the submarine Only one torpedo I was fired When hen it was realized that we should have to abandon the I vessel the destroyers lestro ers came alongside to to take off the troops I The rhe Moldavia ill k it of 9 tons gross end rud owned by y the Peninsular Penin I sular solar tC Oriental Steam Navigation company compan She he was Avas 1 built hullt at at at e rI r- r Greenock in 1903 and is 50 feet long l ng I WASh WASHINGTON INGTON May la 24 Sinking I.-Sinking Sinking of the thc British armed merI merchant mer mer- I chant cruiser Moldavia with a probable loss of six fifty six American soldiers was announced in a rable cablegram Iam tonight from the British I admiralty to the war department No details were given Riven i but the tIll u understanding is that the tho ship was wa moving between England England- and anti France I The he war Avar department authorized the statement I Information has been received from Lon London on that the British armed merchant cruiser Moldavia Iol ia a has been sunk and thai that six fifty of the American soldiers aboard are arc missing made the British admiralty The Th I. I e announcement was Avas by At a late hour the department la had 1 no further information tion to toI I indicate what h ht t American units were on board the vessel essel Many men ar r. r w in training in England r and it is pos possible that the Moldavia ia was Avas W S Scarring for the front bound C carrying carr o a contingent May The he The Cork steamer bound from l Fish Fishguard is to Cork has been torpe torpedoed oe and sunk Thirty Thirty- seven Sep Cn members o of the crew ere are missing and aud are arc supposed to have been lo lost t. t have been landed They 1 are the I Five live sUli survivors oIS of or the disaster I captain the chief of officer Ice I one steward ard and two tAvo sailors t The lilt was struck amidships She Sue listed immediately I and till foundered ed in ill four fou 1 a t 1 11 1 1412 She built buill ill in in J 1903 r tons I The fhe t he was a n cs vessel cl of was i land belonged 1 ged cd to the City of Cork Steam Packet company i I all Coil conK May lIay Ia The Thc 24 The commander o 01 the tho submarine which thich I I sank sink the ll I a Mantled handed the thc Sill ships ship's s steward two letters addressed d dI I Continued on page pase 4 G I I I I TWO 11 VESSELS FALL PREY TO 10 SEA WASPS i COn led ln front ago naco 1 1 to David Lloyd George Georoge the British prime minister with instructions instruction s to post them when he reached shore shor The steward however I turned them over o to lo the authorities steward on landing The he was wa s one one of five fi survivors ors out of a total complement of two forty men menon menon on hoard board tile the After Aftel torpedoing the the submarine came up alongside alongside alongside along along- side a boat with survivors survivors ill in in it and took several sc of them including t the he steward aboard in in an au effort to learn if the captain was among them It Jt W was lS desired to make the tho captain a prisoner Although the thc captain was among the survivors hors his identity was waR concealed from front the Germans The Cork Steam Packet cons company's p an y s 's steamer waR wis torpedoed in in the middle of the night while on the thc way war from Fishguard Fishguard Fishguard Fish Fish- b guard to Cork and sank in four minutes Captain fled and four fou r bothers others out of the fOlt two forty two on board blard were saved The rhe a ra had covered ered the Ilse same route ionic since the thc beginning of the thc war Avar twice weekly almost without interruption and never before had beet been 1 a attacked I 1 I WASHINGTON GION May 21 The The U. U S. S S. S a converted convene l yacht was as as sunk in European waters in a collision on May 2 22 2 with witha a lo loss Joss s of o t men I 11 W. W r II lI Hot Hoyt rusts mate Mass lass an and Joseph l 1 r M. M 1 halley Farley fireman firman Chicago were the thc men lost Jost An announcement t f today oda by hy t the hp na navy department sa says s 's the thc Y aki a formerly owns owned d td b II n S ss collided with a navy y cargo carrier She was rated at tons tOilS and probably was in ill in a patrol squadron |
