Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 4 | Ship Used in Transporting Reserves Home

SHIP USED IN 1 TRANSPORTING RESERVES HOME I . ; NEW YORK, Nov. For several '; months hefnre Italy's entrance in the war the Ancona wns engaged in carrying . home Italia n reservists from this on ti - try and supplies for the Ilalia.n govern-, govern-, ment. On one of her trips from Now I York to Naples late in Ausuist last vear the Am-ona was stopped by the British at Gibraltar and twenty-four Germans and one American were taken off the ship. Late last summer the Ancona left here for Italy with T.VuOO bushels of wheat -non tons of buy and .'"0 horses for the ';. Italian government. On the same vovaee f she carried soft Italians in the steera, 1 "ho went ha-'k because it was said at : the time they could not get work in the Nw York subway. When the Ancona left N"py- York on her , last voyage on G tober TT she was in command of Captain Tietro Maspardo. , All of her officers, engine room force and mrmbers of the crew were Italians ' who shipped from Italv.