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Show Hi CHARGES . THE AUSTINS WITHMAS5ACRE Dr Cecile S Greil Gives Graphic Description of Destruction of Ancona by a Submarine .VESSEL ATTACKED WITHOUT WARNING No Effort Made to Save Passengers or Crew From Perishing After Liner Was Sent Down By International News Service. NEW TOEK Dec 28 If I thought my affidavit regarding the shelling and img of the Ancona by an Austrian submarine would cause war between the United States and Austria I would rather have gone down with the sh p Such was the statement of Dr Ce-ede Ce-ede S. Orel the American phvsieian who arrived todav upon the Bocham beaa Dr Greil comes home penniless Jler clothing surgical instruments jew elry furniture and $1000 in cash were all lost with the Ancona. The clothes she wore today were purchased with money given her by the American em .hasty he estimates her total loss at I-0.000 She gave a graphic description of the submarine attack. At the pier he waa met by her daughter and tomorrow she expects to go to Washington to make her deposition for the department of state. .Attacked at Jvooru ' I was sitting at tie captain a table fn the Ancona a dining saloon chatting with two Italian doctors when a tremor shook the vessel and we felt the en ginea reversing said Dr Greil. 'I had glanced at my watch a seeond before be-fore and knew it was exactly noon There was not a thought of war or sub marines, but soon we heard the scarry ing of feet on the deck above and as the excitement spread most of the peo pie in the saloon including my com pamons jumped up and ran on deck I remained at the table alone nntil I heard the crash of a shell followed t,y an explosion in the forward part of the ship The Ancona was slowing down and that fact most have been apparent to the commander of the submarine though there was a thick fog outs da AThe ship s course had not been changed and there was no maneuvering beyond the reversing of the engines Shots Rained All Around. 'Another shell brought the wireless down and when I reached the decks shots were raining all about as I am certam that fifty shots vere f red be fore the cannonad ng ceased I escaped being hit several times by what seemed to me no more than the breadth of a ha i I dec ded to go below and save some of my things from the cabin. My maid came with me and as I was leaning oer p eking up some things ofi-the floor a shell came through the window and tore away half of the maid s head kUl ng her instantly It did not explode in the cabin but con tinned r ght through the part t on and exploded upon the other s de of the sh ? I ran on deck again and found them lowering lifeboats Suddenly I remembered the rece pt for 20 000 1 ra ($4000) that the purser had given me and wh cn waa In a bag I earned around my neck I ran down to the purser s office and found h m lying dead upon the floor There was no more time to bother about money so I rushed to the deck again saw a neboat being lowered and jumped a distance of about twenty five feet Into it Wild Panic on Deck i0 It was but natural that there would be tremendous excitement in lowering boats amid a storm of shells and only e ght of the f fteen boats that were be mg lowered got safely away I cannot talk of the behav or of the crew The wild panic upon the deck Is suff c eat recollect on As soon as our boat touched the tvater the one impulse was to get away and the men pulled at the oars with ' all their m ght to put the Ancona and the submarine as far from us as we could The submarine was not more than 100 yards away We could all see ? distinctly The captain of the An eona told me he o Id see the fa es of om" of the men on t If at of the f ng was at this short (Continued on Page Two ) DR. CECILE S ORIEL, who tells graphic storj of the sinking of the Ancom and calls the Vutrians murderers WOII DENOUNCES ACT OF MIS (Continued from Page One) range anl t seemed to be the subma nne s intent on to s nk the Ancona with shells It was not warfare It was a mas sacre a cold blooded murder committed bj men who are probably good fathers and husbands but were crazed with blood The Ancona was the fourteenth 6h p they had attacked and they were wild w th the idea of slaughtering Someone asked me afterward f any attempt was made by the submarine to help the people in the boats I laughed at the question for after what we nad een of the cold blooded brutal ity of the attack we rowed away for our lives. We saw some of the boats struek by shells and the people in them killed I do not believe that lifeboats were wantonly fired upon but they were hit and sunk -past the same We were at sea for eleven hours before the French mine layer Platon picked us up and took us to "Naples |