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Show ! Second Dispatch. ! from ..!:: -v.- of v. : . i i i 0:e ' a ni.ra."-: ..n---i ii-,.ni;.l Skif-.i; ?,v-- Tnat Mp'-lb:.-!'' "s-.n.i-. r r- , ,,-ir.b-l lb ivvsiu l.'-.n.i..:,. Ai v.,,.-- pi t -- :-!!!p p--;.,.,i tlj nur;;. - five first-class passengers and thirty-two thirty-two second ela'ss. dVt the time the ship was torpedoed rie best information informa-tion 'is that J'il passengers were on board. Four boatloads fucceeded in leaving the vessel safely. "Among- the Americans on board, besides Consul MeXeeJy, Vero Chafles '!H. Grant, who was sr'ing V Bombay, June! a hoy. hid ward Rose, wiio got off ;at Gibraltar before tlie vessel was. attacked." at-tacked." . Iniimalions coming from Teuton-sources in Washington thai the Persia and- other boats of tlie Peninsular, & ' Oriental line were armed to resist attack 'by', enemy vessels were accepted by oflleial's as ln-dieatins ln-dieatins that this mlsht be one of the defenses set Tip in justification of attack of the Persia. . Attention was called to the fa-ct that the United States de'fiJ.itely 'plad" Itself on record upon the ifi-uestion'of rttrniing merchant vessels of belligererrls Hi official instructions sent to "nort- collectors September Sep-tember IS, 5fl4. Tii -iii is or-!erit Was declared de-clared that the T;nlted ,Siaios-vond consider con-sider it an indication thai ;.rihainent carried car-ried "is not Intended or and will not. he used in offensive, oper.u ions if it is shown that-; , "The vessel carries' passengers who.are as a whole until ted. to enter military or naval service of the belligerent whose flap the vessel flies, or any of its allies, and particularly if -the' passenger list, includes in-cludes women and eiiildien. Emphatic siatcineiUs from the German embassy re entl- icat' no Onr.iiii sub-1 sub-1 n i a ri n e s a n d . .to far a s t h e e m 1 m s t- ! knows, no 'Turkish fubntarineK,' ai-e opcr- iitlnq in the .Mediterranean, f oit ed the r'oucliision thf.t i' vas ar, Austrian submarine sub-marine thai sank t h P o'r s t a . Sinki'rLE of lb'- Persia, while tlie An-,"-ona ''a.e is under r iscitssion. off olds an 'hImum o-H.-t paraibd t t-e situation 1 broi'crbt about 'by the, i-eno'mt;' of .the Aro.ji'-- wlille tht lL'Sima ease was punning. In -the.. i"or',,J!!s;n!)''e Secre-inry Secre-inry Lansing asv'i i:of a"! o Germany that i-o fiu-tber steps woui'1 e taken lo settle" i he la i si lania rase until prompt d ise -V.Wid as made nf tbe A ra hie a i u-o'k. Imrne'liate ot-M vo wals and offers of j-ena-rativ" ere made. b Germany. |