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Show AMERICAN LIVES ENDANGERED BY SINKING OF SHIPS WASHINGTON', April 6. Exposure of throf! American sailors to four clays' ''terrible Buffering" in open boats, and emlangerinK of four others through the unwarned submarining of the Portuguese Portu-guese bark Aro, wan reported to the state department today imadditional details de-tails from Consul Lowrie at Lisbon. His d ispn t-h follows: "Portuguese hark Argo. New Orleans to London with general cargo, sunk by submarine daylight March 24. longitude west twelve, latitude north 47.28, while lying to in gale. No casualties. Small boat with eleven sailors, including three Americans, landed Farroll after four days' terrible suffering. Submarine gave no assistance. Argo shellod without with-out warning. Four other American sailors sail-ors rescued hv English hospital ship." Details of the sinking of tho British steamer C'anrtiznro without warning, with an American in the crew, reported yesterday from London, reached the state department today. Consul Hathaway Hath-away at Hull, England, sent the following fol-lowing dispatch: "British steamer Cnnnizaro to Hull, general cargo, torpedoed without warning warn-ing March 2s ISO miles southwest Seilly isles, latitude forty-nine north, longitude ten west. All rescued uninjured. American Ameri-can fireman, William Samuel Jones, San Francisco, ' in crew. No passengers. Wake of torpedo seen after explosion. Submarine appeared twenty minutes later and presumably German from build. No vessels in sight until living-ton living-ton Court 5 p. m.. which rescued crewf 7 p. m. and landed Falmouth next day. Xo measures for safety of crew. Vessel carried one gun, but no chance to resist or escape. Weather hazy. Moderate wind. Choppy sea all day. Ship sunk by gunfire gun-fire ''after crew left." "Flagrant contempt for the safety ot boats in the act of quitting the ships." was reported by Consul Frost at Queens-town Queens-town today in additional details of the submarining without warning of the British horse transport Canadian. His dispatch, supplementing the dispatches of yesterday, follows: ''Canadian carried only 800 horses. Submarine's periscopes were seen close up by boat No. 2 including Americans, but submarines never emerged. First torpedo hit aft starboard, second after port, third forward port, fourth amidships amid-ships starboard. Vessel sank 12:10 a. in. today. Submarines repented use of torpedo and was in flagrant contempt of safetv of boats in the act of quitting the sliip. " |