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Show BELATED NEWS OF SINKING OF VESSEL AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept. 16. News of the destruction by a submarine early lii .May near the British const of the British steamship Mary Baird became known here today for the first time on the arrival of members of the crew of the steamer on an American passenger liner. Also on board the liner were Captain Charles Davis and four members of the crew of the American four-masted schooner Laura C. Anderson, which was sunk with bombs by the crew of a German Ger-man U-boat August 29, thirty miles from Havre. Captain Davis said his ship was stripped of all her stores before being sunk. William Snell, a member of the crew of the steamship Belgian Prince, which was sunk by a submarine July 31 with i loss of thirty-eight of her crew, also arrived. He confirmed cable reports that ,lie and other subvivors were ordered to v-he deck of the U-boat, their lifeboats destroyed de-stroyed and their cork Jackets taken away nflor which the submarine submerged " Lunn to urown. ,-inell escaped because he managed to hide his lifebelt under his coat. ' Passengers on the American liner which was unsuccessfully attacked off the British Brit-ish coast asserted that it bad been reported re-ported on board the steamer last Friday that wireless distress calls were picked up that day from an unknown vessel saying she was being shelled. The liner was then ncarlng the American coast and the passengers said that her speed was Increased and she swerved into a , new course. |