Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-22 | Page 3 | Another American Life Endangered by the Germans

I ANOTHER AMERICAN LIFE ENDANGERED j BY THE GERMANS 1 WASHINGTON, March 21.-Torpedoing j of the Norwegian steamer Davenger, with J one American aboard, by a. German sub-' sub-' marine on Marrh. 14 was reported to the state department today by Vice Consul Krogh at Rotterdam. "Th Norwegian steamer Davenger of Bergen, Norway, New York to Rotterdam, with a c a rgo of b a rl ey , on e Am eri ca n aboard, Robert Le Roy Bragg. Angel's Camp, Cal., second steward," the dispatch said, ''was stopped by gun flte. torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on the afternoon of March 14. in the North sea. thirty miles from North Hinder lightship. light-ship. AH officers and crew saved after seventeen hours in lifeboat."