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Show LIFEBOATS SHELLED Bl GERMAN U-BOAT LONDON, Dec. 5. Further details regarding re-garding the sinking of the British steamer steam-er Apapa, which was torpedoed recently by an enemy submarine, with a loss of some eighty passengers and members of the crew, say that the steamer, with 160 passengers and a full complement of crew, was proceeding to Liverpool in a calm sea at 4 o'clock in the morning, when she was struck by two torpedoes. The shock was tremendous and the passengers, mostly women, children and invalids, were thrown from their bunks. There was no panic, although the vessel ves-sel was going down rapidly. Passengers, in the face of imminent peril, helped one another to secure life belts and then in orderly fashion filed out upon deck and into lifeboats. The work of transferring the women and children to the small boats was carried car-ried out without a hitch and with remarkable re-markable 'quickness. As the boats rowed away from the 1 sinking liner, submarines, of which it is believed there were two, came to the surface and commenced to shell the open boats and despite the utmost efforts of the oarsmen to get out of range, some casualties occurred. Aid, however, soon was forthcoming and th, survivors were rescued and lauded. LONDON, Dec. 5. The British steam-' er Apapa, according to the Daily Mail. 1 was nearing home after a two months' voyage when she was torpedoed without warning. The lifeboats were manned immediately im-mediately and all would have been res- ; cued, but the submarine fired a second torpedo while the women and children were being lowered to the boats, causing the ship to sink immediately with eighty passengers and the crew. Another report says that forty passengers and thirty members of the crew were lost and tliat-the tliat-the survivors were landed on the west coast. . The Daily Mail appends to its story the names of some prominent- U-boat victims whose deaths were announced Tuesday. Among them were AV. R. Townsend, attorney at-torney general of the Gold Cnast and F. H. Longhurst. director of public works in the Gold Coast. |