Show ENGINEER TELLS OF U-BOAT U SINKING SHIP Bj Br Associated rr Ir w to The Telegram NEW YORK Nov 6 I 1 I have be been bean beena beana n I a marine engineer since 1881 but never never never nev nev- er have laye I prone gone one through an ordeal like the thc one that a German submarine put upon us a few weeks ag aide declared Frederick Smith of Hartford Conn who arrived here lere last night from Liverpool Liv- Liv on the American line steamship steamship steamship steam steam- ship St St. Louis Smith stated that he was induced ed to sign as third engineer on the British freight steamship Midland by promise of 01 good pay When off St. St Lucia Lucia he learned that the ship was bound for V Vladivostok After leaving the Siberian port we went vent ent to Australia where we loaded 1 I grain for Havre said sald Mr Mr- Smith seven On Octo er 20 we were halted by j I sev seven l shots None ne hit ni- but I found vone us us- we i ir rine they had come from a submarine submarine which r few i v had come to iv Ute the me surface a a. ew Hundred yards away We I was the only Amer an on Ve were ordered file Pe to tofile lifeboats eighteen n men going in mon one me an and L fifteen f ot of us in another The GerD Germans ans used only one En English lIsh sinking the Midland expression naf after ll That I was as Get out VA Ye We VAi i drifted ina AI throughput hout the the night until at daYbreak a French trawler trawler I picked ti up I |