Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-23 | Page 1 | Big Liner Disappears with 140 Men Aboard One -Third Americans

Big Liner Disappears I With Men Aboard One One- Third Americas Voltaire Two Weeks Overdue Fails to Se Send d ds S. S O. O S. S Call Believe Ship Vas Was Trapped By 53 II N N. N n to la Th Tb Tel 1 NEW V MEW YORK Dec 23 The The I N liner Voltaire two weeks overdue from Liverpool apparently apparently apparently has met with some mysterious mysterious mysterious mys mys- fate in the Atlantic She carried a crew of third one of them Americans In shipping circles fear was expressed today that she had been torpedoed by bya a German submarine or that a commerce raider had captured her Her owners the Lamport and Holt line clung to the belief bellet that the vessel yes yes- sel ael had been disabled in mid This Thia theory was discounted by the absence of wireless messages from the Voltaire since her departure from Liverpool November NO 28 28 iS Noth No n g- g ships v reP reported I her I It was was pointed out by marine men mep I I that If the vessel had been bean torpedoed sho she almost almot certainly would have been able to use use- her wireless If It she was wag I trapped by a a. seemingly Innocent merchantman merchantman mer mer- she could not do so At almost the date of the Voltaire's I dep departure from Liverpool two German commerce raiders were reported to have havo broken through the British blockade B By y N t No vito So-vito to ID The Tb W WASHINGTON D. D C. C Dec 23 The The steamer Kansan of ot the American Hawaiian Ha lIa- wallan wailan line was badly damaged by a amine amine mine Consul General Skinner at London today informed the state de department de- de Beyond saying the report came caine to Lloyds from Nantes France no details were given B By J Pr Pros lo to Tin The 8 LONDON Dec 23 a. a m A rn-A A Co Co- dispatch to Reuters says that the North German lennan Lloyd liner Prince Friedrich Wilhelm which w was stranded near the Danish Island of or was floated on Friday evening The Prince FrIedrich Wilhelm was reported by Berlin on December 17 17 to have broken through the British blockade blockade block block- ade after putting to sea from Odde near Bergen She was reported to have arrived at Stavanger escorted b by a Zeppelin and two submarines On December December De De- cember 19 she was reported stranded off oct the island d. ID By Jt rIm to Th no t WASHINGTON Dec 23 SInking Sinking of ot the British steamer Lariston was re reported reported re- re ported to the tho state department today from London Neither place time nor manner was given