Show CREW U-CREW MOCKS ANCONA DYING Y I N G Submarine F Fires res on the Lifeboats ts Killing and Wounding Men Women and Children NO SIGNAL IGNAL TO STO STOP Shells and Torpedoes From Three Hundred Yards Distance Put Liner to the Bottom LONDON Nov 4 A 1 1 A Stern Ste fani News agency dispatch from Tunis says The commander of the Ancona An An- Ancona Ancona cona who reached here Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day declares the tile submarine gave his vessel no signal to stop The first sign of the presence of the submarine was shells from a ad d distance stance of of five miles w which ich grazed the steamer The Ancona stopped dead Subsequently shells sheila hit the boats boat which were being made ready for tor torl l g passengers passengers we ie o 1 wounded on the deck and andIn In In the bo boats ts ts- ts Some of the passengers passengers gers gets had been thrown into the tho water approached the submarine but were repelled and derided Finally l shells and torpedoes were fired at atthe the Ancona from a. a distance of Yards yards NAPLES Nov 11 Via Paris i Pasquale Pasquale- aurine an American citizen is among the missing ising passengers passengers passengers gers of the steamship Ancona ac according according according ac- ac cording to Information obtained here ere today Another boat with twenty seven survivors orR of th the Ancona has reached Cape Bon Boa Tunis The names of the occupants of or this boat have not yet been leen received WASHINGTON Nov No 11 Secre H.-Secre- Secre Secretary tary Lansing announced today that the state department was making every effort to gather information and details on the sinking of ot the Italian liner Ancona The department department department depart depart- ment is yet et unable to determine how many Americans were were- lost It is entirely entirely en en- without official advices s as to the circumstances of the sinking or orthe orthe orthe the nationality of the submarine submarino which shelled and torpedoed the ship Statements will be taken from survivors survivors sur sur- and the United States will wm gather all aU possible Information before taking the theo matter up with with- any foreign foreign foreign for for- eign government The state d department received a cablegram from American Consul White at Naples today toda- saying that the It Italia lIa says 37 passengers and crew of the Ancona are reported as saved out of ot and that that th the steamship officials believe that moro more will be reported saved The department department department depart depart- ment also received a message from prom Page giving some brief details LONDON Nov 11 a. a m. m The m.-The The Italian steamer Ancona was not sunk without warning according to information information in in- formation obtained from survivors landed at Malta by the Reuter correspondent correspondent cor cor correspondent respondent and cabled here T The 6 Austrian submarine which h overhauled overhauled overhauled over over- hauled her after a long stern chase gave the commander a brief respite to permit the removal of passengers but the p panic nic which began among the immigrants on board as soon as the underwater craft was sighted was responsible for the loss of many lives In a mad rush for safety men women and children overwhelmed the boats several of which were overturned before they could be lowered Many of the occupants fell into the sea and were drowned Shots Add to Panic Passengers agree the correspond correspond- Continued on page 2 CREW U-CREW w MOCK MOCK- I Continued from page 1 1 exit ent says that shots fired around the steamer by by the submarine apparently ap apparently ap- ap to hasten the Ule loading of the boats added t to the panic The Reuter dispatch which contains con con- tame the first connected story o othe of the sinking of the Ancona Monday afternoon twenty tw nty hours after she sheI I had had left Messina Sicily follows We left Naples with a fairly large number of passengers The people aboard were mostly Greeks and Italians Italians Ital Ital- ians lans with large families on their wa way to the United States Slates to settle there The majority therefore were women and children We left Messina at 5 p p. p m. m The c captain having been warned of the presence of ot enemy submarines took all possible precautions At At- exactly 1 1 o'clock Monday afternoon we sighted an enemy submarine at a great dista distance ce She came to the surface and made full speed In our direction firing as she did so a shot which went wide across our bow We Wei took this to be a warning to halt I I Shelled by Submarine I Immediately there was the wildest i i panic aboard not only among the i I women and children but among the themen I men as well welt Women screamed amed and andI I children clung desperately to their theli- I mothers Meanwhile the submarine continued to shell us us gaining rapidly I The fifth fUth shot carried away the I The engines vere slopped stopped and the Ancona came slowly to a standstill The submarine which we could now see plainly was an Austrian came alongside We heard the commander talking to our captain In a somewhat somewhat some some- what what- curt manner we were told the Austrian had given n us a few minutES minutE'S minutes min nun utes utE'S to abandon the ship Meanwhile Meanwhile Meanwhile Mean Mean- while the submarine withdrew a lit little little lit lit- tle tie distance Ve We turned to the boats which began to be lowered without loss of ot time but the passengers were in a pandemonium Men Ien women and chil children ren seemed to Jose their heads completely The su submarine presumably presumably presumably pre pre- to accelerate our departure e. continued to fire tire around the vessel There was was a rush for the first boats lowered and in t the ti-ia e confusion contusIon these were overturned before they were free from the davits the occupants falling into the water Many were drowned before our eyes eyeR Scene Heart Rending The Tiie shrieks of ot women children and struggling men rent the air all but it seemed teemed no help could be given Everyone was vas trying to act for tor himself him him- self Relf The heart rending scenes were punctuated with shot after shot delivered de delivered de de- livered almost mechanically from the deck of ot the submarine adding to the panic aboard i- i Had it not been for these I 5 shots it t might have been possible pos- pos oI- oI i sible sibie to restore a semblance of 4 order 4 I IThe The liThe conduct of the submarine submarine sub- sub i. marine was incomprehensible was z I Not one ole shot h was directed direct d at atthe J 3 the ship but they they- were eret fired 4 z i. all around around l a if toI to I create as mu much terror much terror err r an a pos pos- fr t I ible ble I About eight boats got away to 1 clear lear with with- witha a fair complement I 01 aboard others others half half empty All AH 4 I drifted away from each other One of ot il tee Ors ia e 8 survivors rs in describing his experience The boat in id which I found myself contained thirty members of ot 1 the he crew and three threll passengers an Italian woman and arid her child besides myself I am certain fully half halt those aboard perished d. d Sont t time me after atter we en entered entered entered en- en the lifeboat we beard we-beard heard explosions indicating the end o of the Ancona w We j. j remained d in the boat alt all the time and were picked up up- In the morning by a British steamer which brought us to Malta |