Show ILINER m nr U IL 5 S. S CONSUL ABOARD BO I GREAT GREA T LOSAS LOSS LOS OF LIFE f. f AS S. S BRITISH STEAMER STEAMERs I C IS s SENT TO BOTTOM 1 P Persia er ia En R Route ute From Lon Lon-d London n toi to r i Bombay Destroyed by y S Submarine I rine rine While Approaching Alexandria Alexandri Alexan Alexan- dria thia Nearly All AU Pass Passengers Perish THREE TON SHIP Rela Relations i ns Between t This Nati Nation n and Teutonic e tonic 1 Powers 9 s Are Again nl Enda Endangered g f t by bythe the the Act j C. t t. t J J. J HOT HOT SPRINGS Va J Jan n J. J President t.-President 1 President ived the news dispatches dispatched on the sinking o of the Persia and later the of official rep report rt of f- f Consul G General ne aLSki Skinner i ieK at t London o was forwarded by y the state t department I buthe but he i i w would ld make no co comment 7 en sS s 's J. J j LONDON Tan Jan I 1 IJO JO JO 42 a 3 m J rJ 1 The e British liner Imet was sunk Thursday rh and ost of 01 the passengers and ild cf t tx x Were re lost ii c. c V j 4 mess message g e fr he l to to th the lla tOli l 1 company company makes the definite ati announcement th the p Persia s was torpedoed r tF Four Font bo boats ts got lear dear l ar f. f Pe j sia sank T 1 Robert McNeely e A. A at Aden was as wata u i J 1 h. M t. S I. I Ie r J. J tI i iF F Jt t. t tIr tI iv r i e Nl l v I Ito to d i. i ie e h been been e is s ion xiii 91 tl the tIie fr Persia I n she j X J London o ii H. H Gran Graut Granof of Boston was wa on his his- s. s iy- iy to r Tit h aft t tRose Rose Ros a schoolboy j s On th way V Y frn l Denver Rose probably landed a d and w was is not bu oh l po oar di it at the time she w was was sunk bunk 1 The Peninsular lar O Oriental l line ne estimates that pa pas sailed fr from m London 01 o the Pei Pel ia ia A A 11 number E of these landed landew at t Gibraltar Marseilles or 01 Malta No official ai m available In addition to the pass passengers who s sailed fr from London Londona V Va a large nu number ber e nh at Marseilles les The rhe total iQ booked ked at fit V these points joints was f Of these c seven eighty were vien mid five 11 V five children V V V Lord Montagu was on oil the passenger list lisL V V V The phe message to td td Lloyds says the Pe Persia ia was Mas wan on oh her May front from L London to Bombay V She w was s. s sunk at at- ati t. t 1 i o'clock on afternoon Official d dispatches dispatches' p-om p Lo London n today said the liner Persia Persi was Mas torpedoed and sunk i while approaching and that nearly all perished 1 V V VV Officials of the P Peninsular nin Oriental line lne say they have received re re- re- re V no details concerning the sinking of the Persia and and do not know whether he received warning V V 4 These officials say they are ble to give any any- i information formation V concerning American citizens ns on the Persia They saY saV say the steam steam- steamship V ship carried a Ia laige lige ge number er of persons but that no official figures are are available as yet Pass Passenger nger lists hay have not been published since since the beginning of orthe the war wa- V V V Mr McNeely sailed from New York for England on November November November Novem Novem- ber 27 on the A Holland American liner A fellow pass passenger en- en lP ger gr r was Robert P. P Skinner American consul general at at London Mr Ir McNeely was on his way to take lii hi Ins fi first st consular r post Mr SIt Skinner inner advised him to sail for the East by OJ the Dutch line but the they y young ng man a already r dy had engaged passage on the Persia tsia V Malta December ber 20 V V The rIte Persia was last reported at on pec I The Peninsular Oriental Ste Steamship Company stated officially officially daily this this this' afternoon that the Persia ersia had l left ft London December r 18 and j f Marseilles Marseilles' December 26 carrying British mails ils bound for Bombay and that she M was as as ass si s sunk sk k off the island of Crete Only fo four r boats g got t away from the ship These boats were picked up by a steamer bound for Alexandria and th the survivors were c expected V there this morning ll V V I V The names of the passengers saved have not yet been received ed V They will Avill be published as soon as as pos 5 t The rhe company Estate Estate- state state- I H ment says it is is feared that the loss of f J life fe g amon among the passengers and crew rew will be heavy V V f V V V V A The Persia was a steamer of tons gross Sh She heV owned J was OM owned nod V by the Peninsular Oriental lS l'S Steam am Navigation company company of Lon Lou don V She sailed from ro Bombay N November vember 14 for London and andas was as last reported as l Gibraltar on December 2 N. N appointed int d as consul at t A Aden en Robert McNeely was app Arabia V Vill in ill in Oct October ber 1914 He is a native of North C Carolina rolina V The Persia iv was one of several se vessels recently sunk by s sub sUh submarines b V marines in in the eastern Mediterranean l th which her lier coi couise se V to the S Sue ez canal l would take her from froin Ma Majta Ia ta On December rU rUthe 24 the French liner Vi Ville Ie de tie la Ia Ciotat was wa sent to the bottom off the island of of Crete by a submarine which according lg t to unofficial British Brit Brit- V ish ih advices es flew the Austrian flag V V V V No a advice vices been received in New Nev york a as to the date which the ersia sail sailed d from London She Sheep departed ep some time l li i in advance of her a advertised date of sailing v was January Jallu l' l V 15 5 ll The e voyage from London Londo l t to Malta M Ita ordinarily y requires nine V days V V V Tile The Per Persia a was built in m ill 1900 at Greenock Sh She has been in inthe VJ the Bombay service service since that hat time V V f V On n account of the danger from Submarines t to vessels which V pass pas thron through li the UC Su z canal anal an and l 1 the this route has V bC been lf al abandoned n w l r b bs bythe ItI the o Japan Mail Ma l Steamship co company pan p which wI is dispatching ispa hi g its steamships around the C Capo Cape PC of Good Hope In- In t 7 e ae 2 I. I i liNER TORPEDOED U U. S. S CONSUL ABOARD S 'S i J I I j- j Continued from page pa 1 rates for vessels passing through the nez cana canal havo have been increased 11 y English underwriters to o three or four foul times the normal figure Lord who vho booked pa Ja passage sage age on on the Persia is isa s sa a a. London stock tock broker He was born and amI Served Served- with the tb Yeomanry y e manry cavalry ht f 0 ran 1 Destruction L Destruction of the British liner Persia ersia with JoRs of American lives throws relations between be be- tween the United f tes and anti the Teut Teutonic nic powers into a new new danger danner I Coming almost at t the hour when af i satisfactory sa s adjustment o othe of the delicate was at hand and by Austria's a acceptance ce fanc of the cardinal points of th the American dem demands in itt the Ancona case this new new- clement element threatens threatens' to complicate affairs s with Austria Austri as as th thor thor- r- r as is the destruction of pi the flue Arabic following so 10 closely cloSe the tile Lusitania e exchanges chang angus Brought on a. a renewed a-renewed crisis with Germany From such incomplete information as was at hand today the two situations are rc regarded as almost parallel It was vas generally presumed in ill official circles circles that as was the case in the crisis with Germany the Austrian n admiralty admiralty- and the Vienna foreign for ign office are working at cross purposes It was regarded as asa a stron strong possibility that while the foreign office is s ready to to the contentions of of the United ed States the admiralty bent on tl of its ts submarine policy has not yet been brought into There Ilire is however th the add added possibility that the fh submarine I i I which l sank k th thE tIie Pei ing far from home hOlne had not been instructed instructed instructed in in- in in the ne policy new policy of f the Austrian government The destruction of th tile the Persia coupled with the recent sinking of the Japanese liner tiner Ya ak Mara Marit a and l th the Fr French liner er Ville de IC del dela la l ciotat Ciotat lends len s strength in official quarters to t both these 1 All the agencies of the American government have bave been set in inI motion to IG gather facts facts' on thc n west disaster The general view i iu off official was quarters w was s that the po position of the United States was sufficiently well known to Austria and the tile Ancona negotiations have lave been under been uJ under r wa way a sufficient length of I time to permit p-ermit instructions to reach the submarine fleet On every hand tile the news was received d with with astonishment i Consul General Genera Skinner at Lo dOll forwarded what information tion was available le at the British rit h admiralty and his dispatch with unofficial rep reports of th the disaster disaster r was as forwarded to President Wilson Wil Vil son SOil at Hot Springs As in ill similar cases cases' the he policy J of the American 4 government will be to wait await lull await full and complete information before moving There is little room to doubt doubt than he incident will mean new siew diplo diplo- in iii which the United States will present to Austria inthe in inthe the the s same mc forceful ful manner a l its unalterable policy that that the the laws of nations and humanity must be e regarded by the belligerents in their warfare at sea Severance of diplomatic relations with all it its possibilities looms up UI as one of 01 the eventualities the same as it did in the case caRe Of the Lusitania itania the Arabic and Although th the nationality of i-of of We lie submarine which sank the IP Pria r ia f remains definitely as' as as the case with th the e I I y asaka and th the Ville de db la Ia Ciotat the thc assumption generally is that it if was w s an Austrian boat because Count von Bernstorff the th c German ambassador recently declared that no German or Turkish submarines were ope operating in Mediterranean n an I The attack on n the th Persia as a she vas Was approaching Alexandria I renews attention to the fact that a submarine campaign against allied shipping is being bing carried on on oi off the entrance to the Suez Suz canal cana L j Arthur Garrels Garrel American consul at Alexandria I Egypt was us instructed by the state department to tb t gather all available information information mation about the sinking of the Persia and forward it at once to toWa Washington Wa I S |