Show LINER CAPTAIN LEfT TORPEDO VICTIMS TO DIE I Austrian Austri n Submarine C Commander Com Coin m mander Forced Italian to Save Drowning jr I BERLIN Jan 1 11 1 by Virel l s sto to Sayville A A statement give n today by the semiofficial Overseas Over seas News agency establishes the II fact that it was an Austrian submarine submarine sub sub- marine which sank the Italian SUb j liner Po Porto to S I i i d dho d' d c causing ho tho death deat pas p passengers 1 and one member of tJ the e crew I It Js is asserted the steamship attempted t to to- ram tam the submarine Vienna reports that the the submarIne submarine ordered the the steamship to stop The Porto Said first attempted to escape and nd then ran up a white flag and halted When the submarine approached tho steamer the latt latter r steered at the submarine submarine submarine sub sub- marine in order to ram i-am her At that juncture the submarine opened fire and hit the steamship which again came cameto to a halt and lowered boats The submarine ceased firing drew up to the steamship and observed that that- the persons In the boats which had put off from th the Por Porto o Said w were re making for t the e coast without attempting to rescue those swimming in the Inthe the sea The submarine halted the bo boat t containing the capt captain ln or of the Porto Sai Said The captain was told that he would be shot if he did not save ave those struggling Inthe in inthe inthe the water On the steamship were found two persons one of whom was wounded They were taken off in a boat from the submarine and after the wounded person person person per per- son son had been bandaged both were han handed ed over to the captains captain's boat It was not until after aCter this had been done that the Porto Said was tor tor- tor- tor Meanwhile the submarine while still tilI giving assistance was shelled by a torpedo boat and a a. yacht The he Porto Sa Said was torpedoed In the I Mediterranean by a a- submarine the na nationality nationality na- na of which was not established although it was said to have flown na-I na the Austrian colors A dispatch from Milan 1 on December r 27 21 said an Italian d destroyer pursued the submarine which escaped although It was believed to I have been sf struck by a shelL |