Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-08-17 | Page 5 | Neutral Vessel Dodges Big Mine

NEUTRAL VESSEL i DODGES BIG MINE Five Passengers Die at Sea at S Sea a aI I of ot Spanish In u- u enza I By By y United Press Preas AN ATLA ATLANTIC PORT I Aug 17 7 7 After narrowly escaping destruction from a huge floating mine In foreign I waters a neutral lIn liner r arrived Ed here toda today About sixty miles off oft the N Norwegian coast the liner w was s stopped by a aGerman aGerman aGerman German submarine whose commander examined the ste steamers steamer's mels papers and conducted a t lengthy questioning quest Of t I the officers ers H He finally allowed th the vessel to tb pr proceed recognizing recognising her neutrality Vh When n a few days day from land Sp Span Spanish p- p ish influenza enza broke oUt on board The infection n s spread rapidly clamIng claiming claiming claim clam ing five Dut Dutch h negroes vl victims These men w were re burled buried at sea and ab about ut four days before rea reaching port all symptoms of the c epidemic fd Hollanders told stories of or poor food tootI conditions In their native country one man declaring he lost sixty pounds as a result or of the shortage of foodstuffs