Show HOMERIC TELL GRAPHIC or EA TRAGEDY I White Star Liner I Clo Close e as I Maru Sinks W V w v NEW NEW YORK Apri April The The The White Star liner l Homeric was steaming toward New York today with details of the death of ot thirty- thirty eight Japanese seamen seame lost when the freighter Maru laru foundered foundered foundered found found- ered In huge seas miles mUes southeast southeast southeast south south- east of Halifax as seven ships raced to the rescue I The Homeric answering radio messages of the Japanese vessel earl early yesterday esterday altered her course and was close to the vessel as she capsized and s sank The rhe heavy seas however made it impossible for the liner to launch her life lite boats and those of ot the freighter had been smashed by the waves Officers and passengers were forced tp to look on helplessly as the Atlantic engulfed the freighters freighter's freight freight- ers er's crew CARGO SHIFTED The Maru l owned by a Kobe shipping firm and commanded command command- ed by Captain II H. Izeki left Boston on April for Hamburg with a cargo of wheat Monday a a. a storm arose and arid her cargo shifted causing causing causing caus caus- ing a a. bad list She began to leak yesterday esterday morning and the first SOS was sent Besides the Homeric the Cunard Cunard Cunard Cun- Cun ard liners Tuscania and Scythia and King Alexander of ot the National Na- Na Greek line and the tile Dollar liner President A Adams ams proceeded to her assistance Two oceangoing tugs put out from Halifax to the rescue RESCUE IMPOSSIBLE As the Homeric came within sig sight t of the sinking ship the Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese climbed out over the rail raU as she listed far over Then she sank leaving no trace of life on the wa wa- ter The Homeric turned toward this port sending a brief brier message that t it had been Impossible to ef effect effect et- et a res rescue ue The Tuscania also arrived too ton late to help but in time timeto to see th the ragic en end of the race i. i tI t c V NE NEW YORK April 22 Officials of or the Steamship company compan owners of the freighter Maru Iaru which went vent down yesterday s south uth of Halifax with her crew of thirty-eight thirty today announced that the Japanese consul Matsunaga at Ottawa had asked the Canadian government to send a ship to the scene in the hope of recovering bodies It was said that one of or the company's com com- pany's pam's ships would be dispatched to the scene from Boston and that thata a Canadian boat had shifted her course to pass the tue scene today |