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Show V J Vv, w & f THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSV7LLE. UTAH GERMAN RECENT SUBMARINE-SIN- KS ADDITION JO THE AMERICAN NAVY THE LUSITANIA a HINTS IN A SPEECH - THAT THIS COUNTRY WILL NOT GO TO WAR WITH GERMANY. Passenger Vessel Sent to Bottom Off Coast of Ireland, Over One Thousand Lives Being Lost, Many Americans Among Victims. Declares There Is Such Thing s BeIng so Right That it Does Not Need to Convince Others by Force That it Is Right. The Cunard IJner Lusitania, a saw a steamer with her bows In the ownod passenger veaael. waa tor- air He said hardly ten minutes later President Wi Ison Ehlladelphia. pedoed by a German submarine off the she keeled over and sank. ' gave to a gathering of naturalized Irish coast on Friday, May 7, and went A resident of Ardfleld, IreCnd, estl Americans on Monday night the flret down twenty minutes after being mated the ship was five miles from intimation of what course the United atruek by two torpedoes, 1,200 lives shore when he heard the crash of the States government will pursue in the being lost, 120 of this number being torpedo when It pierced her side. For situation resulting from the loss of' American citizens, of the dead many a moment she seemed to move slowly more than & hundred American lives being women and children, . straight ahead, then turned suddenly! on the British liner Lusitania. When the Lusitania left New York and then stopped, her bow sinking and He spoke by implication, but his May 1 she had on board 1,901 soult, the stern rising. Then she keeled hearers interpreted his remarks as 1,251 passengers and 650 crew. The over and disappeared from sight. With-femeaning that whiel the United States minutes ten rescue boats had passengers wcru made up uf g9P4a-- t would remain at peace 'it would seek first cabin, 99 in the second and 361 reached the spot where she went down to convince ueTmfififOf the' injustice In the steerage. The list of survivors mankind pf the tragedy of May 77 to .... s, . MlMt., ,1, , s shows sorfar that about 90 WHS NO PANIC AMONG CREW the president, America," said The United States auxiliary and supply ship, launched recently at Mare Island and 75 second-claspassengers were navy yard, California, have consciousness must the that on as she slid down the wsys. saved. It is noticeable that comparaall sides It touches elbows and touches of Telle Been on few Passenger tively passengers were hearts with all nations of mankind. After Torpedoes 8truck. saved. The example of America must be a NOVEL HOME OF FRENCH SOLDIERS Either two or three torpedoes struck Queenstown. A sharp lookout for special example, and must be an exthe Lusitania. One report says the submarines was kept aboard the ample not merely of peace because it first projectile was followed by . two as she approached the Irish will not fight, but because peace is a In others, Btrlklng quick succession coast, according to Ernest Cowper, a healing and elevating influence of the Another report has it that two sub- Toronto newspaper man, who was world and strife is not marines took pari In the onslaught, among the survivors landed here, lie There is suh a thing as a man beone attacking from the port and the declared that after the ship was tor ing too proud to fight.. There is such other from tjie starboard bide. pedoed th ere was no pa nlc a nioug the a thing as.Jeing..SQ right that It does The Lusitania wag nearing the end crew, but that they went about the not need, to convince others by force L of her journey when a submarine sud- work of getting passengers Into the it Is right. that denly appeared and began firing. The boats in a prompt and efficient manThese remarks precipitated a' tuitfirst torpedo struck between the first ner. and second fuflnelB. As we neared tjie coast of Ireland, $ t mult of applause and patriotic enthuThe Lusitania siasm, attended by a waving of thoualuiokand settled down a bit. Two said Mr. Cowper, we all Joined In the of small American flags. The sands oFHer torpedoes for a quickly followed and lookout, possible attack by a soon finished the ship. Four or five submarine was the sole topic of con president made no direct reference to the Lusitania tragedy,' but the aiidc of the lifeboats went1 d won with her versatlon. 1 was chatting with a ence did not hesitate to real'JIte apand the tremendous suction as the friend at the rail about 2 o'clock, w hen liner was engulfed dragged many peo- suddenly I caught a glimpse of the plication of his statement The sentiment expressed in the ple dow n also. conning tower of a submarine about 1,000 yard I immediately distant. presidents speech was epitomized Many of the passengers did not later by one of his closest advisers as the Lusitania would sink as called my friend'a attention to It Imwe as did. saw both she humanity first" While U had not quickly the track of a Consequently they mediately did not Join In the rush for (he life- torpedo, followed almost Instantly by he said, exactly' yet what steps would be taken by the boats, but evidently preferred to trust an explosion. Portions of splintered ' In their belief that the United States in the present crisis, watertight com hull were sent flying Into the air and the Idea uppermost in the presidents partmenta of the vessel would keep then another torpedo struck, . The V mind was to ahowr that whatever her afloat until such time to ship list to s help began starboard. w- I rame out from the Irish shore, loss "The crew course is adopted no matter how vigonce proceeded to get j orous it will have as its objective the the passengers Into boats In an order- than ten miles away. Many prominent Americans were on ly, prompt and efficient manner. Mist good of humanity. the boat, and among those who went Helen Smith appealed to me to save down with the ship were Charles Froh her. I placed her In a boat and eaw WILFUL MURDER THE VERDICT. : J&Sa man of New York, the theatrical her safely away. I got into one of the Coroner's Jury Investigates Sinking producer, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. last boats to leave. xjl-- ' Some of the boats could Charles Klein, the playwright, Justin of the Lusitania. pot be M. Forman 'and Elbert Hubbard and launched as the vessel was sinking. Klnsaie. The verdict rendered by bis wife. There was a large number of women the coroners jury which Investigated The stories from Queenstown de- and children In the second cabin. the deaths resulting from the torpescribe the bringing in of the bodies of Forty of the' children were loss than a doing of the Lusitania follows: old. a great number of women, many of year We fityd that the deceased met them atlll Unidentified. ! The Queens death from prolonged immersion and town docks are the temporary exhaustion in the sea eight miles resting ROOSEVELT CALLS IT PIRACY places .also of the. bodies of several of Old Head o children. One dead mother still is Former 7, 1915, owing to the President Friday, May Denounces Torpedoclasping In her rigid arms the body of of the Lusitania by torpedoes of tho sinking ing Lusitania. her three months old baby. Ihll McCleary. an American newsfired by a German submarine. All the evidence goes to show that Syracuse. N. Y. Theodore Rooee-vel- paper correspondent 4n Mexico, was These French troopers have found comfortable ,, quarters in a rabbit waaWe find that this appalling crime learning details of the sink. ordered shot by General Carranza for the second TnFol1after oJLw nyof .,hut.ch,jpachompartmcnt committed contrary to internathe hMMajmsuman, Lusitania, su .dWFuT uncenwred MwiTAttaTt late Friday night class passengers had such confidence tional law and the conventions of alf made this statement; In the ability of the he was In the reports San Juan de Lusitania, becivilized nations. This represents not merely piracy, Ulloa prUon at Vera Cruz cause of her watertight GETTING' awaiting THEIR comportments, but DAILY We also charge thq officers erf said BREAD piracy on a vaster scale of mur- execution. to remain afioat after she received the submarine and the emperor and govder than any pldttme pirate ever pracfirst blow that they did not concern ernment of ticed. Is This Germany, under whose the warfare which de. themselves about taking to, the boats SVEN HEDIN they acted, with the crime of s or even providing themselves with life strayed Louvain and Wnant, and wholesale murder before the tribunal of men, women and children In preservers. of the civilized world. Is Belgium, it warfare t When the passengers did realize against "We desire to express sincere conmen, women and children, travel, that the Lusitania was doomed, they dolences and sympathy with tho relaon ocean.-an- d the ing on our fellow found that most of the boats on the tives of the deceased, the Cunard who country are women, among the port side were so Jammed, because of and the United States, many of . sufferers. the geat list of the vessel, that whose citizens perished in this' they seems "It inconceivable we that can could not be lowered, and the last seen attack on an unarmed liner." of them by the most fortunate passon-ger- refrain frorajaking action Jn this mat. we owe it not only to human-ltybu-t for ter, who had secured places on the .to our ow n . national self re- EXPRESSES REGRET- larboard boats or who had jumped sptwL overboard and had been picked up, Count Bernstorff Expresses Personal lined on the sloping decks BRITONS EXPECTING - ,he Regrets for Killing of Americana. CONVERT waiting-thei- r fate, doubtless even Washington. While official Washthen believing that with land so chase ington waited on Mopday for word Believe Sinking of Lusitania Should they would still be saved. from President Wilson as to what Is Cause Americans to Aid British. However, the torpedoes had torn to be the policy of the United States uchgapIngJioleslnthe London, Meet ofthe momlugnew. Jinerlbal n the crisis resulting from the she did not remain afloat for more papers sinking editorials concerning the of the Lusitania. Count' than twenty minutes, and the calls for sinking print Bernstorff of the Lusitania. the German ambassador, called help which the wireless sent out, alat the The Times says it Is not for Great Ute department and expressed to though answered quickly, could not Britain to speculate upon the course Secretary Bryan hi deep regret that of bread bring the rescuing steamers to the to be adopted by the UUited distributed In a British camp in France. The the Kwly.8UP.P States events of the war had led to the of InhabitanU the pot in time to be of any service. also are region given the food. government, now that they are conloss of so many American lives." Marine Superintendent Dodd of the fronted with a situation which Cunard line said that the Lusitania that country as closely as it does SWEEPING UP DARDANELLES MINES Airships Raid London. sank in sixty fathoms of water and Great Britain. London. would never be raised. German airmen dropped "The members of Mr. Wilson's twelve bombs on Sooth End and vicinThe names of seventy-thresurvivsays the Times, are the guarors of the 188 Americans aboard the dian of their national honor ity early Monday, but only two deaths and the resulted. An old woman was killed in Lusitania has been reported to the Uvea of their own them people. Upon her bed and her husband, who had atstate department at Washington. rests a heavy responsibility which we Insurance On the Lusitania, it is shall not seek to accentuate, but the tempted to rescue her, died from aid, amounted to 17,500.000. The ves- destruction of the Lusitania must asreceived in jumping from a sel was valued in round hasten the suredly day when every figures at 110,000,000. The worth of the cargo civilized power will feel oonstrained to v Villa Forces Retire. she carried was reckoned at $735,000. join with us." dfck' r j An Irish coast guard, w ho w ltnessed Washington. Carranza troops have Traveler Undismayed. Sven Hedin, the famous Swedish exthe sinking of the ship helloes she reoccupied in the oil well rePanuco, New York. The British steamer plorer who, at the Invitation of sank within eight minute. His the gion near Tampico, story Transylvania of the Anchor line sailed kaiser, visited- - the German according to adis confirmed by a farmer ,who was vices from Mexico to the state depart-mefighting for a few Friday fronts hour Liverpool, and wrote a book about what after working near Old Head Klnsale.when The Villa force which captured he beard shots and looking seaward news of the Lusitanias sinking had he saw. Because he favored the Gerthe town about ten days been received. ago evacuatThe Transylvanias man cause he was deprived of his ed May 5 and the Carranza forca FYench and English honorary titles Froh man May Have Lost Life. Steel Men Aboard Lueitania. marched in. sew York. 7 Charles Forhnian, probto steam-shlPittsburgh. According ably the meet widely known theatrical Americano In Urumiah Safe. Stewed Pruned Thief's Booty. work ott Weeper tnan In tbe'World, was a passenger on the events here twenty, persons from ' Stewed at th. Dardell811 of approach th. prunes Washington. Assurances from the Pittsburgh district had booked recently the Lusitania, and it is believed that from the home of a deputy United Turkish government that' Americans on the passage In Lusitania. as well as many first cabin pas the number were be, In Urumiah, Persia, where eight first caWn.'sec. States marshal of Los Angeles, by a In Doubt bandit upengers, went dow n with the ship. . Consideration. barefoot burglar, who was frightened ond fablu aivi three third cabin were reported some week ago, risings What makes you keep turning your pas from the What are your reasons for refusresidence upon the return head?" asked the man Htfeers. Prominent Philadelphians Lost safe and not hi need of financial at the ball ing to vote for me!" asked the statesof the family. From all appearances aid baa been received. Do game. see you Philadelphia. s. M. Knox, president Windstorm in Tennessee. anybody you man. "You always seem to be a friend the burglar sat on the floor with the know?" of mine." Mars oUslewed 'pruneFlndthrew the WIILPunfah. Brokers., No. answered, his wife. Tm studyPaay. Camden, and William Sterling and her child were killed be, Bu.i I am. I think the world of about the, room pits A and When you. Mrs. e. Cliiafar-the fan! notice baa been .posted ing the facial expressions 1 cant be I've been reading about a (Hodges, part representative of the Hilliard was congress-man'- s OB the probably fatally urt Fri- Uy entered the front door he fled out quite1 sure whether the Beard of Trade s vying - Baldwin Locomotive wort Chicago are were pas day night when their homee hard work. long . hour and the officer near Hun- the back., carryinr several Jars of cheering the players or. people of board woo d hold tho. eugsre on the Lueitania. amaU expressing 'pay, ' Im going to save my tingdon were wrecked by a windstorm. ppiac him. . . strict accountability any member their feelings toward the umpire." i vote for somebody 1 dont like CUiity of originating or false rumors." 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