Show I SUBMARINE FIRES ON BRITISH LINER ATTEMPT IS MADE TO SINK PASSENGER BOAT BO BOUND ND FOR FORTHE FORTHE FORTHE THE UNITED STATES T Torpedo Misses Mark and Id the the At At tacked Vessel S Su Succeeds ce ds in Escaping Escaping ing ng injury by Running at F Full Speed Fr From m the the Enemy I Washington Into n.-In n. Into o the grave s situation situa tua tion that has developed between the V United States and Germany over the sh sinking k ng of r the Lusitania was was thrust another issue issue Isue when it was was was' as reve revealed led ledon on Saturday that the British British steamer V carrying a score of Americans Amen Ameri cans had Leen attacked by a G German German Ger Gr r- r man submarine The Cunard liner bound from Liverpool to New York with passengers including V two twenty Ameri Americans ns was attacked without warning It was as learned on her arrival ar an- rival rival at t New York by a German Geman s submarine submarine sub sub- b- b marine marin o on p the morning of July 9 9 Should first rep reports of an attempt to torpedo without v warning be borne out by the official Investigation about V to be instituted It was indicated ted In fn official quarters that States States' probably would regard the incident I as as' as- as adding A grave graye element to the already al al- alV al- 1 ready strained d relations between e the the V two countries V V V V V Twenty miles mile's from the graveyard of the Lusitani Lusitania off ff Old l Head of Kinsale sale the escaped c the Lusi- Lusi tania's fate by one half a ic second nd of time or ten feet feet of space the German German torpedo churning the water that distance dis dis- distance dis- dis tance behind the liners liner's ru rudder d r. r Then the sped away She was followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed by the the submarine submarine which rose roseto roseto roseto to the surf surface e manned a gun on her herdeck herdeck herdeck deck and shelled the fleeing steamer The attack was was timed timed at t 1 10 minutes s sto to 6 o o'clock lo k In iii the l morning when albut all al allbut allbut but a a few of ber passengers lay sleepIng sleeping sleeping sleep- sleep Ing in their berths Aroused by stewards steward's stewards stew stew- stewards ards ard's fh the passengers dressed hurr hurried hurried- hurriedly hurriedly edly ed- ed ly and went to the upper deck where they they- put on on life me belts and took their places places' at th the lifeboats They the scream bf of the shells and saw the ocean cean spit up tp columns of water where the shells struck V When the fire grew hot they hey were e ord ordered f. f for o their heir protection pro pro- to the next deck below For r h half ir jin an an hour th the V t sh showed ed her hei lt heels els to the ther r assailant a t. t Through marine glasses the the passengers passengers passengers gers watched the dark splotch on the h i wate waters water's s 's surface s astern y saw J S w the lying low-lying German w warship coming on but the flight was faster than the the- pursuit and after seven shots had been fired without effect the submarine gave up the chase |