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Show I Captain Turner of Ltrsitania Tells of Sighting Torpedoes. .twJHwJHtYt BjVjVjVjVJHHHfe . B;'i,::''VS V f9Hrf .JiESS'S Mi i mi nmmrr lir'-illlliiiri IT III II n i I HHIIHI ' Photo by Amerlcnnrrosa Assoctatlon. Jii, - - J " Two torpedoes wero fired at tho Lusltanla WUcn they struck a German submarino rose to tho surfneo and dlvedagaln almost at once. Tbu havoc was due entirely to torpedoes and not to ammunition or Infcninl machines ,ln tho hold of tho ship. Thcso wero tho posltlvo assertions of Cnptnn W. 1 Turner of tho sunken Iluor, who Is shown hi tho nccompnnylng J)isnitlqn. It was tho first statement tho captain. made. "I kept to tho mhllu channel, chan-nel, following orders received from tho admiralty," bo said. "I'roni.'tlio.brldup I saw n torpedo coming our vny;'nnd I tried to chnngo the ship's courso a tlmo to avoid It. Tho second torpedo followed almost immediately. Tito second sec-ond struck right over the boilers, crippling tho engine. For thla reason ,lt was Impossible to beach the Lusltnnla. I did not order tho llfebpnts out J sooner becnuua It was foolish to try to get them Into the wuterbeforo tnu Lusltnnla lost nil headway. Otherwise they would have been swamped. 'It ' was cold blooded murder, notbhig else. All talk of nn luternol cxp)nsloniU ' ' foolish. Tin d thoro been high explosives or any amount of nmmuiitlm In I tho hold tho liner would havo been blown toiiilta Instead of sinking as she did. Tliero bad been no renBon for running under forced drafi. TlintU why we wero not at full speed. I saw tho subinnrlno again. I was In tho j water four h'durs. and while I was swimming I saw tho craft rlso am Id Mm I wreckago and dive again. Others saw It c en better than I did." |
