Show TRANSPORT SUNK BY GERMAN BOAT U-BOAT SEVENTY SAILORS Arm SOLDIERS LOSE THEIR LIVES WHEN TRANSPORT GOhS GOES DOWN Convoys of Vessel Returning to the I United States Rush to Scene of Dis Disaster and Rescue a Number of Drowning Men Washington Seventy American sailors Bailors and s' s soldiers lost their thell lives October October Oc Oc- Oc- Oc tober 17 when a German submarine torpedoed the time army transport An- An s. s News of this first heavy blow struck against America h by Germany German reached the na navy department front from Vice Admiral Admiral Admiral Ad Ad- miral Sims Slams on October 19 The he Antilles Antilles An An- tilles was torpedoed while returning to this country from France She was under convoy at the time lime but neither the torpedo which sent her to the bottom bottom bottom bot bot- tom nor the destroying submarine was sighted Time The men had hind no chance for their lives Struck abreast the engine room the time Antilles sank like a n plummet gong going gong go go- ing ng ng down in five minutes There were about aboard her and there was little or no chance to take to the boa boats ts Of or the saved many wore were reported report report- ed to have been fished from the waters Waters waters wa wa- by vessels of the time convoy Three Naval Officers Lost The death list Includes three navy officers four sailors and sixteen sol sol- sol sol- diers The rest of the victims were members of the merchant crew Coming Coining on the heels of Vice Admiral Admiral Admiral Ad Ad- miral Sims' Sims report of the torpedoing of ot an un American dest destroyer oyer the sinking of the the- Antilles caused a distinct shock to the military and naval establish establish- ments The Sims dispatch reached the time bureau of communications at the department do- do shortly after 3 o'clock Friday Frida afternoon at a time when the president president pres dent and his cabinet were In session and discussing It Is stated the report of Admiral Mayo Ia o as to the real situation situation situation situa situa- tion abroad In war department circles It was stated unofficially that dint important American officials were on board the Ill-fated Ill Antilles returning from mIssions missions missions mis mIs- of oC observation abroad This may account for the fact U that at she was picked out by the submarine but general opinion Is that the time U-boat U took tooka u n shot In the dark trusting to luck to bag one American ship and not darIng daring daring dar dar- ing to show herself because of the time convoy Convoys Rush to Rescue That the loss of life was not heavier heavier hen ier considering the almost Immediate sinking of ot the time Antilles is declared by experts to be due solely to the fact that she was in iii a n fleet of ships and that the fast convoying Ing destroyers could Immediately rush to the lie rescue and pick up tip many of or the men from the time water In case of ot such attack It Is the navy policy for the other ships under o convoy to scatter as widel widely as us possible possible ble LIe steering zigzag in order to save saye themselves The policy has been established established es es- es- es as the only safe one to pursue pursue pursue pur pur- sue despite the apparent brutality of leaving men to drown Germany Hopes to Intimidate One view Is taken in naval circles circle of the two attacks in a n week on American ships and that Is this That Germany has concentrated upon a a. a campaign of intimidation against tho the United States I There There are fire tinny many an angles es visible to Q give I basis to fo o this belief and officials of or standing point tI them em out They sa say that Germans by sinking a few transports transports transports trans trans- ports expect to sicken America and give strength to pacifists and propagandists propagandists in this country countr that country that that she can cripple Americas America's war preparations In InthIs Inthis inthis this wa way cause opposition to further drafts and create e generally an antiwar antiwar anti anti- war spirit in America The They say that the re recent ent falling offin oft off In the loss of British tonnage and the increasing attacks on American vessels vessels ves Yes sels Indicates that lint the German admiralty alt alty now that the close of activities In the North sea Is near has determIned determined determined deter deter- mined upon a winter campaign against American transports and proposes to carry curry on such a campaign on a n large Imse scale I The he Antilles a freight and passenger passenger ger gel steamship of OSIS tons gross owned owned owned own own- ed by the Southern Pacific Steamship company C Morgan un Un line lime was one of I Ithe the he crack American coast liners She hulled between New Orleans and New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and hind had carried thousands of persons to the time MardI Gras celebration In n the southern cIt city The Time vessel was taken aken over h by the tIle government as a transport early carly in the time war The Antilles Antibes was built b by the time Cramps at Philadelphia in 1907 She was vas 4 1 feet long with a beum beam o 0 53 feet and a depth of 3 37 feet |