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Show Avonmouth Reports Only Eleven Americans Lost in Sinking of Armenian. CREW TAKES TO BOATS German Shell Cuts Falls of Boat Loaded With Men Occupants Are Drowned. Ivonmouth, England, July 112:25 p. m. There were eleven Americans among the nineteen members pf the crew who lost their lives in the sinking sink-ing of the Leyland line freight steamer steam-er Armenian by the German submarine submar-ine U-3S. off Trevose bead, Cornwall, on Monday Some members of the crew were killed outright when tho German torpedo struck the ship. Ship Carrying Mules. When sunk by tho German submarine, sub-marine, the Armenian was carrying a cargo of 1,422 mules from Newport News to Avonmouth, the animals to bo used by tho French armies in Bel-! Bel-! gium and France. The vessel had a , crew of 72 men and carried 90 men ': us muleteers. The submarine was first sighted by i the men at the wheel and though the ,ship was pushed to the limit, tho '!. mosquito craft rapidly overhauled her , uud commenced shelling. The Armenian's Ar-menian's efforts to keep her stern to tliiV submarine were futile. "flhe faster vessel circled the ' ireiKhter and (he German commander, command-er, Sneaking through a megaphone, ordered the Armenian's captain to surrender, or he would sink the ship. TheMpper of the Leyland liner n struggle hard to evade the undersea e boat. ba tho latter adopted a shell a through a. skylight into the steamer's a- engine room, putting the engines out if' of action, yrhe Armenian then sur-ix sur-ix I rendered Thc boats wore lowered, ic and the crow and some seventy mule ll tenders. neaiV all Americans, tcram-o- bled into tholj . As one of lh boats was being low-n-iered a shell frm the submarine cut stlthe lalls of theVmt The occupants e- were spilled, intoVhp water and pre-ai pre-ai I sumably were avoided, id Five boats loaty with survivors in . got aw a The suVnartne then fired pdjtwo torpedoes inloe Aimcnlan aijd ne J the vesscL sank wihln thirty min utes. The survivors rowed around in the boats until Tuesday morning when a 'steam trawler landed them at Avonmouth. Wireless Call Sent. Plymouth, England. July 1. The "S. 0. S." or call 'for help sent out by wireless telegraphy by the Leyland liner Armenian before she was sunk by the German submarine TJ-3S was picked up by the British steamer Tar-quah. |