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Show ; SAW SUBMARINE STRIKE THE BLOW f Plymouth, England. May 4. 1:35 a. ijm. The steamer Lyonnesse last - nighi brought from the Scilly islands to Pensance thirty-three members ol J the crew and the body of Captain Al - hert Gunter of the American steamer 1 Gulflighl. which was torpedoed off the t Scilly islands last Saturday The chlel officer and chief engineer re-' re-' main with the vessel, which S anchored an-chored in Crow sound, to look after ' the interests of the steamer s owners In an interview at Penzance, Second Sec-ond Officer Paul Bower of the Gulf-1 Gulf-1 light, whose home is Id Chicago said. 1 "When the Gulfllght left Port Ar-1 Ar-1 thur we were followed by a warship of some description, which kept out ' I of sight, but in touch by wireless and i warned us not lo disclose our position posi-tion to anyone "At noon Saturday we were twenty-five miles west of Scilly. The n r ather was hazy, but not thick. limit tuo and one-half miles ahead I saw a submarine I was on watch and not 1 1 ice the captain nnd chief officer, who also saw the submarine It remained on the surface for thro minutes and then disappeared "Twenty-five minute-) later we were struck by a torpedo 011 the starboard side and there was a tremendous shock The submarine had not reappeared re-appeared on the surface before dis-charging dis-charging the torpedo "Previous to this we had been met by two patrol boats, which accompanied accompan-ied is on either side The bout on our starboard side was so badly shaken sha-ken h the explosion that her crew imagined that she also had been torpedoed. tor-pedoed. We immediate!) lowered the boats and left our siiip arid were quick! taken on board the patrol boats But the fog Increased and we I drifted about all nigl and did not lland at Scilly until 10 30 o'clock Sun- da v morning." |