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Show KOANTIC CHASED m SUBMARINE Queeustown. May .-Th White Star liner Meantl with a large number of pHHuengers from Liverpool to Montreal, was chased by a submarine off the i south coast of Ireland this morning, but escaped. Considerable alarm was caused early this morning when an "S, o S." call was received from the liner, report- j lng that a submarine had been sighted, j I 'The first mcssAK'" was soon followed, however, by another staling that the Megantlc had outdistanced the nuhma-jrlne nuhma-jrlne and that she then was sixty miles southeast of Cork harbor. Later ;i third m's;K- w;ix received from the steamer's captain reporting that h had evaded the submarine, that his ship was well to tho westward and that h was proceeding on hi voyage with all on board well. Barry, Wales May t". 5:20 p m The British steamer Tullochmoor. S52Q tons was shelled and sunk by a Orman sub-mnnnp sub-mnnnp Friday evening. The crew escaped es-caped and has landed hero. The ctfw scaped and has landed hrp. The Tul-lochmoor Tul-lochmoor was in ballast from Onoa for South Shields. The Tullochmoor was ain f,t )n lonR-tht, with a beam of 46 ft feet, and wa built In 8he was owned by the Moor line, Ltd., of New Captle, England. London. May 30. 5:68 p. m The Tullochmoor Tul-lochmoor was steaming off fjshant westernmost of the islands off the coast of Brittany' Friday evening when she was halted by a shot from a suhmarine. according to a Cftntral News dispatch from Bnrry The urdcrwatfr boat. Captain Cap-tain Holford said, was only fifteen yards distant from the steamer at that time. The German commander gave the steamer's steam-er's crew ten minuter to launch their boats and the twenty-six men rowed away without waiting to save their personal per-sonal effects. "The crew of the submarine" said Captain Holford. "made no attempt to board the Tullochmoor, nor was I a.sed te show my ensign or tell my nationality The Germans kept firing into the ship until she wont down They must have had a pood deal of ammunition to share, for the steamer was the target for nearly near-ly fortv shots before she disappeared." While the Tullochmoor was still afloat Engineer Dockery swam back from the small boat he was In and obtained the ships papers. The Tullorhmoor's crew wils rescued by the Spanish steamer Ollzzara after spending three hours in the steamer's boats no . |