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Show U. S. TO ACTIVELY ENTER THE WAR I GERMANS LOWER AMERICAN FLAG m Refuse to Let Torpedoed American Ship Go Down With Colors Flying. CAPTAIN TELLS STORY Submarine Crew Haul Down U. S. Emblem Before Plac-ing Plac-ing Bombs. BLANK DATE March 30. The rrow of the Gorman submarine -which shelled and Bank the American steamship steam-ship Algonquin without warning: in British waters on March 12 refused to let the freight ship go down with the Stars and Stripes flying, Captain ordbcrg of the Algonquin said today. The captain and twenty-five of his men arrived this morning at an American port on the Cunard liner Orduna from a British port. Before the Algonquin's men abandoned aban-doned the vessel she was being shelled by the U-boat. Captain Nordberg said he decided not to haul down the American Ameri-can flag: and hoped to sec it flyinp when the ship disappeared, but the Germans who went aboard to place bombs, he said, lowered the emblem before they accomplished their work of destruction. Captain Nordberg's story upon his arrival added no other essential details de-tails to the cabled accounts of the loss of the Alponquin. He confirmed dlspatehes which have told how he and his crew were denied aid by the U-boat's captain and had to row sixty-five sixty-five miles to land. About three miles off shore another submarine was sighted, sight-ed, he said. The Alponquin was on her way from New York with prain and provisions when sunk. oo . |