TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1915,
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SENTENCE OF EVENTS. There was lifebout, and ruft ne- conimodation for 2,600 people on boanl the Imitania, Mr. Hruska stated. There, were 180 Americans: aboard, so far as he could remember the number, and apparently about one in five lad been saved. The aumber of children who were' dirtwine ed was a dreadfl feature, and thei scenes in the mortuary, wither Mr. Brooks went on Saturday, was heart-
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Upon his estimate there coull have haven for saved of the huge manber of little ones aboard the [ship.
Mr. Bronks was us precise us to the chronologient sequence of events as in his recollection of the various thrilling incidents attendant upon the disästel. According to his bestimony the fatal shot was fired just after 25 p.m. He leupt into the son at 2.19. That was the time at which is wateli stopped, the mail, as.hộ stilted, then being only it from the water, illustrating the almost inspa ecivable rapidity with which the tragedy developel. The ship sant ten minutes after he Best entered the water,
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Xiong the tales told by his fellow passengers avio survived, Mr. Broks instanced an af quite remarkable poenliarity:
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In India, a favourite "Pick-me-up' is La & Perrins' Sauce with Soda-water.
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heard somebody call "There's a for- pedo.. Running to the port side, he saw the wake of the missile as it struck his vessel. He remained on thebrilge to the last, and went down with his ship about eighteen minutes His watch after she was strick hat, stopped at 2.05, the time at which he entered the water.
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The Corner remarked that the Shows tracks and daily progress of the big typhoons
first torpedo the German submurite
wha manifested, and there was no panic. The responsibility lay on the German Government unil the whole! people of Germany, who collaborated in the terrible crime.
- THOUSANDS OF GERMANS
MAKING ARMS FOR THE ALLIES.
Eight thousand of the 29,000 hen who are making war munitions for the Allies in the arts and amununi... tion factories in Connecticut are of Gerinun birth or parentage, according to inspectors who are familiar with the varicus, nationalities represented. by the cruploges.
Many of the resoned, according to Afr. Broche, left everything they some three hours afterwards, having for some time. After the lapse of narly forty minutes I had the satis- possess upon the doomed, liter. been kept afloat by a lifebelt." He himself atided with the dripping: Me. Thomas and his secretary faction of finding that I had been A short time Jelathes in which the stond, mosist both jumped into the same bout; able to revive her. Hing of shirt, suurles, Froiners. hd when the dress were awash. There clapsed; and a steamer. De Indian
waisteund, und a dother and a half were minerous other passengers alsa | Empire, I beloțe, came up.
As the Lusitania went down her in Armement my. The whole of in the bout with theta, about sixty
ster: ruse high in the air, and when his personat effects together with in number. Testawilerable sum of money he had LADY, MACK WORTH'S EXPERIKSON. she made the firal, plunge quite fired dil serious damage to the vess lodged in the purser's safe, went Lady Mackworth, who wag a'pas number of men took a leap of quite sel, hat, not satisfied, the scoundrels with the vessel to the bottom of thesenger with her father, Mr. D. A. | 70ft, into the sea. Many turned over fired other which went right; Atlantic. To those in similar plight | Thomas, states that the deck of the before striking the surface. As she through the ship. Amidst the ter FURNITURE,
money for immediate necessities was ship was inclined at a fearful angle finally disappeared t noticed that rible disaster the characteristic cour- Consisting of Teakwood Sideboard, Table and Chair, reutily nlvnesti by the American when she got to it, making it im several lifeboats were still hanging age of the Irish and British people
She was still attached to the blocks.: possible to get about. Sundry Glass and Crockery, &c., Doulle
In Mr. Brooks opinion: the sub-on deck when the ship went down, Brass-mounted Bed, Tenk Wardroberin ell not have been much and she was sucked under to a great Dressing Table, Washstand, &c., &c.
more than 3 yards away at the depth. When she rose to the sur- On view from Tuesday, 15th June at time the torper was discharged. ( face slas swam towards a floating 9.30 p.m..
**I have band » long experience of brand, and having grasped it offered the speed of automobiles," he said, a corner to a man, who gladly avail "and I should say its epood was fed himself of it; and held on for a
Miss Cig said that the doctors thirty-five miles an hour when is Littis. relinquishing his hold later,
s. As to there being two torpedoes, Then she must have lost conscious had forbidden anybody excepting her I should say most certainly there ness, for the next she remembered nurse to speak to Miss Tury, who was bout one.
was that she was flouting with ais gradually recovering from the | deck chair under hor, but how she got effects of her operation.
she does not know. After another! long titerval she again became an conscious, and has no idea of how she got on board the Bluebek, a trawler, When the boat heeled over several which brought her to Queenstown. people told me the funnels, which She thought the officers and crew are hulky enough to be capable of of the Lusitania acted very bravely,
small cottage. caron as the stewardesses. thelusing paralel with the water and then filled as they dipped below the sur face. People who nad been thrown wholesale into the sea at this point Women Jump Overboard. coull not get bey the reach off the water, and were engulfed by the
Dr. C. B. Foss, of Montuos, gave inrushing tomynt. Immediately thrilling narrative at Cork of his fan explosion occurred in the interior experiences after the Eusitania was Chaskarteld of the ship, and the wretched people torpedoed. He was one of a party Sofas and Chairs (New), Bedroom Saitan, were ejected violently from the fun-of qualified physicians on a mission Dining Room Furnituro, Arm-chair annels into the se. Two or three were of fagrey-that of offering service to Sofas, Tolles Tables, Wardrobes, Wash-picked up by the bout in which the Red Cross organisation in the strada, &e, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, was, and their faces were so black field. He said:
Lunch was he served to the Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, etc., that they combi starcely be distin-
second lunebern party, and just as guished from coloured people.
Mr. Brolis expressal grief at the we finished the meal I and many fate of the two daughters of Lady others heard what I should describe,
as a loud voluminous bhom. Every was a little confusion among those. Men who have worked in the ar- They were two beautiful girls (he body in the luncheon salcon realised struggling to get up the companion senals of Geniany declare that Ger sdd), and I can read them, with that we had either struck a mine or ways from the dining saloon. man products cannot match in des- so many others, among the distinhad been torpedoed. I managed to Germany thought that she was secur tructiveness those of the American
uished cruupany, who listened to a get to the deck, where I held on to ing a military advantage by the dinkuutput, which is flowing in
ing of the Lusitania, she most stronger and steadier stream to the concert held aboard the ship only hie-preserver.
I jumped from the high or port phatically served the noble souls who
Allies. the night prviots to the disaster.
British inspectors in this city say Little so many of the women dreamside into the sea, and I struck the lure gone with an opportunity of ed of the terrible fate awaiting them water not far from the propeller again showing with what easy grace the most ingenious and efficient on the marrow, A cruel siano that Suddenly down came a boat from the Britons cun lie.
workmen Genny ever lasted row such beautiful ereatures should meet divits with a crash. Several people
find employment for their talents were in it. It was smashed, and I with such a death!
und skill in Connecticut and other noticed one ruon clinging for dear life
American factories in making war to the wreckage. The propeller was. When the vessel disappeared Cap-material for Germany's enemies. revolving and this poor fellow gostain Turner, the Lusitania's com Some of these German workmen say his legs badly eut.. I urn a good mander, was observed to be still at swimmer and I struck out. The man his post on the bridge. Mr. A. H. that in helping to encompass the Mr. D. A. Thorns, of Cardiff, in injured by the propeller hung tena Adam Scotel Cadion from defeat of the Kaiser they are doing greater service for the German terviewed by a Press representative,ciously to a rope.
Winnipeg, after swimming a short said that he was glad to say that The sinking ship still lurched for distance; found a collapsible bout, people than they would if they should
aid him in prolonging the war. Lady Mackworth and Mr. A. L. ward, dragging the damaged boat with to which thirty people were clinging." New York Herald. Rhys-Evans, his privato secretary; ini. By this time both women and and Captain Turner, he said; swam addition to himself, were amongst children coming overboard, to the boat later. Efforts were made
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HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers, Hongkong, June 14, 1316.
DIS
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MR. D. A. THOMAS'S STORY.
Launching the Boats.
were
At Queenstown I met Miss Grace Freach, of Glasgow, with whom had often conversed during the trip. She told me that while she was eling-
Muny German machinists, dic ing to some Houting wreckage she sinkers, toolmakers and inventors noticed a short distance from her have come to Connecticut since the what she thought was an upturned war began. They are working side bout. with several men standing on by side with English, Trish, Swedish it. But, as she put it herself," at French artisans in turning out could not understand what they were the early one hundred thousand cherring about, Judge my surprise tons a day of war material which when on drifting a little closer I saw Connecticut is shipping for the allied it was the ccaning-tower of the sub-
German gua und powder raakers marine. A moment later the Ger- man flag was hoisted, and a voice in ay wages are much better here, re- splendid English shouted, Let'slatively as wall as actually, than it the Fatherland, Those who have hear you sing Tipperary now?***
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In my humble opinion the oute families in Gemany assert their standing "Rigide of the wreck was labour here assures a competence for John Davies, the boatswain. Every their wives and children, which wouldOUR ROOMED FLATS in Hanoi our behaved uagnificently. There he impossible, they say, were they bovines and MAY ROAD was no panic, though, perhaps, there employed in Germany.
CAPTAIN TURNER'S ESCAPE.
II
those saved, after passing through throwing themselves from the port by the Lusitania's captain and by John Broadwood & Sons, a terrible experience. Lady Mack-side. Bight over they came, with Mr. Adaras and another passenger to worth, who was equipped with a life-sheer drop of at least 50ft. or B0ft.right the boat. Each time it slipped Brinsmead & Sons preserver, went down in the Lusi-I left the injured man still hanging back, and gradually the people cling. Eventually tania, and was picked up uacon-by the rope of the wrecked boat, anding to is disappeared. Fall Particulats from the Undersigned.scious after being in the water three got hold of a woman and a child, two Captain Turner swam away, and was
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who were beureak to me. I noticed picked up by a bout after having been "The Lusitanis was torpedoed that another bout had been lowered three hours in the water.. without notice about fifteen miles off and was standing on its keel. IjustS the Irish coast," said Mr. Thomas, hold the woman and child fast until "And she sunk in twelve or fifteen I got close to this second bout. I punutes afterwards. No steamer got them both on board. I noticed At the inquest Captain Turner re- reached the scene of the disaster that the boat was munned. There plied with decided negative to the until the hours had expired whez were four or five men in it. They question Was the Lusitan arm The Hongkong Hotel, ten or twelve vessels arrived Lady were sailore
ed? Asked what precautions were taken in view of the threats that had The Hongkong Ferry Wharf.
Mackworth was rescued by the boat BOAT CAPSIZED
I swain off towards a lifebost which been made, Captain Turner stated The Kowloon Ferry WORTH. that saved Captain Turner, and her
www ufloat; 2001t, or 200ft away, that all the boats were swung out recovery after her long immersion is very remarkable. It was most There were women in it. They were as soon as the danger zode waste Biosk, Blake Pier. dastardly optrage, and deserves the inch distressed, and I did ul. I could reached after passing the Fastnet. condemnation of the civilised world." to pacify them The boat an last The ship was going slowly so that The Upper Peak Tram Station. Mr. Thomas and Mr. Evans were capsized. I'han one woman on to she could go into the lerady with The Lorre Pead Team Stato. rescued by a Manx fishing bont that the keel of the uptomed boat. We the tide and thus avoid having to
happened to be fishing within a few got it righted. Several women were wait for a pilot. The look-outs were nag Ming Castor House Hotel miles of the disaster. The wea-still in the water. Suddenly I espied doubled in order that a sharp watch Laa Paug Kee (Astor House Hotel).
was fortunately beautifully what I should call a canvas raft very for aubmarines should be kept. He
ther
fino, said Mr. Thomas, and the rearly a quarter of a mile away. I was not being convoyed by a worship. Au Choo (Queen's Rond
eta
se smooth cuestion whether seized an our, and getting one of the and did not see one; nor, so far as Woheong (D'Agullar Eirost). any of the boats on the part side women on to one, and I grasped the he knew, was the ship in touch with
Ruttonjes & Bon (Kowloon).. ware successfully launched. The other, and in that way piloted the one by wireless off the Irish const course of the Lusitania was shaped waterlogged boot to the raft: Upon He was, however, in communication Hung Choong (howloon.) for the shore immediately after the the raft were four or five men By with the shore all the way across, torpedo had struck her, There are the time I reached it I was not able and was told there were submarines different opinions whether she was to climb over its slightly raised sides, off the Trish coust.He did his bost struck by more than one torpedo. One of the women appeared to be in to carry out the special instructions. I only heard and Captain Turner, dying condition I told her I was There was a log on the moming of stuck to the bridge to the last and a doctor, fad I would do my best to May 7, and he reduced enced to 15 went down in her, but was rescued help her. This I did, working away knots. After passing the Fastnot be of
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