The chronicle=news., 1914-06-20

me pakiiie hhatl-6ssanihr siberia. Nav,
l. Oh the coast Of fornosa. yet not
enough To say thai The, nysaery Aaf
been cleared. While people Of tS6|
heInispheres were In dread that the
vessel had sunk. and dozen war
ships were seayehing Sainly. the NJ
IBERIA sailed into Manila hay. saying
that there must have been rome mis-
take. % she had had no accident
whais0svss.
The company onis iais her" believe
that the confusion Was caused by the
signal Of the Persia being mistaken
for III. international distress signal.
IF, q. g." while the Siberia Was CIV
Ing her position To the Persia and
they expisin In detail their reason
inr. II ut the Japanese operator Ai
the OyeSaki land station insists that
he really heard the distress sixnsi
which claimed to come from the ST.
herIa lie said he did not think
the sirnai M. u. 81 tihe name III
the P-rsiab could he mistaken by .
!. trained operator for -. u. T."
No word has come tn Japan yet
from the esniain of the Siberia. xiv
inx his log ar any theory as In the
mystery. Always admitting III" Nj
b-sis lug may anori iish'. III. pa
einr Mail company official. offer this
rxpisssiioa. which MAS nrsi suxn-At-
ri by the wireless operator of the
Persia;
The IF. u. g. distress is three
dots. three dssh-. aud Ihr-s dots,
The Persia call IN. u. ~ IL ~"
dsshe.. one dash with three dots ahd
three dnss.
The static eanaiiioa heinz had u
IL thought tho OPERATOR as OA~aaks
picked np - the last letter af the
IN. u. e. Then liz caught the i~o
dashss aad ~ aud joia-d th~n q"
Ih- dash at the letter IN" The NAL
three dots af the letter ''W' sas-
him his ''R'' sad he had ~. u. y.
rni-r this theory The spsrlas he-
,~.~a tho assh-s must have sc~s
Irregular or shorsned by tho 'io's
h~ias irar'h~scss.
Having fusssa this explanations 10
A. eaoet to e~s ss . nniussoa os the
mystery the ss-sn~hip officials I'D
NIT that Il DOS not explain the -.
isnec a tho sib-rta o. May !. after
the vs,ost-si a~c,.i~as wh~u through.
ou, the aay the high po~rs sppars-
su. ON tho jspan-se ssd fosmusa
coast. sad o. tho british wasshirs
MIsossus saA fasnsoash - we'll al
on tho Am~ssrsa warshtIs Wtisssns-
too snd usivessoa. WEIR ssshts Ia
~ aay aasves frua the siberia. u
"a, this sisss-s that led 10 tho ~.
,prts that the Siberia had suak. The
company shinks u uaas have h~~"
due tn atmospheric roadtlioss which
permitted COMMUNICATIONS ''"'~~~"
In. albssia aad the Persia hut nos
With other ships.
The stories ot the various r'-r-nn.
and sh,r. eone-sard with the Si''~sis
affair form an interesting narrative.
The diste~ss message. supposed sol
rome from the Siberia. vas received
at s.io q. M. May I. Tho log Of
tho trssia shown that al .:ao .. M.
that day tho l'resia received . mes
sasr from tho Sit~sia. A. S:io =. M.
she exchanged position with tho ~.
t~ria: nj $3.50 .. NJ. she received s~"
me s.ssvs from the Siberia and at
LAT. 70. M. the Peraia scnt two. TIL"
captain of the t'rrs,a eoni,nucs his
narrative.
| AZ f: o'clock In tho afternoon "f
May I III. Siberia was sighted and
two steamers passcd each other nj
very short distance. They were then
IN miles south Of Cave Bcicador. ar
| about SEQ miles south of the posi-
,iou In which tho siberia was re.
,,ortcd to bc In d,stresa. Another
message from the siberia was cS-
pcctsh by those on the Persia at =
o'clock tha, evening MAY ~. hut
| :his was not received.
A, 1910 O'Clock tho following
morning MAY - the Pcria re-
| ccivcsi a wireless message from the
British warship Yarmouth that tho
Sil,er,a was ali right" This mos
sage naturally puzzled those on board
the Pcrsla. for they could not under
stand why such a message should
| nave been considered necessary.
Twenty minutes later. at half past
ono, the Persia received n wireless
from Nagasaki saying that the ST.
bcria was in listrcss at point ::.'"
north and 1910 east. namely. 1"i
miles north Of Manila. Tho Pcrsta's
offIcrrs realized that there had been