The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-15

Great Brltain's mighty wnrship the
about twenty miles off the Irish coast
on October -. nearly three weeks ago.
Absolute confirmation of this fact
reached New York last night by mail.
But even last night, with undeni
able proof of the disaster flashed to
all the civilized world from New York.
the Admiralty Office in London 10
manned silent, refusing either to affirm
or deny.
While this tremendous piece of news
was known to all the hundreds on board
the White Star liner Olympic, which
was at hand and stood by to rescue the
entire crew of the sinking Audacious,
1t was nevertheless bottled up by Of
fetal injunction of secrecy and by the
British censorship until letters over
which the censors have no command
reached America.
During this time the Admiralty Office
has been besleged morning afternoon
and night for some official word re-
garding the fate OF one of Engand's
best and mishtiest memo war.
widely known In England.
Despite the Admiralty's silence the
fact that the Audacious was sunk, pre-
sumably by a mine, has been known to
Englishmen for some time. but only by
word of mouth and always without the
official stamp OF confirmation.sAlle efforts
on the part of newspaper correspondents
to induce the Admiralty to lift the
censorship on this very important piece
of news have from the first been fruit
less
! In the face of yesterdays mail from
correspondents in London, who state
that there is no doubt whatever about
the sinking of the Audacious, there
appeared in New York man who was
aboard the Olympic on October u who
said without any equivication that the
Audacious had not been sighted by the
rescued by life boats from that liner. or
else he would have known it,
This man was DR., ]. c. II. Beaumont.
ships physician aboard the Olympic.
who got back to New York thus quickly
because he was transferred when the
steamer touched the Irish coast to
Liverpool, where he boarded the Baltic.
Because of DR.. Beaumont.s fiat denial
that the Audacious had even been
sighted by the Olympic THE Sun COM
municated with =. A. S. Franklin of the
international Mercantile Marine.
Franklin Knew OF Rescue.
Mr.. Franklin expressed surprise when
DR. Beaumonts remarks were quoted to
him. but said that he knew absolutely
that the Olympic went to the rescue OF
a fioundering steamer of the Irish
coast. He would not say however, that
he knew this steamer to be the suIber-
dreadnought Audacious.
DR.. Beaumont was aboard the Olympic
on October ~ as she neared the Irish
coast and, according to yesterdays news
by mail, saw the sinking of the super
dreadnought. But he said he did not
catch sight Of the Audacious or be-
hold a fioundering man-of-war and tho
quick and daring work of rescue which
the Olympics crew is described as per-
forming,
When the Olympic reached the Auda-
cious the work Of rescue went on with
out a hitch, except that several OF the
small boats were capsized by the heavy
seas. Before the crew of the Audacious
was transshipped several vessels of the
English squadron in the Irish Sea came
up and aided In the work.
The crew was finally transferred to
the Olympic at noon, within three hours
after the accident.
| At first it was thought possible to tow
the Audacious to the Irish coast. and a