The Elbert County tribune., 1915-04-02
TORPEDO TWO
ENGLISH SHIPS
STEAMERS FALAsA AND AGUiLA
ATTACKED BY SUBMARINES
AND $50 LIVES LOST.
ADVANCE BIG WAR FUND
GERMANS ATTACK BOATS AND
FIRE ON WOMEN TRYING
TO LEAVE VESSELS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paris. March 31.-The Senate adopt
ed bill, which already had passed
the Chamber of Deputies, providing
for the advancement to Serbia, Bel
GUM, Greece and Montenegro, as
friends OF the allies, the sum OF 1885,
100000 francs (s270,000,000).
London.-Germany has rushed $780,
600 troops to help the Austrians in
the Carpathian mountains and save
Cracow from the Russians. according
to dispatches from Berne. Switzerland.
The fighting which has been raging in
mountain passes all winter is reaching
its last stages, and, according to re-
ports. portions of the Austrian line
are in desperate straits. II the Slavs
should win the mountain campaign,
the fall of Cracow is regarded as
certain.
According to reports reaching here
from Petrograd, the German Emperor
is now at Berlin holding war coun-
Gil with Field Marshal Won Der Goltz,
the German military commander OF
Constantinople, and other leaders, and
is planning new campaign to offset
the fall Of Przemysl and meet the sit
uation in the Dardanelles.
Apparently no serious attempt to
sweep the mines from the Dardanelles
waters has been made by the allies
since March Is.
The inquest at Milford Haven in the
matter of the sinking OF the steamer
Falaba has established an official
death list of Ill.
Geneva, March 30.-Italian military
headquarters. it is reported, has or
dered several regiments stationed near
the Swiss frontier to move toward the
Tyrolese frontier where Austrian
troops have been concentrating.
Lont-on.-About $50 lives were lost
in the sinking. by German submarines,
of the African liner Falaba and the
British steamer Aguila. bound from
Liverpool for Lisbon.
The Falaba, which was torpedoed in
st. GEORGES channel Sunday after
noon, carried "A crew of 30, and about
100 passengers, and of this total only
140 were rescued. OF those rescued
eight died later from exposure.
The Aguila had a crew of AZ and
three passengers. and of these, % of
the crew and all the passengers were
lost.
The captain of the Falaba, who was
one of those lost, was given five min
utes to get his passengers and crew
into the boats, but according to the
survivors. before this was possible, a
torpedo was fired, striking the engine
room and causing terrible explosion.
Many persons We're killed and the
steamer sank in ten minutes
The Aguila was attacked off the
Pembrokeshire coast. The submarine
which, lin this case, was the U-2S.
opened fire with her gun, shells from
which killed woman passenger, the
chief engineer and two of the crew.
Even after the crow had commenced
to lower the boats. according to the
story of the survivors, the Germans
kept up their fire.
The Dutch steamer Amstel, vessel
of S53 tons, belonging to p. A. Van Es
& Co., Rotterdam, when on passage
from Rotterdam to Goole, England,
struck mine in a German mine field
off Marlborough Yorkshire, England.
One of the Falaba's passengers said:
Barely ten minutes after we received
the order to leave the ship, heard a
report, and saw the vessel heel over.
The Germans actually fired torpedo
at her at a range of about 100 yards,
when a large number of passengers.
the captain and officers were distinct
ly to be seen aboard"
Outside of the sinking of these
steamers the only events of import
ance, news OF which was received dur
ing he day, were the renewal of act
ivity by the Russian Black Sea fleet
which bombarded the forts on the Bos-
porus, and the, announcement from Pc
trograd that the Baltic fleet had been
reinforced by modern fighting units,
Russian yards.
The battles for the Carpathian
passes are proceeding with ever-in-
creasing violence.
In the west the mine warfare con-
tinues without any important changes
in the position of the two armies.
Wilson Returns to Capital.
Washington.-Pres Wilson re-