The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-14
LINER ST.. PAUL
HERE; GUARDED
BY WARSHIPS
British DcstrOyers Convoy
! American Vessel; Fear
; Submarine Attacks.
NINE FROM ~LUSITANIA.
800 ABOARD

lhi
glory OF destroyer escort through the
German war zone of the British coast.
an honor which no liner flying the
British merchant ensign has attained.
There were nine survivors Of the Lusi-
tania aboard the 81. Paul and they
appreciated more than any other pas
ecngers the protection OF the meteortc
submarine fighters. which had a soothing
effect on disturbed nerves.
Cant. f. VI. Passow did not attribute
che st. Paul's distinction to the flag she
flies. but to the fact that a personal
representative of the President of the
United States. Col. +. NJ. House. was
aboard. bearing. as Capt. Passow was
Informed before the liner departed from
Liverpool, important dispatches from
various embassies to President Wilson.
There was a report In Liverpool o
che morning of Saturday. June 5. the
day the st. Paul sailed. that German
submarines had been sighted on the
Nersey. and this was also regarded as
one Of the reasons the British Admiralty
decided to see the ship bearing the
president \ Ir1cnO Is the open,
The st. Paul did not leave Liverpool
until 6 T. NJ, and three hours before
this time the destroyer escort had been
arranged through London. Whether the
American Ambassador had played a part
IN the arrangement Capt. Passow did not
learn. The impression board the st.
Paul WAS that this was true.
Naval officer Boards Liner
Destroyer No. I. so Capt. Passow
designated her, came alongside the 81.
Paul about 3 o'clock and the naval
officer in command boarded the Yankee
ship and announced that the British
Admiralty had ordered him TO escort the
st. Paul to Fastnet.
The naval officer knew nothing about
the reasons for this step of the Admiralty.
remarking that his instructions were
to accompany the st. Paul to the open
sea beyond the German war zone. He
said the other destroyer, designated by
Capt. Passow as No. 4. would meet him
on the bar lightship at the mouth
of the Nersey. He asked Capt. Passow
TO say where he would like to nave the
escorting craft placed. and the captain
decided to have one off each bow. re-
hecting that any other position might
fmperil the liner through possible COLI
sion In the fog which then enveloped the
Mersey.
Three hours before the ST. Paul stood
or her course down the Mersey the
Cunarder Orduna had sailed for New
YORK in the usual way without protec-
ton by destroyers, and the White Star
liner Adriatic. just In from New York.
was lying In the Mersey. her holds filed
with munitions. She also had passed
through the lane OF peril without escort.
1hese reflections on the part of some
OF the British passengers caused COM
ment. which reflected on the partiality of
the British Admiralty, but made the
commentators feel a BIT more comfort
eole than they might have felt in a
British ship.
Tells OF Seeing Submarine.
There were occasional riffs in the fog
rs the 81. Paul proceeded to sea and A
cabin passenger. Mrs, X. Sedpwick
chaperoning Miss Virginia Loney. A sur
vlVor OF the l.usitania. asserted that in
one or them she saw "A submarine rise
near the 81. Paul. Miss Loney was a
bit upset when told of the Incident. Cant.
fassow said he had not seen the SUBJ
marine, and that II there had been one
u was doubtless British.
MISS Loney Is a daughter of Mr. and
MRS. Allen II. Loney o. New York. who
lost their lives when the sent
the fast British liner 10 the bottom. Sh.
was In a lifeboat filled with women and
cniidren when one of the sailors col
lapsed. She seized the oar he had been
using and helped to row out Of tho
Hanger zone. She is 16 years old.
Inc d~estroyers ave the American shin
sood-by OF Fastnet the next (Sundayl
morning. II was clear then and tho
destroyers holsted code signals wishing
eapt, fassow a fine trip. The captain
eet international bunting spelling Thank
you, ana the ~dsstroyers headed In
toward the British coast.
None of the ST. Paul's pa-ssensers
Knew anything personally about the
Zeppelin commandment of London. but
ore II. II. Watson OF this city. who
was stopping AZ the Hotel Savoy. said
ne mad heard that the bombs dropned
were ntied witt thermite and that n
Porter VINO wal within two blocks OF
the scene OF the raid had helped TO All
TWO IRAN cars with the dead and
wounded and that there were many more
victims mar the official reports gave
cut. "
H~esptratOrs BEING Carried.
Mr.. watson painted London in gloomy
co!ors. The hotels burned candles only
ana even they were eXtinguished early
IN the evening. In anticipation of Yep
penn raids with gas filled projectiles
fesplrators were being carried about by
RESIDENTS Tfere was n steady demand
Tor the respirators and they were sold
al nominal prices in the hotels.
Ernest y. Cowper. a newspaper man
CT toronto who saved a motherless
iittie girl, Helen Smith, 8 years old, from
tne Lusitania.. arrived by the ST. Paul
lie said he had given Helen 20 a
motherly looking Englishwoman at
Queenstown. who had said THAI she was
IeIated 10 Helen and claimed her. The
cunard Line had received before that
incident twenty-five offers from persons
VINO wished to adopt the little girl. and
Mr.. Cowper had received a dcspatch
from the Dowager Queen Alexandra
asking him 20 bring Helen TO Sandring-
ram. He suspects that the English
woman who claimed Helen was
fascinated by the child's beauty and
intelligence and therefore decided to
take her.
j. l.. Poole. European export man.
aver or the Hupp Motor Car Cumpany.
VINO has been in France and England
since September, said he had sold 800
hrmored Cars TO the Allies that the need
OF the British army was not men. but
equipment n ammunition. He knew
from ofhcials OF the Government that
.her7 were 1000, 900 men far from the
nrlng me, stu in training and await
'ng equipment and ammunition.
In the storage of the st. Paul were
~ youns irishmen, mostly the sons Of
FARMERS In the western counties, some
OF whom speak Gaelic chiefly and have
difficulty with their English. Nearly ali
are Catholics. II was said nv .n,,,s nr
the ships officers that thay had ro,,o