The state herald., 1915-05-14
ITALY GATHERS
100000 TROOPS
GREAT ARMY MASSES ON BoR.
DER AND TEUToN CITIZENS
FLEE FROM PENINSULA.
BODIES LIE IN MORGUES
QUEENSTOWN OPENS HOMES, Ho
Tells AND HOSPITALS FOR
LuSITANIA'S SURVIVORS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Geneva, May 10.-An Italian army
100000 strong, fully equipped and
ready for the field, has been concen-
tratcd at Kerona, twenty-five miles
from the frontier of fAustria-Hungary.
London.-A dispatch from Bellin-
zona, Switzerland. to the Temps says;
"Austrians and Germans are fleeing
from all parts of Italy. All trains in
the direction of the frontier are
packed with Teutonic passengers, in
Guiding merchants and officials. Spe-
cial trains have brought 5000 Ger
mans from Rome, Florence and Bo-
logna, en- route for Germany. Lugano
also is filled with refugees. Notice
has been given of the suspension of
the telephone service across the from
tier and of the suppression of a great
many passenger trains. All German
and Austrian journalists have left
Italy"
The following official statement was
issued by the Paris war office:
Between Nieuport and the sea the
Germans made an attack but were re-
pulsed. They suffered heavy losses.
The British troops have gained
ground in the region Of Fromelles.
To the north Of Arras We made prog
ress, and also in the direct.o .on of Loos
and to the south of Clarency."
Queenstown.-Twent three miles
from this port an irregular smear OF
flotsam on a calm sea marks the grave
of the Cunarder Lusitania. first trans
marine. One hundred and forty-nine
of 1000 souls who perished with her
lie in improvised morgues in Old
buildings bordering Queenstown har-
Dor. The 645 survivors here are quar-
tered in hotels, residences and hos
tails, some too badly hurt to be moved.
Two groups left town Saturday after
noon and evening. clad in misfit cloth
ing. bound for Dublin by rail and
thence by boat to Holyhead. The in
juries OF some are SO serious that ad-
ditional deaths are expected, and
nearly all are too dazed TO understand
fully what has happened
The survivors do not agree as to
whether the submarine fired one or
two torpedoes. A few say they saw
the periscope. Many attest to trac-
ing the wake OF foam as n projectile
,a,,a sa~ard tho vaaaal Tho pptv
points in which all concur Is that the
torpedo struck the vessel vital blow
amidships. causing 1t to list almost
Immediately to the starboard. In this
carcening fashion 1t plowed forward
some distance. smashing the life
boats dayits as 1t did SO, and max
ing the launching Of boats well-nigh
impossible until headway had ceased.
How far the Lusitania struggled
forward after being struck and how
long II was before 1t disappeared be-
meath the waves. likewise are points
upon which few OF the passengers
agree, estimates of the time II re-
mained afloat ranging from to 20
minutes. At any rate the list to star
board so elevated the lIfeboats on the
port side as to render them useless.
and II is said only two OF them on
that side were launched. The first OF
these was filled with women and
children. II struck the water un.
evenly. capsizing and throwing Its
sixty occupants into the sea. The Luz
sitania even then was making consld-
cradle headway and the women and
little children were swept to death In
spite OF the attempts of two stokers
to rescue them. These heroic men.
according to the passengers. were
drowned.