New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-15
Recent Disasters Due
to German Sub
marine of New
est Type.
8 VESSELS HIT,
OF WHICH 5 SANK
Crews Get Time to Quit
Vessels and Are Towed
to Safety.
CRAFT is VERY FAST
Patrol Boats Trying TO Ram Her
Find Her of DiscOncert-
ing Speed.

London, March 1.-THE submarine
U-29, one OF the largest and fastest
of German underwater craft. has had
record. three days of the Scilly Isl.
snds and in the English Channel,
where on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day she succeeded in sinking four
British steamers and one French
steamer and in damaging three others.
The German commander gave tho
crews Of most of the steamers time 20
leave their vessels. and in some cases
towed the ships liteboats. with the
crew, to passing steamers, by which
they were brought 10 port.
The U29 was chased by patrol boats,
but proved too elusive for them, while
steamers which tried to ram or escape
her found that the submarine was
much faster than her sister craft.
With a German submarine IN tho
waters around the Scilly Islands,
which the big liners pass on their way
across the Atlantic, there is much un-
easiness in shipping circles, and dur
ing the course of the day a report,
which also reachci the American Line
steamship New York by wireless. was
circulated TO the effect that one OF
them had been torpedoed. This report,
il is believed. arose .rom the sinking
OF the Andalusian. which belongs -
the ElieTman Line.
Particulars az to the size and srms-
ment Of the U-29 are not available, but
she is known to be larger than the
U-21, displacing 800 tons.
Falmouth (via London. March Il. -
The Auguste Conseil was sunk by the
German submarine U-29. Her crew ar
rived here to-day on the Danish steam
er Excellence Pieske.
Members Of the crew say that tho
commander of the German submarine
gave them ten minutes in which 10
leave their ship, after which she was
DESTROYED with bombs. The German
commander told them he left CuXhaven
six days ago and was about 10 return.
He said that the U-29 would be re-
placed by another submarine.
Liverpool. March 4.-The crew %
the British steamer Florazan, which
was torpedoed at the mouth ~ the
Bristol Channel on March II, arrived
here to-day. The men say that tneIr
cargo of cotton had been discharged at
Havre and that the steamer was cross
ing the. Channel to England. No sub
marines had been seen.
On Thursday night, when the crew
were playing cards, terrinc explosion
occurred, throwing the men all about
the ship. Two boats had been made
ready for launching and were lowered.
and the captain and all the crew, eN-
cept one man, who is supposed to have
been drowned in the stokehcld, got iu
them. IL was first thought that tho
Florazan would turn turtle, but tho
vessel righted herself. The ships boats
were picked up by trawler an hour
after the explosion. The Florazan was
then on fire. according TO the men, and
il was believed there was no hope %
saving her.
According 70 the officers Of the Seam
er Whateley Hall, the steamer Florazan
was still afoat on Friday evening. The
Whateley Hall sighted the Florazan on
Bristol Channel. She was being towed
by four trawlers, while two trawlers
guided her astern. The tlorazan was
well down by the head and her super
structure had disappeared. II was said
that there had been a fire on board the
steamer, according to the officers.
London. March 15 Captain Maliey.
Of the Ellerman Line steamer AndGlu-
sian, told the following story Of the
loss of his boat:
Sailing from Liverpool, We kept 20
q course well westward, In the hope OF
escaping submarines. But twenty
miles northwest Of Bishop Rock the
second officer reported submarine of
the port bow. | ordered the engineer
to put on full steam and we got up
speed OF II knots. the submarine,
however, gained rapidly on US, and
came alongside the Andalusisn and or
dered US 20 leave her in our lfeboats.
"In embarking in lifeboat | broke
rib. The German commander, notic-
ing this, invited me on board the sub
marine, where | went 10 the captain
cabin and a sailor bandaged my injury
The submarine towed our crew until
we were near British steamer. which
We went aboard.
81 urged this steamers captain 70 GO
back and try 70 save the Andalusian,
If she was still afoat. He turned back,
and when we came near the Andalusian
We saw the submarine quietly summing