The Sentinel=record., 1915-03-13
BRITISH CRUISER
 BAYANO IS LOST
PRESENCE OF SUBMARINE IN VICINITY BELIEVED TO HAVE
 TORPEDOEO VESSEL.

London, March 13.-12:45 D. m-- The admiralty announces the loss of the auxiliary cruiser Bayano while the vessel was engaged in patrol duty.
 In the statement of the disaster the admiralty says
 "On the eleventh of March wreck age of the Bayano and bodies were discovered and circumstances point to her having been sunk by an enemy torpedo
 Eight officers and eighteen men were rescued but is feared that re- mainder Of the crew were lost.
 The captain of the Belfast steamer Castlereagh reports passing Thurs day morning a quantity of wreckage and bodies floating in lifeboats. He attempted to search for possible sur 1ivors but was prevented by the pres ence Of an enemy submarine which gave cnase for twenty minutes"
 The Belfast correspondent of the Daily Telegram says the Bayano was torpedoed Thursday morning at 9 o'clock off Corsewall, Wigtownshire. Scotland and that nearly 200 lives were lost as the cruiser sank almost immediately. The vessel had crew of about PIG men on board
 Wigtownshire Is the southwestern most country in Scotland. It lies on the north channel which leads into tine irish sea from the Atlantic
 The Bayano was a comparatively new steamer She was built at Glas- gov in 1913 and was owned by Eide. and Fyffes befcre she was taken over by the British government and fitted out as an auxiliary cruiser. The Bay ano was of $500 tons displacement and fl6 feet long.
 The survivors of the Bayano were rescued by the Belfast steamer Bal merino, They were afloat on a raft Another steamer picked up one of the Bayano's lifeboats which was adriftI and also two of her rafts. The sur yivors were landed at Ayr.
 The captain of the Balmerino in an interview with the Daily.Telegraph' correspondent at Belfast said that the collier was on a voyage from Belfast to Ayr when at S:30 o'clock Thursday morning four miles from Blockhead, he saw a low lying object in theI water. His first impression was that 1t was a submarine. but he did not alter his course until after closer| inspection. when a cluster of men were observed making signals with garments attached to an oar
 When the collier got closer theI crew of the Bamorno found two| rafts ana a ships boat upturned with 26 men on one Of them.
 Two of the men," said the captain. had no other clothing than shirts, and others only their sleeping gar ments. One had an ugly wound on his head and was covered with blood. while nearly all of them were bruised and bleeding. They were more dea0 than alive from wet, cold and expos Nfe, DUJ CNteTeQ us as we HedTeQ them. Boats were promptly lowered and the men were transferred, which took a long time, owing to the diff culty of moving the wounded and lamshed members of the group"
 The captain said that two of the rescued men were SO far gone that in another half hour he believed they would have perished.
 The men said continued the cap tain, the Bayano sank within a few minutes after being torpedoed. There was a terrific explosion and the yes sel went down by the bows. The ex- plosion created a great amount of damage and some of the lifeboats were smashed and rendered useless
 The men were left struggling in the water in the darkness, clutching for any piece of wreckage to which they could cling