New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16
WARNINGS NEEDED,
LINERS MAKE PORT
Arabic and Orduna Got
Orders Admiralty Sent
to Lusitania.
BOTH GAVE IRISH
COAST WIDE BERTH
Man with TeutOn Name Ostra-
cized Till British Army Ser
vice Was Revealed.

Two British Transatlantic liners that
were IN the war zone when the Lusi-
tauia was torpcdocd. but kept out Of
danger through warnings from the Ad-
miralty, arrived here yesterday from
Liverpool. They were the White Star
liner Arabic and the Cunarder Orduna.
Neither Captain Finch OF the Arabic
nor Captain Taylor Of the Orduna
would comment on the course followed
and the speed maintained by captain
Turner Of the Lustania, but It was ad-
mItted that they had received tire same
wireless instructions that were sent 20
and received by him.
Captain Finch said he got his first
warning IN Wednesday night after he
left Liverpool The message, which
was sent out by the Admiralty's lag
ship moored IA Queenstown harbor,
was in coGc and when translated read:
Submarines active off south coast OF
Ireland
Although he had intended to give the
Irish coast wide berth, Captain Finch
changed his course TO the southeast,
going in the direction of Bristol and
keeping lht AltbIt ABOUT lili y -lf'
miles away from the danger zone.
About i:30 p. m. on Thursday the
Arabic was abeam southeast Of Old
Head. Kinsalc. Within an hour she
ran into thick fog. which did not
lift until she was put Of the area OF
submarine activity. No perlscope or
submarine was sighted by passengers
The Orduna kept safe distance
from the southern coast of Ireland.
She passed the Lusitania AZ | a. m. on
Friday. and was in communication Win
her. II was not until seven hours and
a half after the Lusltanla was tOrpe-
docd that the Orduna heard e the dis
astcr. Neither Captain Finch nor Cap
tain TAYLOR heard the Lusitania's
5 q =.
The Orduna was about go miles
west Of the lost Cunarder when her
calls were sent out, and as she was
probably sending her calls from her
storage batteries only the power OF
transmission was not strong. Captain
Taylor said that even if he had heard
the Lusitania's $ o $ he would have
given it no heed. as the Germans had
been sending out Just such messages in
the hope Of attracting British vessels
and sinking them
Throughout the journey MAN. Of the
passengers played golf, in which Cap
tain Taylor participated The skipper
Is considered the second best amateur
golf player Of Glasgow. Tn playing
was done with golf balls made fast TO
light cord on ball-bearing reel.
Anti-Gcrman feeling ran high among
passengers on the Arabic when news
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them by wireless about seven hours
after the disaster. They we're then
only about 40 miles from the scene.
4 traveller in the saloon. whose
name was August Witthuhn the only
passenger on board of Teutcn:c ORR
gin. was singled out for ostracism. Be
fore the Arabic reached port, however,
Witthuhn was restored TO favor He
had made no protest, and later It be
came known that he had been in South
Africa when tho European var start
cd and had fought against the Ger
mans. lie was wounded in action with
the British forces. His German name
and birth caused him TO pc intcIned
on his arrival in London. but because
Of his record in South Africa the Brit
ish permitted him to come here.
The same anti-German spirit pre-
vailed on board the Orduns. Among
her saloon passengers was +. S. But
terworth. former Yale football play
er. and now engaged in business in
New Haven. He said the British
showed supreme contempt for the
threats Of the Germans with their
submarine warfare.
AS soon as the war zone was de-
clared," he said, "the Channel steam
ships crossed regularly with women
and children. no one seeming TO care
for the German declaration. | crossed
on a fast Channel steamship several
weeks ago on my way back to London
from Paris. and had close call.
I'VE were steaming at about twenty
four knots. There were no troops on
board, but plenty of women and chill
dren. and there was no excuse for tor
pedoing the vessel. Nevertheless. a
submarine singled US out and sent
torpedo after US. The captain saw its
foamy wake, and if he had continued
on his course it surely would have
blown Us to bits. The master calmly
Put his wheel over and vcered off so
quickly that the torpedo crossed our
bow about ninety feet ahead"
Mr. Butterworth said he thought the
fight for prohibition in England had
failed. lie thought the working people
had been misjudged and that the manu-
facturers who had been making cnor-
nous profits in their dealings with the
government had not been fair in shar-
ing reasonable part Of their earn
ings with the toilcrs.
Mrs. Marjorie Glynn Donaldson.
widow of the son OF tho founder Of
the Donaldson Steamship Company,
came over on the Arabic to marry Or.
Maurice Lunt, of Boston. whom she
first met at Colorado Springs when
at Henley last year.
Lady Wallenburg. wife Of Sir Fred
orick Wallenburg, u Swedish diplomat.
came over OIL the Arabic TO visit friends
in Canada.