New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
SUBMARINE ATTACK
 ON BRITISH LINER 0rduna Escapes After Torpedo
 and Seven Shells Are Fired. CHASED FOR HALF AN HOUR.
Shots Fail to Take Efect-Passen- gers, Among Them Twenty-one Americans, Adjust Lifebelts--Cap- tain Taylor Shows Excellent Judg- ment.

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 New York, July 17.-The British passenger liner Orduna, with 227 passengers aboard, 21 of whom were Americans, was attacked without warning by a German submarine at 6 o'clock in the morning on July g, sixteen hours out of Liverpool on her way to New York. Announce ment of the attack was made ny the ships captain, Thomas McComb Tay- Tor, and passengers, when the orduna reached here today
 A torpedo was fired at the steani- CT and missed it by ten yards. Twenty minutes later a submarine rose to the surface, probably different subnla rine from the one that launched the torpedo, and for half an hour Ihere- after pursued the steamer, firing sells, which whistled over the scks above the heads of passengers s.and- ing there with their lifebelts on.
 Suspicious of Craft.
 Ten. minutes before the attack sailing ship with two American flags painted on her side was seen ahead. Captain Taylor became suspicious of this craft and began maneuverins his ship. Then came the attack, the first warning of which was the glistenlng streak of a torpedo whirling throuGh the water. missing the Orduna's stern by. close margin.
 Stewards ran below and aroused the passengers With clothes hurried ly fastened haphazard they made for the upper decks. There they were assem bled near the bridge. Lift-belts were adjusted and life-boats swung out. The crew stood ready to launch the boats. From a submarine off the starboard there came shell which kicked up a miniature geyser in the Orduna's wake. The suh- marine had the range.
 Orders Full Speed Ahead. } Captain Taylor turned the stern of the ship toward the assailant and ordered full speed ahead. Within from two to five minutes another shell, this time passing over the heads of the passengers was fired. It over shot the mark.
 !I A third shell passed overhead and so close that it seemed to clip life boat. Capt. Taylor ordered the pas sengers to go to a lower deck. The shelling continued, shots falling about the steamer at intervals of from ? to 5 minutes
 Seven Shots Fired.
 For about half an hour the sub- marine pursued the liner, each minute lengthening the span of water be- tween them Seven shots were fired in all. Four of them passed over the decks. The other three fell close to the ship. Then the submarine distanced, gave up the chase
 Few passengers were on the deck when the attack occurrd. Baron of Denmark, one of the passengers, reached the deck as the Orduna was fleeing from her assailant and witnessed the attack.
 { Passengers Laud Captain. 4 The next day meeting of the pas sengers was held in the saloon and the following resolution, adopted by twenty three of them, was handed to Capt Taylor gs
 X The first cabin passengers of the steamer Orduna desire to express their heartfelt appreciation and admiration of the masterly manner in which you and handled your steam Y CT during the sudden and deliberate attack made upon 1t on the morning of July g. at a. n., by a sGerman 
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