Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-05-18
Passengers Declare Ship
Nearly Met LuSitania's
Fate Sunday.
ZIGZAG COURSE SAVED
VESSEL FROM BEING HIT
Submarines Periscope DiscOv-
cred Just in Time to Dodge
Missile.
BY the United Press.

| by the United Press.
LONDON, May 1S-The Anchor liner
Pennsylvania, carrying S79 passen~
gers, narrowly escaped the same fate
as the Lusitania, according to pas--
sengers who arrived here today from
Glasgow. A German submarine shot
a torpedo at the Pennsylvania Sun
day afternoon, they asserted, but the
death missile passed forty yards
astern.
l was standing with two others on
the Transylvania's forward deok
about 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon,n
said Walter Il. Burston. of Kent, who
was returning to England from Jer-
ONE, Ariz "One of the other pas
sengers suddenly spied the periscopo
or submarine and called our atten.r
tion to it.
An instant later there was a flash
through the water and we saw the
white wake of torpedo. 1t passed,
as near as | can estimate, about
forty yards astern.
Liner Takes Zigzag Course.
I'VE did not want to alarm the
other passengers. but sent word to
| Captain Black on the bridge. The
Pennsylvania Immediately adopted q
zlgzag course. She continued rush.
ing about in this manner for several
| hours, careening from side to side Ii,
an alarming manner" -
| Burstons statement was corro,,.
GRATED by Kenneth Douglas. an actor
In the silk Stockings company.
who also arrived here from GlasgoR
| aboard the O'Clock train.
Burston said that the Transylvania,
which sailed from New York OH the
same day the Lusitania was sunk,
was in mid-ocean before her passen-
gers learned that any lives had bean
lost aboard the big Cunarder.
Surprised by Disaster.
An hour before the Transylvania
sailed New York papers carried the
rnmor that the Lusitania had been
torpe peQded"- said Burston, ''but they
also had reports that she had been
beached, without loss of life.
THE Transylvania received orders
to put into Glasgow and discharges
her passengers. instead of proceeding
to Liverpool with them. Until they
arrived at the Glasgow railway sta
ton yesterday afternoon most of ths
| Transylvania's passengers firmly be-
lfeved that the majority of the Lusi-
lohiet peiSoCllBciS udQ peen saved
| WASHINGTON, May 1S.-Neither
the British nor the German embassy
here would discuss today the story
that an attempt was made Sunday
| to torpedo the Anchor liner Transyl-
vania. Confidentially, German off,
cials limited that the ships company,
nervous over the Lusitania incident,
had been seeing things"
F, Bryan Has No, News.
Ambassador Gerard has transmitted
no indication from the German for
eign office as to when a reply to the
American note may be expected. Sec
retary Bryan said today nothing ''of
any Importance" had been received
from the Ambassador and that the
State department was without adj
vices as to when the reply would be
sent. u
AS to the United States seeking 4
safe conduct for DR.. Bernhard Dern-
burg, when he leaves the country
Secretary Bryan said:
I'VE have no official knowledge OF
DIR. Dernburg," and refused to discuss
the question further.
Mr. Bryan also refused to discuss
whether the administration was con-
sidering making further representa-
tions to Great Britain over delays to
American commerce.