Evening star., 1915-05-31
LARGE MERCHANT YESsEIX
ARE SENT TO THE BOTTOM
Six Lives Known . Hkyo 0em IA
g Result u the Under
soa At$aca1.
LINER has MARROW EscA11
Nsgantic, Ffum 1puE11al b LavO.
pool, ATTACKED, But Hsr Speed
Enables Her 70 Ouedistsnos
the Enemy.

AONDON, way 81, Iz'oT f%m.
German submarines have tSer
unusually busy while the GertS San
foreign Office was engaged in sihe
preparation of its answer to She
Washington note on the Lusi-
tania incident.
The last few days, it is pointed
out in London, provided theru
with a heavy bag of big merchant
ships. These include the steamer
Ethiope. 300 tons, and the Tua-
lochmoor, $500 tons, which were
sunk by submarines Friday in the
approaches to the English chan
mel. .-.--,
Escaped Two Attacks.
Saturday the British steamer Pms
susy, belonging to the Holt line. wss
attached twioe by German undersaa
boats within the space Of fvs hours.
but she succeeded IN escaping into Plv-
mouth.
Another victim was the steamer Glea.
lee Of 1000 tons. which was sunk ssss-
where between the British ana FrsnaA
coasts recently.
RusIlan vssssl Sunk.
In the North sea . German submarine
sent the Russian ship Mars Co the bot
tom a few days ago. and the losses Of
tho British steamers Spennymoor ana
Cadeby also have been reported. Thus
within the space of three days six ships
Of considerable size have been sent to
the bottom by German submarines. and
six lives have been lost. Furthermope,
the transatlantic liner Msgantic had .
narrow escape from an attack by .
German submersible.
London observers are drawing attea-
tion to these cases, particularly in cou-
nection with the presentation Of the
German note.
Submarine Chases Liner.
QUEENSTOWN. May 31.-The White
Star liner Megantic. with a large num-
ber of passengers from Liverpool to
Montreal, was chased by a submarine
OFF the south coast of Ireland yesterday
morning, but escaped.
Considerable alarm was caused here
yesterday morning when an IS. o. s."
call was received from the liner, re-
porting that a submarine had been
sighted. The first message was soon
followed, however. by another stating
that the Megantic had outdistanced the
submarine and that she was sixty
miles southeast of Cork harbor.
Later a third message was received
from the steamers captain reporting
that he had evaded the submarine, that
his ship was well to the westward and
that he was proceeding on his voyage
with all on board well.
Sunk by Shell Fire.
BARRY. Wales. May 31-The British
steamer Tullochmoor. 3.520 tons. WAS
shelled and sunk by a German sub
marine Friday evening. The crew es-
capped and has landed here. Tho Tui-
lochmoor was in ballast from Genoa
for South Shields.
The Tullochmoor, which was $40 feet
in length with a beam Of ass feet. was
built in 1899. She was owned by the
land.
Ushant (westernmost Of the islands or
the coast of Brittany. France) Friday
evening when halted by a shot from
a submarine. according to Central
News dispatch from Barry. The under
water boat. Capt. Holford said. was
only fifteen yards distant from the
gave the steamers crew
ten minutes to launch their boats, and
the twenty-six men rowed away with
out waiting to save their personal ef-
fects.
Nationality Not Questioned.
The crew Of the submarine" said
Capt. Holford. made no attempt to
board the Tullochmoor, nor was
asked to show my ensign or tel, my
The Germans kept firing
into the ship until she went down.
They must have had good deal OF am
munition to spare. for the steamer
was the target for nearly forty shots
before she disappeared"
While the Tullochmoor was still
from the small boat he was In and OBJ
tanned the ships papers.
The Tullochmoor's crew was rescued
by the Spanish steamer Olfz3arA, after
spending three hours in the steamers
boats.
Crews Landed In France.
BREsT, France, May s1.-French tor
pedo boats have brought into port the
crews Of the British steamer Glsnlss
and the Portuguese steamer Cysne.
which were torpedoed by q German
submarine between the 6riliy Islands
and Cape Ffnisterre.
The crews were picked Mp ~ go By
the French schooner Dixie, which trans.
farrsd them to the torpedo hPats.