The Chitina leader., 1915-05-11

gphed the department. Washington An
the deepest sympathy rendered for the loss of
Americans on the steamship Lustana. German foreign
officer reported that the for their deaths rested
England Regret expressed that Americans relied upon
English promises instead of Germanys warnings The
coincidence added that all British merchant vessels
generally armed and had frequently tried submarines
For this stated the search of vessels impossible
and they cannot be treated like ordinary merchant ships
QUEENSTOWN, May 1O-A whole company of British
soldiers occupied digging huge graves each 30x20 feet
in which 240 unidentified dead of the victims ustana
buried The moving of the bodies from the temporary
to the cemetery the HILL began $50 this
morning and continued until 80 this afternoon Mounted
police soldiers and civilians participated in the funeral There
joint services held at which cergymen of all creed
joined IN saying prayer
LONDON, May 8-The details are being received of the
terrible loss of the many hundreds aboard the steamer
Lusitana This afternoon the Admiralty that total
casualties 1O2 according to the latest figures available
this afternoon The total number crew
aboard 2,16o. The total number rescued is e5S.
The only officer reported to havesbeen saved is Captain
Turner He picked from the hours the
ship had foundered
Most of the passengers ABOARD English The total
number OF American passengers given at IT, large
majority of them believed to have persisted.
Four torpedoes fired at the steamer Two the
vessel one the bow and the other the engine The
passengers at lunch at the time The vessel Immediately
listed and it with the greatest difficulty that any Of the
life boats could be lowered The down within
Is minutes after she had been struck There small
craft in the immediate vicinity to go to the aid of the
Lusitanias passengers
QUEENSTOWN, May S.-The town hall at this CITY has
been turned into temporary morgue Torpedo boats tugs
and armed rawer all in except the Heron There
been landed from these 800 survivors, dead and 81
survivors landed by steamers here At the of Knsale
IL survivors and dead have been landed The al survivors
658 and the dead bodies recovered 45.
COPENHAGEN May 8.-Advces received here state that
the Berlin newspapers have proclaimed the sinking of the
Lustana in colossal head lines and declaring Germany
had registered naval policy In the various editorials
published it frequently stated that England had received
what she deserved
WASHINGTON May 8-British citizens in this city are
greatly atated the sinking of the Lustania and
demanding of Americans almost angry the President
be able to maintain the continued neutrality of the United
States under the existing circumstances
WASHINGTON May 8-secretary of War Garrison has
cancelled his proposed trip of inspection and his
Office awaiting developments.
WASHINGTON May 8-Dr. Howard Fisher enroute to
Belgium in the Red Cross reported saved He
brother of former Secretary Of the Interior Fisher
WASHINGTON May g. - The administration has
demanded the basis of the report that the commander of
German submarine had said that American steamship from
New York and due at Liverpool today had also been
torpedoed.
NEW YORK. May S-Broadway is tonight mourning the
loss of the great theatrical Charles Frohman and the
playwright Charles Klein The steamship Pennsylvania which
reported orpedoed off Ireland today had 879 passengers
aboard when she sailed from this city.
WASHINGTON. May s.-The English Admiralty denies
the statement that the Lusitania armed auxiliary
cruiser
KINSALE, May 1.-THE coroner's jury finds that the
deceased victims the steamship Lusania met death through
prolonged EMERSON and exhaustion in the owing to the
They further find that the crime is appalling and committed
contrary to international law.
QUEENSTOWN May 11-Severa of the survivors
declare that but torpedo struck the ship but that her
boilers exploded shortly afterward
PHILADELPHIA, May 1.-President Wilson, in his
speech last night before thousands of naturazed American
citizens took his keynote the word Humanty He stated
that all must have the consciousness that humanity all
sides of is there when touch elbows and it is in the
hearts of and in their daily intercourse. With
nations the making of state of humanity is always first
to
because they know they right Tumultuous applause fol
lowed his address, which is believed tends show his policy