The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-16
Driven From British Waters BY
Anti-Submarine Developments,
Undersea Destroyers Are Oper-
ating In Mediterranean Sea
ANOTHER LINER SUNK "
AND PASSENGERS DIE
Teuton Crew Said To Have Had
Moving Pictures Taken Of
French Vessel Sinking, With
Persons Leaving In Boats
Associated Press BY Federal wireloss.)

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r ONDON, November 16-That the
IL submarines now making indis.
criminate attacks upon italian
passenger liners and merchant men in
the Mediterranean are not Austrian but
German craft is the claim made by the
Italians, the officials stating that they
have information showing that the sub
marines have been shipped in pieces
overland from Germany to Trieste,
there to be put together and de.
spatehed upon their commerce-destroy.
ing careers Of frightfpiness, Feeling
throughout Italy against Germany is
now most bitter, aroused principally
through the sinking Of the AneonA,
with the needless loss of lives of won
en- and children d.
Germans Have Secret Base
The Jsubmarines We're built at Kiel
say the Rome despatthas, assd were In
tended originally for sefyice IN the
North Sea and the Channrl, The anti
submarine Developments worked out by
the British navy. however, letermin.
ed the German admiralty Eot - risk
other submarines in British waters,
but to send them to the MC'iiteIFrn.
can, where their capture world be less
certain, These submarines arc .uppOs
ed to have a secret base somewhere
on the Grecian coast.
Word was received yesterday of the
sinking of the Italian passenger steam
er Firenze on Saturday in the Mediter
ranean. Six passengers and fourteen
members of the crew were lost, out OF
a total complement of l44 on the
steamer.
Moving Pictures OF Sinking
A Nice report, concerning the recent
sinking of the French steamer Fanee,
states that the crew of the German
submarine brought a moving picture
outfit on to the deck Of their ship and
took series of photographs Of the
sinking liner, with her passengers and
crew leaving il In small boats.
The full text of the official denial Of
atrocities in connection with the sink
ing of the liner Aneona, issueu by the
Austrian admiralty and glen out IN
Berlin, says:
"The Austro Hungarian admiralty
reports that the foreign press is spread
ing false reports about the sinking of
the Ancona, which took place as fol.
lows:
"The submarine fred one shot across
the steamer 5 PROV, upon which the
steamer fed, according to the order of
the Italian authorities, which is Flee
or sink the attacking submarine The
submarine pursued the steamer and con
tinued firing The steamer stopped only
when hit several times.
Small Boats Unoccupied
"The submarine allowed fOrty-fv
minutes for those aboard to abandon
the steamer, where a panic reigned, but
only a small number of boats were
lowered, and these were occupied prin
cipally by the crew. A grnat rumbor
of boats, probably sufficient for saving
all the passengers, remained unOccupied.
"After fifty minutes the submarine,
in the presence Of an approaching
steamer, submerged and tOrpedoed the
Aneona, which sank after further for
ty-fve minutes.
elf passengers lost their lives this
was the fault of the crew, because the
steamer tried to escape when 1t received
the order to stop, and then the crew
only saved themselves, not passengers.
Reports in the foreign press that
the submarine fred on life boats are
mendaciOus inventions. When the steam
er stopped the submarine ceased FIR
ing -