, 1915-07-22
oRDuNA WESTWARD BOUND,
WITHOUT CONTRABAND OR
MUNITIONS, SHELLED
WITHOUT WARMING.
y AMERICANS ON SHIP
NOTE TO G MANY MAY BE
BRIEF AND POINTED, AS RE-
suit OF LATEST SEA
INCIDENT.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New York, July 2O.-The Cunard
liner. Orduna, bound from Liverpool to
New York, with 227 passengers. in
GLIDING % Americans, was attacked
without warning, 1t was learned on her
arrival here Saturday. by a German
submarine on the morning Of July 9.
Twenty miles from the graveyard
of the Lusitania off Old Head Kinsale,
the Orduna escaped the L~usitania's
fate by one-half second Of time or ten
churning the water hat distance be-
hind the liners rudder.
Then the Orduna sped away. She
was followed by the submarine, which
rose to the surface, manned a gun on
her deck and shelled the fleeing
steamer. Only the escape of the Or
duna prevented a repetition of the Luz
sitania disaster which precipitated the
crisis between the United States and
Germany.
The attack on the Orduna was
timed at ten minutes to six o'clock in
the morning when all but a few of her
passengers lay sleeping in their
berths.
London An Austro German ulti-
matum to Rumania is being prepared,
according to the Moscow Russkoye
Slovoe.
Washington.-Into the grave situa-
that has developed between the United
States and Germany over the sinking
of the Lusitania, was thrust another
issue, when it vas revealed that the
British steamer Orduna carrying a
score of Americans, had been attacked
by a German submarine.
Should first reports of an attempt to
torpedo without warning be borne out
by the official investigation it was
indicated in official quarters that the
United States probably would regard
the incident as adding a grave element
to the already strained relations be-
tween the two countries.
Lacking information as to the cir
cumstances of the attack, officials
were unable to predict Monday to
what extent the Orduna case would
aggravate the situation. That the
note to Germany probably
would be written in the light of the
Orduna's experience, however, was in
dictated by officials. The note prob
ably will be brief and according to well
informed opinions will be in the
nature Of a warning that subsequent
violations of the principles contended
for by the United States will be
viewed as hostile acts, making diff.
cult the continuance of diplomatic re-
~lations.
The fact that a b%elligerent merchant
ship bound for the United States with
Americans on board and without arms
and ammunition or ~contraband cargo
which has been the reason assigned
for the ~provocation for previous at.
tacks-was assailed while her passen.
gers were asleep, convinced many Off.
Gals that the hope they had enter
tanned of an actual change in the prac.
tice of German submarine command
ers apparently had been d~issipated.
Washington, July 17.-Although of
ficials were pleased by receipt of q
memorandum from Ambassador &c
rard formally transmitting Germany't
admission OF liability and expression
of regret for the attack by a German
submarine on the American steamer
Nebraskan, they practically decided
that the legal points raised by the in
cident would require the dispatch of q
note on the subject further to con
serve American rights in the war zone
Lowestoft, England, July 15.-Tht
crews of four Lowestoft trawlers, the
Woodbine. Purple Healer, Speedwel
and Merlin, which were sunk by 6
German submarine, have been landed
here.
The crew of the S~peedwell came IL
on the trawler Emerald, which was at
tackled by a submarine and abandoned
but did not sink. After leaving theii
own vessel the crew of the Speedwel
sighted the Emerald, and, boarding
her, brought her to port.
Heat Kills -Four In Cleveland.
Cleveland, Ohio.-Four victims were