The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-03-11
TO Be TRIED AS
COMMON PIRATES
ENGLISH PRESS VERY MUCH IN
cENSED AT GERMANS.
MERCHANT STEAMER T0RPEDOED
Thrty-Seven Lives Are Lost - The
German Submarine U-s Doing the
Damage is Afterward Sunk and
Officers Made Prisoners.

Officers Made Prisoners.
London, March 10-Incensed at the
Itorpedoing of three more British mer-
chant steamers with loss of 81
Hives, the English press today de-
manded that the government now
carry out its threat and try the crew
lof the German submarine u 8 as pi-
rates. Twenty-nine officers and men
of the U s were made prisoners when
the submarine was sent to the bottom
in the English channel. Dispatches
from Amsterdam today carried the
claim from Berlin that the u alone
channel before destroyed.
The crew of the u are common
pirates and murderers," said a writer
of the London Times today. They
should be treated as such and tried
by common law to let the world know
we consider them as criminals and
mot honorable enemies"
The official announcement early to-
lday of the sinking of the steamers
Tangistan, Blackwood anu Princess
Victoria, by torpedoes, brought the to-
tai number of English ships sunk in
the German war zone to Ia. In adj
dition, several other steamers were
torpedoed before Germany formally
put into effect her submarine block
ade on February Is,
British Steamers Sent Down.
London, March 10.--An official an.
lnouncement just issued shows that
German submarines yesterday (Tues)
sank three steamships.
The statement follows:
The steamer Tangistan was sunk
by a German submarine off Scarbor-
ough at 1890 O'Clock the morning of
March 3. Only one man of her crew
of thirty-eight men was saved. ..#
The steamer Blackwood was sunk
by submarine, without warning, off
Hastings at o'clock the morning OF
| March 8, Her crew OF seventeen was
saved.
The steamer Princess Royal OF
) Glasgow sunk without warning by
a German submarine at 9:15 o'clock
= the morning Of March 8 off Liverpool.
= Her crew of thirty-fOur was saved"
The Clan Line steamer Clan Mac
, Rae was chased by a German sub
e marine off the Melsey bar in the Irish
Sea Tuesday morning for twenty-five
minutes. The steamer escaped by zig
tagging at full speed. The Clan Mac
Rae lett Port Natal Jan. q for Liver.
pool.
I The report of the tOrpedoing of
l these steamers indicates that German
submarines again are raiding at wide,
| ly separated points around the Brit
ish Isles. AS each of the boats was
tOrpedOed in a period nof less than
nine hours it would seem probable
that all three were sunk by different
| underground boats. The Tangistan
f and Blackwood were freight boats and
y the Princess Victoria was a coastwise
y passenger ship.
: Survivor Tells Story.
: West Hartpool (via London), Mch
) 10.-The crew of thirty-eight men OF
G the British steamer Tangistan were
: drowned, except one man, according
] to the statement made by the sole SUI
+ vivor of the vessel, who has been
landed here by the steamer Wood
S willie.
4 The Tungistan," said this man
n was torpedoed off Scarborough. She
was struck amidships, and went
, down almost Immediately All the
< members of the crew we're in the lifc
r boats. but they were unable to dis
? connect the lowering tackle before
n the ship sank and dragged down the
!. boats with her.
Il caught hold of a piece of wreck
age and chung to it for nearly three
hours in the icy water until | was
rescued"
= Attacked Without Warning,
D Liverpool (via London), March 10
The crew of the steamer Princess
Victoria in two small boats were
q tOwed in here late yesterday after
moon. The men were suffering from
exposure. The CaDtain said:
The submarine discharged torpe
do at lis without even showing he
pariscope as the weather condition
e were excellent and a number of spec
ial lookouts who were posted to kee
e watch saw no submarine.
g. AT 9:15 O'Clock the sherman sud
70 denly shouted, A torpedo Is coming!
~ He had seen the white swirl O
u the missile. Even as he spoke 1t hi
l. us, and a violent explosion followed
e. which caused the vessel instantly I
70 list heavily.
n IL ordered two boats overheard an
n into them the crew scrambled. Gu
ship disappeared in about fifteen mil
- utes We rowed in the direction {
Liverpool Five hours in the ope
= boats nearly did us up"
: Hit During Snowstorm.
/! New Haven, England (yia London
+ March 10.-The captain and crew {
]. the steamer Blaekwood, which wa
!. sunk off Hastings at s o'clock Tue
i day morning we're landed here Tue
!. day night. They say that their vess
i laden with coal and bound from Blyt
4. for Havre was torpedoed witho1
\. warning during snowstorm early
\. the morning. eighty miles south
y. Dungeness.
4 Fortunately, in view OF the subm