The Elbert County tribune., 1915-05-14
ITALY GATHERS
100000 TROOPS
GREAT ARMY MASSES ON BoR.
DEP AND TEuToN CITIZENS
FLEE FROM PENINSULA.
BODIES LIE IN M0RCUES
OPENS HOMES, Ho.
Tells AND HOSPITALS FOR
LUstTANiA's SURVIVORS.

LUsiTANiA's SURVIVORS.
| Western Newspaper union News Service.
Geneva, May 10.--An Italian army
100000 strong. fully equipped and
ready for the field. has been concen-
trated at Kcrona, twenty-five miles
from the frontier of Austria Hungary.
Ninety-two Of lusitaniA Dead Buried.
Queenstown. --.Ninety-two passen-
gers of the Cunard line steamer Lusi-
tania, who formed part of that pitifui
handful of manned, dead and dying
brought ashore with the survivors OF
the disaster that followed the attack
on the vessel by German submarine,
were buried Monday afternoon with
services that have no parallel in his
tory.
London.-A dispatch from Bellin-
zona. Switzerland. to the Temps says
"Austrians and Germans are fleeing
from all parts of Italy. All trains in
the direction of the frontier are
packed with Teutonic passengers. in
ciuding merchants and officials. Spe-
cial trains have brought 1000 Ger
mans from Rome, Florence and Bo-
logna. en- route for Germany. Lugano
also is filled with refugees. Notice
has been given OF the suspension of
the telephone service across the from
tier and OF the suppression OF great
many passenger trains. All German
and Austrian journalists have left
Italy"
The Paris war office states that the
allies made gains in Belgium, near
Arras, France, and also at several
other points, and that German attacks
were beaten back
Queenstown.-Twen three miles
from this port an irregular smear of
flotsam on calm sea marks the grave
OF the Cunarder Lusitania. first trans
Atlantic liner sunk by a German SUBJ
marine. One hundred and forty-nine
OF 1,200 souls who perished with her
lie in improyised morgues in old
buildings bordering Queenstown har-
Dor. The SIS survivors here are quar-
tered in hotels, residences and hos
tails, some too badly hurt to be moved
Two groups left town Saturday after
noon and evening, clad in misfit cloth
ing, bound for Dublin by rail and
thence by boat to Holyhead. The in
juries of some are so serious that ad-
ditional deaths are expected. and
nearly ell are too dazed to understand
fully what has happened.
The survivors do not agree as to
whether the submarine fired one or
two torpedoes A few say they saw
the periscope Many attest to trac-
| ing the wake OF foam as a projectile
came toward the vessel The only
points in which all concur is that the
torpedo struck the vessel a vital blow
amidships. causing it to list almost
Immediately to the starboard. In this
careening fashion it plowed forward
some distance. smashing the life
boats dayits as it did SO. and max
ing the launching of boats well-nigh
impossible until >headway had ceased.
! How far the Lusitania struggled
forward after being struck and how
long it was before it disappeared be-
meath the waves. likewise are points
upon which few of the passengers
agree. estimates of the time it re-
NAMED afloat ranging from 8 to 20
minutes. At any rate the list to star
board so elevated the lifeboats on the
port side as to render them useless,
and il is said only two of them on
that side were launched The first of
these was filled with women and
children IL struck the water un-
evenly capsizing and throwing its
sixty occupants into the sea. The Lu-
sitania even then was making consid-
cradle headway and the women and
little children were swept to death III
spite of the attempts OF two stokers
to rescue them. These heroic men,
according to the passengers, were
drowned.
Germany Outlines Submarine Policy
Washington. - Germany. through
Ambassador Gerard. notified the
United States that submarine com
manders had been specifically In
striicted not to harm neutral vessels
not engaged in hostile acts, and that
Germany would pay damages to such
ships in the war zone. Neutral ships
CARRYING contraband will be dealt
with, the announcement says. accord
ing to the rules of naval warfare. II
neutral ships are accidentally dam
aged in the war zone, Germany will
express its regret and pay damages
without prize court proceedings.
Wave of Anger Sweeps Britain.
f.ondon.-The East End of Londor
was the scene of serious anti-Germar
riots, arising from indignation ovel
the sinking of the Luistania and thS