The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-30
Some Probably Among Seventy
Men Who Lost Lives.
Revives Question of Germany's
Pledges to United States.
TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING
On Another Torpedoed Ship
Were Seven Americans. ~
Lifeboats Were ShelIed. e. s.
Consul in London Reports.

London, Oct. $3.50 p. ma prf-
vate telegram received at the Amer
ican consulate this afternoon from
Crook Haven, says that a number of
Americans were drowned when ths
British steamship Marina was tor
pedoed by a German submarine.
Washington, Oct 3O-Destruction
of the British horse transport Marina
py German submarine without warn
ing with possible loss of American
l,ves and the endangering of the lives
OF seven American citizens in the sub
marine attack on the British freighter
RoWanmore, reported from Queens
town today by American Consul Frost
contain possibilities of reviving the
submarine issue between the United
States and Germany
investigation, officials realize, may
\ disclose that there has been no viola
ton of German pledges to the United
States
Nevertheless the first reports. m
complete and transmitted by the
American consul provisional"
caused some uneasiness
The report on the destruction of the
Marina refers to the ship a Brit
ish horse transport" If it turns out
( that she was in fact in the transport
service of the British government il
MAJ be found that the mixed crew of
British and American horse tenders
could claim none of the immunity
| against attack without warning that
attaches to a merchant ship.
Consul Investigating.
| Orders were dispatched at once to
gather all information to determins
the status of the Marina and her
crew.
A'tbo no American lives were lost
in the submarine attack on the Row
anDofe and the ship altered her own
status if she made an attempt to es-
cape. officials were disturbed by the
report that the boats were shelled aft
or they had cleared from the abandop-
ed ship The facts are expected to be
deer mined by investigation which was
| ordered begun at once.
The state department issued this
summary of Consul Frost's dispatch-
'HThe British horse transport Marina
| with n mixed crew of British and
Americans was reported sunk without
warning by German submarine gunfire
| at p. m. October IS. 100 miles west
of Cape Clear, in an official report re-
| ceived at the state department today.
from Consul Frost at Queenstown
''Thirty-four of the crew of 104 have
| been landed at Crook Haven while
seventy others, presumably those in
boats ! and 8, are missing. Consul
Frost said his information so far IS
purely provisional.
SdlS FROM NeNDOFt Nt6S
Newport News. Oct. 3O.-There Were
fifty Americans on the British steam
ship Marina. reported torpedoed with
out warning in today's dispatches from
London, when she sailed from New
port News. The Americans were
signed here as horsemen. They wcre
all white and gave their homes as in
various sections of the United States
Local a age nts for the owners of the Ma
rina said cable advices reported the
vessel leaving Glasgow for Newport
News, on October 25, in ball9st-
Sunk without Warning.
Washington, oct. 3O.--Dispatches to
the state department say the Marina
when sunk had a mixed crew of Brit
ish and Americans and that she was
sunk by gunfire without warning
Consul Frost at Queenstown speci-
fled that the information he transmit-
ted was provisional" Investigation
. will be made at once to determine the
status of the Marina and the nature
of the attack to determine whether
any of Germany's pledges to the Unit
. ed States have been violated
Mr. Frost is now procuring afada-
. Wits from survivors. report on the
: sinking on October 26 of the British
steamship Rowanmore also was made
to the American embassy today by
Mr.. Frost, who states that the vessel
was torpedoed. Seven Americans, in
cluding five Filipinos. were on board
the Rowanmore. Several of them
have given Mr.. Frost affidavits stat
ing that a submarine shelled hfe5oats
while they were being lowered and
after they were clear of the ship,
without causing loss of life
Attempted to Escape
The freighter was bound from Bal
timore with a mixed cargo and was at
tackled by the submarine on the 25th.
140 miles southeast of Cape Clear
and after fifty minutes attempt TO
escape mad her steering gear shot
away. Thereupon she stopped, the
report says, and signaled that she was
abandoning ship. The submarine
sheiled the boats after they had
cleared the ship. The vessel was tor
/, pedoed at 1880, sinking at 2.z0-
Seven Americans were on board. in
cluding FIVE Fil:pinos and two native
Americans George Murphy OF 740
Jefferson avenue. Brooklyn. and Al
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