The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-01-04
SINKING OF PERSIA
ANOTHER
VERY CRAVE CRISIS
Washington Says Impossible To Minimize
Gravity Of Situation and That Diplomatic
ally America Has Reached the End of
" Its Rope Regarding Submarine Warfare
Associated Press by Federal wireless)

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WASHINGTON January 3-The sinking o the p and O.
w liner Persia in the Mediterranean by submarine of
known nationality produced situation gaver by
than any which has the outbreak Europe
The government officials appear be Of repeated broken
promises from Berlin and Vienna and to have reached the
end OF their patience The breaking point closer than
before Indeed is impossible the exceeding
gravity Of the situation this last incident the European
wa, involving the United States. =. ~ ,,-U--.
Such impression gathered prominent
officials of the department following the sinking of
with Americans board 1--WE have reached the rope
one of them said yesterday. .f.:-@:>. .... .
PERSIA WAS DELIBERATELY ToRPEDoED
That Americans drowned when the submarine deliberate
y torpedoed the defeness craft beyond
doubt Consul Gare Alexandria yesterday cabled
department. McNeeey struggling
the water following the sinking of the Persia and that it is
survivors who have been
interviewed the submarine which attacked the liner
her to the bottom but that Of the officers Of the ship reports
having the of the torpedo just before explosion
cried out the alarm before the ship struck.
LINER SANK IN FIVE MINUTES
The Persia sank in five minutes according dispatches from
London and the fact that ship
short opportunity offered to save
any of those who below the time of disaster
Among those who rescued however Charles
He caed from Alexandra Yesterday friends in Med
ford Massachusetts, that both he and his
and we'll Grant the hynne passengers and
nineyfou members of the picked and carried Aexan
dria. r
Reuters dispatches Cairo report steamer was
struck the port side adshps by the torpedo Tae explosion
minutes past o'clock in the afternoon ship
NO WARNING OF ANY SORT GIVEN
sight torpedos wake given doomed ship
1T is miracle the despatch continues that of the pas
sengers saved" m .:~t .,'s d. @ r.. a..
The discipline board the good the
There panic either the passengers the
the brief space Of time allowed them the sailors of
aged lower four of the ships boats and to load them with
and children of whom picked from the
which they thrown when the vessel rched
in her last unge Among the survivors eight British military
officers their way join forces Egypt They pulled
out of the after the ship went down.
One Of the boats reported that the captain the Persia
the sinking of his steamer swimming water:
but efforts reach him proved vain and he sank before help could
get to him. a..
g.. DEED TAKEN AS DELIBERATE AFFRoNT
In Washington the feeling the spking of the Persia
marked by onous calm There appears disposition
the officials regard the sinking of the ship deliberate
aont the United States and that Austria explain
Charge daares Swedenek representing the Austrian gov
charge the Vienna embassy yesterday
will satisfactorily adjust the of the sinking of Persia
tits developed by the investigation which certainly ordered
that an Austrian submarine sank the ship.
1T is certainly if this should prove be the
the captain disobeyed his instructions and there doubt that
he will be severely punished expect Secretary Lansing
myself tomorrow" said the Charge I'll.
MANY SHIPS SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN
Authoritative statements cabled from Vienna yesterday deca
ed that Austrian and German submarines operating the
during the six weeks ending November 80 destroy
ed eight troop ships twenty-five transports and trtyour
this underwater campaign says the despatch totals
thousand most of whom soldiers.
this despatch dsproves the German claim
German submarines operating in the Mediterranean made
aer the sinking Of the Ancona. '..