Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-06
U-BOAT REPORTED |.
SUNK BY ALLIES
Crew of Submarine Captured
by Warships, Says French
Ministry. 4
F0RTY-EIGHT SAILORS
REPORTED MISSING
British Steamer Gent Torpedoed
Without Warning-Norwegian
Ship Lost.

LONDON. April "a German sub
marine was sunk yesterday by a SQUAD
ron of French and British warships.
the French ministry of marine an
nounced last night The crew of the
submarine was captured.
The British steamer Gent has been
torpedoed without warning west of
Fastnet. Forty-eight members of her
crew are missing and are supposed to
have been drowned. Two men were
killed. Capt. Martin and nine of the
crew have landed at Queenstown.
A German submarine has sunk the
Norwegian steamer Baus. vessel OF
1.2S7 tons. in the English channel. Four
of the crew are missing Fourteen
others were saved.
q. S. to Get Torpedo Fragments.
Fragments, supposedly of torpedo.
that were found on the cross channel
steamer Sussex have been forwarded
to Washington by Ambassador Page.
On high authority 1t is stated that
the fragments were considered at the
American embassy to be undoubtedly
of German origin.
The Spanish government has sent a
note to Germany in which protest is
made against the torpedoing of the
French cross-channel steamer Sussex
and the death of Spanish subjects as
result. among them Enrique Granados,
the composer, and his wife.
The note also discusses the naviga-
ton rights of neutrals
American Makes Deposition.
A dispatch to the Central News from
Queenstown. says that the American
youth Eugene Simmonds of Seattle.
Wash. who was cabin boy on the
British bark Bengairn. which was sunk
by a submarine while on a voyage from
Seattle to the British Isles. has made
a deposition before the United States
consul at Queenstown concerning the
sinking of the ship.
The opinion is expressed in naval cir
cles having access to the report on
the torpedoing of the British steamship
been saved if she had carried a de-
fensive gun, as the submarine was
plainly seen as she pursued and shelled
the steamer for some distance.
Since last August. when the British
steamer Waimana was compelled by a
ruling of the State Department at
Washington to dismount a gun before
clearing from Newport News. British
merchantmen calling at American
ports have been unarmed. The recent
ruling of the State Department allow
ing an Italian armed liner to clear from
an American port on the assurance that
she was armed only for defense pur-
poses has caused much interest here in
prising IL the British government, act
ing on this precedent, should arm mer-
chantmen trading in American ports.
"sop" to American Opinion.
British naval circles express the be-
lief that the retirement Of Admiral Won
Tirpitz from the German ministry of
marine was in the nature of sop" to
American public opinion. as. in their
view. the German submarine policy has
become more instead of less fright
full"
The official reports show that seven
or eight neutral vessels have been tor
pedoes without any warning whatso-
ever since the new German submarine
campaign began. These reports state
that the following neutral ships have
been sunk without warning in the
month of March: Norwegian, Silius,
Langslie and Kannik; Dutch. Tubantia
and Palembang; Swedish. Hollandia;
The following vessels were warned
and the crews permitted to take to the
boats: Spanish. Vigo: Norwegian.
Norne, Bell, Lindfleld and Hans Dude.
The Danish steamer Harriet is placed
in the doubtful list, as evidence of this
vessel having been torpedoed is incon-
elusive. Thus seven are listed as hav
ing been sunk without warning, five
after warning and one doubtful.
Naval authorities point out as a sig
nificant fact that although a number of
these were sunk in the Atlantic tracks
frequented by American ships, not a
single ship flying the American flag
appears in the list.