Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-27
If Channel Steamer Was Tor
pedoed, as Indicated by
Reports Very Grave Conse-
Que0ces Are Likely to Ensue
AMERICAN OFFICIALS
ARE NOT CONVINCED
-Four Citizens Of This Country
on Board the EngIiShmanl
Are Not Accounted for, Au-
thoritieS Declare.

lay .cRNIAe JOURNAL SPECIAL lekssp wsst
Washington March 26.~-Offieiaf
Information upon which President
i Wilson will decide whether tho sink
ing OF the steamship Englishman and
the damaging by an explosion Of tho
channel steamer Sussex were the re-
suit Of acts In violation of internatlon-
al law Is being gathered from every
available source by consular repre-
sentatives of the United States III
England and France Tangible evil
dence Of some Kind tonight momen-
tarily was expected by the state de-
partment.
Dispatches already received indi-
cate that several Americans were in
Jured or killed ON the Sussex IN the
disaster. -Four American citizens who
were aboard the Engiishman. and
who were said In dispatches yester-
day not 20 he among the rescued, still
are uuaccounted for
say IL Was Torpedo.
only one dispatch Of Importance
concerning the explosion which dam
aged the Sussex was received by the
state department during the day. This
contained an affidavit made In Lon
don at the American embassy by two
American survivors Edward s. IIux-
ley and Francis r. Drake, of New
/ York. Both sWore that the exploaion
occurred without the slightest warn
| ing and they credited the command
er of the Sussex as saying that he saw
! the wake of Il torpedo before IL struck
| his vessel
Another statement IN the affidnvits
offieiais seemed to consider sigulfi-
| cant had to do with a strange sailing
vessel which hovered near the Essex
after the explosion aud which In re-
sponae to signals for assistance from
! the channel steamer sailed away and
disappeared Press dispatches quot
ing Belgian army officer as saying
the submarine probably had hidden
behind the strange vessel which APP
parently disregarded all the traditions
and Inv of the sea in falling 10 suceor
q vessel in distress, were read with
interest
Baldwin Family safe.
Prof. Mark J. Baldwin and his wife
and daughter. reported in press dis
patches as being missing or injured.
We're declared to be safe In a cable
gram dated today In Bolougne re-
ceived here tonight from Professor
Baldwin hy j. A. Sterrett. a son-in-
law Mr. Sterrett however. accepted
as true press and official state de-
partlheht dispatches containing M
FORMATION that Miss BALDWIN had been
seriously injured, He has cahled to
ms ilthef-lh-law Tor additional In
toliildtioh'
information regarding the Sussex
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W" Won 'or 'ioois'
Ihe administration. while fully
realizing the possibilities of the situ-
ltloh should the indication In press
dispatches be borne out In the offic-
lal reports, VIII take no decisive ac-
ilon unless proof positive Is forth
coming The course of the United
States VIII be decided upon by office
lal reports from It's own officers.
should either the Sussex or the
bhsnshman have been torpcdoed the
Nhited states ~oQid consider the act
to ne most flaBfant violation OF the
rights Of humanity the principles or
international law ana the broad as