The Elbert County tribune., 1916-11-03
SIX AMERICANS
MARINA VICTIMS
REPORTS INDICATE THAT YES
sEL WAS ToRPEDoED WITH
OUT WARNING.
81 AMERICANS RESCUED
REPORT SURVIVORS OF ROWAN
MORE SHELLED AFTER TAX
ING TO THEIR BOATS.
we.tern New,paper Union News servlee.


Western Newspaper Union News Service,
London, Nov. six Americans
were killed in the sinking OF the
British steamer Marina. according to
telegram received by American
| Consul Frost at Queenstown, says
the Press Association. The telegram
declared that fifty-one Americans had
been saved. The Americans reported
killed, the Press Association says,
were two men named Brown, two
named Thomas and one named Mid
dleton and one named Robertson.
Men named Miller and Davis, it is
added, were injured. Consul Frost
has arranged to take the dispositions
of twenty-eight American survivors
who have proceeded to Dublin, Thir-
ty-four additional survivors including
fifteen Americans are expected to ar
rive at Cork.
| Long Branch, N. J.-After receiving
unofficial information that six Ameri-
cans had lost their lives by the sink
ing of the British steamship Marina,
President Wilson communicated with
Secretary of State Lansing and di-
rected that all possible haste be
taken in obtaining the facts concern
ing the sinking of the vessel. Secre-
tary Lansing informed the President
that. IN addition to asking the Ameri-
can embassy in London for informa-
ton, inquiries had been sent to Ber-
| lin
,Washington.-If the British ships
Marina and Rowanmore were sunk by
German submarine commander or
commanders in violation of Germany's
promises regarding submarine war
fare the German government will dis
avow the act, offer reparation and
punish the commander or command
ers, German officials in Washington
said
| Washington. - Destruction of the
British horse transport Marina by
German submarine, without warning,
with possible loss of American lives,
and the endangering of the lives of
seven American citizens in the sub
marine attack on the British freighter
Rowanmore, reported from Queens
town by American Consul Frost, con-
tain possibilities of reviving the sub
marine issue between the United
States and Germany.
Investigation, officials realize, may
disclose that there have been no vio-
| 1of Af tha
United States.
A dispatch from Newport News,
Va, states there were forty-nine
Americans on the Marina when she
sailed from that port The Americans
were signed here as horsemen. They
were all white and gave their homes
as in various sections of the United
States.
The State Department issued this
summary of Consul Frost's dispatch:
THE British horse transport, Mar
/ ina, with a mixed crew of British and
Americans, was reported sunk with
out warning by German submarine
gunfire at p. M, Oct. 2S, 100 miles
I west of Cape Clear. in an official re-
port received at the State Department
from Consul Frost at Queenstown.
Thirty-four of the crew of 104 have
been landed at Crookhaven, while 10
others, presumably those in boats 1
and 3, are missing. Consul Frost says
his information SO far is simply pro
visional'"
Survivors of the British freighter
Rowanmore, sunk by submarine
after nearly an hours chase, were
shelled after they had taken to their
boats, according to another official
dispatch from Consul Frost. No casu-
alties were reported.
Newport News, Va.-At the offices
of the United States Shipping Com
pany, local agents for the Donaldson
line, owners of the Marina, 1t was
stated Monday that the Marina was
not a transport in the service of the
British government.
"She is one of our regular steamers
plying between here and Glasgow" 1t
was said, land was owned and operat-
ed as a merchantmen by the Donalc-
son line. She carried general cargo
and some horses for the British gov
ernment, but she had not been com
mandeered and still retained her
character as a merchantmen"