The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-03-10

powers Is one long record - Oeu1so
perpetrated on American dD ana
American property; . suesaoe -
protests On the part OF tie 00v01neoe
Of the United States. and - aasur-
onces and promises ma1e - later
Violated BY the German aA1 AnE0ian
governments
More than two hundred Americans
had gone TO their deaths tAroagA this
tuhmsrine warfare Up 70 Tie me dip
hmatic relations were sev0ge6 Xo&
II the Americans lost wsgo travelling
d unar1ned merchant ship4 80, IN
der the practices OF lntefn0e3s0al law
md humanity, believed Themselves Sc
cure.
More than two thousan1 &ftlGenS o(
Other nationaiIties lost tAeir lives In
ne same attacks which ssst tAs lives
Of Americans, but they eo0Dsse only
part Of the toll Of Iife taken y sub
marine warfare. The zhips lost, %
which the Americans met 6sath are
only q fraction Of the number sent 70
the bottom by torpedoes- ct them
without warning.
The cases which involve the United
States and Germany are primarily
those In which American hfe vas lost
q endangered The first American Of
whom there Is record - lose his life
n submarine attack was Leon T.
fhre~her. passenger on the British
steamship Falaba, bound froD Liver
pool for West Africa. which was tor
pedoed and sunk on March u. 1915.
eR Milford, England.
The Faiaba. after a hopeless attempt
to escape, stopped. and while boats
were being lowered and passengers
still were aboard, the submarine drove
Z torpedo into her side, and she went
down in ten minutes. OF IA persons,
1873 were saved The ADAVicAA was
among the lost.
The first American ship attacked
was the Gulhight. an oii-tank vessel.
from Port Arthur, Tex, - Rouen,
France. torpedoed without warning OF
- eeilly islands on May 1, 1915. Two
- Jumped overheard aad were
4BUWDed; her captain died Il heart
1ai1We. The Gulaight did net sink.
m was 'owed 10 port by British pa
trolls. The German government ac-
knOwlefged the attack AZ an accident,
expressed its regrets, and promised 70
Day damages
Destruction 81 the Lusttania-
The next attack vas the one which
sA0cksf the civilized World and brought
the United States and Germany for ne
6rst time 70 The verge Of war. Il ~as
the destruction Of he L1ei.ania, %
Nay Z. 1913 Charmed with 1.g5T pas
eengers, Of whom 10 we're America ns
and crew u 102. she was torDecoed
without warning and sunk in % aia-
otes or Old Head If Kinsase, az she
was nearing Liverpool
In all 1.13S lives were lost. Of which
124 were Americans. many u them Of
national prominence. The ease passed
into diplomatic Negotiations which
never took final form
While the Lusitania case was still
fresh In the public mind, q German
submarine torpedoed another Ameri-
can ship the Eebraskan without
warning. on Nay .. 1915. south Of
Castnet rock. The Nebraakan owed
her safety 70 her seawor.hiness She
reached port damaged. under her own
steam, and no one was Injured. The
German government again expressed
its regret for a mistake and promised
- pay damages.
The Leyiand Case.
Twenty American negro nuieteers
% the Leyland steamship Armenian
were killed on June %. 1918, by shell.
fire and drowning when the Armenian
failed 10 escape with her cargo Of
the Cornwall coast. The Armenian
was warned and invited her destruc
ton by flight.
The next submarine attack In which
Americans were endangered was IN
successful. but only because the steam
ohip Orduna, Of the Cunard line.
proved TOO speedy for her purSuer.
After sending a torpedo just under
the Ordunas stern. the submarine
yained shells after the fleeing vessel
without hitting her and then gave up
the chase. Germany explained thar
The submarine commander had failed
TO observe his orders and that more
explicit instructions had been issued
Three Americans were endangered
WIEN the Russian steamship Leo was
prpedoed without warning on her way
from Philadelphia 70 Manchester
England. on July o. 1918.
On July q. 1915. came the first d.
Sfruction Of an American ship ~ a
Submarine. II WAS the L>elanay Of
Kew York. bound from Archangel 70
Belfast. with fax. which is contra
baad. She WAS caught northwest Of
ne Orkney islands.
The American sailing ship William
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