The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-12
FROST TELLS
HORRORS OF
U-BOA T S.
II. S. Consul Says Ger
mans WantOnly
Slaughtered Victims

Slaughtered Victims
The story told by Wesley FROST
United states consul In Queenstown,
Ireland, before a large body OK rep
resentauge Detroit business and
professional men in the Board Of
Commerce auditorium. Monday after
noon. was one 20 make the blood
run cold.
Consul Frost IS AZ present Ia
America on special orders from the
administration. delivering a series
OF lectures On the war and The les
sons ne was taught as Americas
representative on the coast OF Ire
land During the time lie spent ID
ireland be interviewed survivors
OF almost 100 vessels sent 70 ne
bottom by Germany's frightfu! T.
boat warfare.
Mr. Frost is q tall. thin KenIuck-
ian who tells what he has 20 tel. ~
q STRAIGHTFORWARD manner, without
employing any tricks OF oratory or
rhetoric. He said In part
"A American consul IN Queenstown
aurinw ne nrst three wears u the
war i collected az arst hand inleh 9f
the evidence upon which America 2 -
entered the war. and reduced - .
the form 20 perm tnent legal reC2F4-
Nv witnesses were American sAi4erA
business rner, and Tastes Who came 20
the consulate straight rom TIE sea
al al hours n the day and MS
with the cries Of their dead comrades
still ringing in their ears.
Let us take ~ nrst that class u
cases iu which there A. SEA ~
warning by the submarines This
warulng usually consists OK bonn
harding the wretchea wcumF 49,
out pause or pity. Men ane Wtll7l
are mangied ~ she'll IRE ai fE 49,
haze surrendeFsd and are dong heir
Utmost 10 give obediencs 20 the SUB
The Madura- q little Russian bark.
cut down her rsainsai upon tne SUP
marines nrst shot q show s4p5ale-
son. but when ner Nfehoet was res
cued 70 was a pertect shai. alsA 80
captain, huge olack bearded tlnh'
sat In the stern sheets Win hls VIE.
and AT their feet Lwo dead sailors
law weltarinz iu blood. while another
was just gasping cut his I1e &ha
four other sailors were al pam 10y
wounded. These inc1eusiVe WorAlnA
men were slaughtered y toxin wnile
trying desperately 10 fulaA the SUI
marines deslrsA
can name you case after ea1e
like this. where harmless s@AHt.e
craft was heaved q Ana MADE seo
over on his hack and holds up is
paws ard then as been uNrctless4y
pounded with shell Ere. cften oeco-'-
ing a floating Inferno. ne el1uaa
zines even descend 70 the destruction
81 hshernents boats and they also
treat steamships IA the sane Nay
whenever they believe LAtAt they can
safely do 50.
especially - arouse the subnarlnes'
horrictsai mania saw the dis
mernbsred fra xments q the master
OF the AnElo- CAliforniN carried
s sSlS,s IN ssx s119s Gag On --au sfs
corpses az eight OF his men. Their
crime consisted OF having trisd %
run away from destruction- IN
two hours. was torpedoed a. dusk
ulth the death 81 IL men. % whom
three were % American naticnellLy.
In the Eavestcne case the sunfneFlns
deliberately turned It's gun upon ths
ilfen boats when they were well ava
from their sinking Ehsp. and shot
down the master and Four men ~
whom one was an American. Ana -
Ia the Rowanmore case and Others
Then there was case In when
thev carried an American merchant
officer hack on board u hia snip -
touch OK the bombs which sent her
I
| lose de Iarrinaga the submarine =
officers amused themselves ~ TAX
kng snapshots 20 send home % their
sweethearts while - men were
Vow let us turn 20 the class II
cases In which not even a nolance
/ ~ warning ~ given. where these
I craven monsters stink up and assasi-
nate a good ship without the raintes -
/ premonitior. The probability is al
\ wava strong that the ship Will sink
/ practically at once, Ike death trap,
/ carving many az not mcEt) ~ her
brave men 70 Immediate death.
The Hsndon was t0Tpedoed on .
black winter night ard sank IN ~
seconds 80 that out OF SO men on
tale The Neudamore sank IN nve
rInuteA losing Is men out OF 81 and
six OF the dead were American. There
are scores. ~ not hundreds of cases
where ships have sunk ~ less than
10 minutes The mate % the Biserta-
with hts arm broken. told ne how
she sank IN two minutes. 90 that out
of his % comrades only eight ever
came 20 the surface.
Let me insist once again upon the
solitary conclusion that ] wish per-
s0ually % have drawn from the facts
you have heard namely That tho Ger
mans not merely are doing a horrible
thfnR--aiI war lE horrible. and taere
will Away BE certain horrors inner
ont iu' Submarine warfare, Just a.
there are In artillery work--hut that
they are doing it in 4 needlessly, nay
rather feslEuecly, horrible manner
and spirit. wiifuily rejecting meas
uras that could Hmfllnrate and Will
fully acting those tnat acoen tlta-
ifs friqh tfuinese Asii cfrom making
this one point psr own task IA done
when ave lai1 before you the plain
truth about this Satan's carnival