The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-06-01

A n,iirifctF atronnf OF tho sinkfnu ~
~. A..s,.. ,t. ....ss- n,
ny A'"e' w. !, la's'''"n s'e''''sn'p MS
sourian near Genoa last month has
been received here IN a letter from
Capt. william Lyons N a letter Ia r
X p,r;.o Tha l.tt,s a...a NJ So
'o''e', ""'ou 'ias ~
follows;
IL is Just FIVE weeks ago tonight
since our fine ship was sunk In the Me.
diterrapean and about sixty miles from
Venoa- we salled from Genoa at i0;l6
= ~. and az S;lV p. m. IN the bright
suhsnine villa our nag lying andf q
laIge nag painted on potn DOW apd
stern of quarters phey hrea' q tor.
peuo ~ ns ana fortunately Just missed
us. he'wAs under water and we could
not see sign OF MN. Inc hrst nofiee
w nay Mns tno Track OF toipefo
attef ne missed Us with the torpedo
ne emerged and commenced % shell
ns anu sept. ~ up until We got away
from the SNIP vne shell went thropgh
my room one tnroug1 the cnief en-
glheer room ana one through tbe
smoke-staek before we ipft besides
striking inc snip IN several other plac
es' After we got away ne came around
on the port side and hred about dQz'
en- snots m. ner ana tnen returned TO
,ne sIarDo1s siue ana nxea torpe.
w INTO tne snip striking Wen ar, and
men tle sooq oid snip began TO go
aNYn Slowly py tne stern ana pefore
Sne nhVe n9H plunge she was per
pen9Iepiar, Win about 1oV teet or her
.vIWatn psIs st'eking up. IN tne Al,
tpch ,no puihheau hcpt giving away
wv sno "ens uo"n. ~
Tor Want OF . Gun ttf
81 felt sad to see that fine ship 70
down and all for the want kof a. alii.
That would have saved us fof they
are afraid of "a gun, and they are MT
brave enough to fly their national coll
ors. We could. not tell what she was
German or Austrian, but they all bes
long to the same, race. \ The whole Cor.
man nation has gone mad; the kultur
they wanted to spread over the world
would bring us back to the caye,man's
ideas One Of our men was. wounded
by a piece of she'll striking his fore.
head, butAnot seriously. The piece Of
shell was taken out after we arrived
At 0enoar One OF our boats that we
lowered In me water and did not use
nay iohr' snote noiesl IN her. She was
piekeu UP later ana towed into 6enQa.
z patrol poat picked US up about two
n m Ai'er anu lowed US INTO Porfo
hoa. ~s We're l, w hours .. n tpe
.9..,, nal q motor. me poat and took
~ vs"s' syass s., - .om Ahu startea. ~.
sf. av 49, rds t,,as ~ ~ VI 10y vas glaa
M h Porto Mau,;go sor M va ;n 1870 o.s,
NJ, e,on, nv no,. -, ~ "lnI sa'ne
az de men bad vcrv az, i Ian. s's''
Tberc WINS No ehance a. ~ ha'.'n s,. ~.
Genoa beforr the third ~ NAV 81 M ~
consul sent "a 10 Bordeaux When w
found a.ship was 10 sail the gsth MI
she did not get before the 2nd.
sent forty,fye, of the crow. on. her and
waited for this ship, and in the mean
time went to ST.. .Naziere to visit, my
friends, and, needless t. say, they were
all glad TO SEQ me. ] am now ready
togo back in another ship, but | want
guns on her, for II We had had q gun
We would not have been sunk. hope
tbs war viii soon end, and that we
viii come back again to Hawaii. =
A brief account Of the sinking pf
another former Honolulu boat is given
m letter received here from Fred u.
Ihiliip, member OF the crew OF the
hoeunghhm, formerly the. MatsPn
steamship Hyades, which was sunk May