Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-14
WHITE STAR line
SHIP AFRIc K
BY AR1NE
seventeeh Grew of Steamer
Torpedoed by German u
Boat Missing, Others Be
ing Reported Saved.
ANNOUNCED BY LLOYDS
Big British Vessel in the South
African Trade Reported
Destroyed.
PART OF CREW LANDED

London, Feb. lj.-Lloyds Shipping
Agency this afternoon announces that
the White Star line steamship Afric.
of II l,999 tons gross, had been sunk.
Part of the crew of the liner was
landed,
The Exchange Telegram company
says the Afric was sunk by sub
marine and that seventeen of its crew
are missing.
The report that seventeen of the
Afric's crew are missing was con-
firmed this evening.
New York, Feb. l5.-The White
Star Line has a report that the
steamship Afric has been sunk. Off
cials of the company say they have
no confirmation. The Afric has a
gross tonnage of 1909. 1t was last
reported in the maritime register as
leaving Capetown, Africa, on Decem-
Der 3, with its destination not given.
The Afric belonged to the Oceanic
Steam Navigation company, a sub
sidiary company of the White Star
line. Steamship men here familiar
with the vessel said it had accom-
modatlons for about 500 passengers,
second class only. 1t was engaged
i'll the Capetown and Australian ser
vice At the Office of the White Star
line here it was said the ship had been
engaged in admiralty service, but
whether so engaged when sunk they
did not know.
Two Liners Reach New York.
New York, Feb. 1.-Two British
passenger liners, the Laconia, from
Liverpool February 3, and the As
cania, from London January Is,
reached here today and reported hav-
ing passed through the war zone
without sighting anything unusual.
On the Laconia were thirty-seven
passengers and on the Ascania seven
teen, the majority being Canadians
returning from visits to England.
Passengers on the Ascania said
that prior to leaving London reports
were being circulated that the Ger
man raider Moewe had been captured
by British cruisers and was then in
that port.
Canopic at Boston.
Boston, Feb. l3.-The White Star
liner Canopic from Mediterranean
ports with passengers arrived at quar-
antine today.
American on Saxonian Wounded
Queenstown, Feb. 13.-(Via Lon
don,)-Of the three American fire
men who were aboard the British
steamship Saxonian when it was
shelled, torpedoed and sunk by Ger
man submarine last Wednesday one
of them, James Weyguard, was
wounded by a shell splinter and is
now in the hospital here.
Elwood Moore OF St. Louis, Ameri-
can fireman on the Saxonian, said the |
submarine which sank the vessel gave
no warning, but Immediately began
to shell the ship on sighting it While
getting into one of the boats Wey-
guard was wounded by the shell
splinter Thomas Williams, boat
swain, was injured badly and after
ward died
The attack was made at a point
fully $50 miles from shore. One boat
containing twenty-three men was
ahoat for sixty-eight hours before the |
occupants were picked up. The cap
tain was taken prisoner on the sub
marine.
Two More Ships Sunk.
London, Feb. 13.-The sinking of
the British steamer Foreland is also
announced by Lloyds.
The Norwegian motor vessel West
has been sunk, Lloyds Shipping
agency announced today The crew
was landed
The Foreland was a steamer of L.
900 tons gross, built at Sunderland, in
1914 and owned in London. |
The Norwegian motor vessel West |
is not listed in available shipping
records.
Several Lost. /
Newport News, Va, Feb. l3.-Mem-
bers of the crew of the British
steamer Oxonian, brought into port
today story that the Ononian sunk
by gunhre an Austrian submarine
which attacked it in the Mediterran-
can, December 28. They said some of /
the men on the submarine were saved |
by French patrol boat, but that sew
eral were believed lost.
I.lovds Rennrt of CipL,rc
Washington, Feb. l3.-Lloyds re-
port today of ships sunk by submar-
ines shows total Of 6,808 tons. All |
the vessels named have been reported |
by news dispatches except the British
brigantine Ada which the Lloyds re-
port said had been sunk by gunfre
without warning. Its crew was
rescued.
Honnod End MilI D. nno