The sun., 1918-12-20
BRITANNIA SANK
HARRIED BY U-BOATS
Black Arrow, U. S. Transport,
Gave Battle as Submarines
Attacked Cruiser.
2 FOE CRAFT DESTROYED
Adriatic Leaves Here With
$50, Including H. P. Davi-
son, Called by Wilson.

The American transport Black Ar
row.. once the German merchantmen
Black Hawk, Is here with the story Of
the sinking Of the British auxiliary
cruiser Britannia OF Tangier on No
vember .. by one of a squadron Of Ave
submarines. The Black Arrow speeded
on her course toward the Strait Of
Gibraltar while her naval gunners sent
their steel jacketed compliments ex-
plosively in the direction of the near
est submarine. about a mile of. This
prowler ducked.
One Of the four others, which ap-
peared about six miles distant, at
tackled the Britannia and she sank
slowly. Many OF her crew got away
from her in life RATS and boats before
she went down and the Black Arrow
assisted in picking UP some OF them.
American destroyers had answered
the wireless appeals Of the Britannia,
and 1t was said aboard the Black Ar
row that they accounted for two or
more Of the destroyers and carried
wounded and other survivors to Gibral-
tar. where the Black Arrow also put
in with sailors she had rescued. II
was one Of the last exploits Of the
U-boats before the signing Of the ar
mistice.
schooner's Crew saved.
The Black Arrow landed here eigh,
American naval officers and men who
have been on duty in the Mediter.
rtnean and Capt. l.. II. Saben. Mate
Ingram Saben. Cook Christian Hansen
! aged 10, and Seamen Lind, Olsen
Wall! and Alley of the three masted
schooner William Cobb, dismasted and
waterlogged 500 miles north Of Ber-
muda early in November. Capt. Saben
and his men abandoned the schooner
In n heavy sea on an improvised raft
and were adrift FIVE days before they
we're picked UP by the steamship Alex.
andria and landed at Gibraltar, where
they were cared for by the American
! Consul and shipped home by the Black
| Arrow.
Cook Hansen Is the Oldest galley
boss in the big Yankee fleet of fore.
snd-afters and mighty strong per,
son for his years. He was WASHED
! from the raft three times and helped
back by a vigorous shipmate, Wall
| He has been cooking in seven different
vessels during the war Four OF thess
, were torpedoed and three met disaster
! through weather. so a little thing Like
! being washed off a raft does not affect
him seriously.
When the American schooner HAITI,
Dunn was captured and sunk of tn,
Virginia Capes last spring the cool
! was taken with his shipmates aboarC
the U-boat and spent seven day,
cruising under and oversee before \,
! was released. He was also aboard tn,
steamship Zeelandla when she w1i
/ torpedoed and sunk in the E.nglicl
| Channel.
! Adriatic Gets Away.
The White Star liner Adriatic, de
, layed five days by the blowing out o
a cylinder head. got away yesterd1!
for Liverpool with 500 passengers, in
GLIDING Henry p. Dawson, chairman
of the war work council OF the Ameri
can Red Cross; DIR. Katharine Z
Davis. secretary of the Bureau o
Hygiene, and DIR. David Simon Blond
helm OF Baltimore, executive secretar,
Of the Jewish Welfare Board overseas
who is accompanied by Miss Ros
Lutsky OF Baltimore and Miss BESSIE
Fox of Chicago. Mr.. Dawson said:
II am sailing at the request OF tn
President. | have supreme confidenc
that the spirit of mercy and human
sympathy wh!ch the people of III
world have ascrSedl to the American
people will again shine forth when tn
world once more learns OF their devo
ton TO the Red Cross ideals.
Enrolment in the Red Cross b,
every man, woman and child will meal
more to the world to-day than eve
before. Millions of pleading, wistfu
faces are turned toward us to-day
and only by answering that mute ap
peal by universal enrolment in tn
Red Cross can We show our sympath,
and our vote for a timcler. gentle
world in the days to come
DR.. Davis IL going abroad in the in
terest of the war work council of tn
Young Womens Christian Association
She will select a group of twenty-five
women physicians from France. Ital.
and England to meet in this countr,
next spring to confer on problems o
social hygiene.