Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-27
Z CANADIAN LINERS
SUNK BY U-BOATS
OnIv One Man Survives of Pomer-
anians Crew; Rest Mysteri-
ously Disappear.

An Atlantic Port, June % Tho
contain of n steamship which arrived
Yesterday from England brought news
Of the sinking by German submarines
of the Pomcranlan and the Mcdora, both
owned bv the Canadian Pacific Steamship
Services Of Montreal.
The sinking Of the Fomeraman,
SAID the captain, is n mystery so shipping
men IN England and TO the Admiralty.
because only one member OF the crew was
saved tho second engineer, who SAID
that be never saw q single member OF nc
crew nf sixty officers and men after the
accident Iic was on duty IN the engine
room about & n m he said, when the
steamship lurchcd heavily to starboard
after q mulfled sound from the forward
end Of the ship like an explosion IN the
hold lie stood 10y the throttle waiting
far orders 10 stop the engines IS the
signal did not come and the ship continued
to heel over the engineer stopped the
engines and went on deck lie could see
nothing except the shore, which was about
ton miles away, and he climbed up the
foremost rigging on the port side, where
hc remained until the steamship touched
bottom and nghtcd herself Then the
engineer climbed into tho upper crow :
nest which was clear ot the water, and
STAYED there four hours until nc was
picked up by patrol boat
When questioned by tho othcer IN
charge the second engineer said he
thought the liicboats had tioatcd OF the
ton deck when the ship went over and
that he saw them IN the water 4 search
was made hv dcstrovcrs for a radius ot
twenty miles around the place where The
| Pomcranian was resting on the bottom
but no trace Of boats, RATS or wrcckagc
| or bodies of the crew was found
The captain OF the pomcranian said
the Medora. also wCStbound, was sunk
short time after the Pomeranian, of
the coast Of Ireland The explosion of
the torpcdo near the boiler room was 50
Slight that il did not rouse the pilot, who
was taking forty winkS IN the chart room,
and hc could not believe the ship had been
hit and was sinking. When the crew had
got awav in the Iifchoats he submarine
appeared and the officer on deck de-
manded that the captain. Chiei wireless
operator and chief gunner should he
delivered To him At first the crew SAID
the officers were not in the boats hut
the German commander SAID sternly
and IN perfectly good English: stop
/ that nonsense. If the captain, chief
wireless operator and chief gunner do
not give themselves up at once / Will
send YOU all to the bottom
SURRENDER TO SAVE MATES.
''Not wishing to sacrifice his crew the
captain stood up IL the first hfcboat
| and the Marconi operator followed hls
example Then there was search for
the gunner, and the second gunner gave
himself up 10 the commander of the
| submarine with tn chiefs cap or because
the latter was married man with a
| family and the other was single with no
domestic ties The three men were
| taken on board the U-boat and then the
commander turned To the hieboats and
said, Give my compliments to Lloyd
! George.
''Before leaving the scene the submarine
| fired twenty shells from the siX-inch bow
gun into the Mcdora An hour later,
seeing from distance of FIVE miles that
the steamship was still afoat, he returned
and fired five more shots, which finished
the business and she went down stern
first
Shortly after the Medora was sunk q
British transport reported to the Ad-
miralty that she had destroyed German
submarine by shellfre almost in the same
position. and friends Of the captain, chief
wireless operator and the second gunner
were afraid that all three had gone down
with the Huns, but word was received
later from the captain Of the MedOra
saying that the trio had landed in Ger
many and we're III prison camp.