The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-05


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torpedo struck she Athena amid
shsps AZ about No. hatch Several
nsemerss Of sns crew a@id two
shells were fired u the ship
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Inc sIrsi Ashoss a. CFvenoek. said
no warning had been given By the
torpsaosnk submarine
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submarine came 10 the surface
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"A little while before the sur.
xlyoTs landed Baron Ernst won
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me German foreign offies, assured
Alexander G KRIS. charge DAT
fairies q the American embassy.
that tho German navy had had no
part Ia the disAsterl
Able Seaman psiion's story, and
description u the scenes after
the attack. made u evident the
death .oli would prove heavy.
HIT ~ PROPELLER
Dillon said
All the Atheniss lfsooats were
launched within an hour and a
quarter.
Three other members OF the
crew and had charge of one
boat.
1t contained 81 women.
when the Norwegian ship tthe
Knute Nelsonl came 70 our rescue,
We drew alongside and made fast.
But our boat got under the stern
OF the vessel and was struck by
the propeller. The bottom was
knocked out OF our boat. Several
in the boat were killed and there
were only about seven or eight
survivors altogether in our boat
SCENE Is PAINTED
A dispatch nom the yacht South
ern CroSS told OF the scene which
was presented when she arrived
TO Join the Knute Nelson in rescue
work.
LifehoatS dotted over a rough,
moon-strewn ses-flsres burning
shouts and screams for help
coming from every direction a
lifebost cspsixing, most of its peo-
pie being saved 49,. young moth
er. rescued from this boat, sitting
dazed for minute and then jump
ing into the sea with the despairing
shrek. MY baby" Those on
the yacht watching helplessly, busy
in tending others, as victim after
victim sank beneath the waves
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quietly, in over1illed lifeboats that
settled slowly in the water A
Russian Jewish couple, going to a
new home in America. watching as
their two young sons went down
Survivors with clothes torn off,
black with grease, barefooted, PEN
niless and smiling as those on
the yacht smiled to them =.
CREW Is PRAISED
The crew of the Athena be-
haved msrvelously. the dispatch
said. The passengers were he