The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1915, Page 1

i | FINAL ieee ONE C Copyright 1915, T (The th ENT. ‘The Press York Wert Caen nee Oe 9 Hr YORK, “THURSDAY, MAY 27, (8 FRENCH AIRMEN RAID WAR PLANT; ZEPPELIN ATTACK CLOSE TO LONDO 1915. Fair, with frost to-night) Friday clear and beat , FINAL PRIGE ONE. OBeeF “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ M 18 PAGES UPON SUBM In Official haon He Says He “Saw Nothing and Had No Warning.” U. S. FLAG NOT FLYING. Had Been Hauled Down Five Minutes Before Explosion —Theory of a Mine. WASHINGTON, May 27.—The State Department to-day received from Consul General Skinner, Lon- don, the following: “Green, master of the American steamer Nebraskan, tn wireless to me via Land's End, reports: “Nebraskan passed Fastnet Rock Tuesday 4.33 P. M. from Liver- pool, bound to Delaware Break- water in ballast. At 8.24 P. M, when the steamer was forty-eight miles west half south from Fast- net, she experienced @ violent shock, followed instantly by @ ter- rific explosion, bursting hatcaes and throwing hatch beams, cargo derrick and twisted iron into air and filling lower hold, forward, completely with water. “Crew took to boats immediately. After standing by ship one hour they returned on board and @tarted for Liverpool at 10.40 P.M. “About 1.26 A. M. met two vessels gent by Britinh Admiralty in ao- ewer to Wireless call and one tas been in attendance e since, “It was dusk w! xplosion curred. Fing had been hauled down five minutes before, Steum- @r’s nume painted ou both sides of ship in jetters wix foot tall, “Hed no warning and saw Rothing.” & second message to the depart- ment from Ambassador Page, Lon- don, said: “British Admiralty report from Queenstown the Nebraskan te now on ber way to Liverpool under ber own steam 404 ie being escorted. “Am sending naval attache Liver- peo) to », which now eppeare to have been outward bound from Liverpool Delaware Urea water at the time she was struck.” A third cabie from Consul Froat Quecnetown, J steamer Nebraskan struck dat M « ov wok i id full. Now returning to Liverpool under own steam, Adiwui rly b vine ete Depar token with © view bo mevtatione —_———_ Congrecomen Mest ta Seses BALTIMOKE May man John Hh Welker of Vols ie © patient ot & hueel bw he te eaperied Wo underae & wurmr aperetion proveriy baie to der of Mr, Weikers siimeut was! ane owl ARINE TORPEDO [WHITMAN HOLDS QUT NO HOPE FOR BECKER TO ESCAPE Thinks It Strange He Should Ask Aid of His Prosecutor and Judge. (Special to The Evening World.) CHICAGO, May 27.—Gov. Charies S. Whitman of New York arrived in route to the | Panama-Pacific Exposition. He held out no hope of any Executive clem- Chicago to-day en ency for Becker. He said: “1 expressed my attitude plain- ly enough when | was prosecuting the case. It is an unlucky coinei- dence for Becker that both the at- torney who prosecuted him and the Judge who pronounced the sentence are now the ones to whom he is turning for a special | dispensation. Judge Samuel Sea- | bury, who presided at the second | trial, hae been elected to the Court of Appeals elected Gov The Governors, hia staff, + Major J, Star ot Fred W Jelup at noon, with members of rT. K. Sweet and y Moore, were guests Upham at the Chica and Mrs, Whitin Mins Olive Whitman, thelr seven- old daughter, and the other of the party were the gu ing for the Pacifie coast At luncheon, when reminded frowsip connecting his name with the Presidential nomination neat year, he waid he was too busy being Governor to talk national politics. of “Tole will be ao unusual trip in one way at least,” he said, "The echedule does not call tor & single wpeech,” — NO CONFESSION CAN SAVE BECKER, SAYS MR. PERKINS District Attorney Verking was asked today for definite statement aa to hie ettity wnt rh ommint t - - Corman Revie Sut Meortved 10M, May Bok ot oul bere (bie witernoun 4 WARHiN Th | German 2 vote ta Weesthent Wilkes wuie| Wrench 164, Kod Hour. fiote eves iiaeni bo het aly. Mra. Upham at the Saddie and |Cyela Club. The Governor and hin party will| leave Chicago ut 9 u'clock thie evens ND TORPEDO SHIP FROM MONTREAL Morwenna Attacked the Same Lane in Which the in Lusitania Was Sunk. | DANISH SHIP IS HIT. Betty Torpedoed in the North] Captain Declares Collision Was Sea and Sent to the Bottom. CARDIFF, Wales, May %.—The steamer Morwenna of Montreal was torpedoed and sheled by a German submarine at midday of Wednesday ata point 160 miles west by south of St. Ann's Head. One member of the crew of the ves- sel was killed, while three were wounded. Tho others have been landed | here. She was bound from Cardiff for Sydney, Cape Breton, in ballast, The Belgian trawler Jacqueline picked up the crew. The Morwenna is a steel steamer of 1,414 tons, owned by the St, Lau-| rence Shipping Company, and under! | British registry from the port of Mon- |treal, She was built in 1906 at the Dundee Shipping Yards, She ta 260/ feet in length and 34.2 at her beam, | and was equipped with wireless, Her | master, as given by Lioyd's registry, | is L. Holmes St. Ann's brokeshire ad is in Wales, in Pem- | distance of 160 miles A west by south of this location would have placed the Morwena not fa | from the Old Head of Kinsale, wher ho Cunard liner Lusitania was tor May 7 | TH SHIELDS, England, May ‘The Danish steamer Hetty was pedoed by @ German submarine in wth Bea yesterday and went to The members of her crew were rescued and have been ‘Tyne, ‘The Hetty wa brought to the| f 2,109 tone dis placement and was owned by a Co penbagen shipping company, M. Carl, manager, Bhe was built at Newcuatle tn 1912 and was under Danish regia- try from the port of Copenhagen. the wae 281 feet tn length and 48.1 feet at her beam, Livyd's registry names H.C, Lagen TURKS TIRED OF WAR, LANDON, Moy Athens Ale patches received | y ert that Djavid Vewhe, former au Minis tor of Finance, hae left Conmanting | ple for Mer | Hie purpone ene Turkey \ wer and Dude em meperate pe - 7. 1S EPILEPSY CONQUERED? Rew dereey Vhpeietaw bald to Mave Mawr (wren te Mie Creat Mer ney BANK MD fore we of the femety, whieh le ome He Wetewied gietu\usiy Ore | crumpled, | #uomle Hehe | CLAIMED IN ATHENS | CAPT.CREEN OF NEBRASKAN (GERMANS SHELL [RYNDAM IS HERE [42am UNABLE TO FIX EXPLOSION WITH PASSENGERS AFTER SEA CRASH Survivors, Brought in On Bat- tleship, Return to Damaged Vessel in Port. WARSHIPS’ GREAT RACE. Caused by Freak Patch of Fog. ——d The Holland-American liner Ryn- dam, rammed by the steel frult, steamship Joseph J. Cuneo off Nan- tucket early yesterday morning, tied ap at 7 o'clock this morning at the pler in Hoboken from which she sailed for Rotterdam at 2 o'clock last Tuesday. Of her seventy-elght pas- sengers, sixty went up the Hudson on the steamer. They had shifted quarters four times in twenty-four hours—from the Ryndam to the Cuneo, to the battleship South Caro- ina, to the Thomas C. Millard, the harbor steamboat sent to Staten Island to take them from the war- | ship last night, and to the Ryndam again. The others elected to come to the city on the Millard. ‘The Joseph J. Cuneo steamed slowly | Into port, a cripple, an after the Ryndam docked. She anchored in the upper bay | There wan no mistaking that the little steamer had been in a collision Her bow was smashed, her plates bent to port and forced | back till both anchors were jammed In the hawae pipes and she was down by the head where the sea had rushed | In the forepeak. Otherwise, her cap: | tain pointed out, she was all right, | her engines and machinery being un. | damaged The Ryndam's passengers were united In saying that When they came jup on deck after the collixion the weather was clear, and the coming of dawn bad made it very Heht, but Capt. Van den Heuvel explained that) notwithstanding the agar gil ° AI servations (he accident was due to fom “T alwaye « watd, “untied " he ket | wae y om the brid clear of ret Offioer also on the bridge in charge of the watch, He called my at jum to the queer little cloud of fom whieh was drifting to us before # Haht Drees It wae o freak fog, just @ litte paten | f vepor 0 Aei red us the Cune t the elear idle of which wa » thet werd 4 ome ber, wiruck The swplein wuld be id try te have the abip repeired fo wlip at Mobuken My & a the ‘ duller shipping men HRT OFFICER 0. TIERP wepeen” DUse MAKES A WREATH | ‘THEN TURNS ON ols ngewe To Make Death Sure Mrs. Wos | Also Drinks Poison, but Po liceman Saves Her Mefore Showing Hole i in Side; Captain and First Officer BOMB KILLS WOMAN WHEN GERMAN AIRSHIP HITS TOWN ON THAMES Kaiser’s Big Munition Works at Lud- wigshaven Fired by Aviators—50 — Germans Killed by Bombs at Oss” tend; Houses Burned atSouthEnd. ZEPPELINS ARE CHASED BY. AEROPLANES, BUT GET AWAY, LONDON, May 27.—Warfare in the sky is the distinguishing feature of the news to-day. Reports are at hand of a Zeppelin airship raid on South-End-on-Sea, a resort town at the mouth of the Thames, forty miles east of London, in-which one woman was killed, of an allied aeroplane fald on Ostend in which fifty Getman soldiers were killed when a street car in which they were riding was blown to pieces, and of a raid by eighteen French aeroplanes on the Bavarian town of Ludwigshaven, where ame munition and chemical factories were set on fire by bombs. Ludwig haven is an important explosive manufacturing centre. 6 Sou! 4 Zeppell ant the sirebloe which dropeed the tombs oot eran’ 't Mann eee extensive raid was contemplated as another Zeppelin was tm U.S. BATTLESHIPS CRASH IN A GALE: One woman, Mrs, May Fabin, wae killed and @ woman and child were Injured by bombs. Five buildings were net on fire, but it is reported that © property damage is not heavy. Mra, Fabin, who was at @euth End on @ visit, wae blown to plesee As sho was atepping off @ street ADRIATIC OFF, LOADED ‘ Ui inant entre ' DAMAGED more bombe were dropped. Rome of WITH WAR MATERIAL GUN lated to stort Area Ot jated to start fires, Others were ef | —— the German type, designed to seatter ner Rhode Island Driven by Wind| When the Zeppelin wae first esse ¥ ne Ok tasane | outlined againat the : ARIOAG: Hs Ay CAM ENg Ee Drags Her Anchor and Hits | tent ana he aad wie cone 4 ar of Submarines. | . : was 14 policemen blew whigtles ere | Nebraska—Both Suffer. as & warning to the people te keep the laresnt hip in’ traasatiantio pas | vialeiaie ox Indoure | The warning Bed the ops wenger eorvioe, aulled at noon today| NEWPORT, KL, May the! out into the .treete to eee the fer Lavery with 296 passengers, 1 pettieabip Mhode Island dragged ber| Veer South tnd bas been the i fh the fret cable, 12 in Che 800004 | grehore in & heavy gale that ewept|% ZPpeline several times eines : | Abin and 160 in the ateersge, 004| Nasragausett Hay Inst wight and was) saereak of the oo 2 ¥ e —, mae ets Bp es —_ we the battieship Ne | TRIED TO OTAiKe HEART OF vate Ih wil there are 14,006 tone of |braska, carrying away © portion of TOWN, t : Wmunition oid munt | the bridge and injuring © of the ene femne e the weter “ wor ae y Vawtened t na ov the iat 1p Moth veosele | i reatiy tried to drop io ae C4 : As ; ost comsiders o wear (ht noel Uhekly populated parte of ' nebor ond struck the vattloabip Vir at 4 porter ) ef | noes % 4 ' ; ‘er of | Mundi ‘eo ond men aly rl own oven miles eorthenst of ¥ fey of May Che Atinntio Meet were toreed Wo apena! 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