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“INAT [ * Circulation Books Open to All. 4 _ NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1915. His 12 PAGES 8 PRICE ‘ONE CENT. doable oh ‘SUBMARINE SINKS ARABIC: 48 MISSING; 375 SAVED ae Le A lay He Commander LINER GOES DOWN IN 11 MINUTES; NO WARNING GIVEN, SAYSREPORT | British Ship Dunsley Reported Torpedoed With Sur- vivors---German U-Boat Hits White Star Ship Off. me _ . Fastnet, Near Lusitania’s Grave---423 on Board, ] Including 280 Passengers. | erpool-for New York, has been sent to-the bottom. off-Fastnet, on the south coast: of Ireland, not far from the point at which the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine. 5| The White Star Company says that 375 persons on the Arabic weré saved. This - leaves 48 unaccounted for. A message from Queenstown to the Press Association says that the Arabic was torpedoed without warning. Such reports as were available in London early this evening indicated that the greater part of the 423 persons on board had been saved. The first reports were that ‘ all of the passengers and crew had been rescued by another steamer. Subsequently, - "1 however, it was reported that the Arabic had gone down in Il minutes, raising the question | whether it would have been possible to rescue all on board in that brief time. A despatch from Queenstown says that two steamers are expected there bringing about 400 survivors of the Arabic. “fl A message to the London Press Association says: “Eleven boats got away and it is feared a large number of passengers were lost.”’ The Central News says the crew of Arabic succeeded in launching eleven lifeboats, which picked up many passengers. It has not yet been ascertained, this agency says, how many were drowned. Weather conditions were favorable. The torpedo struck the Arabic at 9.15 o'clock this morning. A report from the British steamer Magnolia said that ree __PRICE ONE. CENT. Copyright, 1011 The Frese ubtishing _ wise York Wertd). a LONDON, Aug. 19.—The White Star liner Arabic, which sailed yesterday from Liv- BERLIN, Aug. 19 (via ua Gus ea to that tn the naval airship raid on} London Tuesday night important) establishments in the city and on the Thames were bombarded with good results, Blast furnaces at Wood- bridge and Ipswich also were bom-| barded, The statement says: “On Aug. 17, at of one of our torp tacked a srnall n British cruiser and elght torpedoboat destroyers near Hornsrif Lightship, on the west! coast of Jutland, and sank the cruiser | and one destroyer with torpedoes. Our forces had no losses. “During the night of the 17th and 18th our naval airships again at- ; tacked London, London City and important Thames establishments| were Mberally bombarded. Good re- |sults were observed, In addition! | tactories and blast furnaces at Wood- bridge and Ipswich were bombarded. | Tho airships suffered no damage: i) despite the heavy fire and all re- turned.” —_-——— jock, five boats joboat flotilla at- CAPT. W: FINCH, INT NEWS SER. No, 293 East Ninety-ninth. Strect New York. She had gone on an Saturday with her sister, \ THINKS SISTER WAS THROWN FRI FROM BOAT | sss Wells yas dancing when. ane Identified her, says she had no sn to end her life and he fears she was attacked and either thrown from «he Aug. 19——|boat or jumped to escape her as- (Special to The Evening World.) fe yap ee N. Jy Fae. young woman whose body was | sailant fou | in the Hudson River near Fort | |The remains arg at MoNally's Sunday World Wants Work | Lee Tuesday was Identified this af-| Morgue, Io e. ie was & ie" * ‘ ternoon ax Felle Rotkopf, twenty, 3 | tallor -4 Monday: Morning Wonders. IN BATTLE OFF JUTLAND Tuckerton, N, J.).—German torpedo- boat destroyers have sunk a small British cruiser and a British destroyer by torpedoing them {n an engagement of small craft off the west coast of Jutland, the German Admiralty announced to-day. The admiralty announcement adds@—————— ‘WE BUY WHAT WE NEED,’ GERMAN PRESS ADMITS Declaration on Disclosure About Efforts to Influence Opinion Here, BERLIN (via Wireloss to Tucker: ton, N. J.) Aug. 19. Zeitung to-day The Frankfurter declared the dis- closures of alleged German attempts | to influence public nin America to be “ridiculous.” Zeitung said that Inasmuch as tt was known Ger- many’s enomies have paid immense sums in bribing the press of neutral countries, it would not be aste onishing | “it we buy fo forelgn countries what | i we need." WRECKED “CREW SAVED. Capt, Laroque and six seamen of the crew of the French bark Jaques Marcal were brought to port to by the| |stetamer St Leonards froi or Which rescued waterlooged and adrift, A The sailed from San L a with solt July 14 for at duelon, A burricane wrecked Rarr: Pierre ther. British steamship Dunsley also had been torpedoed, but that some time after the Arabic went down she was still afloat and was picking up survivors of the Arabic, » wh The Dunsley left Liverpool yesterday for Boston, She is a vessel of about 5,000 tons gross, and therefore of sufficient size to accommodate the persons on board the Arablo. The White Star Line, after first announcing that there were 410 persons on board, later gave out a corrected statement giv- ing the total number as 423, There were 132 second cabin passengers, 48 in the steerage, and 243 members of the crew. The following message was received at the London office: “The Arabic was sunk this morning. Fifteen or sixteen boatloads are making for Queenstown,’ The’ company has rec eived no other direct word, but from this mes- sage and the number of boats making for Queenstown they deduce that! the greater part of the persons on board were rescued. New York Offices Give Out | Statement About the Disaster The New York offices of the White Star Line gave out the following statement at 2.25 this afternoon on the sinking of the Arabic: “The Arabic was torpedoed at 9.15 A, M. and sank in eleven minutes, “The Arabic sailed Wednesday afternoon with 131 cabin passengers and 45 steerage passengers and with cargo and mails. “She was sunk by a German submarine at 9.15 A. M. off the south coast of Ireland. “We are hopeful all passengers and crew were saved, “Fifteen boat loads have been accounted for. That is all the infor- mation we have.” ‘The statement given out here was cabled by the White Star agent at | Liverpool. It was stated at the company’s office here that this message was probably sent to the Liverpool offices by the British Admiralty and unquestionably was authentic, Naval reserve. W. Greenslade Is the purser, J. FP. Stanyer the chief steward and D, W, S. Muir the ship’s surgeon, In none of the press dispatches received from London last night ts there any announcement of the Arabic leaving Liverpool. The Admiralty has suppressed news of that character since the German submarines be . came active off the Irish and English coasts, On her last eastward tri; the Arabic arrived in Liverpool : from New York. . ses.) Following the receipt of a cablegram announcing her safe arrival the Bureau of Combustibles of New York Clty allowed the fact to become known that two sticks of dynamite had been discovered on board the liner on July 27, the night before she sailed from New York for Liverpool. ARABIC ESCAPED TORPEDO ONCE BEFORE. Once before since the beginning of the war the Arabic had 9 close ;call, A cable message from London on March 27 sald that the steamer had been pursued by a German submarine in the Irish Sea on the voyage which ended on that day. According to this account, a periscope was sighted as the steamer went In from St. George’s Channel, and It soon be- came obvious that a hostile submarine was in pursult, The Arabic put on full steam and outdistanced the submarine, On the occasion of the apparent attempt to dynamite the Arable hast month, the explosive was discovered by a private detective, concealed un- der a settee In the women's parlor In the cabin accomodations 7 No fuse, detonator or wiring was attached to the dynamite, which appar- ently had been placed there some time before, The Arabic had an Immense cargo capacity and for that reason was one of the most Important liners In the service, She has been the Atlantic continuously since she was launched and made nearly all her regularly scheduled trips since the outbreak of the war, It was Commander Finch’s boast that not once after the outbreak of the war had he used any but the Britlsh flag on his ship, A thorough search of the Ilner was made by detectives before she sailed on her last eastward trip on July 28, but nothing was found In the way of explosives, On her recent trips the Arable has carrled far fewer passengers than | The commander of the Arabic is W. Finch, a Ueutenant In the Royal | on normal voyages in times of peace, Thee, wae. 101 peer aS ie