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a iCfJv skcsssr as-3 yK 1 a i 5 pmwmmwmmmmfm ir slir 1 Is iTa i i fr asj jf se Six ji ax ii i liwaujiiwaHiiiiijimyMWM sv mmm ftjK 15 IW nr WANT ADS For The Sunday Post will be received until 6 today Weather Partly cloudy today tomorrow fair moderate southwest to west winds Temperature yesterday Siaxi mum 70Winimum 58 A 0 14211 WASHINGTON SATURDAY MAY 8 1915 SIXTEEN PAGES TWO CENTSi MMm LWMMA TORPEDOED AND SUNK OFF IRISH COAST Of 2M0 OfmSARDmU WARE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN SAVED i 1 I A ir i 3fe TWO TBRRIF1G EXPLOSIONS TEAR LINERS HDLL MANY PASSENGERS INJURED jOR KILLED OUTRIGHT SHIP PLUNGES TO THE BOTTttM 1THIN 15 MINUTES Bots Are Ol dered Over Side Wireless Calk lor Help Bring Aid From jSitack Comes as Surprise While Passengers Are atJLuncheon Boats Are Lowered and Officers Work Bravely to Save the Passengers Many Dying at Their Posts Water Rushing in Through Rents in VessePs Side Sends Her Down Head First Rescue Vessels Dash Out to Pick Up the Survivors Numerous Distin guished Passengers on Board but No List of Saved Can Be Obtained Wounded Are Sent to jNaval and Military Hospitals Salient Features of Catastrophe 4 Lusitania was torpedoed twice at 2 oclock in the I afternoon when within 8 or 10 miles of the Irish coast and sank in about IS minutes Of 2000 souls on board between BOO and 600 are known to have been saved Loss of life it is estimated willr be 1000 or more Property loss is upward of 10fl00000l Many of those on board were killed by explosions Wounded survivors are being takenl to hospitals Several of those brought ashore have since died The Lusitania carried in her cargo a large storey of ammunition for the allies Washington administration awaits further details before considering any action FATE OF NM 1 Government Will Wallll cial ReportHoivK LOOKS TO PAGE FORFACTS SI Relatives of Travelers Besiege Wew York Office mmm itanic recalled Telegrams From All Over Country Four In on Officials I Russians Showing No Signs of Accepting Defeat BRITISH DECLINE TO WORRY 5 ill Battle for Hill 60 Still Fails to Reach Final Stage Queenstown May 8 Saturday Survivors of the Lusitania who have arrived here estimate that only about 650 of those aboard the steamer were saved and only a small proportion of those rescued were saloon passengers The number of the Lusitania passengers who died of iiijuries while beuig taken to Queenstowri will reach 100 Capt Turner of the Lusitania was among those saved SUNK WITH TWO TORPEDOES London May 8 The Cunard liner Lusitania which sailed out of New York last Saturday with more than 2000 souls aboard lies at the bottom of the ocean off the Irish coast She was sunk by a German submarine which sent two i torpedoes crashing into her side while the passengers seemingly confident that the great swift vessel could elude the German underwater craft were having luncheon How many of the Lusitania passengers and crew were rescued cannot be told at present but the official state Jnents from the British admiralty up to midnight accounted forj not more than 500 to 600 1 A ships steward who landed with others at Queens toiwnjavet as his opinion that 900 persons were lost There were dead and wounded among those brought ashore some since have died But not a name of lost of dead or injured has yet been listed Of those rescued less than a score of names have been given out Two Torpedoes Fired THe Lusitania was steaming along about eight or ten miles off01diHeai Kinsale on the last leg of her voyage to Liverpool whenajout 2 oclock in the afternoon a submarine suddenly ap speared and so far as reports go fired two torpedoes without warning at the steamer One struck her near the bows and the other in the engine room The powerful agents of destruction tm throueh the vesselrs side causing terrific explosions Al most immediately great volumes of water poured through the openings and the Lusitana listed Boats All Swung Out BoaU which were already swung out on the davitswere dropped pverboardv and were speedily filled with passengers who had been appalled by the desperate attack A wireless call for help was sent out and Immediately rescue boats of all kinds were sent out bothfrom the neighboring points along the coast and Queenstowm But jwithin fifteen minutes as one survivor estimated and certainly within half an hourj the Lusitania had disappeared Once Landmark of Joy Where Great Britains swift merchant Vessel went down Old Hed Kinsale is a landmark that has brought joy to many trayelersas it has always stood as the sign from ashore that Wthe perils of the voyage Across the Atlantic were af an end The fine whose boast has been that it has never lost a passenger in the Atlantic service has now lost the ship that dodged the lurk ing enemy off Nantucket Light the day after war was declared ahd later startfcd the world by flying the Stars and Stripes Look to United States The jBritish admiralty is discouraging the publication of sur jtiisesiind guesses regardingjthe ded an1dmjured Even before llevcrude details are known the British press is asking editorially what the United States will say to this event and how she will hold Germany to the strict accountability mentioned in previous diplomatic correspondence The office of the Cunard Line closed shortly after 11 oclock to night and officers of the company stated that there would be no further information coming from the line until the offices opened tomorrow morning j5 Amoncr Those Known to Be Safe tjV di SVV TH2Hnd sritt in tEa National Capita The late messages received tomcht from the Cunard Line offices i ir4 yzr Although iUwas not known how in Liverpool indicated tnat no dennite information would be lorth coming tonight as the officers weregfying all attentipVtOthe pci anno oavcu xiyiu wc siup Representations Covering All Re cent Attacks Expected BRYANS WARNING RECALLED Action to Be Taken Whether American Liyes Were Lost or Not Is Prediction Information Gathered Here Tends to Indicate That Destruction of Liner Was Planned Weeks AgOr Naval Radio at Arlington Kept on the Alert Si lence Maintained at Gentian Embassy LinerSaidlto Have Been Unarmed in Accordance With State Departments Wishes Many i Anxious Inquiries MadeMor Drr Houghton on His Way to Belgium to Take Charge of War Hospitals Cable i Brings News That Bretherton Family of Los Angeles Are Among Those Saved From Disaster jr Great Faith in England ia the Slavs Re cuperative Powers So Berlin Dispatches Insisting That a Great Victory Has Been Won in Galicia Do Not Disturb Army or People Germans Still Using Gases in Fighting in Flanders liiitfoiilioui hl iv 13 Wm OnJrri 1S 1 BELIEVE WAR IS AVERTED By the Associated Press Destruction of the British liner Lusitania with the loss of many lives shocked officials of the United States government and spread pro New York May 7 All this afternoon and tonight Anxious friends and relatives of the Lusttanlas passengers tie sieged the offices ofihe Cunard Line and thej scene recalled those at the offices of theWhltft Star Line when the Titanic sank three years ago Officials of Jthe Cunard Line announced tonight tfiat they had received more than 500 telephone and telegra ph inquiries relative to the safety of passengers Telegrams were received from as far north as Montreal as far south as Atlanta and as far west as St Louis As the night wore on only a hand ful of persons remained or visited thej Cunard office inquiring for information A cablednewspaper report that every body was safe received late in the afternoon it was thought at the office was responsible In a mesur for this situation First Real News Grave The flrst dennite announcement re garding survivors came after 9 mt in a message from Liverpool which was immediately maiublic jlCread TheTradmlraIty hasfhaf a mesllge fromtQueenstown saying between 00 Complete Compliance With 1 Terms of Japan Is Expected ft Among the lastmessages received were several stating that in dividuals were safe In these messages were the names of George Kessler a NewYork wine agent Miss Jessie Taft Smith Brace ville Ohio Mrs7H Lassetter wife of Geri Lassetter and their son Lassetter of London Mrs Lassetter and her son were booked from Sydney Australia Appeals for Help Made Tonight the Cunard Line announces that between 500 and 600 of the passengers and crew were saved of these many are re ported to be hospital cases and of the saved many are reported to have died This estimate of the saved given by Jones first officer of the steamship would indicate that 1400 or 1500 persons are believed to have lost their lives in perhaps the greatest single incident of the European war Wounded by Torpedoes No names of the wounded were available at the time that this dispatch was sent and it indicated that the greatest excitement prevailed in Queenstown There is no doubt herefonight that many of the passengers and crew were wounded by the explosion of the torpedoes under the hull of the Lusitania JThevessel was sunk early in the afternoon in clear weather and the watery while chilly was not cold enough to cause suffering by exposure As the dispatches from Queenstown mention the wounded it is inferred that their wounds were inflicted by explosions No Word of Prominent Men No word is obtainable concerning the fate of the prominent per sons who left New York on board the Lusitania These included Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Charles Frohman Justin Miles For man Charles Klein Mr and Mrs Elbert Hubbard and Julian de Ayala Cuban consul general at Liverpool The first information that the Lusitania had been torpedoed came from the wireless station at Old Head Kinsale on the Irish side of the channel The marine observer there had seen the steamship halt and then list badly The wireless operator thenpicked up thismessage from the Lusitania 1 ji Send help quickly Am listing badly Jri Vessels Speed to Aid Half a dozen vessels were shot out from Kinsale to where the Lusitania was lying helpless She was theneightrmiles south by west from Kinsale The first nnessage was received about fifteen minutes after 2 oclock this afternoon All reports agree that the Lusitania suddenly plunged to thebottom at 33 minutes after 2 oclock In that brief space of time the twenty lifeboats ort boardhad toJbelaunchedahd it is reported from Kinsale that they were put mtotheseaxcrowded with passengers BriifTime to Escape So brief was the period given to the 2000 persons bn board many if any of those lost were and eijOrlanded atQueenstown fnclud Americans the view was general tfcatl Jn manyh6spltal cases sbmiof whom have died Also a number landed at Kinsale Among those for whom anxious In qufries were made at the CunardLlnes offices tonight was Dr Houghton said by the officials of the company to be the son of a formerNewYork State supreme court Justice vDr Houghton was on his way to Belgium to take CONTINUED ON FOUBTH PAGE SAILS TO DANGER ZONE the most serious situation confronted the American government since the outbreak of the war in Europe Warning of the United States The warning of the United States that Germany would be held to a strict accountability for the loss of I American lives irrespective of whether they were aboard belligerent or neutral vessels when attacked fo cused attention on the White House where President Wilson until late in the night read the dispatches with grave interest The President made no comment President Abandons Drive President Wilson had just finished luncheon and was about to leave the White House for a drive when he heard the news of the sinking of the Lusi tania At the cabinet meeting less than an hour before the torpedoing of the American steamer Gulfllght with the death of three Americans had been discussed and a party of cabinet members had gathered for luncheon at a nearby hotel where the news was taken to them All the Secretaries Immediately hurried back to their offices The Presidents first question of the secretary who brought him the dispatches was whether any lives had been lost and his relief was evident when he was told the first dispatches Indicated that all had been saved i i CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAGE JL to saveJhemselves or bjr saved that the gravest apprehension is JelthW i 5T A I CO YTINUED ON SECOND PAGE 5IV tv Sfi WARNING GIVEN BY GERMAN EMBASSY The Lusitania sailed from New York on the afternoon of May In tooniingypaperVof 5 that day there was published as an advertisement the following warning NOTICE TRAVELERS intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage 4 are reminded that a stateof war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles that in accordance with formal notice given by the imperial Ger man government vessels flying the flag of Great Britain or any of hef allies are liable to destruction in those waters and thjat travelers sailing in the war zone on ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY Washington April 22 1015 Liner Transylvania With Cabins Full Off for England Hopes One Will Come Close Enough to Be Rammed He Says All Passengers Hear of Lusitanias Patecbut Do Not Seem Disturbed Commander Denies He Will Fly the American Flag New York May 7 The British steamer Transylvania of the Anchor Line sailed late today for Liverpool a few hours after news of the Lusitanias sinking had been received The Transylvanias cabins were crowded her agents satd There were 8T9 passengers aboard and others who wanted to go according to the offl cials of the line could not be accommodated for lack of room i Is Hunting for Submarines CaptJohn Black who was recently transferred to the Transylvania from the British auxiliary cruiser Columbia commanded the shipi I have been hunting for a submarine ever since this war began was his comment on the Lusitania I only hope I see one on this trip and that she comes close enougn for me to ram her Do you expect to fly the American flag when you reach the war zone he was asked Nosir Ilftake my ship to port With the flag of England flying or not at all he replied Allprecautions however Capt Black satd would be observed when the Transylvania reached the war zone Only Twelve Passages Canceled Of the Transylvanias passengers 117 were in the first cabins 310 in the second and 452 in the steerage Almost half the passengers were from Canada it was said There was little nervousness apparent among the passengers all of whom had heard of the Lusitanias fate Twelve last minute can cellations werecrecorded This it was said was riot an unusual number Four of those who canceled their passage officials said did so because of Illness The reason why the others canceled was not disclosed The Transylvania due to sail at 5 oclock in the afternoon was an hour late Jn getting away 93 New Yorlcand Retnrri 3 Baltimore Ohio Leave Union Station 1259 tonlgnt Adv London May 7 The battle to decide the mastery of Hill No 6ft and the desolated country around Tpres has jiot yeUreached its final stagey nor have the Russians shown signs of accepting the German claim that a crushing defeat has been Inflicted upon them In western Galicia Russians Fight Every Inch Fighting of a sanguinary character still continues between the Russians and the Teutonic allies in Galicia and in the western and eastern Carpathians That the RUssfans have been pushed back many miles flrst across the Dunajec and now across the Wisloka River which roughly parallels the Dunajec 15 miles to the eastward all the dispatches from German and Austrian sources Insist but the Jflngllsh newspapers still refuse to concede a great victory to the Austro Germans although they admit that a great tenta tive success has been achieved Believe Russians Can Come Back There is great faith in England in the recuperative powers of Russian arjnS and the disposition t6i the mo ment stems to be tosupenTJUdgment onjdjeiuestljnof whetheft4Jie Russians if driven frpfn Dukla Pass will be forced Jto abandon their advance against Hungary andJndeed their positions fnfrestern Galicia At any rat the argument is being made by British observers that the Russians 8hou have no trouble In hold Ing thelrllne xm the RiverSan in eastern Galicia especially as their flank would now beovered by Przemysl The fightlng Tin Flanders finds the Germans still making use of asphyxiating1 gases aid there Is a noticeable current runnlfe through the British press whi6h lnslss that the allies should adopt counter measures at once Think Allies Should Retaliate It Is being recited thatTwhen one power departs frorn the rules and prece dents of warfare it is manifestly unfair for the others to remain bound by them Still no formal announcement thatGreat Britain will make use of gases has been forthcoming Coincident with the Austro German claims of victory injGalicia there has been a markediincrease In the rumors of Italian intervention The London newspapers are flooded with special dispatches from lipme relating to the departure of Germans the closing of Ger man schools artd the massing by Italy oltrobps on her frontiers WARSHIPS AND TROOPS SAIL Preparations for Hostilities Go Forward in Japan Despite Indications That China Will Yield Claims Withdrawn in Final Note From Mikados Govern ment Dealt With Employment of Hip pon Advisers Purchase of Arms and Preaching of Buddhism Yuan Expects NoSerious Revolutionary Outbreaks I wsl 551 nA 3i Ml 9T i 7 It A Peking May 8 Saturday The attaches of the foreign office were at work all night translating Japaiit ultimatum which was presented to the forefgn office yesterday after noon and drafting the terms of Chinas compliance with the AM mande whiQhwlir fy subnltttedJtinCvf Yuan Shi CKaUahdr tbrf8Uter couffiJ0L ifrl this mnrnln At 1ft nVInplr TIio riu ply will b6 delivered t63t Hlokl the Japanese Minister this evening or CllflirlATrwiivtitn WiU Accept in Full i Thfr Chinese note will eview i 4lifl AIDRICH WILLS FAMILY ALL Gives Mrs Rockefeller 100000 Outright but Others Share Equally Warwick Rr I Jray7 The entire es Itate of the late Nelson Aldrich for years United States senator from Rhode Island Is left to the family by his will which was filed today for probate The value of the property Is not given The will requests that his War wick Neck estate be retained by the family always The hulk of the property is to bejffd In trust until the death of the widow or for twelve yearsif she should die within that time The income is to go to her and seven of the eight cnildren until the division of the estate and then each of the seven children is to receive an equal share The other child Mrs John Rockefeller jr is left 1100000 outright The children who share equally fn the property are Lucy Edward Stewart William Xr Richard and Winthrop Aldrch and Mrs Stephen Maurice Edgell GERMANSANNEXBELGIUM Chinas case answer thecharges contained in the ultimatum and accept the demands without qualification The government expects no fierious revolutionary outbreak from the peo pie The military leaders have as sured Yuan Shi Kai that their support would continue Withdraws Vital Claims The handing In of the Japanese ulti matum to China has brought Jiut knowledge on one point which has surprised Chinese officials as well as the members of the foreign legation herec It seems that Japan after insisting npon the acceptance of her demands duciyciiucu ji Jic uiLUMcbcuiu uiflueiu vr W1 oi an or group a wiin me exception of the demand bearing upon Fukljer I 31 i 4 Si I if i f5 ttn province to which the Chinese had agreed in their reply of last Saturday The records now show that China fast evening offered to concede to iheTo i vf Proclamations Announcing This Fad Are Formally Posted in Antwerp Special Cable to The TVasnlnrtoa Post Rotterdam May 8Saturday Germany has annexed Bel gium Proclamations dated May 5 have been posted in Antwerp to this effect Baltimore A Oklo i Baltimore 150 round trip every Saturday and SundavL eood returnine until 9 a 4ionaay aov kyo government more than thp Japa nese ultimatum now exacts fromiherj Chinas Counter Proposals It was learned today that fn the1 course of Vice Minlsler Tsao Tullns visit to the Japanese legation yesterday sTH evening he proposed Verbally to mell the Japanese railroad demands to grant school and hospital privileges offered to bestow landTvlthout compensation upon Japanese and proposed jto wlthdraw Chinas Hhree requlremenjir regarding Shantung province namely the return to the status quo before the war Chinas participation in the peace conference and compensation for damages in theKIauchau campaign The Jina Chinese proposals here fore refused pnjy authorize Japan to supply half the arms used by China participate In the1 conduct of Chinese arsenals i to appoint Japanese advisers to China and to preach Buddhism in the republic The Chinese dislike the requirement Insisted upon by Japan that China rep ognlze Tokyos right to reopen these questions at a future date buti they will accept these features unless the few Irreconcilable in the councils of President Yuan Shi Kai succeed al ternating the presidentsdeclsloru Tokyo Awaits Reply Tokyo May 7 945 The JapaneseJapanese await Chinas reply to the Japanese ultimatum which was delivered today The government It is stated has been deeply desirous of avoiding a rupture with China which it was admitted would prove embarraasirig pending the receipt pf Chlnaseply however military and naval preparationspreparations are being pushed vigorously Five i transports laden with troops haVe sailed from Hiroshima In the direction of China and numerous warshlrJghavji lef for secret destinatfons In presenting Its ultimatum to China CiS ii i Jftl fc 4 i it srl i a i ft CONTISLED 0iXEYESTaP4qA Srf f3S tcw sv zsG a Jssr ri 15 isSTiE i rJ ZXJt li ViTa5Vii vm.