LINER'S ESCAPE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2669, 14 January 1916, Page 6

LINER'S ESCAPE

"WIRELESS" TRAP BY GERMAN SUBMARINE. Reuter's special correspondent with the British Headquarters m Macedonia, ia an account of his voyage on ilie Buigaria from an Italian port to the Piraeus, says:— Before leaving we received a visit from tlio captain of the Bosnia, a sister ship, which had been sunk some days previously 100 miles off Crete. The crew had had to row over 50 hours before reaching shore. The course taken by our captain appears to have been happily chosen, because not only did tve not catch even a glimpse of a submarine, but we did not see the smoke of any other passing vessels. Strangely enough, the fact that the Bulgaria is unprovided with wireless apparatus saved us from one very real risk. The liner America, which arrived in Naples about five days previously from Nov York, picked up a wireless mess'ige soon after leaving Gibraltar, mtruetiug her to proceed along a certain course, when she would be joined by an escort. The n essage purported to have come lroui Algiers, but the wireless operator had lis suspicions, because it seemed to originate from a spot closer than Algiers. Shortly afterwards !• ■ managed til ger ill touch with tho latter place, found the alleged instructions were really a trap, and tie i-merica immediately steered a different course, eventually reaching Naples safely.