SOME BELATED NEWS.

Northern Advocate, 2 December 1916, Page 3

SOME BELATED NEWS.

Australian and N Z. Cable Association

LONDON, November 30

The munition workers from the Ara-

bia, excepting three, have arrived in London. Many valuable tool kits were lost. John . Thurstan, of Sydney, and George Wells, of Melbourne, are in hospital at Port Said. ' Both have slight concussion, as a result of falls. Aubrey Warren, of Sydney, :r missing. The munition makers' president, named Long, fears that he was lost on the Arabia. He declines to confirm !t, quoting the Admiralty statement thiit all were saved. The men state that they slept .m bare iron in the empty hold of a tramp steamer on a throe days' journey to Malta. On arrival at Marseilles the third-class passengers declined 10 proceed to London by sea. They sent a deputation to the British Consul who arranged for them to go overland. The Department is awaiting a reply from 'Germany regarding the sinking of the Arabia, though the Overseas Agency has already admitted that; it was done by a German submarine. The correspondent of the "Times" at Washington states that there Ik widespread official and press apprehension that the brazen German defiance in regard to the torpedoing of the Arabia means the renewal of the armed merchantmen controversy in order to cloak further atrocities.