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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16980, 14 October 1918, Page 6

, A number of survivors were picked up •clinging to overturned boats and others got on to rafts cast from tho deck. Five hundred of the passengers and crew are missing. SHIP SHELLED AND SUNK. CREW FOUR DAYS ADRIFT. V (Reed. 6.S p.m.) NEW YORE, Oct. 11. The American ship Ticonderoga, shelled and torpedoed in mid-Atlantic by a German 'submarine endeavoured to defend herself, but her guns were quickly silenced by shells from tho Submarine. All but two of tho lifeboats were destroyed. One member of the orcw swam alongside the submarine, and asked the commander to cease firing. The commander pointed a\ pistol at him and ordered him .to swim away.

After the ship wink the singlo surviving float was compelled to throw a tow line 'aboard the submarine, Whon tho American sailors refused to answer tho questions of the submarine commander the submarino suddenly submerged. The liioboat was saved from being capsized by tho tow lino breaking. The submarino is described as having Bin guns on board. '■ .

Tho survivors from the Ticonderogfi were adrift for four days, many of them Buffering from serious wounds.

(Bted. 6.6 a.m.) ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.' Tho Navy Department announces the deaths of 10 officers and 111 men on the steamer Ticonderoga. Five survivors have arrived aboard a British steamer.