LUSITANTA NOT ARMED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13773, 10 May 1915, Page 5

LUSITANTA NOT ARMED.

GEE MAN BROKERS IN THE STOCK EXCHANGE.

SEVERAL TUP OWN OUT,

ST\TEMENT£ OF SURVIVORS

LINER STRUCK TWICE

PERFECT ORDER. MAINTAINED

(Received midnight.)

London, May 9. Tlio Admiralty denies the statement that the Lusitania carried guns. A Mansion House fund lias been opened. Violent hostility is .shown towards German members of the Stock Exchange, and several wero thrown out of th-3 building. Many of the passengers were stupefied by the fume.?, of the torpedo. Bernre the vessel made the- final phm/.o the stern rose high in the air for .several minutes. Stoker Touner. who escape.! from the Titanic, states that the torpedo went right through the engine-room. A fe.v moments later the ship was torpedoed in tlv port sidy, suggestir.g that Jivo submarines were lying in wait. Mr Cowper, a Toronto journalist, caug'it a glimpse of s conning toner a thousand yards distant. Then he noticed the track of a torpedo. Th«; Lusitaiiia was struck forward, and there .vas a loud explosion, portions of the cplintored hull being sent flying in che air. A few seconds .later another torpedo .struck her.. The crew immcdia'-ely got the passenger.s into the boats. Everything was cone in an orderly fashion. Some 'of che boats could nofc bo launched, and had to be cut away as the vessel was jinking. There were :■ large number of women in the second olass. and about forty babies.

Mr D. A. Thomas dates that Lady Macr.vorth was picked up unconscious after being in the water 3i hours. She lecovered.

The Lusitania was torpedoed fifteen miles off the shore, j»nd headed s) 1 oreward ■; after being struck She sv.uk in nfte-ri minutes "Mr Thomas only heard one torpedo. T.l-.v captain remained on the. bridge until the last, and Went down with, the vessel. His lifeboH kept him afloat for three hours till ho was rescued.

The following ramet: in the. Niagara's passenger list appear in the Lusitania's list:-Mr and Mrs 0. A Learoyd, Mr W. Pailey Suthevsfc, Mr G. H. Turton, Mr, .Mrs* Miss, and Master Neville, and Mrs Wicklmm. Tho survivors, include Mrs Learoyd and her maid.