RESPONSE TO THE WIRELESS CALL.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14891, 14 October 1918, Page 5

RESPONSE TO THE WIRELESS CALL.

THE SCENE AT KINGSTON.

MISCHDSP; DONE-BY SECOND

TORPEDO

(Australia* and N.Z: Cable Associatioc)

London, Get. 11.

At the wireless call for help fifty vessels of all descriptions quitted Kingston. Crowds lined the pier awaiting tis&Bgs, and 200 ambulances awaited the Burvivorß. The first rescuing veS&ei brought 105 and others about 100 and also a number of dead.

An officer states that all would have been saved but for the second torpedo. Only four boats wore then afloat. Tbe oeotipa.nts saw a most terrible spectacle as th© ship heavily listed, her propellers out of water.

When oho was struck the second time the torpedo's track was seen, but no submarine. There was a tremeudkras explosion, and som© of the boats were smashed to matchwood.