DESPERATE EFFORT TO ESCAPE.
{RESCUING BOAT FIRED ON. (Received July 2nd, 10 a.m.) V LONDON, July Ist. The Armenian's survivors have arrived at Cardiff. They sighted the submarine two hundred miles off the Scilly Isles. The vessel went at full speed, in a desperate effort to escape. _ 'The captain defied U3B's orders to stop until a shell crashed into the engine-room and brought the ship to a standstill. Men from the submarine boarded her, and placed two large bombs aboard. The liner sank in thirty minutes. Five boats got clear, but the ropes of another wefe cut by a shell, and the occupants thrown into the sea,
The submarine fired on a Belgian trawler which was coming to the rescue, but eventually desisted, and the trawler secured the occupants of the five boats. , . ; ' It is believed that thirty were drowned. The liner Tarquah picked up the. Armenian's wireless messages. (The Armenian was a British steamer of 8825 tons, built in 1890 by Harland and' Wolff, and owned by Messrs F. Leyland and Co.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 3 July 1915, Page 5
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