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back to our barkentine Imperator, in the hold of which
they placed, so our Captain told me, a bomb with paraffin;
and then we rowed again to the submarine, on which the
officers, who appeared to speak good English, re-embarked
after making our two small boats fast to the stern of the
submarine. I heard a slight explosion on board the
Imperator. The submarine thus towed us ten or twelve
miles toward the coast of Spain and cut us adrift after
giving us the compass; we were adrift until about, four
o'clock in the afternoon, when we were picked up by a
Dutch vessel which brought our crew to Barcelona.
And further deponent saith not.
ElNER A. D. SWENSSON.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this twenty-fourth
day of May, 1916, at Barcelona, Spain.
CARL BAILEY HURST,
Consul-Oeneral of the United States America.
[Seal of the American Consulate-General.]
File No. 851.875Su8/80.
Case of the Sussex. 1
Ambassador Sharp to the Secretary of State.
No. 3154.] AMERICAN EMBASSY,
Paris, May 4, 1916.
SIR: With reference to my dispatches and telegrams
concerning the Sussex, I have the honor to inclose herewith,
in copy and translation, the report of the French
commission which examined the fragments of the torpedo
found upon the steamer in question. This report, which
was sent to me by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, is a
confirmation of the conclusions reached by Commander
Sayles, Maj. Logan, and Lieut. Smith in their independent
investigation of the cause of the disaster to the Sussex.
I have, etc.,
(For the Ambassador:)
ROBERT WOODS BLISS.
[Inclosure—Translation.]
Report of the commission charged with the examination of
the fragments of the torpedo found on hoard the "Sussex"—
date of the report: April 15, 1916.
In continuation of a ministerial dispatch of April 11,
1916, a commission composed of Messrs. Amiot, naval
commander; Dupont, naval constructor; Stroch, naval
constructor, sat for the purpose of examining the fragments
of the torpedo found on board the Sussex.
In the first place the commission believes that all of
the fragments which were presented to it are actually
parts of a torpedo; there can only be doubt regarding
three fragments of very thin sheet iron.
The commission has compared the fragments with
pieces of the German torpedo No. 1804. The commission
is of the opinion that the fragments are parts of a Ger-
' For previous correspondence in the Sussex case, see European War No. 3, p. 235.
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