DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

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tain replied by long blast whistle signifying comprehension,
then gave four short blasts signal to crew take boats
immediately, which was done in five minutes, about 4:15;
no injuries. Submarine then came up hailed captain's
boat and then fired eight shots, sinking vessel at about
4:40 p. m.; apparent time conversation with captain's
boat at present unknown, weather heavy, southwest
swell, moderate southwest breeze, sky squally, weather
improved during night. First officers boat picked up by
Admiralty ship 3:45 a. m. to-day, chief engineer's boat
6:30 a. m. today by same vessel landed Queenstown 4:30
p. m. today without accident. City Memphis carried
wireless but did not use same; carried no gun; no attempt
resist, escape. When captain is located he may have
further evidence. Survivors here include first officer,
Charles G. Laird; Chief Engineer, W, I. Percy; Assistant
Engineer, Fred Bevill; M. J. Dierlam; Third Officer, W.
M. Thomson; Third Engineer; and P. J. Donohue and
T. J. Welch, Wireless Operators; and eight other Americans;
10 Spaniards; 2 Danes; and one each Swede, Russian,
Chilean. City Memphis was stopped by submarine
February fourth off Scillies, see report Consul Osborne. .
Failure to use wireless this time was due to experience
of former occasion inducing belief that ship would probably
be passed if wireless not started. Survivors will
assemble Queenstown pending instruction from owners
Ocean Steamship Company; Pier 35 North River, New
York. This to Ambassador, Consul General.
Pile No. 300.115 C 49/8.
Consul McOurm to the Secretary of State.
{Telegram.]
FBOST.
AMEBIOAN CONSULATE,
Glasgow, March 20, 1917.
Captain Borum with eight members of crew of (My of
Memphis arrived Glasgow twentieth. Captain reports
City Memphis was sunk four p. m. March seventeenth by
German submarine forty-four miles off Irish coast. No
resistance offered, Captain ordered to abandon ship
immediately. Warned by two shots across bow, four
boats were launched with difficulty in rough sea taking
off all crew. Ship was subsequently sunk by gun-fire,
no other steamers in sight. No assistance offered crew
by submarine. Eighteen hours in open boat before
rescue. Ship was bound from Cardiff to New York in
ballast, total crew fifty-eight, including thirty Americans.
Remainder crew report landed Ireland. Names crew
landed Glasgow: H. O. Bevill, N. P. Clausen, Charles
Walker, David Jackson, Fred Prutting, S. Ludvigsen,
Manuel Lopez, Manuel Barbrito, no casualties reported
here, full affidavit taken, Embassy advised.
MCCUNM.