DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

File No. 300.115 H 34.
SUBMARINE WAK3FARE. 295
Case of the "Healdtoa."
Consul Mahin to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
AMERICAN CONSULATE,
Amsterdam, March 22, 1917.
Standard Oil ship Eealdton, from Philadelphia for Rotterdam,
eargo oil, torpedoed without warning eight fifteen
evening of twenty-first, twenty-five miles north of
Terschelling, Holland. Twenty of crew drowned, one
died injuries, others more or less injured, forty saved,
thirteen brought to Ymuiden others to northern Holland.
Submarine seen after torpedoing. No doubt German.
More details to follow.
MAHIN.
Pile No. 300.115 H 34/6.
Consul Mahin to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
AMERICAN CONSULATE,
Amsterdam, March 23, 1917.
Supplementing telegram twenty-second Eealdton lights
showed name and American flag painted on sides also
flag flying at stern, two torpedoes, one entered amidships
at name, other at flag; ship sank in few minutes,
three boats lowered, one capsized, drowning occupants;
one with eight reached northern Holland, one man
dying of injuries, another badly hurt; thirteen in other
boat twelve hours suffered cold wind, choppy seas,
brought by Dutch trawler to Ymuiden, submarine appeared
after boats lowered, offered no assistance, indistinct
in darkness but undoubtedly German, disappeared
when ship sunk, no other vessel in sight. Crew fortyone,
thirteen Americans, rest various nationalties,
twenty-one lives lost, seven Americans: Third Assistant
engineer Johnson of Hoboken; second mate Chandler,
New York; third mate Hudgins, Norfolk; oiler Levereaux,
Michigan; cabin-boy Healy, San Francisco; sailors Smith
Chicago; Steiner, Pittsburg. Ships papers &nd personal
effects lost. Affidavits by mail.
MAHIN.
File No. 300.115 H 34/11.
Vice Consul Krogh to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL,
Rotterdam, March 24, 1917.
Captain Charles Christopher, tank steamship Eealdton
arrived Rotterdam and supplies following details required
by Department's instructions:
Eealdton left Philadelphia January twenty-sixth last,
called to Halifax by wireless February ninth, left Halifax