The Cambria Daily Leader

THE SURVIVORS. -————- ————— NAMES DF SOME OF THE SAVED. I FEW FIRST-CLASS PtSSENGERS RESCUED. I DISTINCUISHED TRAVELLERS. I The Prees Association's Queenstown correspondent telegraplir:- The following are among the survivors landed at Queenstown: Captain Turner, Pir$fc. Officer Jones, Second Officer Lefis. Frederick Rowen (fireman), Rev. H. W. Simpson (British). Stanley Lines (Brit- ish), Miss Winnie Webb (British), Mr. John Ellis kbritiish). Edward Fernandez (Spanish, fireman), Michael Tierney (fire- man), George Ward (British), Mrl". Ward Mr. and Mrs. Charles ^first-class passen- gers), Miss Looney, John Freeman. Mrs. Pnhertj and two months infant boy (.second class), iiiss Jessie Murdoch (, -4,uon d c l us,,R ) (second), Charles Rendell (steward), Mr. Philip Young (first-class). Wallace Phillips (first-class American), Robert. Rankine (first-class), Fred Cooper (baker) Robert Clark (Bell boy), Robert Stockton (third). Sara Sharp (third)* and son about six years, Robert J. Ewart (sond elass). Guy Chambers .(second class). May Bird ('stewardess), Fanny Moorcroft (stewardess), Robert. Evans (coal trim- mer), John Thompson (coal trimmer), Michael Cushion (coal trimmer). Huzh Johnson (quartermaster), Gerald Shal- dey (steward), George Stevens (third class1*. Miss C. Hardy (second cabin). G. Reiddy (second cabin), S. Aubrenwitz (Russian, second class), Wm. Newport (Steward), Joseph Mariehai and wi fe, two daughters and son (French, second cla&s) M. Stern(hie (French, third), Mr. John Davev (steward). Frank Parry (steward). Master Campbell McFechen (second class), Mr. Robert Chisholm (steward), Svdnov Le Tonde (steward), Edward Reirrhwuy (seaman), William Egan (boatswain's mate), C. T. Knight (quartermaster), Joseph Duncan (cook). William Muirhead (third class), Robert Whaler (second clas,), Soren Sorencen (Danish, second class), Mrs. Elliott (second cahin). Thomas Matthews (second class), Thomas Summer (second class), Kenneth Johnson (-second class), Norman Stones (second class), Edmond Bartell .second cabin). Thos. Re-iteher (crew), Julian van Holke (steward), Jacob Chadwick (fireman), Thomas- Ed- wards (fireman). William BurrowM (hell boy), Donald Meguigan (trimmer), Michael Doyle (trimmer), Florence Sik- ting (boatswain's mate), Pat McCarthy (greaser). Balba John Jacob (third class), Thomas Lawson (trimmer), Jos. Levicson (first class), Mrs. Burnside (Toronto, Canada), Ma-chill (Liverpool), Bell Morton (sailor), Thos. Maddens (fireman), A Duncan (third engineer), T. Leech (second engineer) Neill Robert- son (carpenter), Joseph Gowan (fireman), P. R. Boyd (bar keeper), H. A. Newbold (bar keeper). T. J. Owen (crew), J. Scott (second cabin). Edward Drakeford (band), A. Cowan (lift attendant), J. Hooke (third cla86) Elsie II. Cook (third class), I-, Rowan (fireman), E. Sampson (third elas), D. C. Harris (first class American), Dorothy Dodd (second o-abin), Frem Paynter (first class), A. Lockhart (seaman), Margaret Ballantine (third class), Richard Lionel Taylor (first elMS), Violet Henderson), second cabin). Iluntley Henderson (second (cabin). May Maycork (second cabin), Mrs. Merelitie (Russian), W Bridge (fire- man), Mrs. Taylor (second cabin); Arthur Yadster (second cabin), W. Hughes (fi/eman), Joseph Casey (fire-I man), E. A. Duckworth (third class), John Moore (second class) Mrs W. D. Mitchell (second class), O. Bernerd (first class), Peter Donnelly (fireman), Michael English (fireman), B. Gardiner (second cabin), Herbert Chiberdt (second cabin), Francis Jenkinis (saloon), Shepherdson (third class ), John FIlesZf!W ich (Rus- sian), A Ed--ar (Birmingham, second class) F. Henneaey (seaman), John Ward (fireman), James Hume (sailor), I H. D. Whitecomb (second cabin), B. McOuinness (fireman), Joseph Woods (fireman), J. Careoll (fireman), C. Gun (sailor) Thoma.s Br em nan (trimmer), R. Dyer (second cabin), R. Woodward (third class), Walter Dawson third class). Rev. H. L. and wife (Canada, Mirfield, T^rkshii«), Thomas 0. Stevens (passenger)N Mrs. Dewhuret (stewardess). Mrs .Hull (stewardess), Mrs. Andrew Burdon and baby (second cabin), James Diper (fireman), Thomas O'Maloney (seaman), George Ghnton (seaman), John Brown (fireman), Dan Moore (sailor), Hugh Stanley (fireman). A message from Kinsale says the sur- v ivors landed there are:-J. Restan Smith, of eW" York., Harold Robsthum (chief steward's servant), Frank Tower Premier, 23, Cra ton-street Liverpool; Fred Bottomley, Clinchfields-road, Brig- house; Michael Doyle, Kenmare; Charles Hotchkiss, C. Harrigan. Vernon, Liver- Wore, and Mrs. F. Sullivan, Clonreagh, Castlegarvan. Kenmare. Interviews with any of them was im- practicable owing to their physical con- dition. I

CAPTAIN TURNER'S CAREER. I The career of Captain W. T. Turner, who was in command of the Lusitania, is oue off the romances of the sea, for he rose to the highest rank in the merchant service from the humhle post of eqjjin boy. He joined the Cunard Line just 40 years and reached the proudest position in the Atlantic service in February last Y-ar, when it was announced that, he was to command the 47,000 ton Aquitania on h&r rrwrideti voyage He has walked tie bridge of many of the most famous vessels in the Cunard service, including the Carpathia, Ivernia, T'tabria, Caronia, Ciarinania, Mauretania, and, lastij, the Lusitania. Be commanded 'the Maoretania on her most famous voyage, when one Christmas season she made the trip from Liverpool to New York and back in just over 12 days. HP was on the same vessel at the Jfybrebant chaining review in the Mersey an July, 1913, and had the honour of oon- dutJï: the King wd Queoo. over the vessel. Captain Turner is an honorary com- roandoT of the Royal Nawai Reserve, and holds the Transport, Medal for service during the Boer War, as well the Royal Humane Society's medai for saving life.

PREMIER'S SON WOUNDED. I Mr. Lloyd George, speakipg last night fit the anniversary dinner of the News- paper Prer;s Skid, said he was sure the gathering woind hear with regret that the Premier had learned that one of his lions had been severely wounded in the Dardanelles. '.r.he Chancellor added that, he was glad to learn that the wound was not of a dangerous nature, but he was sure they "0111d join with him in an expression of I deep sympathy -t-hei- at this time sucth i:'ietl should be added to Mr. Awjuith's r

AN EXCITING ESCAPE. Story of the Lusitania's Dash I in the Fog, I On August 13 last year we published an interesting account by a passenger of the Lusitania's eventful voyage across the Atlantic after the declaration of war. Apart from the crew there were not more than 350 persons on board, including several British naval officers ufairning for service at home. We left New York (said the writer of the story) at midnight on Tuesday, August 4. Almost at the outset the ship was in trouble. Shortly before dropping the pilot, one of the four turbines un- fortunately went wrong. Nothing could be done, and it remained «>seless throughout the voyage. The Lusitania, with her reduced power. was unable to make more than 20 knots. Her greatest daily run, in fact, was only 460 miles, and the crossing back took more than six days. From the moment the Anibroso Light was 'left behind, all lights on board were extinguished. Not even the ordinary navigation lights were shown as she steamed through the dai-liies-,i. Ports were carefully curtained; dead lights were closed. Even in the saloons, where the passengers gathered discussing the prospects of th8 voyage and the chances of our being overhauled, but little illu- mination was permitted. Warship Sighted. In addition to the discomfort of lights out" throughout the ship's enormous decks, efforts were speedily put in hand to transform her appearance. Stocks of grey paint had been laid in, and seamen were busily employed in covering the hugo funnels, and also the bridge, in that colour. On the second day out a warship was sighted at -an considerable distance. This was the one absorbing incident of the voyage. What nationality was she ? I could not myself distinguish the flag, but I was afterwards informed by the captain of the Lusitania that the vessel had sig- nalled to them in the international code to lay to. At once the course was altered. We continued to steam ahead, and the captain, getting into wireless communica- tion with his Majesty's ship Essex, re- ported tosher what had occurred. The lucky arrival of a mist, and the fact that the strange warship was un- aware of the accident to our turbine, enabled the Lusitania to escape without further difficulty. The stranger aban- doned the pursuit without, making a great effort to overtake us. After this adven- ture Capain Dow pursued a far nortlwrly course. Considerable interest was displayed by passing vessels at seeing the Lusitania steaming up to Liverpool carrying out of control" signals, and she was heartily J cheered by their crews. An informal tes- timonial was presented to Captain Dow by the passengers, and he was heartily cheered by them on leaving the ship on the successful termination of what must have been a most diffieult and anxious task.—" Daily Telegraph."

WAR ON THE TRAWLERS. I The trawler Benington, of Aberdeen. which was chased by a German, submarine in the North Sea, on Sunday, was again attacked yesterday afternoon. She was fishing off Aberdeen, when a submarine appeared and sank the vessel. A number of other trawlers fishing at the same vicinity escaped, and leached Aberdeen. The crew 4d the Benington wire aaarad. <

I THE LUSITANIA'S SOS CALL |! S i S 0 S S O S S 0 S SO S C 0 M E A T 0 N C E B G LIS T This is the dramatic wireless message as sent out in the Morse code by the doomed liner. After transmitting her name 6he repeated the familiar distress signal "S 0 S" (Send Out Succour) severaltim-es, following it up by the urgent summons, "Come at once, big list."

7 SWANSEA PEOPLE. I Four Children Among the Party. As far as can be gathered at the time of writing, only two Swansea families are reported in the passenger list, but of these there -twro no less than seven members—four of them children com- prising one party, and of whom nothing has yet been heard. These from v, hom intimation had been received that they would sail on the Lusitania were: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred F. Smith, with two children (one only five months old), and Mrs. Owen, Gore-street, with two boys aged 10 and 7. Mr. Smith, a eon of the late Captain Smith, of Bryn-road (for many years the well-known skipper of Mr. Talbot's yacht, the Lynx), prior to leaving home for Ellwood, Penn, between seven and eight years ago, was employed at the Swansea Tramway Depot as an elec- trician. At Ellwood he secured a posi- tion as inspector in the Shelby Tube Works, and he waa joined a year or 6°1 after arrival by his wife, a daughter o# Mr. and Mrs. John Jones, 81, Cecil- otreet, Manselton. Mrfe. Herbert Owen. a sister of Mr. Smith, travelled with him, bringing her two boys, and leaving her husband (a cashier in the Tube Works) to come later. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were coming home to settle down. The relatives, much distressed, wired to the Cunard offices early this morning, but at the time of writing had received no news. Captain Smith's Career. I Captain Smith, senior, was for many years captain of Mr. Talbot's yacht, and years cap (yf .Nl r was at one time a popular figure in ship- ?ing circles at Swansea. After his re- tirement from being master of the yacht on which he conducted many interesting cruises with Mr. and Miss Talbot and her relatives, he settled down in Swan- sea. He was one of its most respected and well-known residents* asociating him. 1\1f with every cause that went for the advancement of the port. In conjunc- tion with his esteemed friend, the late Col. William Pinke, together with Mr. Fred Andrews, the splendid success of the first Royal regatta—in which the Kaiser's yacht. Meteor took part—must! be attributed.

Blundell. and Joseph Woodward, Walney-road, Barrow, were killed yesterday at the Barrow Steel I Works owing to the collapse of a scaffold-1 ;ng in connection with the erection cf a, new turbine engine house., Two oHiCT '[pen Were injured.. I Though in the early day? of the wa.r f)ermissin to raise borough battalions l was refused by the War Office, Lord Kitchener is now circularisi»g.the mayors of the metropolitan boroughs inviting L Lhein to raise such battalions.

I ALLIES MAINTAIN GROUND I —— 0- Hard Fighting in Gallipoli I Peninsula. Amsterdam, Saturday.—Acoording to a Berlin telegram the following communique has been issued from the Turkish ma.in headquarters:— On the Dardanelles front near Ari Burnu, the enemy occupies his old posi- tion in the South. In the region, of Sed Ul Bahr the enemy under cover of his warships, attempted to attack yeisterday (morning. The battle lasted till late in the afternoon and was successful for our troops. By our counter attacks the enemy was repulsed with heavy losses On the left win. part of our troops pur- sued the enemy to its landing place.. ,At Sedulbahr, in Azerbaijan region at Dilman there has been in-signiiicant hat tics between our mobile forces and Russians. On oth" fronts there is noth-ing of im- portance. Athena, Friday.—It is, reported from Constantinople that numerous wounded have arrived there from' the Dardanelles, and further that the situation of Greek population in Eastern Thrace is becoming intolerable.

EXCEPTIONAL PROTECTION." I Fntil tuller particulars are received (says The Tim-ss "), it is manifestly in- advisatble to discuss questions relating to the course the vessel was following, and the precauhoDs her pamma.nder doubtless observed. The presumption is that she received no special naval protection, the principle apparently laid down being that when so many large passenger steamers are constantly approaching or leaving the coasts of Great Britain, no single steamer can be singled out for exceptional pro- tection unless the national interests make such a step imperative. This, however, is a subject upon which further enlighten- ment must be awaited.

TRUSS WEARERS-A WARNING. I Are you laving in a sense of ialse secu- rity ? Do you know for certain that you are wearing the proper appliance? The one that is correct for your particular rupturo: The one that is assisting Nature to strengthen the weakened muscles? You are not certain. Yon are in doubt Then call on me, let me advise you. I will do it free. I know the subject from A to Z. I have studied it for a lifetime, and 1 have thd practical experience. Not only do some men wear the wrong kind of trusses, hut I have even known men to wear trusses when th?y were unnecessary and injurious. Be sure. Call to-day. Private fitting room. Children's eases treated. Rich, The Ch emis t, 30, High- street, Swunsea.? (?o tn?urance Di8ne- JJl'J

0 HUNS ANNEX BELGIUM. I Rotterdam, Friday.—It is learned from Antwerp that the Germans have posted a proclamation on the hoardings there dtdaring that Belgium has been an- nexed by Germany as from May 5th. A number of Belgian women ha.ve been allowed to taave Brussels and Antwerp on condition that they do not return during the war. This proviso is being written on passports and has to be signed by the bearers. < The situation, remains calm in Ostend. where the garrison has been reduced to 1,500 men, but there are 7,500 wounded soldiers there, most of them having ar rived during the past fourteen days. The town has been fiiul £ 50.000 because the Germans have captured a carrier pigeon said to 1>e bearing a military despatch. All pigeons have been ordered to be destroyed witljin twenty-four hours.

THE BENSON REPERTOIRE. I There was again a large audience at the Grand Theatre, Swansea, last evening, when the fifth selection of their Sh-akespe- rian repertoire, "The. Taming of the Shrew," was presented by the celebrated Benson Company. The production was a complete success, and thoroughly appre- ciated by one and all alike. Mrs. F. R. Benson, who made her second appearance of the week, maintained her high reputa- tio-n as an actress as Katharina the Shrew, a role in which she achieved much fame when the company last visited Swansea, Petruchio, the lather of the Shrew, had a talented exponent in Mr. Benson, while the other principal characters were in most capable hands. This afternoon Henry V." will be repeated, and to-night a Richard III." will be produced.

WELSH OFFICER'S WEDDING. t The marriage arranged between Second Lieutenant the Rev. Basil Evan Jones, M.A., 2;7th Royal Welsh Fusiliers, son of the Rev. R. and Airs. Evan Jones, Llan- llwchaiarn Vicarage, Newtown, Mont- gomeryshire, and Gwendolen, second daughter of the Rev. H. J. and Mrs. At- kinson* The Manse, Oldbury, Birming- ham, will take place quietly on Wednes- day, June 2nd, at Oldbury Parish Church.

PROPERTY SALE. Mr. Joseph Harris, Swansea. conducted a successful sale of property at the Navi- gation Hotel, Treharris, Friday evening. There was a large attendance and the property offered was a semi-detached house in the main thoroughfare No. 40, Perrott-street, Treharris. Bidding started at £ 150 and the property was eventually knocked down to Mr. Walter Morgan, the tenant for £260. Mr. A. J. Puntan, 12, Fisher-street, Swansa, and Mr. E. J. Hughes, 12, Canon-street. Aberdare, were the solicitors.

The Leader and Sporting News will, as usual, give a good deal of prominence to bowls during the next few weeks. Score cards, and also cards for use on the. rinks, can be obtained on application being made to Pendragon." i

I FAMOUS MEN. WELSH COAL MAGNATE ON THE LUSITANIA. WELL-KNOWN AMERICANS CAREERS OF THE CHIEF PAS- SENGERS. Sir Hugh Lane. A most interesting figure in the art world. His gift of a great collection of modern, pictures to JL)ut>liu, and its withdrawal, through inability to come to terms with the Dublin Corporation over the building wluch was to rectlive it. is still fresh in the public mind. Recently Sir lluyii, who is in his fortieth year, had formed a collection of seventeenth-century Dutch paint- ings, which he sold to Mr. Max Michaelis to form a nucleus for a national gallery of Ireland on the re- tirement of si r Walter Armstrong nearly two years ago. He is famous for detecting in unas- suming and over-painted canvases in auction rooms frequented by con- noisseurs masterpieces which he has bought for a song and sold at a high figure. At the Rouart sale n Paris he ac- quired a small head by Goya for £ 7,0#C>, of witich he is particuiariy fond, and which he has always -retained in his private collection, i,tict autumn Sir Hugh sold for £ 60,000 a Yelazques of Philip d Spain, which he had aequiivu from the studio of the German painter Leu-bach at his death. At the sale of the pictures of Mr. Arthur Grenfell, a collection he had assisted to make, 110 bought back fceveral important works for nis own collection at a high figure; among them a painting ot a youth by Titian, for which he had originally re- ceived from Mr. Grenfell £ 3tl,000. Sir Hugh is the nephew of Lady Gregory and closely associated witu the Irish movement. Mr. Charles Frohman. B-e&t known of all the American managers who took a part in producing plays in London. For eighteen years at least his name has been regularly before the London public as an enter- prising and honourable manager. His nr.it employment in a theatre in America was to manage a tour of Our Boys," and his first visit to England was as j he asskvtant manager of Haveriy's Minstrels. A short, stout man, hfty-five of age, son of a German emigrant to America, born in Sandusky, Ohio. June 17th, lfctiO. When only twenty-five lie bought a play called Shenandoah," and made a small for- tune with it. Then he branched out, getting succeec after success, and in 1893 built the now famous Empire Theatre in New York. In London Mr. Frohman did not meet with the success bo seemed abifc to com- mand in his own country, but not for want of trying. He bought plays from the best authors. He leased the best theatres, and engaged the best com- panies, yet his ventures on the whole over the years ha had been presenting plays in London cost him tons of tJiou- sands of pounds. He never complained. No man ever heard him grumble. Soms: seasons he managed half a dozen theatres in London, a dozen in New York, and sent thirty companies on the road. It was he who brought Sir Henry Irving to America. He thought nothing of transporting a hundred actcrs across the 6ea. He paid authors and actors freely. He lived here and in America in hotels. He liked the best hotels and the very simplest food. He was alpaost a teetotaller, but his friends had the best of everything that could bo bought. Ho was an inveterate smoker, and one time liked to gainble a little on horses. That was long ago. He said it was not worth while. He liked his theatres, and his friends. He was a bachelor, and pos- sessed the happy nature of a man who washed everyone to be happy. Mr. A. G. Vanderbilt- American millionaire., 38 years of age, representing the fourth generation of a famiJyfollnded bY Commodore Cornelius y andrbilt, who was a waterman in New York Bay. Mr. A. G. Vanderbilt wan among those who scorned the German warning handed hini before embarking. • His favourite hobby was rond coach- ing. Some nine years ago, when road coaching was almost a forgotten pastime, lie brought his coach and a 6iipertvztring of horses across the Atlantic and estab- lished himself for a season as road coachman between London and, Brighton. His turn-out was modelled' on the lines of the famous road coaches of old. and his first guard was Godden, who had acted years before for the re- nowned Jim Selby in the Old Times. The enterprise was a. remarkable suc- cess, and was repeated every year down to last season. In one year he put two coaches on the Brighton road; another year he ran a coach to Oxford as well as to Brighton. His Vc-nture coach be- came on the Brighton route as great, an institution as the Old Times in earlier- days. Other coaches came out, and thus he revived coaching and the ancien t spirit of the road. An accomplished whip, he attained popularity in the vil- lages and towns through which the Ven- ture regularly passed be would raise his whip as gallantly to the Saluting labourer or the child who wa, ed a hand as to any brother of the road with a four-in-hand. From love of horses he supported with gifts of cups and trophies and entries from his own stables all the leading shows in the country. He could take pleasure in the success of his rivals. He must have bad a great and beneficial in- fluence on our horse-breeding industry. He was one of the original group of horsemen who founded the Inter- national Horse Show, with all it has done in promoting friendship bet,ween the many nations which in various years have taken pait in it. Mr. 0. A. Thomas. Managing director of the Cambrian Combine and other colliery companies in South Wales. Senior partner in the firm of Thomas and Davey, coal sale agents. Bora 1856. M.P. for Merihyr Burghs 1888-1910 and for Cardiff 1910. Married Miss Sybil Haig, daughter of Mr. G. A. Haig, Pem-thon, Radnorshire. Has been on a. visit to Canada arranging a. com- pany which has a charter to build 1.500 miles of railway from the Ness River. British Columbia, to Saskatchewan. The line is to tap the smokeless coal deposits in the north of British Columbia, a.8 well aos large oil coal fields. Mrs. Thomas is a strong supporter of the Suffragette movement. He has been called the Napoleon of the Welsh coalfield, and the capital of the combine of which he is the head is over 2.V million. It started in 1908 with £ 120,000. He took a prominent part in the ooal strikes of 1912. and contributed in- March of that year an article to the Daily Mail" in which be stated ably the case of the coalowner. He 11:18 vigor- ously opposed the principle of a mini- mum wage and has 'fought it with a knowledge of colliery matters which Mr. Gladstone once said was the greatest in the House of Commons. I

WHAT AMERICA THINKS.: (Continued from Page One.) I ocean and our fellow countrymen and I women who are among sufferers. Grave Words. I  It Bms inconceivable we can re- frain from taking action." Stock Exchange Slump. I l.'iew lork, f riday.—Intense excitement on the Stock Exchange followed the news! of the Lusitania disaster. Prices fell within an hour 15 and 30 points, and Bethlehem steel, which had scored a high record, yielded all its gains an4 then dropped 10 more. Westinghouse bn ke 2ft. Elsewhere the losses were proportionate. Commission houses with wire connection to the interior received selling orders from remote points of the country. The Gravest Situation." I Washington, Saturday.—The loss of life on the Lusitania has shocked the officials I here, and profoundly g-rieved the national capital. Although it is not known how many Americans are dead the opinion is general that the most serious situation has arisen since the war. President Wil- son's Strict Accountability Note has foe us sed attention to White House, where Mr. lvilson, until late last lliglrt, read despatches, but made no comment. Mr. Bryan, Mr. Lansing (Councillor at the State Department), and many Senators and Congressmen, were also up i late waiting definite news. The disposi- tion of the high officials is to await the British Admiralty's report. Although Congress is not in session. Mr. Stone, chairman and other members of the Foreign Relations Committee. ;re here, and it is expected Mr. Wilson will consult them before he decides on his I policy, the sinking of the liner has brought to light the interesting story of repeated threats and warnings reaching high officials several days ago of the plan of the German Admiralty to sink the Lusitania for the. psychological effect it would spread among ocean travellers. Generally the in- formation gathered in official and diplo- matic, quarters confirm belief the plan of destruction was made several weeks ago, and that the German Embassy was in- structed to advertise the warning to pas- sengers travelling by belligerent ships, and also that anonymous warnings were sent to individuals intending to sail in the Lusitania.. -anf. of all were letters re- ceived in Washington from officials in Germany by private persons stating the Lusitania would surely be destroyed. One official was told with much positiveness early yesterday that Friday was nxed for the destruction of the Lusitania. IIOLLAND. Amsterdam, Friday.—The Nieuws Van Den Dag asks: What impression will the nea"s of the torpedoing of the Lusitania create in the United States, as certainly a great number of Americans were among the liner's passengers, and what atitude will the American Govern- ment take in view of President Wilson's lait declaration on endangering the life I of Americans. The last protest of President Wilson, I says the journal, has been a completely plain warning. It is now certainly a question whether the American Govern- ment, in ispite of its desire to remain outside the European war can any longer reconcile the maintenance of her neutrality with the honour and dignity of the nation, and with the great out- burst of indignation which will arise (from public opinion in America. IRELAND. The "Irish Times," commenting on the Lusitania, says: "If Germany thought to frighten us by this outrage she has made a mistake. She will find the sinking of the Lusitania has supplied the last im- petus which was needed to rouse the whole manhood. of the United Kingdom. A cold passion of fury will seize the nation. "The new armies of young Irishmen are eager to avenge the women and children who have been murdered or maimed within sight of Irish soil. The war may last one year or three, but henceforth it will-l-W an inexpiable war." Canadian Indignation. Ottawa.. Saturday.—Xlie news of the I torpedoing of the Lusitania hae created intense indignatioll in Canada. Among the passengers was Mr. Harold Mayne Dally, of Winnipeg, who was proceeding to take charge of soldiers voting in the event of a general election in Canada. THE PIRATE SHIPS. • U Boats of the Latest Type. For the greater part of a month IT boats of the latest type—in the U 30's cl"s-hav.e been cruising between tho Festnet and the Scillies. On April 12th the 9,t>00-ton liner Way- farer was torpedoed south of Queenstcjwn. Only on Friday last the collier Fulgent (2,000 tons) was torpedoed and sunk off the; Blasknet, north of Valencia Island. This week the three-masted ship Earl of Latham was sunk off the Old Head of Kinsale. Near the Fastnet the same day a Ger- man submarine fired a torpedo at the British steamer Cayo Romano, missing her stem by only a few feet. On May 1st the American oil tank steamer Gulfliglit, flying an extra large American flag, was torpedoed off th9 Scilly Isles in clear daylight. I