Glasgow, Sept. 5.
The Donaldson Lino, owners of the ill-fated British liner Athenia which was torpedoed and sunk early Sunday, announced carly today that 257 of the ship's 1,103 passengers and 315 erewmen were still missing. Mr. John Lawrence, an American surviver of the first major war disaster, said a British destroyer which reseued him and other survivors sight-oda submarine at 830 pin, yesterday and dropped a depth bomb.
"we also learned that another British destroyer later sank another submarine, believed to have been the one which sank the Athenfa," he said.
Mrs. E, M.D, Davis another viver, said that the Athenia had been fred upon with shells after being torpedoed.
"ater the submarine fired the first torpedo," she said, "It proceeded to fire a shell through the boat deck where passengers were busy embarking In Jite boat Mr. Thomas MacDonald, another survivor, told the United Press that had just finished his dinner on Sunday when he heard a shock under the recreation room of the Athenia "The lights went out and I rushed with my wife and two daughters onto, the deck. We saw a grey submarine surrounded by a clod of smoke about 200 yards away. No other vessel was in, sight"
Saw a submarine periscope with the other tourist class passengers from the deck before the explosion," said Mrs, Elizabeth Brown, another Athenia passenger. We all regarded it with interest until the sudden explosion caused chaos everywhere. worth of gold ingots when she was torpedoed by the German submarine. It Is believed that all the gold was transferred to rescue vessels—Havas.
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