Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1915 — Reported That Wasp Used Ship Dunsley as Shield. [ARTICLE]

Reported That Wasp Used Ship Dunsley as Shield.

According to survivors of the boat Dunsley, torpedoed by a German submarine just before the Arabic was sunk, the underwater craft hid behind the Dunsley’s unsunk hulk to lay in wait for the larger The survivors declare they had been ordered off their ship and were in lifeboats when the submarine concealed itself from the approaching Arabic. It is stated that when the liner came close enough to make an attack possible, the submarine submerged and launched the fatal torpedo. Survivors say that the German boat which came up alongside the Dunsley bore no number. No previous definite statement as to the fate of the Dunsley has come from London. It was announced that it had been torpedoed, but it had not been known whether it succeeded in reaching port with its passengers.