U-BOAT SHELLS SEND MANY TO DEATH AT SEA Hun Answers Plea For Mercy With Loaded Revolver and Threat An Atlantic Port, Oct. 11.—There were 250 men aboard the Ticon derbsa, an American steamship of 6,130 tons, which was torpedoed and sunk on her way to France. All but twenty, who were brought here yesterday by a British .vessel to which they were transferred, are be lieved to have perished. Seventeen of the men who reached port were members of a detachment of soldiers detailed to care for horses which were being transported. The Ticon dcroga was attacked, presumably on October 2, when she fell behind her convoy because of engine trouble. It Was" said the ship's boats were •shelled by the submarine, account ing for the wounded among the sur vivors. According to the story of the sur vivors, the submarine was not sight ed until she had sent a torpedo crashing into the side of the ship. The torpedo did not strike a vital spot, however, and the captain crowded on full steam in an effort to escape, at the same time ordering the gun crews into .action against the submarine, which appeared about a mile off. "Our gun crews did not fire more than five or six shots," one of the survivors said, "The forward gun was shot away almost at orrtfe. The aftdr gun and its crew was done for almost as quickly. Then the men went to the boats, but it was no use as the flying shrapnel was spraying the decks and men fell in scores, either killed or badly wounded." Boats Middled by Sub Another survivor declared that all of the Ticonderoga's eight lifeboats, with the exception of one. were riddled with shrapnel before they could be launched. A number of men who tried to get into the eighth boat were killed by shrapnel as they clambered over the side of the ves sel. he said. "Finally," this survivor continued, "one of our men, in desperation, swam close to the submarine and hailed an officer, asking him in God's name to stop firing. "The- lieutenant who answered hiiit did so with a loaded revolver, saying that if he did not swim back he would shoot him. "When our boat had only twenty men in it we were ordered along side te submarine and made to tie up while the shelling of the dead and dying on the sinking ship con tinued. "The leader of our boat was ask ed some questions which he refused to answer and suddenly the sub marine submerged and only the parting of the rope with which we were tied prevented our going down with it." U-Boat of Cruiser Type One of the survivors said the sub marine was of the cruiser type and had the largest guns he ever had seen on a submarine. One of the enginer officers, he said, whose room was pierced by a shell from the sub marine, declared that the shell was an eight-inch projectile. Heretofore only six-inch guns have been report ed on submarines. The survivors, who were adrift for four days before they were picked up, said that a raft with five wounded men on it had put off from the Ticonderoga and that they had attempted to tow it with them, but that it broke away during the night and disappeared. Autoless Sunday Program ■ About to Be Abandoned Washington, Oct. 11.—The auto less less Sunday program is about to be abandoned in favor of a now plan for restricting use of gasoline by automobiles. the fuel administration's oil conser- W. Champlin Robinson, chief of vation division, said yesterday that an announcement on the subject probably would be ready to-day. He did not indicate the nature of the nw program, but the understanding is that some scheme has been fork ed out to distribute gasoline saving over every day in the week without actually using a card rationing sys tem. i v Success of Loan Vital, Says President \\ n*ltlnKton,Oct. 10. President Wllntin to-day l**u*d tlii* Mtatemcnt on the Fourth lib erty Loan nimimign: ••Recent event* hn*- enhanced, not leNMcncd, the importance of tIISM loan, and I hop- thut my fel hm-countrymen will let inc. NII.v thl.s to them very frankly. The I)CNt tiling that could happen tvould he that the loan Mhould not only he fully MubMcrllied, hut very grently ovcrmibMcrlbed. ••We are In the midnt of the KrenteHt cxerche of the poweij of thia country that him ever heen wltneNMcd or foreeatt, and i .Mingle day of relaxation In that effort would he of tragical damage alike to oumclveM and the rent of the world. ♦♦Nothing hnn happened which makes it Niifc or poMMlhle to do anything hut pu.sh our effort to the utmoMt. ••The time In cflflcnl, and the ro- Mpoime nuiMt he complete. (Sijfned > ••WOODROW WILSON." 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