History

CURREN HISTORY ARABIC AND HESPERIAN The White Star liner Arabic, outward bound for New York, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off Fast-net on the morning of Aug 19, 1915.

Eight- een passengers and twenty-one members of the crew were reported missing by the White Star Line on Aug 22, and the first messages received by the State Depart- ment at Washington from Ambassador Page in London reported the loss of Mrs Josephine Bruguiere and Dr Edmund Woods, American citizens.

Secretary Lan- sing instructed Ambassador Gerard at Berlin, as announced on Aug 23, to ask the German Imperial Foreign Office whether a report of the sinking of the Arabic had been received by the German Government, and a statement issued from the White House on the same day after a conference between Secretary Joseph Tumulty and President Wilson, read as follows.

With reference to the sinking of the Arabic, as soon as all of the facts are as- certained, our course of action will be de- termined.

The British Admiralty made this an- nouncement on Aug 23.