The Canard liner Orattria,' on arrival at New York last
Saturday, reported that she had been attacked by a German submarine thirty-seven miles off Queenstown. She carried two hundred and twenty-seven passengers, including eighty women and forty children. The submarine attacked her from behind the shelter of an American schooner without warning. The torpedo missed the 'Ordufia' by only ten feet. The submarine then opened fire with guns. Shells fell close to the liner, but the submarine was gradually left behind. The passengers meanwhile, most of whom had been asleep—it was six o'clock in the morning—had been brought on deck and ordered to put on lifebeite. This outrage is, if possible, worse than the sinking of the 'Lusitania.' The Orduria,' being outward bound, carried no supplies for Britain. The frightfulness was without alloy or shadow of excuse. It proves how little attention Grand Admiral von Tirpitz pays to the German Foreign Office. The effect of the affair was doubtless to stiffen still further President Wilson's latest Note to Germany.
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