Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - May 7, 1915, Oakland, California JAPAN SETTLES ITS TROUBLE WITH CHINA The Weather Cloudy fau Sat onlay west wind LAST EDITION VOL FIVE CENTS OAKLAND CALIFORNIA FRIDAY EVENING MAY 1 1915 24 PAGES NO THE CUNARD LINER LUSITANIA WHICH WAS TORPEDOED AND SUNK OFF THE COAST Aboard the Great Liner Include Noted Persons Several Oakland Names Appear on Roll of Ship BT to Company says it is not many of the passengers of lip on were J Gray a J P Gray a Forty-first his law Gray and her son Stewart lie three left Oakland Just a week ago today and were bound for Scotland where Sirs Gray Is with her mother Myra Beach Gray's son William Gray is in Vork City prevented hia from his wife and i boy on the European trip Sirs Gray and her mother have been iii for the past several months visiting another ter of Cray's who is the wife of a prominent major in the British army ana now at the front in Mrs Gray and her aged mother were to have returned hi a short time with Gray their in-law and their grandchild tarn Beach the father of J P Gray is at the Gray residence in street He is 85 years of age and ill The of Ibe torpedoing and tbe btg liner has not been told him a letter from his laughter Mis 3 yesterday announcing that Mrs Beach and herself could not re- turn home as they had expected because of the serious illness of Beach SAN ARINE DESTROYS LINER By Associated Press CITIZENS PROTEST AGAINST Monster Rally Tonight at Ye Liberty for Bilger Adherents The apathy the torate viewed the municipal primary three weeks agro disappeared and everywhere a vital interest is being taken in the campaign being made for the general election Tuesday The city has been stirred before in a local election and in every pre- cinct there is promise of a vote being A great citizens army of men and ordinance amendments on the ballot hare almost been lost sight They have not been discussed at tlie cal meetings and little interest is be- ing taken In these four referendum propositions BILGER It is as a reaction against the tics pursued by John Davie many times candidate lor mayor that the city-wide protest has been made Bilger has conducted his campaign in FRANCISCO Say wire to New York was answered by giving permission to the local Canard office Continued on Page 2 CoL 4 women have organized as precinct workers in behalf of the candidacy an manner Prank VT Bilger for mayor A i lo tne voters as a man who has j canvas is being made and made a success of his private affairs i i reports liave coins to the i r ters of the citizens committee that j a constructive program But in the there is a sentiment campaign of invective and abuse that out the municipality in favor of i ias launched by and the Bilger I Committee of One Hundred interest Is being taken In the the fights being made by the candidates for council and the school board the BULLETIN WASHINGTON May 7 Ambassador Page at London Lusitania torpedoed and sunk within thirty minutes No news of passengers yet CRISIS IS PASSED IN FAR EAST BULLETIN WASHINGTON May sane program Bilger has j most been forgotten and the out- i standing personality in the campaign has become that of the de- j The meeting tonight at Liberty j will be in effect a protest j 1 the political tactics A number of neighborhood meetings night and to be held tonight tomorrow will voice the same protest A section ff theater be re- d Preet WASHINGTON May 7 President Wilson was informed of the sinking of the and White House officials showed keen anxiety to learn whether any American lives were lost No comment was j battleships Hizen and the battle I served tonight for women their are at committee in charge is are at desirous that the mass meeting j SasebO for possible Operations j should be representative in Its Official against China A second and a win be ft i fi that under Admiral Nawa has has been and is hastily News of the torpedoing of the Lusitania struck official ington like a bomb While dis- posed to await full details be- fore expressing opinions all administration officials realized that the incident was probably the most of German snb sources late today Eastern crisis and that a favorable ing supplied between Japan and i Rear Admiral China is in prospect the battleships i ivt ao i GJ Tnw has been OF- j that over I GOo names win be the LONDON May Jered to the gulf of i has received a in readiness to take aboard ing concerning the candidacy of PeEing saying that a Minister Hioka in case of i and showing the change in j anese ultimatum to China The police are protecting j presented to the Chinese j Professor Ariga Japanese ad- i offered in favor or eminent this afternoon to President Yuan FAVOR more the centurion The central portion of the city it the Candidate Just where these conceded and tne instde residential chips were attacked has A extended to women voters A circular letter urging the j has faced since the beginning of Bilker was signed today over 250 businessmen members of jul civic commercial fraternal and j labor Copies of the j The presence letter have been made and are beine 1 off the presented for signatures It Is an- j Ireland and along the line of would follow IP going Liverpool was made Known In a indication of the general j dispatch from Glasgow last night which recited that the British steamer had been in Atlantic ocean off the Irish coast This was -on April 29 1 More who speakers as a Chinese e conceded and tne instde residential i ships were attacked has not been Spy and j district win prove to be strongly known but their destinations Continued pa 2 CoL Contained pipage 9 CoL 1 Continued oft Page 8 Cob IRELAND LONDON May 1 The crew and passengers of the Lusitania sunk by torpedo today were all saved NEW YORK May Canard liner Lusitania one of the est ships afloat was torpedoed and sunK this afternoon off the coast of Ireland ten miles south of Kinsale She had aboard 1253 passengers She sailed from this port last Saturday May 1 and carried in addition to her own large passenger list 163 passengers transferred to her from the Anchor liner The news of her sinking was announced by the local office of the Canard line and was based on cable advices received from the home of- fice of the company from Liverpool Three dispatches received in the order named were made public by the line and read as We received front the Land's End wireless station news of re- distress calls made by the Lusitania asking for assistance im- mediately Big list Position ten miles south of Kinsale Subsequently received telegram from Queenstown that all available craft in the bor had been despatched to assist Scores of Rescue Boats The second message to the local office QUEENSTOWN p twenty boats of all sorts be- longing to our line are in the vicinity where the Lusitania sanK About fifteen other boats are maHing for the spot to render assistance The third cablegram was dated Liverpool and Following received by GALLEY HEAD p boats apparently survivors southeast nine miles GreeK steamer proceeding to assist Dispatches received here from London Liverpool and at town confirmed the news One of the messages said it believed that all the big passengers had been saved According to a London dispatch put out by the TicKer at a late hour this afternoon the Cunard Steamship Co in London issued an official statement there tonight declaring that the Lusitania had been torpedoed without warning and sanK almost immediately The text of the statement The whole concern of the Cunard company is for the safety of the passengers and crew The material loss does not count as it is covered by insurance Steamers Rush to Scene The was torpedoed without any warning and sanK most immediately It is Known that a large number of the large boats of the ship are afloat Every effort is being made to obtain the fullest in- formation which will be published immediately upon receipt When the Lusitania sailed some nervousness had been caused be- cause of the publication in the morning papers of Saturday of an warning intending travelers that a state of war existed be- tween Germany and Great Britain and her allies that the war zone in- cludes the waters adjacent to the British Isles that in addition with the notice given by the German government vessels flying the flag of the English government are liable to destruction in these waters and that travelers sailing in the war zone on ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risK The advertisement was signed Imperial man This warning apparently did not cause many cancellations for the ship sailed with a very full passenger list Just before the Continued on Page 2 i v-l
