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Attack on Patria Delays Safe Passage for Americans
The Patria, a Fabre line steamship carrying twenty nine Americans including an American consul general, was torpedoed near Lisbon. Olney Arnold, consul general at Cairo, died in Lisbon after arrival. another passenger, Miss Friedenberg, survived shock and left at Lisbon. Captain Descheles received warning of a submarine hundred miles from Cape de Guard before the attack and maintained zigzag speed with fifteen lookouts. The torpedo missed by about thirty feet and no direct hit was made. Arnold reportedly died on the day after arriving in Lisbon while returning home.
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Pierre Descheles
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Miss Friedenberg
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