Submarine Sinks British Steamer Off Welsh Coast

The steamship Cambank, of Cardiff, was torpedoed today off Amlwych bay, Wales, by a German submarine, without warning.

The third engineer and two firemen of the Cambank were killed and another member of the crew was drowned while getting into a boat. The remainder of the crew was saved. The Cambank had just taken aboard a pilot for Liverpool.

NAKSKOV, Denmark (via London), Feb. 20.—The Norwegian steamer Bjarko struck a mine at eight o'clock this morning and sank. The crew was saved. This is the worst disaster to Norwegian vessels since the German blockade took effect. The Bjarko, laden with coal, was on its way from Leith to Nakskov.

The tank steamer Belridge, the first Norwegian vessel to meet with disaster in the war zone established by Germany, after the German decree went into effect, was torpedoed yesterday by a submarine near Folkestone and was badly damaged. The Bjarko was a small vessel 128 feet long and [...] tons gross.

NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—The British liner Lusitania reached New York today from Liverpool, having made the trip, its officers said, without finding it necessary to hoist the United States flag. On the outward voyage the liner sailed under the Stars and Stripes while in the Irish sea.

Four of the German submarines kept the big vessel at anchor in the Mersey for nearly five hours after it left its lock, until an hour or more after nightfall, according to passengers. The ship's officers said they were waiting for favorable [...] but will stand firmly on its [...]. Then the Lusitania proceeded at full speed down the channel in the darkness.

Rough weather prevailed during the entire voyage across the Atlantic and the vessel averaged only a little over twenty knots. Once clear of the Mersey, the Lusitania did not stop till it reached New York, but carried its Liverpool pilot across the Atlantic and landed him here. He probably will return on the same ship. According to Captain Dow, rough weather prevented the pilot from leaving the ship.