Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 1, The World War

File No. 841.857/401

The Consul at Cork ( Frost) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Cork (Queenstown), March 13, 1917.
[Received 11 a.m.]

Seven lives lost in sinking of Cunarder Folia out of crew of 78. Folia bound New York to Avonmouth. Torpedoed without warning 5 miles off Earn Head, County Water ford, in heavy fog Sunday, 7.20 a.m. Dr. Core and officers reach Bristol this morning. Am telegraphing Consul there; this also to Ambassador, Consul General-

Frost