Mr. JOSEPH SYDNEY
ARTER, Second Cabin Passenger
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Joseph Arter was returning to England on the Lusitania for vacation. For
the past five years Arter was engaged on rubber plantations in the
Federated Malay States (Fellow passenger Ambrose Cross was also engaged
in the same business and from the Federated Malay States, but as
either mentioned the other, there might not have been a connection).
Arter was finishing his lunch when he heard a "noise caused by the blow
was not unlike that on a large scale of the bursting of a soda
bottle." Arter left the dining room to go to his cabin for a
lifebelt. He then made his way topside and slid down the
starboard side into the water. Then he found a collapsible which
he was able to board. He and others found two more boats and
rescued many from the water.
Contributors:
Mike Poirier
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