PIRACY BY GERMAN SUBMARINES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2391, 22 February 1915, Page 5

PIRACY BY GERMAN SUBMARINES

BRITISH AND NEUTRAL VESSELS SUNK

(Rec. February 21, midnight.) London, February 20.' Tlio steamer Cambank was sunk off Holyhead. Three were killed in the engine-room a'tid one drowned. The Cambank was copper-laden from Huelva to Liverpool. . She took up tho pilot' and was gathering speed when she sawthe periscopo of a submarino two hundred yards away. Slto received no warning. Tho engines wero reversed, and while turning she was hit.by a. torpedo amid- '" P Tho Norwegian coal steamer Lyoerkc, bound to Leitli from Nakitow, was mined and sunk. The crew was saved. tTbn CiimbanW Is 11. of tills ton?, built w ISDU. and is owned by Messrs. J. todiiead and. ijoas, South Shields,]

ITWO OTHER VESSELS TORPEDOED.- ■ Paris, February . 'A submarine, without warning, torpedoed the French' steamet Dinoralfj bound from Havre to Dunkirk. The Dinorah readied Keppe. ; . . i London, February 19. ; In the Channel a submarine torpedoed and damaged tho tank steamer Bolt ridgo, bound from New Orleans to Amsterdam. _ [The Belridgo is a now vessel, of 7000 tons, built for carrying petroleunfcaO bulk. She is owned by a Norwegian company.] (Rec. February 21,4 p.m.) ' London, February- 20.- • , Tho 'Admiralty pieces of a torpedo were found ill tho Bey l ridgo,' AMERICAN SHIPS' PUIRCHASE -BILE TO- BE: ABANDONED* Washington, February Tho Democrats have deciSsd to allow the Opposition to talk tho Ships Purchase Bill dead. , President Wilson has abandoned, the idea or an extra session iorfuunGf ■ consideration of tho measure. i - . ■ -i AMERICA WILL TAKE NO FURTHER ACTION ' VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW NO CONCERN' OF AMERICA , x / r • •• ' (Rec. February, 22, 0.5 a.m.) * ! Washington, February 2(H : , ' State Department officials announce that the United States will not mafift;. further representations relative to the war zono either to Britain or Germany contenting itself with those already made. , )■ A State Department official takes the attitnde that the charges -of tions of iuternational Law made by both belligerents is a matter of 110 concent, to America as long as each belligerent concedes tho United Slates demands ag... , a neutral Power.