UNDERWATER MATES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2457, 10 May 1915, Page 5

UNDERWATER MATES

SOME MORE VICT MS DESTROYER'MAORI SUNK. London, May 1. A submarine sank tie steamer-Can-didate in tha.lriah. Sea without Training. One boat was swamped, .'but fchei Germans did not offer to nelp." However, all Were saved. The steamer Centurion, _ bound for Durban, was torpedoed thirty miles off Tuskar Rock,, off Meiford. The crew of- 45 were landed at Wexford. TRAWLER SUNK. (Rec. May 9, 5.5 p.m.) . London, May 8. 'A' submarine siink the trawler which" escaped, last Sunday, seven miles off Cruden -Bay. The crew was saved. ANOTHER STEAMER TORPEDOED. (Reo. May 9, 5.25 p.m.) London, May 8. The steamer Don was torpedoed and 6unk off the Northumberland coast, Tho orew was rescued. BRITISH , DESTROYER MINED OFF THE BELGIAN COAST. High Commissioner's report:—' London, May 8, 10.20 a.m. The Admiralty announces the loss of the torpedo destroyer Maori, Commander Barrow, 'mined .off the Belgian Coast. Tho destroyer Crusader went to the rescue of the crew, but the enemy opened fir©' from tli© slioro, «ui<i the Crusader wis forced to withdraw, after being an hour and a half under fire, abandoning boats .containing seven officers and .eighty-eight .men. Both crews, the Germans report, were all ®ived, and "taken' prisoners ito Zeobrugge. v CERMAN STATEMENT CONTRADICTED. (Rec. May 9, 5.25 p.m.) . ■ ' London, May 8. i The 'Admiralty announces that the ( statement that a German airship sank a British submarine is false. On the con- | trary, the submarine returned uninjured and'reports that she damaged the airship by gunfire and droro her off: THE TOLL FOR A WEEK. High Commissioner's report: — ' London, May 8, 2.35 p.m. The Admiralty-reports that 1604 ves« sels, of over three hundred tons each, arrived and sailed from British ports during the week ending May 5. Five , were sunk by submarines, the gross tonnage being 11,488 tons j one fishing vessel was mined, and sixteen, sunk or captured, with a gross tonnage of 3011 tons. . 'ATTACK OFF THE ISLE OF MAN.. (Reo. May 10, 0.5 a.m.) London, May 8. U39 sunk tho. steamer Truro off the Isle of Man. The crew was saved.