PIRATES SINK NEUTRAL SHIP

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2470, 25 May 1915, Page 5

PIRATES SINK NEUTRAL SHIP

l 3 NORWEGIAN OIL STEAMER TORPEDOED ! i Chrlstlanla, May 23. ] The Norwegian 7000-ton steamer j Maricopa, sister .ship of the Belridge (which was torpedoed several weeks ago), oil-laden from Newport News for . Amsterdam, was torpedoed and damaged on the Dogger Bank. £200 FOR SINKINC A PIRATE, SPORTING OFFER TO YORKSHIRE MARINERS. London, May 23. Mr. Lacoy, of Hull, a naturalised German, has handed the Mayor £200 for the master and crew of any Yorkshire vessel sinking a German submarine. ZEPPELIN ADRIFT. Amsterdam, May 23. A Zeppelin broke loose at Konigsberg. There is no crew on board. The airship is travelling towards the west. KING CONSTANTS OF GREECE ILLNESS AT CRITICAL STAGE London, May 23. The "News Exchange" correspondent at Athens states that the condition of King Coustanfcine is very critical. ■ BRITISH AEROPLANE BROUGHT DOWN BY GERMANS I London, May 21. A Berlin communique states that an English aeroplane south of Neuve Chapello, in the region of Laquinque, was brought down under German fire. • GERMAN ATROCITIES ON THE ; BATTLEFIELD ; RUSSIAN SOLDIERS CRUELLY TOR- . TUBED. ■ I Petrograd; May 23. Official.—During the fighting on the . Narew front (operations in Northern Poland), the Germans, after suspending a Cossack upside down, cut off his ears, and made deep cuts in his thigh i for refusing to give information. | Another 3oldier was found near , Shavli, dying, with his ears and tonguo cut off. " "' i THE CHINO-JAPANESE TREATY REPORTED "WARNING FROM AMERICA,., . Toklo, May 23. Correspondents at Peking declare that the United States - warned' China not to sign the treaty with Japan, lest ohe should interfere with American rights. EXPLOSION IN ANTWERP ! TWENTY KILLED, THIRTY ' WOUNDED. . Havre, May 22. ' An explosion occurred in an explo- ' sive factory at Antwerp. THventy were killed, including seven officers) and thirty were wounded.