ENEMY SUBMARINES
SUNK OFF SCILLY ISLANDS
Sydney, May 28. The eantain of the steamer Physa, which has arrived at Newcastle from Singapore, states that the newspapers there contained accounts of tno sinking of German submarines at the Scilly Islands (25 to 35 miles, west-south-wost of Land's End) in March.
In a cavo on the islands, the Germans had a base large enough to accommodate six submarines. Supplies ware in a sunken air-tight vessel at a dentil of fourteen fathoms.
An escort was discovered, and British officers waited and bombed the incoming submarines, seven of which wero destroyed.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19150529.2.32.10
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2474, 29 May 1915, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
97ENEMY SUBMARINES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2474, 29 May 1915, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in