SUBMARINE PIRACIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2483, 9 June 1915, Page 5

SUBMARINE PIRACIES

i . TWO MORE STEAMER'S SUNK ( London, June 7. A submarine sank tho Aberdeen steamer Star of the 'West (197 tons). The crew landed at Peterhead. The steel barquo Sunlight, 1433 to is, with a cargo of sugar for Liverpool, was torpedoed off the Irish coast. A trawler landed her crew at Queenstown. As soon as the barque's crew took to the boats a' torpedo shattered the vessel amidships. The cargo of molasses was thrown into tho air, and the mastt and yards, came down with a run. The crew wds twelve hours in the boats. A submarine saiik the trawler, Arctic. Five survivors landed, the remaining four of tho crew being killed by shellfire while launching the boat. The mate was horribly mutilated, balf of his

head being blown off.

■ THREE SUBMARINE PIRATES p TRAPPED. p (Bee. June 8, 10.5 p;m.) 0 New York, June 8. The steamer Cameronia's passengers j report that three submarines woro trapped recently in British waters. PAYING THE PIPER. GERMANY TO COMPENSATE GREECE. Athens, June 7. r Germany haß agreed to compensate 2 tho ownerb of the Helli6pontos, report- 6 ed on April 18 last to have been tor- s pedoed in the North Sea. No warning ( was given, it being only by great good luck that the crew of twenty-four escaped with their lives. IN THE POISON BELT CRUEL SUFFERINGS OF THE \ RUSSIANS. I (Rec. June 8, 6.15 p.m.) London, June 7. ' jj The people of Warsaw were furiously indignant at, .the Germans' poisonous gases when tli.ey saw the first batch of Russian victims arrive with purple faces, suffering slow and torturing deaths by strangulation, with horrible tiuffering. The Germans strewed straw in front of their trenches, sprinkled with white a powder, .and fired heaps in a favourable wind. l)ense smoke columns drifted across, the Germans following on.. The g Russians remained in their trenches, firing through the smoke until they ivoro suffocated. Then their reserves pushed up through the poison belt, falling at every step, asphyxiated. The survivors, goad- j cd to indignation, inflicted terrible losses, when they pursued the enemy, and captured several German positions. This outrage roused the entire Russian arfliies to a fever of eagerness to j avenge their comrades. The smell of c the gases was noticed twenty mileS to 5 Hie rear. There were defttlis even ih the third trenches. Tlic poison is believed to havo been chloral.