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NEUTRAL VESSELS TORPEDOED

THREE NORWEGIAN SHIPS SUNK PIRATES BUSY SHOOTING AND KILLING ON THE HIGH SEAS j London, June 8. Tho Norwegian steamer Glittertind (717 tons), with a oargo of timber, for Hartlepool, was torpedoed. TJio crow wero saved. I'iie Norwegian steamer Trudvang (1010 tons), for Dublin, with iron ore, was sunk by gunfire after t-lie crow had taken to tho boats. When a par trol-boat came up to rescue the crew, the submarine tried to torpedo the par trol-boat, and then made off. Tho crew, were landed at Milford Haven. Loss of Life. The Norwegian barque Superlj, grainladen from Buenos Aires to Queeiißtown, was torpedoed fifty miles weßt of Pastnet. The crew were landed at Cahirciveeu, County Kerry, Ireland. The Belgian steamer Menapier, from Algiers to Middlesboro with iron oro, was torpedoed last night and sank in half a minute off tlio Nortji Foreland. Bight of the crew were landed at Margate. One had to ho sent to hospital. The captain, his wifo and daughter, the first mate, the pilot, and twelve men aro reported to have been lost. The Russian schooner Adolf, bound for Archangel, was submarined without warning and sunk. Bight shots wero fired, killing t'lie captain and' a seaman. Tho remainder landed at Leitli. The trawlers Dramio and Curlew were submarined off tlio coast of Scotland. The crew were picked up. A SUSPICIOUS CASE CAEGO OF RIFLES FOR BULGARIA. Copenhagen,- June 8. The Government's investigation of the Pau case shows that tho steamer's shipment of rifles were probably for Bulgaria. The latter feared that England might seize the shipment. Hence assistance was rendered by a German torpedo boat followed to land tho transports. The Swedish steamer Pau, with _ a cargo of rifles, ostensibly for Bulgaria, was seized by a German torpedo-boat off Falstebro. The Bulgarian Legation in Berlin gave tho Danish Government a guarantee that the vessel would sail direct for Dcdeagatch (Bulgaria), but the'vessel, instead of going north, sneaked towards the Baltic, where it mot tho German torpedo4wat. The Pau's captain declared that the Germans deceived him by promising a passage through tho Kaiser Wilhelm Canal.

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2484, 10 June 1915, Page 5

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NEUTRAL VESSELS TORPEDOED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2484, 10 June 1915, Page 5

NEUTRAL VESSELS TORPEDOED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2484, 10 June 1915, Page 5

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