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r , | I TORPEDOED BY SUBMARINE ? * FORTY-ONE SURVIVORS LANDED. l 5 . London, June 10. , Official.—A German submarine sank ) torpedo-boat destroyers No. 10 and 12, 1 operating on the east coast. 3 Forty-one survivors were landed. ' _ [Torpedo-boats 10 and 12 were built in _1006. No. 10 was a Tliornyoroft of 215 tons, and No. 12 was a Yarrow, of 225 tons. Each carried three 18-inch torpedo-tubes, and two 12-pounder guiiß, and had a speed of 26 knots. The complement of each was 35 officers and men.] CASUALTY AMONGST TRAWLERS. SEVEN SUNK IN FOUR DAYS. (Rec. June 12, 1.25 a.m.) London, June 11. The steamer Athcarron, coal laden, from Barry, was submarined and sunk without notice. The crew was saved. The schooner Express was submarined, and the crew landed in Norway. A submarine sank the Tunisian, Cardiff, and Caston, all Grimsby trawlers. It chased the third for twelve miles, until a patrol boat appeared, when the pursuit was precipitately abandoned. All the crews were saved. The submarines during the " past' four days sank seven Lowestoft trawlers. GERMAN VESSELS DAMAGED BY RUSSIAN SUBMARINE. London, June 10. PetTograd reports claim that a Russian submarine, on the 4th, in the Baltio, sank a torpedo boat and a transport, and damaged another torpedo boat. Another enemy ship struck a mine and was blown up. A Berlin wireless message asserts that only a collier was sunk, and slight damage done to the torpedo boats. TWO STEAMERS AND TWO TRAWLERS. SUNK BT GERMAN SUBMARINES. London, June 10. The steamer Erna Boldt (1731 tons) was torpedoed off Harwich. The crew were landed. The trawler Sahern waß torpedoed and the crew landed at North Shields. Amsterdam, June 10. 'A Dutch steamer has arrived with the crews of two Lowestoft fishing boats, which wore torpedoed in the North Sea. London, June 10. A German submarine with five shots sank the Grimsby trawler Velooity. Tha orew were in a small boat for fifty-two hours without water or food. They were terribly exhausted when ■ piokod up. BEVERELYDAMAGED. j TWO GERMAN SUBMARINES. | (Keo. Juno 11, 11.5 p.m.) < London, June 11. • Copenhagen declares that two Got- , man submarines woro severely damaged ' and arrived at Libau. j

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2486, 12 June 1915, Page 5

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DESTROYERS SIM Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2486, 12 June 1915, Page 5

DESTROYERS SIM Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2486, 12 June 1915, Page 5

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