UNDERWATER PIRACY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2505, 5 July 1915, Page 5

UNDERWATER PIRACY

MORE VESBEIS SUNK " B7 Telegraph.—Press ■ Association—Copyright Londjn, July 2. Tho British steamers .Caucasian', 4656 tons, and Inglemoor wero submarined off the Lizard on.. Thursday Tho Norwegian wheat sliip torpedoed off Fast net was the Thistlobank, 2430 tons. , The submarine - fired- seventeen shots at tho Caucasian, breaking down this ' fmuiel and carrying the -wheer out - of the captain's hand. Tho crew took. ,to the hosts. The Inglemoor picked up some, hut was itself torpedoed. One of the Caucasian's boats headed for - France, aiid has not been 6een. A submarine torpedoed and sank the barque Elsie .Tower, timber laden from Nova' Scotia, off-Fastnet- : The crew landed at Orookhavan. The submarine then put up' sails and two dummy, funnels, and sailed about. MISBINC BOAT SHOWS UP,, (Rec. June .4, 3, p.m.) . , London, July, "3. The Caucasian's-missing" boatful landed at Falmouth. The Kotka did,not and' was 6alved. CARGO OF SUGAR LOST. London, July 2. A euhmarino, by gunfire, sank the Bury Stopping Company's steamer Welbury, 3591 tons, off Castletown, with 5400 tons of sugar. Before the ship left Cuba someone painted inside tho hold: ''Your cargo for England will never get there." A trawler picked up the crew. BELGIAN STEAMER TORPEDOED. (Rec. July 4, 5 p.m.) ' Loncbn, July 5. The Belgian steamer Bodnogav, bound from Bayone to Barry, was torpedoed off tho Scillys. The crow landed at 'Falmouth. DUTCH LUGGER MINED. (Rcc. July 4, 3 p.m.) Rotterdam July 9. A' Dutch' lugger named Katwyk No. 147 was mineaiii the North Sea. Ten were drowned. :TKE SOLE SURVIVOR. (Rcc. July 4; 3.5 p.m.) , London, July 3. The sole survivor of the boat containing sixteen of the 'Scottish Monarch crew landed at Cornwall. , ANOTHER STEAMER TORPEDOED. (Rcc. July 5, 0.5 a.m.) London, July 3. Tho steamer Richmond was submarined off tho Scillys. The drew landed. TWO MORE VESSELS SUNK. (Rec. July 5, 0.3 a.m.) Lttndon, July 4. The steamer Araijardj, cotton laden, bound from Galveston to Havre, was submarined and sunk without warning.. The crew landed at Plymouth. The steamer Gadsejr, from Cape Breton to London, was torpedoed. Ths crow landed at Londonderry.