THE PIRATE WAR
| FOUR STEAMERS SUNK. • By Telegraph—Press Association-Ooptfright London, August IS. Iho Norwegian steamers Mineral (649 tons) aiid Romulus (819), the British" ' steamer Bonny (2702), and the Spanish steamer Jsidoro (2044) have been sunk. Tiio crews were saved. BRITISH OFFICER BOARDS A CERMAN TRAWLER. "WE ARE NOT PIRATES." Copenhagen, August 18. A Gorman trawler has arrived at Esbjerg and reported meeting a British squadron in the North Sea. The Ger-' man skipper prepared to leave his ves-: sal, expecting its 1 destruction. He implored a British search party for time to ( take to the boats. The officer replied: "You can take your whole ship. Wo are not nirates." The Germans cheered the .Britishers. THE INDIA'S SURVIVORS. m. ivr Christlanla, August 18. Iho Norwegian Government has interned the India's survivors rescued by British armed trawlers and the India's own boats. Survivors' rescued by a neutral vessel have not been interned. ? [The P. and O. auxiliary cruiser India (7940 tons) was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea. Twenty-two officers : and 119 men were saved:]
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 5
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174THE PIRATE WAR Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 5
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