TORPEDOED
HIGH-HANDED ACTION OF HUNS ; By Telegraph—Press Association—Oofyrlghi Rotterdam, February : 4. , The Dutch" oil steamer Artemis (2312 : tons), from Rotterdam to London in . ballast, was torpedoed on .Wednesday '■ in exceptional, circumstances. ■• ..Four •■ torpedo-boat destroyers stopped the ves- J sol at "midnight near Noord Hinder,, and ; the Germans boaided-her. iThey- found j she .carried no cargo, and, satisfied by, , tho search, made an, entry, in the log to that effect. They ordered the vessel to an anchorage, where two of the torpedoboats ordered her. to Zeebrugge., ■■ The,captain protested that, ho did not know the locality, and asked for a pilot. The Germans, in bullying tones, ordered him to quit the vessel within- five „■ minutes, alleging tbat if he disobeyed orders they , would torpedo the vessel;- ' A torpedo was fired before the boats-, could: bo -lowered, and re-, coived a ; gaping hole, but . floated. on' •her empty ,oil, tanks.' ; , Tlio"/crew. ; ; re-, j ' hoarded her four hours later and took : the steamer' to Rotterdam, y '
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2688, 7 February 1916, Page 6
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162TORPEDOED Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2688, 7 February 1916, Page 6
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