TWO BRITISH STEAMERS REPORTED SUNK

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2843, 7 August 1916, Page 5

TWO BRITISH STEAMERS REPORTED SUNK

WRECKAGE ON NORWEGIAN COAST. Australian-New Zealand Cablo Association. (Rec. August 6, 5.5 p.m.) Christiania, August -5. Lifeboats, rafts, and wreckage which is coming ashore on the Norwegian const indicate that the- British steamers Calypso and Aaro have oither t been mined or sunk by a submarine. It is feared that their passengers and crews are lost, TTho Calypso is probably'the Wilson liner ; (2587 tons), trading from Hull (there are three others); the Aaro is also a Wilson liner, of 2603 tons.] LATEST VICTIMS. (Rcc. August 6, 11 p.m.) ' London, August G. "ho crews of two schooners, a barge, and coasting steamer, which were sunk by a submarine, have becu landed at Weymouth and Plymouth. Submarines elsewhere sank the Italian steamer Rien.i, ijhe Crteek steamer .Tricoupis, and the British steamers Tottenham and Favonian. , August 6. German submarines destroyed a Swedish steamer, and a schooner which was carrying timber to England. [The SieE& is a 4553-ton vessel of La Volooo Nav. Italiana, Genoa. The Mooupis, 2387 tons, belongs to R. G. Cicellis, of Piraeus. The Tottenham, 3106 tons, belongs to the Britain S.S. Co., »4f London, and the Favonian, 3049 tons, is an Ellerman liner.] ALLEGED SWEDISH-GERMAN DEAL. (Rec. August 6, 11 p.m.) Copenhagen, August 8. - The newspapers complain, that Germany recently promised to spare Swedish timber ships, and by way of return Sweden permitted the export of hundreds of horses to Germany..