SINKING OF A FULL-RIGGED SHIL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2935, 22 November 1916, Page 8

SINKING OF A FULL-RIGGED SHIL

-9 —■ A SUBMARINE ATTACK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. By Tcle-graph-Press Association-Copyriglit Auckland, November 21. The Italian ship Euraeia, . which camo to Auckland some two years ago with a cargo of French tiles, was sunk three months ago by the enemy in the Mediterranean. Mr. J. H. Pagni, Consular' Agent for Italy, has received a letter from Captain'Olwari, from San Rocco, Genoa, elated September 9, in which it is stated:— ' "It happened about' 4 o'clock on the morning of August 13 last, when returning from Philadelphia to Genoa with.a cargo of coak Just as the vessel was rounding Capo Delle Mele, about 25 miles from Genoa, on a beautiful calm morning, the ship being fullrigged, the captain saw what appeared to be a British torpedo boat at a distance of. about 20 metres, coming towards 1 ihe ship. A few seconds after a, white shot was fired across our .bow; and I then knew that it meant tho end of the Eurasia.- A boat al\d three officers then put off from tho | enemy's craft, came on board, and in the Italian language I was asked the nationality of the ship and particulars of tho cargo. After demanding the papers they gave us five' minutes to I leave the doomed vessel. From the small craft I was in, I noticed that these officers went twice on board tho Eurasia, so they must have taken away anything they liked. After an hour and a half three shots were fired by tho barbarous enemy, and the Eurasia, which I had sommanded for. over nine years in fair weather and foul, sank. The operation took five hours and 4o minutes."