P. & O. LINER BADLY DAMAGED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2953, 16 December 1916, Page 9

P. & O. LINER BADLY DAMAGED

MINED OR TORPEDOED London, December 14. Lord Inchcape, at the meeting of the I'. and 0. Steam Navigation Company, announced that the Poona, 7626 tons, bound to India and Australia, but not carrying passengers, bad been either mined or torpedoed off Beachy Head on December 6. The vessel was badly damaged, and war vessels assisted her to port. She was now heing repaired.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE FATE OF CAPTAIN BLAIKIE London, December 14. Mivßonar.Law, in the House of Commons, announced that the Government ivas taking such action as was thought necessary in the ease of Captain Blaikie, of the Caledonia.—Beuter. GERMAN SUBMARINE "PROMISES" New York, December 14. A message from Berlin states that Herr Zimmerman (Permanent IlntrerSecrotary of the German Foreign Office) in an interview declared that the subniarino nromises would bo kept.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. CANADA'S TORPEDO BOAT SAFE (T?ec. December 16, 0.55 a.m.) Vancouver, December 15. The Canadian torpedo boat Grilse, | reported yesterday as having been | lost, has arrived at Shclbourne, Nova Scotia, badly battered, and her wireless gone.' Only six of the crew are missing,- instead of fifty previously reported. ■v :; SEVEN. SUBMARINE. VICTIMS (Rec. December 16, 0.55. a.m.) London, December 15: Five British, one Norwegian, one French sailer, have been torpedoed and sunk.—"The Times."