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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3054, 16 April 1917, Page 6

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London, April 14; The San Fulgenoia. (5500 tons) was carrying coal to Barcelona. Britain had agreed to supply Spain with 150,000 tons per month, in exchange for produce, and being, allowed also to charter Spanish ships.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . A PARTICULARLY FEROCIOUS-ATTACK COWARDLY SHOOTING OF HELPLESS SEA.MEN. ' - Paris, April 13. ■The sinking of the sohboher Leoritine by a German submarine on March. 25 was a particularly ferocious, aot. The schooner stopped, but the submarine fired forty shells, killing four of the crew and wounding three. The Germans boarded , with bombs, and found the boatswain and the cabin boy wounded: Both ■ appealed to the Germans not to blow up the schooner, becauae they would die. A German officer shot the boy.' Five survivors clung to the wreckage and were saved. ' GREEK STEAMER SUNK. Athens, April 13. A German submarine torpedoed the cJreek steamer Nestos, with a cargo nf flour for Greece. The crew was saved. The Greek Government has protested ■t0... Germany. , SAFJI-CONDUCT GUARANTEE OUTRAGED. Copenhagen, April 13. ' The Norwegian steamer' Camilla, ,2456 tons, engaged by the' Belgian ' Relief' Committee, was sunk, although in possession of a German safe conduct. This ■was the seventh Norwegian vessel sunk under similar oiroiimßtances.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. : ANOTHER BRUTAL INCIDENT. Christiania, :£pril 13. The survivors of the torpedoed Norwegian steamer Pollux, 1196 tons, have arrived at Ber«en. They state, that numbers of tho passengers and crew jumped' into- the water, but the commander of the submarine threatened to. shoot anyone \ attempting to board her. ' , The newspaper ! "Dagbladet" urgesthe arming of Norwegian merchant-men.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. NORWAY'S LOSSES. '■• v . (Reo. April 16, 0.5 a.m.) : Christiania, April 15. Eighty-two Norwegian . ships, aggregating 130,927 tons,: were lost in March, and forty-one, in tonnage agerematiiig 81,858, were added. The fleet now consists of 3339 vessels, aggregating 2,437,762 tons.—Aus.-N.Z. . Cable Assn. : BRITISH STEAMER TORPEDOED , OFF HOLLAND. (Rec. April 0.5 a.m.) Lbndon, April 15. The British steamer: Kittiwake has been torpedoed oft Holland. Seven men were killed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. 'AN.'AMERICAN VICTIM. (H-eo. April 14, 3.5 p.m.) Washington, April 13. The American ship Margarite was torpedoed in the Mediterranean' without warning. The crew were in an ppen boat for forty-nine hours.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. ' " ✓