MURDEROUS PIRATES
SINK STEAMER ADDAH WITHOUT WARNING SHELL THE BOATS London, June 29. The Elder Dempster steamer Addah (4379 tons) was sunk by a subma7 rino without warning on June 15:- After the vessel was hit the submarine, which' hitherto had not been seen, came to the surface and fired while the boats were being lowered. The submarine hit the Addah seven times. The submarine caiiie alongside the chief officer's boat before the ship sank, and put one of its officers and four, men aboard the Addah. After n couple of minutes they returned to the submarine, and told the chief officer's boat to clear out.. . '.'..;.
Meanwhile the master's "boat,"; which had already been badly smashed by a. shell from the submarine,, was thirty or' forty, yards .distant. . The submarine reopened fire with shrapnel on the master's boat, and killed eight of the occupants. Tho boat's 1 stern was blown right out. The submarine continued firing shrapnel ou' the swimming men after the boat sank.
After the ' submarine commander thought he had finished everybody in tho master's boat, he fired eight sbrapnol shells at the-chief officer's boat. Fortunately, nobody was killed) but several were slightly injured, and the boat w-as badly damaged. The ' submarine commander waved to the chief officer to go and pick up'the master and other swimmers, and then made off.
A French patrol steamer picked np the victims of this barbarism.—Reuter. ..,
MINES IN ARABIAN SEA . BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN BLOWN FROM THE INDIAN OCEAN. . l London, June 2D. The London "Times" states that the Mongolia is not the only recent case of the sinking of a vessel by a' mine in. the Arabian Sea. The theory in shipping" circles is that the south-west. monsoon blew tho mines which.struck the liners up from the Indian Ocean.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn,
TWENTY OP MONGOLIA'S CREW KILLED BY EXPLOSION. N Calcutta, June 29. The Mongolia sank in sixteen, minutes, on an oven keel. The explosion killed twenty of the crew; Thirty mail bags were washed ashore.—Aus.-N.Z, Came Assn.
FRENCH SHIPPING LOSSES, (Rec. July 1, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, June 29. The arrivals during tho week were 10SS and the sailings 969. ' Two steamers aove 1600 tons and three below 1000 tons were sunk. Two vessels were unsuccessfully attacked.—Reuter. ,
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3125, 2 July 1917, Page 5
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