SUBMARINE WARFARE
TOLL OF THE PIRATES DEATH-ROLL OP PASSENGERS AND CREWS. London, August 14. Speaking ill the House of Commons, Mr. G. H. Roberts stated that 3523 passengers and 5920 officers and seamen had lost their lives in British merchant vessels owing to the enemy actions since the beginning of tho war.—The '"rimes." BRITISH DESTROYER STRIKES A JIINE. London, August 11. The Admiralty reports:—A British destroyer struck a mine and 6ank m the North Sea. Tho captain, two ofiicors, and forty-three men were saved.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.-Renter. CRIPPLED SUBMARINE TOWED TO 1 ZEEBRUGGE (Ree. August 15, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, August 14. Two German torpedo boats towed a large submarine into Zeebrugge. Th e submarine had been rammed in the Worm Sea and severely damaged.—Aus.-NZ. Cable Assn.
BIG PIRATE RAIDER OFF THE AZORES. REPELLED BY AMERICAN AB-MJID SHIES. (Rec. August 15, C.30 p.m.) Baltimore, August 1-1. Armed American ships at Santa Marie, in the Azores, recently repelled an attack l>y a large submarine which appeared outside the breakwater, and shelled fiTe city. Later, the raider sank seven fishing boats a hundred miles oft the coast.—Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3164, 16 August 1917, Page 5
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