THE U-BOAT WAR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 242, 1 July 1918, Page 7

THE U-BOAT WAR

MUTE WITNESS OF A GERMAN CRIME London, Juae 28. Papers found on the body of a ship's officer washed ashore on. the 6onth coast of Ireland show that his ehip was torpedoed three hundred milee )ut at sea. Thirty-five of the crew lived for eight clays. There are apparently no surviv-ors.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A VICTIM'S SURVIVORS PICKED UP. . Halifax, June 28. , The survivors from an American ship j sunk by a (submarine in tho Atlantic havo been picked up by a coastal ves-sel.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. BRITISH STEAMER ATLANTIAN TORPEDOED. (Rec. .Tuno 30, 11 p.m.) London, June 29. Private advices received in Now York state that the British steamer Atlantian has been torpedoed and sunk in European' ' waters, No lives were lost.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. EIGHT DAYS ADRIFT IN A SMALL BOAT AMERICAN SAILORS' TERRIBLE , EXPERIENCE. (Eee. June 30, 5.5 p.m.) Halifax, June 28. A boatload of shipwrecked sailors from the eteanior Dvinsk, which was tor•pedood off tho American coast last week-, have landed at a Canadian Atlantic port. ■ They were picked up at Sea /sland after drifting in a small boat for eight days, N and suffering great privations from etarvation and thirst.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. OUTPACINGJHE SINKINGS CONSTRUCTION FIGURES FOR MAT. (Kec. June 30,' 11 p.m.) Washington, June 29. During the month of May the United States shipyards produced 175,834 tons ~ gross, l and the British shipyards produced 197,271 tons. The submarine sinkings for that period totalled 355,694 tons. Thus construction now exceeds tho sinkings by 16,914 tons.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.