U-BOAT OFF AMERICAN COAST
BARGES WITH PEOPLE ON BOARD ATTACKED. (Rec. July 22, 0.55 p.m.) New York, July 21. A U-boat shelled a tug and barges with people on board off tho coast. The crew states that two of tho barges were sunk by a torpedo, and a third by shell-fire. The submarine fired a hundred shots at tho barges a few hundred yards lroin tho shore. vessels went to the tcscue. No lives were lost, but one man was blown off and a youth was injured. An eye-witness states that the U-boat was 400 feet long.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. AUSTRALIAN STEAMER TOR- ' PEDOED. (Rec. July 22, 10.15 p.m.) Melbourne, 1 July 21. It is officially announced that the steamer Southborough was torpedoed in European waters. There were only eight survivors.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 261, 23 July 1918, Page 5
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131U-BOAT OFF AMERICAN COAST Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 261, 23 July 1918, Page 5
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