THE SUBMARINE WAR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 15, 12 October 1918, Page 8

THE SUBMARINE WAR

SEVERAL VESSELS TORPEDOED

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE

By Telegraph-Press Association (Bee. October 11, 7.20 p.m.)

Ottawa, October 11. The New York "Times" correspondent at a British port states that the British steamer Leinster (2641 tons) has been torpedoed and sunk. It is believed that 320 persons perished.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

(Rec. Ootober 11, 10.40 p.m.)

Ottawa, October 11. The Leinster was twice struck.' Six hundred persons were on hoard, and only two hundred were saved.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

(Itec. October 12, 1.15 a.m.)

London, October 11. The Leinster was on a voyage from Dublin to Holyhead. When trying to reach port she was again iprpedoed. Four hundred and eighty are missing. Two hundred were saved.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

Ot\wa, October 11. News from an Atlantic port states that the crew of a British freighter reported that a U-boat sank the British steamers Oity of Glasgow and Mesaba off the Irish coast. Captain Clark and twenty-three members of the crew of the City of ' Glasgow perished.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

London, October 10. Tho Japanese steamer Hirano Maru has been torpedoed off the British coast. There wero 320 aboard, and 300 lives were lost.—Reuter.

(Rec. October 11, 7.20 p.m.)

London, October 10. ' The Hirano Maru was torpedoed at daybreak. There wero 820 on board, of whom 200 wore passengers, including women and children. There are 28 survivors, comprising eleven passengers and seventeen of the crew, who were rescued by an American naval vessel and landed at an Irish port. There wore a strong gale and a high sea whe'n the vessel was torpedoed, and it was impossible to launch tho boats.

The Hirano Maru sank quickly, leaving the' sea a mass of struggling humanity, tlio majority of whom were soon overcome by tie raging sea. The survivors were thinly clad, mostly in their night attire, and suffered terribly from exposure.' The third officer died after he was rescued.. Captain Fraser' went down with the vessel. Only one officer was saved, the chief engineer.— "The Times." ANOTHER GERMAN OUTRAGE SHIP SHELLED WHILE CREW WERE LOWERING BOATS. (Rec. October 11, 10.40 p.m.) Ottawa, October 11. A British vessel landed at an American port twenty survivors from the American ship Ticonderoga, which was shelled, torpedoed, and sunk in midAtlantic by a U-boat.,- It is, feared that 230 people perished.- The U-boat shelled the sinking ship while the crew were attempting to lower rafts and boats.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.