SUBMARINE WARFARE
ARMED MERCHANTMEN'S SUCCESSSINKS A SUBMARINE..
(United Service Telegrams.)
(Received This Dav nt 10.15. a.m.) WASHINGTON. June G. The State • Department is officially advised that an American armed merchantmen has sunk a submarine. They fought for ninety minutes, and the 25th shot pierced tho submarine. Tho submarine’s stern rose out of the water and then sunk. The Navy Department is convinced that the submarine has been baggeu. The submarine flew no flag.
A FRENCH LINER SUNK
(Reuter’s Telegrams.)
LONDON, June 6
Th® Messageifies liner Yarra was Ttorpodoed and sunk on May zyxn m the Eastern Mediterranean There were 69 people aboard. Fifty six ar e missing.
AUSTRIAN BOAT SUNK
LONDON/Juno 6
Austrian official: On th© night of 3rd. and 4th. June an enemy submarine torpedoed and sank one of our torpedo boats i lithe northers* *A<ttorpedo boats in the northern Adriatic The majority of the crew wore saveu.
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