AMERICAN TANKER SUNK.
CAPTAIN AND FOUR GUNNERS CAPTURED
[rKK TRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] {Received This Day at 10.13. a.m.) WASHINGTON August 12. The Navy Department has announced that the American tanker, Cainpana, has been sunk by a “U" boat, about eight miles off the Isle of Dieu, on the French coast. Fifty-seveu survivors were landed. It is believed the Tanker’s Captain and-four gunners are imprisoned in the “U” boat, an< i it is feared that they will suffer a fate similar to that of Captain Fryatt,
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1917, Page 2
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84AMERICAN TANKER SUNK. Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1917, Page 2
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