SUBMARINE WARFARE
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] TORPEDO BADGES. LONDON, June 10. The Board of Trade has announced that a new award of torpedo badges to British mercantile seafarers, who are serving on vessels torpedoed, or mined. If they thereafter complete a further voyage on a British vessel they will he presented with a bar for every time again torpedoed, or mined, five stars being exchangeable for a five pointed star.
NORWEGIAN BARQUE SUNK. WASHINGTON June 16. It is announced here that the Norwegian barque, Samoa, from Buenos Ayres, was sunk by the fire of a I - boat off the Virginia coast on Friday. Fifteen of the crew were rescued. TWENTIETH SINKING. (Received This Dav at 9.25 a.m.) , WASHINGTON, June 17. A naval vessel picked up. the survivors, of the Krinsja, which is tho twentieth ship sunk by U-boats in American waters.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1918, Page 3
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