SUBMINI WARFARE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1918, Page 3

SUBMINI WARFARE

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■ I MISTAKEN FOR ENEMY U-BOAF. i AMERICAN SUBMARINE HIT. ■j ’ WASHINGTON, July 26. The United States Navy Department, announces that, a merchant vessel mis- , t,ook an American submarine for a Üboat off the American coast, and fired. : o ne shot, hitting the submarine noar j tho oonning-tower, but the damage w at* !( slight. j ARMED MERCANTIE CRUISER i' SUNK. I MANY LIVES TOST. j LONDON, July 26. • Tho British Admiralty reports that ■ the armed merchant cruiser Marmora. was tornedoed and sunk by a German. | submarine on the 23rd. Ten of the- : crew aro missing. I A British torpedo boat destroyer ran ashore and sank ou the 24th. 'lliiitcen of the crew are missing. FRENCH SHIP SUNK. U-BOAT. RAMS LIFEBOATS. MADRID, July 27. A submarine sunk the French cargo carrier, Lydien, and rammed the rafts and lifeboats, within territorial waters. Thirty bodies of the murdered crew have been washed up. ! ' j BRITISH STEAMER ATTACKED. j NEW YORK. July 27. J It is reported that- a German sub- ! marine attacked a British steamer off | the American coast. ‘ .

DASTARDLY WORK

OF U-BOAT.

s (Roceived This Dnv nt 10. In. ■* in.) [ LONDON, July 28. 3 A submarine on the East Coast at-

tacked .British and Belgian trawlers

| and took the crews on her deck, and j then suddenly submerged, leaving thej sailors to die. Three British and one j Belgian were drowned. | The British skipper relates that, a | submarine opened fire with machino- | guns. The Germans boarded and ran- | sacked the trawler and blew her up. I She then captured the Belgian trawler I and placed the crews on the subma- • vine’s deck. When a British patrol boat was sighted, tho submarine submerged without warning, leaving the fishermen to their fate. The survivors were for several, hours in the water before they were picked up.