ON THE SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 October 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

ANOTHER STEAMER SUNK. iv OTTAWA, October 11. The New York "Times" correspondent at a .British port states that the Leinster was torpedoed and sunk. It is believed that 320 persons perished. The Leinster was on a voyage from Dublin to Holyhead. When trying to reach port she was again torpedoed. Four hundred and eight are missing, and two hundred were saved. OTTAWA, October 11. The ship was twice struck. Six hundred persons were saved. SIX HUNDRED CASUALTIES Received 5.45 a.m. LONDON, October 11. There were six hundred dead on the Leinster, which was twice torpedoed on the way from Dublin to Holyhead. AN AMERICAN SHIP SUNK. 230 LIVES BELIEVED LOST. OTTAWA, October 11. A British vessel landed at an American port 20 survivors from the American ship Ticondcroga which was shelled, torpedoed and sunk in midAtlantic by a U-boat. It is feared that 230 perished. The U-boat shelled the sinking ship while the crew were attempting to lower rafts and boats. TWO BRITISH STEAMERS SUNK. OTTAWA, October 11. News from an Atlantic port states that the crew of a British freighter reported that a U-boat sank the British steamers City of Glasgow and Mesaba, off the Irish coast. Captain Clerk and 23 members of the crew of the City of Glasgow perished. SINKING OP JAPANESE LINER. A TERRIBLE AFFAIR. LONDON, October 10. The. Hirano Maru was torpedoed at daybreak. She had 320 aboard, of whom 200 were passengers, including

■women and children. There are 28 survivors eleven passtengjers and seventeen of the crew who were rescued by an American naval vessel and land at an Irish port

There was a strong gale and a high sea when the vessel was torpedoed, and it was impossible to launch the boats. She sank quickly, leaving the sea a mass of struggling humanity. The majority were soon overcome by the raging sea. The survivors were thinly clad, mostly in night attire, and suffered terribly from exposure

The third officer died after he was rescued.

Captain Fraser went down with his vessel. The only officer saved was the chief engineer.