With the Fleets.
GERMAN FLEET IN THE BALTIC
IiUSSIAN PORT BOMBARDED.
J. Received April 1, 1.45 a.m. Petrograd, March 31. Oerma n warships fired two hundred shells at Libau, killing a civilian.
PIRACY AND MURDER.
SIX KING THE FALABA.
London, March 30.
A survivor of the Falaba states that a wireless message was sent to Land's End: "Falaba torpedoed; taken to boats." The submarine then interrupted with her wireless and forbade sending mor c messages.
At the Falaba inquest the chief officer stated that a submarine without number first flew the white ensign and then the German flag. The submarine's crew were dressed in "khaki. Witness was placing the last twenty in a boat when an explosion blew the boat to pieces. The Coroner said the act was one of piracy and murder: He hoped that if the submarine was captured thoie on board would be corainensurately punished.
The Aquila's boat with fifteen of the crew and two passengers has beon,picked up.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 251, 1 April 1915, Page 5
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162With the Fleets. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 251, 1 April 1915, Page 5
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