FRENCH SAILER TORPEDOED.
CREW SUFFERS FROM EXPOSURE. Received April 11 5.5 p.m. Paris, April 10. A submarine gave the crew of the French sailer Chateaubriand, off the Isle of Wight, ten minutes to leave the vessel, and then torpedoed and sank her iii three minutes. The crew of twenty- , four took to two boats in a rough t.'a, and, after intense suffering, being tvifh- , out food and in intense cold for forty- , eight hours, reached Treport with the help of a lifeboat. ANOTHER OUTRAGE. RELIEF SHIP SENT TO THE BOTTOM. Received April 12, 12.15 a.m. Rotterdam, April 11. The Belgian Relief Committee's vessel Halpalycc was mined or submarined off the Noordhinden lightship, though supplied with papers professing to protect her against attack. Twenty-seven survivors were picked up, but another twenty-six were apparently drowned.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 259, 12 April 1915, Page 5
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133FRENCH SAILER TORPEDOED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 259, 12 April 1915, Page 5
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