FATE OF THE BREMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1917, Page 5

FATE OF THE BREMEN.

SUNK, BY WARSHIPS. (Special to the Auckland Star.) San Franciscoj, April 9. The first piece of news ever published iu the world regarding the fato of the million-dollar German mercantile submersible, the Bremen, the sister ship of the Deutschland, haa just been given to a 'San Francisco evening newspaper, >vlien John M. Barlow, a New York and Boston stockbroker and dealer in European exchange, stated that the Bremen was sunk hist June while Hearing tile New England port of New 'London, and that proofs of the loss have been submitted to the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific Railway Companies, and other American corporations in order to have placed over 2,500,000 dollars of their bonds which went down with it. Interviewed, Mr 'Barlow said:—"The Bremen was sunk by British warships patrolling the Atlantic from the Canadian east coast south to Baltimore very early in July, lfllfl, and while the world was still electrified with the Dcutschland's first trip to the port of Baltimore with a 7,000,000 dollar cargo of dyestuffs. The New York financial chiefs of the Southern Pacific are already satisfied 'with the proofs presented of the loss of its securities with the ill-fated Bremen, and will replace thein, as is the undoubted decision to do so of tile Santa Fe and Union Pacific. The British authorities know all about the sinking of the Bremen. The sensational storr of how it was accomplished, however, has never been made known «o far as I know. The first definite news of the loss came through German channels."