VICTIMS OF PIRACY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1918, Page 4

VICTIMS OF PIRACY.

SOME GHASTLY DEATH ROLLS. 600 LIVES LOST ON DUBLIN PACKET. XEW YORK, October 11. The "Now York Times" states that advice has been received from a British port that the steamer Lcinster has been torpedoed and sunk. It i» believed that the Hhip was twice struck. There were fiOO persons aboard, lint so far only 200 have been accounted for. The Dublin packet Leinster was on a voyage from Dublin to Ilol.yhrad when Bh'c was sunk. When trying to reach port she was again torpedoed. A total of 4SO people are missing, and 200 saved.— (A. and NX Cable.) (Received 9 a.m.) XEW YORK, October 11. The death roll of the Lcinster is (iOO. (A. and X.Z. Cable.) The 1-finster was a twin-screw steamer of 2,046 jrro-ss tons, built in 1807 at Birkenbend at I-aird Tiros.' yard, and owned by the ( ity of Dublin Steam Packet Company. MONSTROUS BARBARISM. NEW YORK, October 11. The American ship Tieonderojra has lieen torpedoed and sunk in mid-Atlantic, according to information received at an Atlantic port. A British vessel has landed 20 survivors. It is believed that 230 ]«rsons perished. The survivors state that the Ticonderoga was shelled and torpedoed by a submarine, and that the shelling continued while the crew were attempting to lower the boats and rafts. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) ONLY 2O SAVED OUT OF 320. LONDON*, October 11. The Japanese steamer Hirano Jlaru, of 7,936 gross tons, was torpedoed at daybreak. There were 320 people on board, of whom 200 were passengers, including women and children. There were only 28 survivors, comprising 11 passengers and 17 of the crew, who were rescued by an American naval vessel and landed at an Irish port. A strong gale and a high sea running when the vessel was torpedoed made it impossible to launch the boats. >She sank quickly, leaving the sea a, mass of struggling humanity. The majority were soon overcome by the raping seaThe survivors, who were thinly clad, mostly in their night attire, suffered terribly from exposure. The third officer died after he was rescued. Captain Frascr went down with the vessel. The only officer saved was the chief engineer. ("Times.'") TWO MOKE BRITISH STEAMERS ,— NEW YORK, October 11. Advices from an Atlantic port state that the crew of a British freighter reported that a submarine torpedoed and sank the Britieh steamers City of Glasgow, of 0,545 tons srross, and the Meeaba, of 6.833 tons gross, oft" the Irish coast. Captain Clark "and. 23' members of the crew of the City of Olasgow perished.—