THE SUBMARINE WAR.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16271, 23 July 1918, Page 8

THE SUBMARINE WAR.

TnE SINKING OF THE BAIUJNGA. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Austr&li&n sncl Cable Association.) LONDON, July 21. The troopship Barunga was sunk At daybreak. There were over 700 aboard, including 400 incapacitated Aus- j tralians. Destroyers immediately went to her assistance and surrounded the sinking ship. There was remarkable order throughout-while those aboard were being transferred to the boats .and rafts. A submarine was seen 200 yards away. The Barunga's guns were turned upon her, but she dived and i-a-caped. The Barunga floated for tea houis. Those aboard lost everything. The Barunga. which was conveying a unit of Australian troops homeward, was sunk by a submarine on July 15th. U-BOAT OFF THE AMERICAN COAST. (Australian tnd N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received July 22nd, 9.55 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 21. A U-boat shelled a tug and barges and the people on board, off the coast. The crew state that two barges were sunk by a torpedo, and a third by shell-fire. The submarine fired a hundred shots at the barges a few hundred yards from the shore. Several vessels went to the rescue. No lives were lost, but one man was blown off, and a youth injured. An eye-witness states that the boat xtaa 400 feet long. MELBOURNE, July 22. Mr Poynton has announced that tho steamer Southborough was torpedoed in European waters. There were only eight survivors.