LATEST SUBMARINE FRIGHTFULNESS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 279, 14 August 1918, Page 6

LATEST SUBMARINE FRIGHTFULNESS

j MUSTARD CAS ATTACKS . INCIDENT ON AMERICAN COAST , (Roc. August 13, 7.25 p.m.) Montreal, August 12. A U-boat mustard-gassed a coastguard station on the American coast. Six of the coastguards were overcome. The U-boat poured the oil on tho surrounding water, from which tho gas arose.— Eeuter. (Rec. August 13, 8.-10 p.m.) Washington, August 12. The Navy Department has announced that oil was released by a U-boat near the entrance of the channel to Wilmington, on the Delaware, in the hope that the tide would float it in towards the shoie. Instead the oil was carried past Smith Island coastguard station. Soon after the attack three large oil spots, each an aero in extent, were observed. The effect of the gas on the victims lasted for forty minutes. In effects the symptoms were exactly similar to those of mustard gas.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn MORE VICTIMS REPORTED. Vancouver, August 12. A report from a Canadian port states that the cable steamer Mackay-Bemiett has been torpedoed. The .crew is safe.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. | The Mackay-Bennett, 1731 tons, was built in 1881 for the Commercial Cable Company.] New York, August 12. The cable steamer Mackay-Bennett, which was reported torpedoed, is safe in port. A message from an American Atlantic port states that fifteen of the crew of the Swedish steamer Sydland have landed, and report that a German subma rine sank the vessel and another. Fifteen were rescued from another ship. German submarines sank. a British steamer in the Atlantic, j Tho fate of the crow is unknown.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. U-BOAT SUNK BY DESTROYER. (Rec. August 13,. 8.40 p.m.) Washington, August 12. The Navy Department announces that it is believed that a destroyer sank a U-boat by means of depth bombs one hundred miles off the Virginia coast.— Aus.-N.Z., Cable Assn.