GERMAN SUBMARINES
A STORY FROM SINGAPORE BRITISH DISCOVER A BASE. (Received May 28, noon.) SYDNEY, This Day. The captain of this steamer Physa, which has arrived , at Newcastle from Singapore, states that the newspapers there contained accounts of the sinking of German submarines at the Scilly Islands (25 to 35 miles, west-south-west of Land's End) in March. In a cave on the Wands, the Germans had a base large enough to accommodate six submarines. Supplies were in a sunken airtight vessel at a depth of fourteen fathoms. An escort was discovered, and British officers waited and bombed the incoming submarines, seven of which were ■ destroyed.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 125, 28 May 1915, Page 8
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105GERMAN SUBMARINES Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 125, 28 May 1915, Page 8
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