U-BOATS OFF AMERICA
"a transport torpedoed
EIGHTEEN SINKINGS TO DATE.
. NEW YORK, 11th June. Cabled advices state that the British transport Ausonia (8153 tons) bound to America, was torpedoed. Ninety of the crew were landed at a British port. Forty are missing. (Received June 13, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, 12th June. The New York Times states that the Ausonia was a hundred Tuiles in the Atlantic when she was torpedoed and sunk. The survivors were picked up by an eastbound steamer. The search for the forty missing is being continued. The Ausonia left a British port on the 25th May. ' _ ■ A steamer just arrived reports that she sighted a U-boat on Monday evening, 250 miles off the New Jersey coast. (Received June 13, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, 12th June. A German submarine sank two Norwegian steamships off the coast. The total number of vessels sunk to date is eighteen.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 140, 13 June 1918, Page 7
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