The U-Boats.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 215, 13 August 1918, Page 5

The U-Boats.

IN AMERICAN WATERS. TWO STEAMERS SUNK. (Received 13, 8.50 a.m.) New York, Aug. 12. A German submarine sank a British steamer in the Atlantic. The fate of the crew is unknown. (A. A N.Z.) Ottawa, Auv. 12. Survivors who have arrived at a Canadian port report that the cable steamer Mackay Bennett was torpedoed. Tile crew are safe.—(A. and N.Z.) TWO ADDITIONAL STEAMERS SUNK. (Received 12. 11.0 a.m.) New York, Aug. \2. A report from an American Atiantic port states that fifteen of the crew of the Swedish steamer Sydland have landed. They report that , a German submarine sank the vessel. Another fifteen were also rescued from another torpedoed ship. - (A. and N.Z..) FISHING CRAFT SUNK. OFF MAS>\« hl ' '.ITS t'O.\ST. V. diirigten, Atv-r. lilt i« announced that j. 1.-bu.il operating >fi the ettcoast sank nine fishing schooners. It is not known whethex theie was any loss of life

Two of the crew of the schoonet Kate Palmer report that the «übmarine appeared in the middle ol the fishing fleet and sank nine vessels. Some of the survivors were detained aboard the U-boat before being sent adrift in a dory off Nantucket, Massachusetts. A naval scout boat reports that the schooner picked up four survivors 60 miles off the rmut.