SUBMARINE ACTIVITY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 9 October 1916, Page 7

SUBMARINE ACTIVITY

KEPORTED OFF AMERICAN

COASTS

(Received Oct. 9, 12.30 p.m.) ' ■ '■ NEW YORK, Oct. 8. A wireless states that submarine U53 -torpedoed the British merchantman' West Point south of Nantucket shoals. It is reported that the West Point is sinking. Vessels ar.e rushing to her assistance. ;