THE SUBMARINES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17164, 10 May 1916, Page 7

THE SUBMARINES.

LINER TORPEDOED.

NO PASSENGERS ABOARD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright. LONDON, May 8. The Atlantic steamer Cymric is reported to be sinking. There are no passengers on board. May 9. The Cymric, which was bound home-

wards with a cargo from America, was torpedoed in the Atlantic.

(The Cymric is a well-known liner in the trans-Atlantic trade. She is a steel twin-screw four-masted steamship of 13,096 tons, built in 1898 by Harland and Wolff, of Belfast, and owned by the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, of which the managers are Ismay, Imrio and Co., of Liverpool.)

FRENCH SAILER SUNK.

CREW RESCUED,

MADRID, Miiy 8.

A submarine sank the French sailing ship Marie Molinos, of 1946 tons, and gave the crew fifteen minutes to take to the boats. They were picked up eighteen hours later.

GERMAN SUBMARINE LOST.

MINED AND SUNK AT VARNA

AMSTERDAM, May 8

It is reported that a German submarine was mined and sunk at Varna, Many of the crew were saved by a destroyer.

SINKING OF THE SUSSEX.

A PASSENGER’S STORY,

SYDNEY, May 8

George M’lver, a passenger on the Sussex, describing the torpedoing of the Vessel, states that after an hour’s delay tho wireless was repaired and called for assistance. Delay in the ar-rival-of the rescuers was due to the operator giving a wrong position for the ship.