U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13948, 29 July 1918, Page 8

U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE, [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 6.38 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 26. The Navy Department announced that a merchantman mistook an American submarine for a German one off the American coast ,and lircd one shot, hitting the submarine near the conning tower. Tho damage was slight. BIG LOSS OF SUGAR. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday* 6.3S p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 26. Tho sugar ration is to be reduced to two pounds monthly for each person, to take effect on August Ist, for the purpose of assuring a sufiicient supply for the Allies and tho armies in the field. It is officially announced that more than 50,000,000 pounds of sugar were lost through the submarine sinkings off tho American coast. THE MARMORA SUNK. TORPEDO BOAT GOES ASHORE. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 26. Tho Admiralty reports: The armed mercantile cruiser Marmora was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on the 23rd iust. Ten of the crew are missing. A British torpedo boat destroyer ran ashore and sank on the 24th. Thirteen of the crew are missing. FRENCH CARRIER SUNK. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sundav, 7.20 p.m.) MADRID, July 27. A submarine sank the French cargo carrier Lydion and rammed the rafts and boats within territorial waters. Thirty bodies of the murdered men were washed up.