AMERICAN SUBMARINE CHASERS
• j FIRST, VESSEL 'LAUNCHED!■• -'V* {A"o»tr»*liH.n »nd N.Z. Oab'«-A«B<X-i*lioii (Rec. May 15, 9.5 a.m.) : . WASHINGTON, May 14. The first: submarine an 110footer, has been launched; five weeks after ]the keel was laid.- ...,.-.: The Shipping Board expects*that ;a thousand composite steel wooden ships, aggregating three million - tonnage,. will be completed within eighteen months. • SPANISH STEAMER SUNK. (AujtrAliAQ *nd N.Z. Cable AMoei*,st-:w i MADRID, May 13. TA German submarine sank the Spanish steamer Carmen, proceeding to Cette The Government is deihanding. compensation. Two Spanish destroyers have been ordered to act as guardships between Gijon and the French coast. i
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Nelson Evening Mail, 15 May 1917, Page 5
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