ARRIVAL OF AMERICAN DESTROYERS
OF GREATEST IMPORTANCE: "" '; Australian &nd N.Z. Cable Association. > and Renter.) • LONDOiN - , May 16. The Admiralty reports that .a flotilla of United States destroyers under RearAdmiral Sims, has arrived to co-operate with the British 'Navy in prosecuting the Allied cause. They will be of: the greatest value TWO VESSELS TORPEDOED. • Australian aad NvZ. Cable .i^sociation.*, (Rec. May 18, 2 p.m.) jNEW YORK, May 17. The steamer Hilonian has been torpedoed in the Mediterranean. TTour of the crew were drowned. She formerly plied between San /Francisco and Honolulu. There were 25 Americans aboard. The Harpgus, of the Fibre Line, has been torpedoed off Marseilles. There are no details. -»■ .
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Nelson Evening Mail, 18 May 1917, Page 5
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