BRITISH STEAMER SUNK.
| HELD IT BY SUBMARINE. OFF COAST OF NORWAY. (P.«ccived October 22, II p.m.) London, October 21. The captain of the steamer Clitra states that a German submarine stopped his ship twelve miles off the coast of Norway, sent five men aboard, and ordered the English flag to be lowered, threatening to shoot the captain. The captain was given ten minutes to lower the lifeboats, in which the crew were subsequently picked up by a Norwegian torpedoer. The Clitra was sunk by the enemy by opening her bottom valves.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15747, 23 October 1914, Page 6
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