PIRATES' HEAVY WEEK-END TOLL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15931, 31 May 1915, Page 7

PIRATES' HEAVY WEEK-END TOLL

THREE * SHIPS SUM OFF LAND'S END. ARGYLLSHIRE CHASED BY: TWO ' SUBMARINES. " . : (Hccoivcd May ' 30, '3.30 p.ci.) ? '^V . J ' J' •• ' London, May 28. The German , submarine U24 torpedoed and sank, the Elder Dempster steamer Ethiope, , 3794 tons, near Land's End. * The crew ' ; took to the boats. One boat has been picked' up. r ' , The Sunderland steamer Spennymoor, 2733 tons, was sunk by a; submarine off the Devonshire coast. "V- The captain and five meat were drowned. ■ . ■ '. V . * '-M* p-Mz. : The British steamer Argyllshire, 10,329 tons, bound from Sydney, reported by wireless that she had been attacked off Land's- End by a German submarine. She subsequently arrived - safely at'the. French port of Havre, after being chased by two submarines. 1 ,• Upon the receipt of news of the attack the Argyllshire was reinsured at Lloyd's at 60 guineas per centThe British steamer Cadeby was torpedoed and sunk off the-Wolf Lighthouse, eight miles south-west of Land's End. A fishing boat rescued the crew and landed them safely. Passengers state that the Cadeby, which was a vessel of 1130 tons, was sunk by gunfire. A message from Stockholm states that the Swedish barque Itosval, bound for Sunderland, England, with timber, was stopped by a German submarine, and then allowed to proceed. The barque then blew up, and it is supposed that she was torpedoed. One of the masts, in falling, killed two of the crew. The res'; of the crew were saved by a Dutch steamer. It is reported from Copenhagen that the Danish steamer Tilly, a vessel of 1747 tons, bound from England to Sundsvall, Sweden, struck a mine off Stockholm and foundered. The crew were saved. At the inquiry into the sinking of the s.s. Falaba by a German submarine Lord Mersey stated that he would not give his decision until after the conclusion of the inquiry into the sinking of the Lusitania. AMERICAN OPINION ON SINKING OF NEBBASKAN. " WAR WITH GERMANY SORELY COMING." (Received May 30. 3.35 p.m.) 'London, May 2d. The Now York Tribune says that if the American steamer Nebraskan was torpedoed by a German submarine, then the United i States Ambassador to Berlin should be recalled, Count Bernstorff. German Ambassador "at Washington, should receive : his passports, and diplomatic relations should cease. Such outrage should be accepted by the United States as an answer to its Note. It is declaration of Germany's purpose which makes further discussion impossible. '•< i Mr. Robert Bacon. Secretary of State in Mr. Roosevelt's Cabinet, has left London for America. He declared that 'war between thciil" United States and Germany was surely coming.