DESTROYER FLOODED.
GERMAN ACT IX UNITED STATES.
Departing momentarily from their incendiary tactics, the Teutonic conspirators have by their latest manoeuvre sought to sink the destroyer Ericsson, completing- in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Safe at niifh p.m., the vessel was found flooded and naif-sunken three hours later. An inspection showed that a seacock had been opened. The Ericsson lies opposite the Oklahoma. also Hearing completion, on which three separate fires occurred. A chain boom prevents any approach to the vessels by boat,'and guards are everywhere. There have been many attempts to sink naval vessels, (including the battleships New York, Warrington, and two others. ' ,
The naval authorities, professing to believe that these occurrences are accidental, are greatly concerned, remembering the chain of unexplainable catastrophes on submarines, one of which involved" the loss of the crew of twenty-five. The policy cf Washington is to conceal these evidences of Teutonic activity, as the authorities fear that loyal Americans may attack the Germans.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16026, 18 September 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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