SUBMARINED!

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9613, 20 March 1917, Page 6

SUBMARINED!

lIIREE AMERICAN SHIPS SUM THIRTY-TWO AMERICANS MISSING. Uy Tslcgra’ph—Press Association— Copj/rigUi Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, March 18. Three American ships—tho City of Memphis (52611 tons), Illinois (5225 tons), and Vigilanta (? Vigilancia, 4115 tons) have been sunk, it is believed off tho coast of Franco. Thirty-two Americans are missing. LONDON, March 18. The captain and twenty-three of the orovv of the Memphis are • missing. INTEREST IN NEW YORK \TITAT WASHINGTON THINKS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyrieb* Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, March 18. Tho crow of tho City of Memphis wero practically all Americans or naturalised Americans. The vessel loft New York for Havre on January 23rd with a cargo of cotton, and arrived at Havre on February Oth. Then she loft for Cardiff tor hunker coal, prior to returning to Now Y’ork. Normally sho carried a crow of 'fiftyeight. The sinking has created tremendous interest in New York, Washington regarding it ns final evidence that Germany is determined not to spare any American ships.

ITALIAN CAMPAIGN ’K ' ■- ENEMY REPULSED WITH HEAV Y LOSS. By Telegraph— Press Association— Copyright Australian and N.Z. C-ihlo Association LONDON, March 18. An Italian official message states;— “We repulsed with heavy loss” an attack in the Coajba Valley, Sugnna.” J