THE SUBMARINES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16538, 11 November 1915, Page 5

THE SUBMARINES

FOUR STEAMERS SUNK.

( i LONDON, November 9. (Received Nov. 10, at 5.5 p.m.)

The Britisih steamers Buresk (3673 tons), Woodfield (3534 tons), Glenmore (1656 tons), and the Japanese steamer-Yasaka Maru (10,932 tons) have been sunk. Their crews were landed.

[Presumably those vessels were sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, where, apparently, the German submarines hawe established a base.]

GERMAN FERRY SERVICE SUSPENDED. COPENHAGEN, November 9. (Received Nov. 10, at 7.25 p.m.) Since the sinking of tihe Undine the German ferry service between Trelleborg and Bassnitz has been suspended.

AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE AT WORK.

PASSENGER LINER SUNK,

LONDON, November 10. (Received Nov. 11, at 0.35 a.m.)

Renter's Rome correspondent reports that an Austrian submarine sank the liner Ancona, carrying 422 passengers. Sixty of the crew and 270 surviving passengers were landed at Bizerta.

[The Ancona, built at Belfast in 1908, was a steamer of 8210 gross tonnage, and belonged to the Italian Steam Shipping Company, the headquarters of which are at Genoa.]

THREE MORE VICTIMS CLAIMED. ROME, November 10. (Received Nov. 11, at 0.35 a.m.) The Austrians claim to have sunk three freight .vessels conveying food to the Adriatic. SINKING OF THE UNDINE. detailsTurnished. STOCKHOLM, November 9. Particulars of the sinking of the German prot-ectsd cruiser Undine has been received from Malmo. The cruiser was escorting the German ferry boat Preussen from Trelleborg (Sweden) to Sassniotz, when a British submarine appeared early on Sunday afternoon, 22 miles from Trelleborg. The cruiser sank in three minutes. Her crew were saved, except 19 men. The second officer and six men succumbed to their injuries. The ferry boat and some escorting torpedo boats were not attacked by the submarine.