SUBMARINE FIRED SHOTS BUT SHIP MAKES PORT.
BRITISH FREIGHTER RIDDLED
WTTH SHELLS,
NEW YORK. Jan. 20. A battle which lasted an hour and forty, minutes between the British freighter Lindenhall and a Tuetonic submarine m the Mediterranean, with nearly 300 shots exchanged between the two craft, was described by officers of ihe Lindenhall upon her arrival here today from Naples/ Tlie freighter, came m so severely shelled that she looked as though she had been m an explosion. Twenty-six. shots from the U-boat hit her, and one of the shells still protrudes from the woodwork above the steward's bunk. I
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14236, 2 March 1917, Page 3
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