SMASHING THE PIRATES.
FOURTEEN U-BOATS SUNK LAST • MONTH. (Australian and NlZ* Cable Association.) NEW YORK, May 18. . It has been stated from official. sources that 12 U-boats -were sunk in British waters by Britisli and American destroyers during April, and two other "U-boats are also known to have been 'sunk, one while attacking a convoy going to Holland, while thc other rose up between two American transports ca'rryfiiig troops to France. .A torpedp missed ai transport by a few feet, and the :wtCs^'desti:oyed by depth bombs froni* a destroyer. . • : ■•>' i;. ■•,..-•■ .«/,. * : -: -; PARIS j. May 17. Admiral Wilson, ' conimanding the American' naval forces !i'n French -Waters., states that as 4 a result - of the FrancoAmerican anti-submarine ' warfare, there were no torpedoinga- iii February and April in waters irt ■'•which'- American warships were operating, a« compared with 34 dn ootobe^ 1 1917."-i
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 3
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