TWO STEAMERS SUNK.
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. Oc Received Jan. 24, 9 a.m. New York, Jan. 33. Two steamers were sunk in the Mediterranean and seven hundred lives lost. DEADLY SHELL FOR SUBMARINES. (Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.) Washington, Jan. 23. United States inventors have ■perfected a non-ricochet steel which is capable of exploding tinder water. Tho Anglo-French Admiralties are successfully employing tho device against submarines." AMERICAN TORPEDO BOAT. TORPEDOED ON THE YANGTSE. i (Anst. and N.Z. Cable Association.) Washington. Jan. 32. | | It. is announced that tho Government has protested against the Chinese torpedoing of tiro United St.tes gunboat Momocacy on the Yangtso river, whereby one was hilled and two wounded.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11443, 24 January 1918, Page 5
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111TWO STEAMERS SUNK. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11443, 24 January 1918, Page 5
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