U BOAT AND MERCHANTMAN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11615, 14 August 1918, Page 5

U BOAT AND MERCHANTMAN.

FIGHT IN THE ATLANTIC THE SUBMARINE SUNK. Receivd August 14, 10,25. a in. New York, August 13. A report r from“an American Atlantic port states that an incoming merchantman claims that she sank a submarine off the cast after a bribf battle. FRENCH TRANSPORT TORPEDOED. New Toik, August 13. A French three thousand ton transport was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. FRENCH STILL.BORING THROUGH. COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED London, Aug. 13. A French communique states: Between the Avre Jand the Oise we captured the village of Grury and progressed norih of Koye-snr-Matz and north of Cheincourf. On the Yesle we repelled two counter attacks against our positions on the north bank in the region of Fismes Unofficial Paris reports also claim 40,000 prisoners and TOO guns.