FLIGHT OF NATION DESTROYERS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11616, 15 August 1918, Page 5

FLIGHT OF NATION DESTROYERS.

SAFETY DIFFICULT TO FIND

SEEKING ST ASMS GERMANS

Reutei reports: Lenin and Trotsky '.have found Kronstadt unsafe, and' have gone to Pskoff, where jthsv are protected by German troops. THE U BOAT. MORE PLANS FOR ITS DESTRUCTION.

Montreal, August 14. The New Turk Times’ Washington correspondent states that the U boat raids were discussed r.t length at a Cabinet meeting, when plans for more successful combating of submarines were considered.

FRENCH LINERS TORPEDOED,

London, August 14.

The French liners Djemnah and Australian have been torpedoed. There are 442 from the Djemnah, and three of the Australians' 1 passengers missing.

STEAMERS AND FISHING BOATS TORPEDOED. Wasnington, August 18. The Navy i Department announces that the Norwegian steamer Somerstad was torpedoed on Monday. There were no casualties. Captain Hanson saw.the wake of the torpedo, and the engines were reversed, avoiding the torpedo, which, however veered to leftwards, returning and hitting the vessel amidships. An Atlantic port reports that the fishing schooner Acushln has arrived with the crews of three torpedoed fishing boats. The news was brought that .the crew cf an, old timer cruiser were probably kille,d when the submarine shelled the lifeboats.