MORE FRIGHTFULNESS.
RELIEF SHIP SUNK. CREW LEFT TO PERISH. Renter's Telegrams. (Received March 12, 1.55 p.m.) LONDON, March 11. The Cork correspondent of 'Lloyd's News" reports that the Belgian relief steamer Storstad (6028 tons, Norwegian), bound from Buenos Ay res was sunk by a submarine in daylight. Thirteen survivors have been landed, including an American, but two boats, carrying 30 men, are missing. The survivors spent 36 hours in a stormy sea. The fourth engineer died of exposure. The submarine refused to tow the boats, which it shelled.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 962, 12 March 1917, Page 11
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88MORE FRIGHTFULNESS. Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 962, 12 March 1917, Page 11
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