FRAUENLOB CONVERTED INTO A SHAMBLES.
(Received June 6, 1.10 a.m.) Rotterdam, June 5. A Frauenlob survivor states that the fleet left Wilhelmshaven at four o'clock on Wednesday morning. The British cruisers' shells converted the Frauenlob into a shambles. Arm's. Jeg^, and bodies flew through the air.. The scene was awful. Many of the t-re-.v were killed before the torpedo dealt the deathblow to the ship.
ELBING'S SURVIVORS LIBERATED.
The Hague, June 4
Official.—Two officers and 18 men of the Elbing'.s crew, and a British surgeon have been liberated in accordance with the Red Cross Convention;, because the rescuing trawler did not communicate 'with warships.
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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14195, 6 June 1916, Page 6
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104FRAUENLOB CONVERTED INTO A SHAMBLES. Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14195, 6 June 1916, Page 6
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