SUBMARINISM.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14406, 17 May 1917, Page 10

SUBMARINISM.

TRANSATLANTIC LINER

ATTACKED.

NARROW ESCAPE OP THE

BALTIC.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

New York, May 15

A torpedo from a submarine narrowly missed the liner Baltic on April 19th while en route for New York.

An American liner arrived' to-day painted with white waves1 with leaded background to resemble the water.

A passenger saw a cruiser off the English coast firing' at a U boat. He did not see the result.

FRENCH STEAMER SUNK. ft

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received May 16, 6.40 p.m.) Madrid, May 15. . The French ship Medjirda, 1918 tons, was sunk.