SUBMARINE WAR
FRENCH LOSSES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Rec;ived 0.10 a.m., August- 24th. .PARIS, August 23. The French steamer Balkan, 1709 tons, was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on the loth, and sank within a minute: 102 were saved. The Messageries Maritimes liner Polynesien, 6363 tons, en routo from Bizerta to Salonika with Serbian troops, was mined on the 19th inst., and sqnk. Nineteen men arc missing.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16618, 24 August 1918, Page 7
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67SUBMARINE WAR Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16618, 24 August 1918, Page 7
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