SAFE IN PORT
ST. LOUIS REACHES LIVERPOOL. NO SUBMARINES SIGHTED. GOOD GUNNERY PRACTICE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 28, 12.10 p.m. London, March 27. The St. Louis, 11,629 tons, owned by the International Mercantile Company, of New York, has arrived at Liverpool from New York. She is the first liner armed fore and aft to cross the Atlantic. Many correspondents were aboard, but no submarines were sighted. Barrels with periscopes were set afloat as targets, and hit at two miles' range. She carried 33 passengers, including five ladies, and Lord Fuuness, Hon. Joseph Martin, Labour member for St. Pancras, Capt. Hartley, and an American naval officer, who was on the bridge for 71 hours.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13447, 28 March 1917, Page 5
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