SUBMARINE’S SHOTS
4.3O'O’CLOCK EDITION.
-—+—— Sl.\l\ll\G OF A YACHT. CROWD PANIO-GTRIOKEN. GOVERNMENT ORDERS INQUIRY. United Press Assn—flee. Tet. Copyright. (Received July '2O. 3.15 p.m.) lA,t.\'lH,>N, July 10. The Paris corrospuntlent of the Times says that thousands or holiday lllakel‘s at the seaside resort of s:lth 'l‘rupex, who were watching with inlervst the French submarine .\talanle attempting to sink the blazing yacht Hippocumpe. fled punir-stricken when shells began to land among them. The llippoeampe. laden with tour tons of petrol. had caught fire. menacing harbour craft. 'l‘he Atalante. responding to the owners' appeals. tried to tow her to the upen sea. She broke loose. and so the Atalante attempted to sink her. The Ilrst shot from a 75 millimetre sun landed near gendarmerie ashore. The second severed an electric. cable and damaged a. sawmill. The third tell an the heat-h. The yacht was not souppered until the eighteenth shot. The Minister of Marine has ordered an inquiry immediately the Atalanta reaches port. _—
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Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19942, 20 July 1936, Page 8
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