The Archive · 1915

British Vice-Consul, Havre

The British steamship Oriole of the General Steam Navigation Company, which left London oe January 29 was due at Havre the following day. She has not arrived nor is there any news of her whereabouts, except that two life buoys marked 8.8. Oriole were picked up near Rye last Saturday. There is grave reason to fear that she mar have fallen a victim to the German submarine which torpedoed the Tokumaru and Ikaria. She carried a mercantile crew of twenty-one hands all told.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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