The Archive · 1916

A German Inaccuracy

London, Feb. 7.

The Admiralty announces that a fire occurred on H.M. boarding steamer Peel Castle (1,474 tons! the Straits of Dover. No lives were lost.

The Admiralty exposes the German lie that a Zeppelin sank the cruiser Caroline in the Humber with great loss of life. It says that neither the Caroline nor any other ship was struck by a bomb in the Humber or at any other port.

Paris, Feb, 7.

Members of the Cabinet and other distinguished persons attend. ed the very impressive funeral of the Zeppelin victim:

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

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