Athens, Sept. 2. bats another vessel has been sunk in the Mediterranean by a submarine—the second within 24 hours.
The latest victim is the Soviet steamer Molakieff, which was sent to the bottom off Skyros Island. The submarine which made the attack is reported to have hoisted the Spanish Nationalist flag. One member of the crew was killed by the explosion, but the remainder managed to reach land safely.
Only a few hours earlier, the 7,000-ton tanker Woodford, which was in the process of being transferred to British ownership, was tor-pedeed off the coast of Spain by an unknown submarine. The second engineer was killed and eight other members of the crew, chiefly Greeks and Rumanians, were injured, The captain of the vessel, which sank three hours after being struck, is a Greek. The only Englishman on board was the control officer, The survivors declare that the submarine made no attempt to save them.
The loss of the Molakieff is the second suffered by the Soviets in less than a week. On Tuesday the Russian steamer Timiryazev (1,075 tons) was torpedoed and sunk about five miles off the Algerian coast between Dellys and Tigzirt—Reuter.
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