Oslo, Sept. 25.
'The 1,500-ton Swedish steamer Gertrud Pratt has been torpedoed and unk fifteen miles off Langesund, on the southern coast of Norway, by a German submarine. 'The crew, numbering 18 to 20, were landed' safely by a Norwegian torpedo-boat, which witnessed the sinking of the ship. The Gertrud Pratt had a cargo of wood pulp for England.
The sinking was the fourth by w German submarine off the southern coast of the Scandinavian peninsula in three days. "Meanwhile, according to reports from Berlin, officials in the German capital express approval of the sinking during the week-end of two Finnish ships carrying cellulose to England. They add that "the commander of the submarine would have committed nothing short treason had he permitted the ships, which were carrying materials "of war, to continue to England." Reuter.
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