The Archive · 1938

Submarine Attacks British Ship

East Mediterranean Incident Reported from_ Valencia srectat TO THE "Me, MIMALD"

London, Jan. 25.

'A submarine of unknown nationality is unoMcially reported to have attacked, without warning, the 3,000- ton British steamer, Lake Geneva, January 15 in the western Mediterranean, 'The submarine, at a surface range of 300 yards, is said to have fired torpedo which, however, passed under' the hull of the steamer.

The owners of the Lake Geneva received no news of the attack until to-day, when they learned that the master of the vessel, calling at Valencia during the course of his trading between Spanish ports, hod reported the attack to the British Consul at that, port—Reuter.

Raia Paulo in Ceuta London, Jan, 26.

Some 105 casualties were inflicted by Spanish Republican Government

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