Feb. 1.
The British steamer Royal Crown, 4364 ions, was attacked by a Ger-bomber off the British coast yesterday. The vessel was beached when it was found to be sinking.
Fifteen survivors were landed after seeing seven cotnrades washed from Vera a lite-boat and drowned.. It is feared that another lHe-beat, with the remainder of the crew, has capsized.
Police boarded the ship and removed the mutilated bodies of four tiembeéts of the crew who were killed when the plane attacked the vessel, machine-gunned the decks and dropped an incendiary bomb amidships. =Retrtet.
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