London, Feb. 16.
Two Danish ships, the Rhone (1,064 tons) and the Sleipner (1,066 tons), were torpedoed off the east coast' of England in the early hours of this morning. Six persons are believed saved from the Rhone, and six passengers and six members of the crew from the Sleipner.
The wreckage of a Norwegian ship has been washed up at a point off Scotland. There is doubt over its identity.
Two Norwegian ships bound from Britain to Norway are overdue. One is the steamer Bisp (1,000 tons), reported from Haugesund today as being overdue and feared lost. The second is the steamer Start (1,168 tons), which left a British port nine days after the Bisp and has also not been seen since. Norwegian circles fear that the wreckage off the Scottish coast may be that of one or other of these vessels.
—Reuter,
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