London, Feb. 19.
The German steamer Rostock has been seized by the French Navy. The vessel left the Spanish port of Vigo in an attempt to reach Germany, accompanied by the Morea, a freighter captured by the British Navy.
The British destroyer H.M.S. Daring was torpedoed and sunk today, the Admiralty officially announced this afternoon.
Naval quarters here termed "fan-tactic" the German claim that four British naval convoys were successfully attacked yesterday by German submarines.
Contrary to the usual German custom, no attempt was made by the "Morea crew to scuttle their ship. The vessel surrendered and was taken to a port on Britain's western coast, where she arrived yesterday. The seven officers and thirty men on board were taken to a concentration camp.
Members of the crew said they had tired of waiting idly in a Spanish port, where the ship had remained since the outbreak of the war, and decided to run the risk of being captured in an attempt to reach Germany.—Havas,
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