Lisbon, Sept. 8.
The British steamship Manaars was torpedoed by a German submarine 8 miles off the Cape of Roca at 539 am, on Wednesday it was learned when the Netherlands vessel, Mars, landed here yesterday with a numbers of survivors. Of the crew of 88, 42 are still missing.
Simultaneously, an oficial report from London announced that a Ger-
Washington, Sept. 8.
President Roosevelt today proclaimed a state of limited national emergency. The action was taken to strengthen United Stites neutrality and bolster the country's defence within the limits of peacetime author ization, the proclamation plained.—United Press, man submarine had sunk the British steamship Royal Sceptre.
The United States Liner, Washing-on, near the English Channel, also reported by radio that she was going to the assistance of the British freighter, Oliver Grove, which had send out an SES. according to a report from New York.
Government, says a Washington dis: patch published today in the "New York Times.'
'The Government, it adds, is making, investigations to ascertain' if the re= orts, some of which bear evidence accuracy, can be conilemedl—Reuter.
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