The Admiralty announced that the d. Five members of the crew of fifteen of the British steamer Lowland were rescued when the vessel struck a mine in the North Sea and sank, the announcement said. The remainder of the crew were missing.
Attesting to the thoroughness with which the Germans have sown the North Sea with mines, Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, Parliamentary Secretary, in a written reply to à question yesterday in the House of Commons said, "Fifteen mines, all German, have come ashore on the British coast during the last fortnight."
Eleven survivors of the Ellerman Line steamship Darino, 1351 tons, which was torpedoed off the French coast November 19, were landed at an east coast port yesterday. Sixteen of the crew of the vessel were lost. The survivors spent three days aboard a U-boat before their transfer to an Italian ship.—United Press, French Trawler Sunk Bayonne, Nov. 24. A German submarine sank a French trawler yesterday, after permitting the captain of the trawler and the fifteen crew members to take to a lifeboat, by firing five cannon shots into the vessel's side. The French sailors were picked up by a Spanish fishing boat and were taken to Spain,—United Press.
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