The 10825-ton British tanker James Maguire was sunk off the east coast of England last week, belated reports. Gisclosed today. The ship was the third Allied ship of more than 10,000 tons to be sunk by German mines or naval action in the past week. The (Canker, twas understood, actually was owned by the Standard Oil Company of Now York through a Hongkong. holding company and carried a Chi nese crew from Shanghai.
Two thousand men volunteered for mine-sweeping duty to meet the magnetic mine menace, it, was off-laily announced today. They will bbe enrolled in a special branch of the Royal Naval Reserve and will be known as the Trawler Reserve, snd out-numbered, they fought to a An Admiralty statement reveals that the Rawalpind! was sunk while form= ting part of the northern patrol by which the contraband control of Ger-Iman trade is enforced. "The Admiralty statement says this patrol duty is particularly arduotis due to the long fGark nights and the severe cold, and requires for its performance large vessels of good. sea keeping qualities [capable of enduring frequent storms, At 3.30 p.m. on November 23, says the statement, when cruising south~ least of Teeland. the Rawalpindi sighted on enemy ship. Captain Kennedy, ined this. vessel. through id "It is the Deutschland all right." and the crew were im= mediately ordered to The course of the Rawalpindi was altered to bring the enemy on the Starboard of action stations. Smoke~ Moats were also lit and thrown into the water to enable the Rawalpind! to
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