HE Empress of Australia has New York, Feb. 23. advised that she had arrived at the position given of the mysterious torpedoing of an unknown vessel but so far saw no signs of wreckage in the vicinity, Radio Marine announced early thi morning.
The Canadian ceeded to the position which Radio Marine announced after cepting a message from the mystery trawler.
There were no signs found which indicated that a vessel had been torpedoed, the Empress of Australia reported, but said the search would be continued for a short while to locate wreckage.
'A report from Lisbon said that radio stations in the Portuguese port had licked up S.0.S, messages from a British ship, which did not give its name, but reported its position as 200 miles north-east of Madeira, 'The' messages also said that the vessel had been tor~ pedeed by an unknown submarine.
Numerotis American radio stations reported tonight that they had heard mysterious undetailed messages telling of the torpedoing of an unidentified Tight trawler by a submarine in mid-
The American freighter Tulsa was the first ship to pick up the mysterious report and relayed it to the Radio Marine station at Catham,, Mass. that the distress message believed to be a hoax.
'Navy Department' quarters Washington said, however, that the mystery trawler, if it exists, may have struck a floating mine known to be drifting in the general area from which the POCO calls originate ed—United Press.
"The ship's name is not known the identity of the submarine not give Tulsa reported. "The trawles gave its position as Lat, 3210 North, Longitude 3745 West. The trawler suid it was sinking."
The Tulsa reported the ship which ent the distress signal used the call letters POCO which were reported to have been assigned to the Nether-ands trawler Flandria, Radio Marine later reported it had intercepted a message correcting the position of the trawler to Longitude 27.45 West, thus placing the vessel about 400 miles south of the Azores.
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