London, Feb. 14.
on British merchantmen, German submarines paid the full price today for attacks the Admiralty announced this evening. The submarines, now helpless hulks on the bottom of the sea, exposed themselves to retributory British naval action when they torpedoed the Sultan Star, 12,306 tons, the Gretafield, oil tanker of 10,900 tons, and the British Triumph, 8,501 tons. British action was lightning swift in the case of the U-boat that torpedoed the Sultan Star, for it was not 30 minutes later that the submarine was found and destroyed.
Meanwhile, a great number of men rescued from other sea tragedies, involving both British and neutral shipping, was landed in British ports
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