London, July 7.
The Admiralty claims that an armed Italian merchant: cruiser has been crippled and three supply ships sunk -in the Mediterranean by British submarines.—Reuter.
Sipora masses, localized in the "chromosphere. These eruptions, "which are near the spots, attain suddenly, in a few minutes at the most, an exceptional burst and resume gradually, sometimes during a few hours and sometimes during a few minutes, the same intensity of the neighbouring parts.
These eruptions are like a paroxysm. -The frequency of their appearance and their bursts allow one to appreciate this activity bet. Ter than the duration of a sun spot or its score. The number of these. eruptions is far bigger than thought of at first. Sometimes there are intervals of hours. They are never the same in bursts and are very unstable. The disappearance and the reappearance of. telegraphic transmissions concur with the character of the bursts: in the suddenness, rapidity with which the maximum is ott"ined, the short dura. tion, Tt is thus supposed that the sun spots, two of which were seen yesterday, and the bright eruptions, that may have originated two or three days ago, are responsible for the disruption of cable. and communications.
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