Lisbon, Oct. 9.
The crews of two Greek steamers, sunk in the Atlamtic by submarines of unknown nationality, have been saved by two Portuguese and two Spanish ships.
On October 1, a submarine stopped ihe Greek freighter Aghios Nicolas (6/40 tons) on her way home from Argentina. After warning the crew to abandon ship, the submarine fired several shells which hit the vessel under the waterline and caused her the twenty-six members of the Over and disappear.
crew drifted for seven days in two whale-boats, exhausted from lack of water and supplies. On October 7 the Portuguese fishing vessel "Ana," returning home from Newfoundland, sighted one of the lifeboats and saved the thirteen men in it.
The second whale-boat was sighted by two Spanish trawlers, and the thirteen seamen taken on board. The men were landed at Leitaos, a fishing village on the Portuguese coast.
The second Greek steamer, the 8500 ton ship Antonius Chantris," was torpedoed by a submarine while on her way to Rio De Janeiro from Liskon. "There were 22 passengers en board at the time of the disaster.
An SES. signal brought the Portuguese ship Serpa Printo to the scene and both passengers and crew were taken on board.—Havas.
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