Amsterdam, Jan. 22.
Seventeen members of the crew were drowned when the Swedish steamer Flandria (1,179 tons) sank on Thursday after striking two mines 100 miles off Ymuiden, in northern Holland, it was revealed today. Four other members of the crew, after spending two days in an open boat, were landed at Ymuiden on Saturday night by a Norwegian steamer. The Flandria was en route from Gothenburg to Amsterdam.
Another neutral ship meeting the same fate was the Danish vessel Tekla 1,469 tons), which sank off north-east Scotland yesterday, it is believed to have struck a mine. The crew was rescued by a Norwegian ship and taken to Bergen.—Reuter.
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