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Show GERMAN U-BOATS SINK 13 SHIPS . - . . i : . --- German Submarines Sink Vessel .Off the Coast of New Jersey, But Only Sixteen Lives Are Lost. . German submarine raiders visited the coast of New Jersey and sunk 13 vessels in all this week. The last one to go down was the Norwegian steamer steam-er Eldsvold, which was unk yesterday yester-day afternoon about 4 o'clock off the Virginia Capes. The entire crew was rescued. This was a neutral ship. The French tanker Radlolelne unsuccessfully un-successfully attacked at 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning off the Maryland coast, probably was 100 miles north of the place where the Eldsvold was sunk eight hours later. Sixteen Lives Lost So far as known, the only loss of life was aboard the New York and Porto Rico liner, Carolina, and that was definitely established at only 16 by revised figures compiled by the company, showing that there were aboard the vessel only 218 passengers and 111 In the crew, making a total of $29 instead of 350, aa originally reported. re-ported. All those who perished evidently evi-dently were lost from the lifeboat which arrived yesterday at (Lewis, Del. Ten of them were passengers and six were members of the crew. |