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Show CHEMUNG SINKING IS DESCRIBED BY RESCUED CAPTAIN PARIS. Dee. S. 6:10 p. m. "The Che-miini; Che-miini; went down with the A nvriran Ha g fly ins, all rh;ht ." said fa ptaln John .1. . Duffy, master the steamship Ohemunp, whirl was sunk by a submarine off tiie roast -of Spain November 'o the Associated As-sociated Press today. "Hut f had no argument ar-gument over the Uaa with the Austrian submarine commander." r Captain Duffy was in Paris for a few hours toil ay on lus way io JCnsda nd, whence he will sail for the United States. "We were hrcd on altr I had hoisted a signal that 1 was slopping." said the captain of the Chemung. "Wet had been rm the lookout for submarines and had deter mi ned to stop as soon as we were signaled. Therefore, when the first can was tired, our signal that we were stopping stop-ping went up. "Nevertheless, a shell tired afterward struck our bows. "When the ship was struck by the torpedo, tor-pedo, our boats were t not out of ra litre of the debris, which shot up into the air for a thousand feet and fell all around us. It was a lucky chance that no one was hurt. "Third Officer .Tacohsen, who went to !hc submarine with the ship's papers, said the Austrians first intended to make me a prisoner. But he said to them: 'Don't. The captain is a very Rood sort.' I was j not taken aboard the submarine, but Ja-1 Ja-1 cobsen said she was of a very targe type, heimr 170 feet lone:, be guessed. He said 'slie had a hish bow like a yacht, not like jthe bow of an ordinary submarine." I LONDON, Dec. R. 1:20 p. m.The ' Anchor line' steamsh ip Caledonia of 9223 I tons progs is believed to Jiave been sunk, ! says an announcement made today at I Lloyd's Shipping agency. I The steamship Caledonia had for some i time been in t he service of the British government. The vessel was 500 feet long. "$ feet heaan and ?,:) feet deep. She was built at Glasgow in 1904. . The Caledonia was formerly in the passenger pas-senger service between New York and Glascow, one of the crack ships of the Anchor line fleet. The local offices of the line said today that they had heard nothing of the vessel since she was commandeered com-mandeered for government sendee in August. 1314. 'LONDON, Dec. 8. 12:48 p. m. Lloyd's Shipping agency announces that the Belgian Bel-gian .steamer KeJzer and the Norwegian steamer Meteor have been reported sunk and their crews landed. The Belgian steamer Keltier, of "ii0 tons gross, was last reported as leaving Newcastle. N. B., on November 21 for Queenstown. The Belgian steamer Kelzer is not listed list-ed in available records. The Norwegian steamer Meteor, of 42U tons gross, was last reported leaving Philadelphia on November 24 for London. LONDON. Dec. S, $:25 p. m. TJoyd's announces that the Norwegian steamer Nervion lias been sunk. The Nervion was a vessel of 1920 tons and was owned at Chrlstiania. LONDON, Dec. S, 1:30 p. m. The Norwegian Nor-wegian steamship Caloric, on her voyage from the United States to Scandinavian ports, was fired upon by a German submarine sub-marine anil two members of her crew-were crew-were killed, says a dispatch from Copenhagen Copen-hagen to the Exchange Telegraph company, com-pany, The Caloric escaped damage. The Caloric is a tank steamer of 7013 tons gross. The vessel left Port Arthur. Tex.. October 15 and Norfolk October 24 for rartniouth, England, according to the latest maritime records. LONDON. Dec. , 1:22 p. m. A Reuter dispatch from Chrisliania says it is announced an-nounced by the Norwegian ministry of commerce that in November nineteen Norwegian vessels, with a total tonnage of 32,903, wttt lost. The sinking of the Greek steamship Ipiros. 10S4 tons gross, by a German submarine sub-marine is reported in a Reuter dispatch from Las Fatmas, Canary islands. Renter's correspondent at Slavanger, Norway, says the Norwegian steamship Stettin, 412 tons gross, has been sunk by a German submarine. BOSTON, Dec. S. A cablegram asserting assert-ing that it was the steamer Citta dl Palermo, and not the Palermo, that was torpedoed off t ho Spanish coast on December De-cember was received today. The message mes-sage came to Robert A. Boit & Co.. m.rine underwriters, from their business correspondents in London. The Citta di Palermo, an Italian vessel of 1W tons, has been in service between Buenos Aires and Genoa. The Palermo, a much larger steamer, also of Italian registry, was bound from New York to Genoa. NEW YORK. Dec. S. Tt was reported in marine circles today that the American steamship Virginia had been sunk in tiie Mediterranean. Elfo-'is to trace the report re-port did not meet with confirmation, the owners.. Gaston. Williams & Wig-more, questioning its authen i k i ty. The Virginia, of l!0 tons, sailed from New York on November 2-1 for Spezia. Italy, where she arrived December 4. later leaving for Genoa, according to the Maritime Mari-time Register, although the owners said today rhey had heard nothing of the vessel ves-sel since she left New York. |