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Show REPORTS BATTLE WITH SUBMARINE NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Officers of the French freight steamship Honduras, which arrived here today from Bordeaux, Bor-deaux, brought reports of a running battle bat-tle with a German submarine on December De-cember 7, twenty miles from Brest. The officers said they believed the submarine subma-rine was hit. The Honduras was on her way from New Orleans to France with sugar. The submarine came up astern and opened fire with a deck gun. Twenty-eight shells were fired, some hitting the bridge and others taking effect in the after-part of the ship. With the first shot from the submarine subma-rine the fire was returned from a sis-inch sis-inch gun mounted on the after-deck of the Honduras. Thirty shots were fired. The U-boat suddenly ceased firing and drew away, giving evidence of having been hit. The Honduras registered 5913 gross tons. |