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Show HEALDTON SHOT INTO FLAMES BY THE SUBMARINE LONDON7, March 23, 2:53 a. m. Thirteen Thir-teen members of the Amerjcan steamer Healdton's crew have arrived at Tmuiden, Holland. They say the steamer "'as sunk without tvarriins in the so-called "safe zone" and express the belief that nineteen men aboard the vessel were drowned. This information is contained in a Reuter dispatch dis-patch from Ymuiden, which follows: The steam trawler Java Vias arrived here with thirteen members of the Healdton's crew. They say the Healdton, Heald-ton, unwarned, was shot into flames by a German submarine in the so-called so-called "safe zone." Of the crew of forty-one, probably nineteen men were drowned, owing to a sloop capsizing. Two others, who jumped also were drowned. The Healdton was bound for Rotterdam Rotter-dam by way of Bergen with 6000 tons of petroleum. |