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Show SUBMARINE SINKS NORWEGIAN STEAMER Brass and Copper Cargo Taken Off hy Germans Before Ship Is Sent Down by Bombs.- AN ATLANTIC PORT, April 29. The sinking of the Norwegian steamship Wegadesk We-gadesk by bombs, after the crew of a German submarine had held her a prisoner pris-oner for two days and had removed from her hold fifty tons of brass and copper, was described here today by members of her crew who arrived on a French steamer. The Wegadesk, of 4271 tons gross register, reg-ister, was en route to Genoa from Baltimore. Balti-more. On March 13, when about 180 miles off the coast of Morocco, she was stopped by a submarine. For two days, the men said, the Germans, assisted by the Norwegian crew. removed all the brass and. copper the U-boat could carry. The steamer was then sunk: On the ship arriving here were members of the crew of the Norwegian steamship Nordkyn, from Philadelphia to Genoa, with grain. This vessel was stopped in the same vicinity vi-cinity as was the Wegadesk and was sunk with bombs, after the Germans had removed re-moved all the fopd supplies. |