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Show VESSEL ATTACKED BY FROM 3 TO 8 OF THE U-BOATS LONDON, July 24. From three to eight sut marines are paid to have been concerned con-cerned in the attack on the Justicia, according ac-cording to the Daily Mail, which says the fight began at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon and lasted intermittently until Saturday morning. The shin sank about 1 o'clock In th afternoon, after nine torpedoes had ben tired. When the liner was first struck tha torpedo-boat destroyers which accompanied hi'r raced to attack the enemy and droprvd many depth charges, while patrol boats Mood by the ship and a tug took her in tow. The second and third torpedoes Tvtjre tired about 5 o'clock In the afternoon. Both missed their marks, one going ahead of the steamer and the other aft. Two hours later another torpedo was seen coming, but when it got close a gunner on the Justicia, with extraordinary aim, hit it clean and exploded it. All was quiet until S o'clock in the evening, eve-ning, when the tilth torpedo was sighted. The" gunners on the Justicia placed their shots so near it that the torpedo was de-hVcted de-hVcted and missed its target. Most of the crew by this time had been transferred to t-ther ships which had remained re-mained near the liner all night. The Justicia was well on her way to port Saturday morning, when toward 8 o'V'ork the dinners ayain were hard at work as the sixth and seventh torpedoes w. nt past. Two hours later a submarine rtred the eighth and ninth torpedoes, and one of them struck forward and the other aft. |