Show GERMANS WAR ON BRITISH SUBMARINES SINK BRITISH 1 STEAMERS AFTER CREWS l' l LEAVE VE VESSELS VESSELS s' s r to Esc Escape pe F From om I Doomed Ves Ve's Vessels ls After Which i Torpedoes es are Fired and andI I Ships Sent to Bottom I Liverpool The The German s submarine U 21 on Saturday began raiding Brit Brit- lish shipping on the w west st coast of England England England Eng Eng- land in the path of transatlantic steamships team hips I The North Shields steamer Ben was torpedoed off Fleetwood Fleetwood Fleetwood Fleet- Fleet wood Lancashire T The l entire crew of twenty men was landed here here The steamer Linda Bl Blanche was sunk sunk only eighteen miles northwest northwest northwest north north- west of the Liverpool bar lightship The crew of eleven men was brought into Fl Fleetwood etwood by the trawler Another ship is reported to have been s sunk by the submarine which also pursued but did not overhaul the the Liverpool Belfast steamer Graphic All England is greatly disturbed by this latest attempt of the Germans to enforce th the doctrine of Admiral von to prey on all shipping enterIng entering enter enter- Ing British ports 0 The captain of the Ben the first ship to suffer says he and his crew crew were given ten minutes to leave the the ship when overtaken by tl the e submarine Hardly ha had the crew got into the boats when a torpedo was fired and the steamer went Vent down The crew of the the sunk Linda Blanche tell that the submarine after suddenly sudden sudden- ly coming to the surface moored herself herself herself her her- self to the leeward side of the steam steam- er The crew of the German r roe rne e gave cigars and cigarettes to the steamers steamer's crew but the latter were eventually Iy given ten minutes to leave the ship The German officers said Ithe the having to sink the Linda Blanche Elanche but they had orders to do so and must obey them |