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Show SWEDISH SHIP IS SUNK BY GERMANS SIX OF CREW PERI8H AND FOUR TEEN REACH LAND AFTER VESSEL 13 TORPEDOED. Steamer Displayed National Colors and Had Her Name and Nationality National-ity Painted on Her Sides In Large Letters. Hull, 'Fourteen survivors of the crow of tho Swedish steamer lianna, which was torpodoed by a submarine off Scarborough on tho coast of England, Eng-land, early Saturday wero landed heru by a steamer which picked them up. Six of tho crow wero olther drowned or killed by tho explosion. Tho second mate, who was on tho bridge at tho tlmo of tho attack, said that ho did not see tho submarlno, which gnvo no nolco of her Intentions. Inten-tions. IIo saw tho torpedo upproach ing, but It was too lato to maneuver tho ship so as to avoid it, Tho explosion explo-sion caused the forepart of the deck' to fall in, imprisoning several of the crow In tho forecastle. Tho vessol floated for half on hour after being struck, giving tho survlv ors tlmo to tako to tho boats. Tho Hanna was bound from tho Tyno for Las pulmas, Canary Islands. When torpedoed sho was displaying her national colors, according to tho survivors, and her name and nationality nation-ality patntod on her sides In letters reaching from tho bulwarks to tho water lino. Therofore, tho rescued men doclaro, It was impossible for her to" bo mistaken for a British ship. |