Show wa ON BRITISH COMMERCE submarines SINK BRITISH STEAMERS AFTER CREWS LEAVE VESSELS give men chance to ecale from doomed bhele VH Veri ele sels after which torpedoes Torpe doe are fired and ship ships sent to bottom liverpool the german submarine Bub marina ua ual 21 un saturday Satu rJay began raiding brit lish shipping on the west coast of eng land in the path of a steamships the north shields steamer ben den creachen Cru achen was mas torpedoed ei on off fleet wood lancashire the entire crew of twenty men was landed here the frught steamer linda blanche was eunk sunk only eighteen miles north west of the liverpool ur bar I 1 the crew of eleven men TW wa brought into hestwood he Ile etwood by the trawler deblec another ship Is reported 4 to have been eunk sunk by the submarine which also pursued but did not overhaul the belfast liverpool steamer graphic all england Is greatly disturbed by this latest attempt of the germans to enforce the doctrine of admiral yon to prey on all shipping enter lag ing british ports the ibe captain of the ben creachen Cru Achen the first ship to suffer says he and his crew were given ten minutes to leave the abili when overta overtaken kea by the submarine sun marine hardly bad had the tho crew got into nto the boats when a torpedo was bred fired and the steamer went down the crew of the sunk linda blanche tell that the submarine S after sudden ly 17 coming to t the he surface moored her self to apo tr leeward leeard side of the steam er the crew of the german rne me gave cigars and cigarettes to the a steamers teamer a crew but the latter were eventually given ten minutes to leave the ship the german officers said the regret ed having to sink the linda bianche Dinn DIAn che but them the hid md orders to do so and must obey them |