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Show w JAP STEAMER IS SIKBYGERMAN Tokio, Nov. 7 G'30 p. m. The Japanese Jap-anese steamer Yasakuni !Maru, 5,118 tons gross, was sunk by a German submarine near Gibraltar, Wednesday. Wednes-day. The captain and crew reached shore safely The Yasakuni 3Iaru evidently was tho victim of one of the German submarines sub-marines which have passed safely through the Strait of Gibraltar Into the Mediterranean Sea to undertake a campaign against the " merchant shipping of the allies and already havo sunk several vessels. Tho Yasakuri Maru sailed from New York October 6 for Oran, Algeria Alge-ria and arrived at Gibraltar October 23. |