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Show STEAMERS TAKEN Standard Oil Tank Steamship and Norwegian Grain Ship Detained by British. London, Jan. 20, 6 IS p. m (Delayed). (De-layed). The Standard Oil tank steamship Petrollte, from Philadelphia Philadel-phia January 3 for Copenhagen with a cargo of petroleum and the Norwegian Nor-wegian steamship IMons, from Baltimore Balti-more January 1 for 4Christiania with a cargo of wheat, rtye and barley, have been taken into Kirkwall. I It was announced from Washington Washing-ton on January 17 that state department depart-ment officials were investigating an affidavit by Captain Thompson of the Petrolito that his vessel was fired, on and stopped by an Austrian submarine, sub-marine, off Alexandria, Egypt, on December De-cember 5 last and that supplies wore removed. The affidavit was said to have declared that fourteen shots wore fired at the ship, one of which crashed into the engine rom and Injured In-jured a Danish seaman and that the submarine commander took one of the Pctrolite's crew aboard the submarine sub-marine and held him as a hostage v hllc he obtained provisions from the tank steamship. |