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Show SUBMARINE WAK GAINS SUCCESS I ' r "Mi - London. March 17. 11:16 p m I I J Thli Rntish stonier Leeu warden, hound from London for Harlingen, Hoi- J land, lias been torpedoed by the Ger- I man submarine U-28. four miles south- I M past of the Maas, Holland, lightship, I 3 according to Reuters Maaslulfl corre-:.- spondent. I I , I J' The crew of seventeen men were . 3 ghen five minufeR to take to their '. m small boats, which the submarine I :M towed until a pilot was met The men I .1 were then transferred to the pilot boat '..1 and landed at Tfnnk of Holland Sunk by Gun-fire Another report received here from Rotterdam savs that the Leeuwarden I was sunk as the result of gunfire from 'he submarine after an oxritinc rhase of more than a half hour. This report declares that the submarine fired four times before the Leeuwarden's captain, cap-tain, seeing that escape m-as impossible, impos-sible, gurrendered. After the crew had disembarked four shots were fired by the submarine into the I,eeuwarden and she sank within a few minutes. The Leeuwarden was a cross-chan-nei steamer of 990 tons, and was owned by the Steam Navigation company com-pany of London. |