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Show GERMANS SINK MANY STEAMERS Berlin, Sept. 29, bv wireless to Tuckerton, N. J., Sept. 29. The following fol-lowing semi-official announcement was made here today: "Eleven British fishing steamships were sunk by a German submarine -in the North sea September 23. Four Belgian Bel-gian lighters were sunk in one day at the entrance to the English channol by another submarine. "On September 27 a naval airship successfully attacked 'the aerial station sta-tion at Lebara (on the gulf of Riga) and the defenes batteries on Oesel island. is-land. Although tho airBhip was shelled heavily, it returned undamaged." London, Sept. 29, 8:37 p. m. Tho Norwegian steamer Vindeggen has been sunk by an Austrian submarine, according to a Router dispatch from Madrid. Twenty-four of the crow of the vessel havo been landed at Las Palmas, Canary islande. The steamer Vindeggen measured 11.G2S net tons. She was last reported as leaving Spezla on August 31 fon Tyne. London, Sept. 29, 1:49 p. m. Lloyds announces that the steamer Roddam has been sunk and that 11 members of tho crew have been landed land-ed at Valencia. Tho Roddam was a British steamer of 3,218 tons gross, built In 1912 and owned in Newcastle. She left Barry, Wales, on September 3 for Savona, Italy, and was reported at Gibraltar Soptember 10. |