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Show STEAMER FIGHTS A SUBMARINE Montreal, Quebec, Aug. 1. Tho British steamer Clodmoore, just in port from Genoa, Italy, had- a battlo in the Mediterranean sea with a German Ger-man cr Austrian submarine, her commander, com-mander, Charles Hunter, reported today. to-day. He believes he left the submarine subma-rine in a sinking condition. The Clodmoore plainly showed tho marks of the submarine's gunfire. The steamship i8 armed with one gun for defensive purposes and it waa with this, her captain sad, that he shelled the submarine when sho attacked at-tacked and so seriously damaged her that she drew off apparently in a sinking condition. The battlo lasted half an hour, according ac-cording to Captain Hunter, but only ono shell did serious damage to tho Clodmoore. This pierced the vessel near tho engineer's and mate's quartern. quar-tern. Several shells, howecver, dropped drop-ped on the vessel's decks. |