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Show uu 0-35 COMMANDER IS REWARDED Sinks 126 Vessels Totalling 270,000 Tons, Including Cruisers, Transports and Liners. Berlin, Oct, 18, 4 p. m. Via London, j Oct. 19, 8:30 (Delayed.) Tho order of Pour lo Merlte has been awarded Lieutenant-Commander Arnauld de la Perriere, commander of the submarine U-35 for his achievements in sinking 126 vessels totalling 270,000 tons. Among tho vessels destroyed by the U-35 were one French and one English Eng-lish small cruiser. While assigned to the Mediterranean, Commander Perriere Per-riere sank a number of loaded transports, trans-ports, munition supply ships and cloven clov-en armed merchantmen. He is credited cred-ited with fighting soventeen battles and In one voyage destroyed 91,000 tons of shipping and brought home four cannon as prizes." The U-35 visited visit-ed Cartagena, Spain, last June, last June. Tho U-35 arrived in Cartagena on June 21. it was later officially an-nqunced an-nqunced in Berlin that the submarine carried an autograph letter from Em- peror William to King Alfonso of Spain and medical supplies for in- ' terned Germans. News despatches I from Spain said that Commander de j la Perriere had stated that while in that country he had sunk fifty ships 1 including the French liner La Pro- , vence. |