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Show (German U-Boat Destroys Steamship Daisy and British Brit-ish Schooner. NEW YORK, April 13. Reports of the torpedoing and sinking of the Danish Dan-ish steamship Daisy and the British schooner Greenwood by German submarines sub-marines in the Mediterranean were brought here today by survivors of the two vessels, who were passengers on a Spanish steamship. Acting under orders, they said, the survivors declined de-clined to relate any details of the sink-According sink-According to maritime records, the Daisy was of 1,227 tons gross register, built in 1907 and the Greenwood of 71 tons net register, built at Shel-burn, Shel-burn, N. S., in 1901. The survivors of the Greenwood said they were on their way from Newfoundland to an Italian port. Among other passengers arriving here was Captain J. A. Kimball, a New London pilot, who was on the American Ameri-can built Spanish submarine Isaac Peral, when she left the Connecticut port on February 2S for Spain under convoy of the steamship C. Lopez y Lopez. The engines of the submarine, Captain Kimball said, broke down when about 1,200 miles out and the submersible was taken In tow by the steamer and left at the Azores for repairs. |