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Show AMERICAN SHIP LANDSTORPEDO Naval Gunners Plant Shot Between, Be-tween, Twin Periscopes of Enemy Submarine. OFFICER TELLS STORY Own Vessel Later Sunk by Unseen Submarine and Eleven Men Lost. AN ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. 31. Three hours before .the Amorican steamship Lewis Luckenbach was torpedoed tor-pedoed and sunk by an unseen submarine subma-rine on October 11, naval gunners aboard the vessel planted a shot between be-tween the twin periscopes of an enemy ene-my submarine and sent her to the bottom, bot-tom, according to an officer of the Luckenbach who arrived here today. The ofTlcer, who halls from Brockton, Brock-ton, Mass., expressed surprise that the fact had not become known in the United States and declared that American Amer-ican naval officers on the other side knew of the Incident and conceded the sinking of the undersea boat. The Luckenbach, a steel crow vessel of 3906 tons, was sunk while bound for Havre with a general cargo. She was built In 1903 at Camden, N. J. The captain, nine members of the crew andone of the naval guunors aboard were reported lost in the sinking or the shjp. |