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Show BRITISH STEAMERS ARE TORPEDOED NEW YORK, March 1. The British merchant steamship Tiberia, of .4880 tons gross, owned by the Anchor lino, was sunk by a German submarine about February 27 while bound for this port, according to information received receiv-ed in shipping circles today. The crow was rescued. AN ATLANTIC PORT, March 1. The British freight steamship Manhattan Man-hattan of 8004 tons gross, was torpedoed torpe-doed and sunk while in convoy of warships war-ships and within hailing distance of an American merchantman, it was learned today upon the arrival here of , an American oil tanker. |