Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-07-02 | Page 1 | Belgian Steamer is Sunk

Sent Down 1,400 Miles I Off Atlantic Coast, I June 21. H WASHINGTON, July 2. The Bel- IH gian steamer Chiller was sunk 1,400 miles off the Atlantic coast on June 21, the navy department today announced. H Twenty-five survivors were picked up by a sailing vessel on June 27. X jH The following statement was issued: "The navy department is informed jH that the Belgian steamship Chilier was sunk by shell fire from a German sub-marine, sub-marine, about 1,400 miles at sea from the Atlantic coast, on June 21. Twen- jH ty-five survivors were rescued on June 27, by a sailing vessel. First information was received last night. The Chilier was a ship of 2,966 gross The Chlier was sent down in mid- H ocean three days after,, the British transport Dwinsk was torpedoed 700 miles from the American coast. It is thought probably, that both vessels were victims of a German submarine 1 or submarines returning to base after raiding off the United States. No evidence of submarine activities near the shores of America has been reported since the steamer Henrik Lund was sunk 120 miles cast of Cape " Hatteras on June-10.