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Show AMERICAN STEAMER STRUGKBYTORPEDO WAS NOT SERIOUSLY DAMAGED AND CREW RETURN AFTER TAKING TO BOATS. No Passengers Aboard and No Lives j Were Lost. Ship's Name and Nationality Painted in Large j Letters on Her Sides. I 1 London. The American steamer N'ebraskan, Captain Green, from Liverpool, Liv-erpool, May 24, for Delaware breakwater, break-water, was torpedoed by a submarine ; at a point forty miles west-southwest j of Fastnet, off the south coast of Ire- i land. j The sea was calm at the time. The crew at once took to the boats and stood by the steamer. It was soon ascertained that the Nebraskan was not seriously damaged. dam-aged. She had been struck forward and her foreholds were full of wsier. The crew returned on board and got the vessel under way. No lives were lost among the crew. The Nebraskan Ne-braskan did not carry any passengers. The foregoing information was received re-ceived by the British admiralty in London and it was at once communicated commu-nicated to the American embassy. A message to Lloyds says that an armed trawler went to the assistance of the Nebraskan and stood bv her all 1 night. The Nebraskan passed Queenstown Wednesday afternoon on her way to j Liverpool. She was proceeding under j her own steam at S knots an hour. . I A message to the Star from Liver- pool says that the name and nationality nation-ality of the Nebraskan were painted j j in large letters on her sides. She was in water ballast, j The German submarine campaign j is continuing actively. Dispatches j I from Norway say the people of that -country have been aroused by the sinking last week of the Norwegian ! steamer Minerva and the attempt to topedo the Iris, which went to her assistance. i |