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Show GERMANS WAR ON BRITISHCOIEBCE SUBMARINES SINK BRITISH STEAMERS AFTER CREWS LEAVE VESSELS. Give Men Chance to Escape From Doomed Vessels, After Which Torpedoes are Fired and Ships Sent to Bottom. Liverpool. The German submarine U-21 on Saturday began raiding iBrit. lish shipping on the west coast of Eng. land in the path of transatlantic steamships. The North Shields steamer Ben Cruachen was torpedoed off Fleet wood, Lancashire. The entire crew of twenty men was landed here The freght steamer Linda Blanche was sunk only eighteen miles northwest north-west of the Liverpool bar lightship. The crew of eleven men was brought into Fleetwood by the trawler Neblec. Another ship is reported to have been sunk by the submarine,' which also pursued but did not overhaul the Belfast-Livernool stpimw All England is greatly disturbed hy this latest attempt of the Germans to enforce the doctrine of Admiral von Tirpitz to prey on all shipping entering enter-ing British ports. The captain of the Ben Cruachen, the first ship to suffer, says he and bis crew were given ten minutes to leave the ship when overtaken by the submarine Hardly had the crew got into the boats when a torpedo was fired and the steamer went down ten iLCtreth00f llle sunk Linda Blanche tell that the submarine, after, sudden- yP,fCTin,f '? the SUrface moori herself her-self to the leeward side of the steamer. steam-er. The crew of the nc,n ........ rne gave cigars and cigarettes to the steamers crew, but the latter were eventually given ten minutes to lea" he shlp The German officers said he regreted having to sink the Linda Blanche, but they had orders to do so and must obeyithem. v A |