Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-04-06
FIVE MORE SHIPS
Sent TO BOTTOM;
z WERE NEUTRAL
Norwegian Bark Nor and Three
Tyne Trawlers Torpedoed by
German Submarines.
DUTCH VESSEL IS BLOWN UP
Steamer Schieland Is Destroyed in
North Sea, One of Her Grew
Perishing.
DUTCH VESSEL IS BLOWN UP

London, April 3.-Five more yes.
sells, two of them flying neutra.
flag, have been destroyed.
The German submarine U-10 tor.
pedoed three Tyne trawlers, the
Gloxiana, Jason and Nellie, yester.
day, and the German U-20 sent the
Norwegian bark Nor to the bottom
of the North sea.
The fifth victim, the Dutch steam
er Schieland, was blown up yester-
day morning in the North sea. The
dispatch from Hull telling of the
disaster did not give the cause OF
the explosion.
One man of the vessels crew was
killed. The captain and seven 9TH
er members of the crew were taken
to Hull, while another boat with
seven sailors is missing.
The Schieland was CT 653 net ton
mage and was built in 1909. She
was 221 feet long, 33 feet wide and
10 feet deep. Her home port was
Rotterdam.
The eleven members of the crew
of the Nor were landed yesterday by
the steamer Unita at the Hook of
Holland.
N After all the members of the crews
of the trawlers were safely in small
boats the Germans blew up tn traw-
lers.
They then towed the fishermen
towards the Tyne until they encoun-
tered fishing craft which brought the
men ashore
The fishermen say that the COM
mander of the submarine was quite
genial. He supplied hot coffee and
tobacco to them but told them eve
have orders to sink everything. It
is war,eand England started it,"
Raids by two aviators of the al
lies in the German province of Ba-
den inflicted damage in the cities of
Mullheim and Neuenburg. The de-
struction of property in Mullheim is
described in London dispatch as
considerable although only slight
damage was done in Neuenburg.
A decided extension in the range
of operations of German submarines
is indicated by Lisbon dispatch to
the effect that the U-2S has been
operating off the coast of Spain. The
British steamer Southpoint, which
went down off Cape Finisterre, is
said to have been torpedoed by the
U-2S. 1t is more than 700 miles |
from Cape Finisterre to the nearest ,
German submarine base. The cape
is about 500 miles north of Gibral- ,
tar.
The suggestion that Turkey was
on the point of suing for a separate
peace with Russia is repudiated by
both the Turkish and Russian am
bassadors at Rome. The former is
quoted by a Rome newspaper as say
ing there was no reason why Turkey
should seek peace in view of what
he described as the excellent military
position of his country. The Russian
ambassador is said to have declared
his government never would con-
clude peace separately from Great
Britain and France.
The fighting in the Carpathians is {
described in Berlin dispatches as I'M
usually bitter. The Russians, push I
ing their way through deep snow,
are persisting in their efforts to dis
lodge the Austrians from the passes '
and heights, but are said to have !
little in the way of Is
definite successes. The Russian war Is
office, however, states that substan-
tial results have been achieved. In
the campaign in northern Poland an
important victory is claimed over
the Germans who are said to have
retreated hastily in one section of
the front west of the Niemen river.