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[BURRYPORT -LAWLESSNESS

) MUMFIED BODIES I-

I REYNOLDS -DAViES

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I WHO IS DR. GERHARD ? !

I -FFORESTFACH FUNERAL._____

OUT FROM CARBiFF I

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OUT FROM CARBiFF I STEAMER GOES DOWN WITH TWENTY- ElCnT HANDS. I PIRATE'S DASTARDLY WORK Another etory of submarine outrage comes from Milford Haven, aud cnoe again very serious loes of life lias to lie recorded. The death roll, unless by some means the men have been rescued un- known to the survivors, amounts to 22— seven British and 15 Chinese. The steamship Strathnnirn, of\G'ia?- gow, bound from Cardiff with a cargo cf coal, was torpedoed 2b miles off the Bishops (near Stilly Islands) which ap- pears to be a favourite haunt of the pirates. The gtrathnairn carried a crew of 33 hands, eight being British and the. remainder Chinese. Eleven survivors were brought into Milford Haven hy the steam barge Th. mond, the Chinese walking over the docks into the tow a barefoot, with the few belongings that they could save, anri w?re escorted to tho J?hu Cory Sailors' Ee?t. for the ni?ht. Oue of them in broken EJ1ghh was a?le b givo an outline nÎ I the tragic occurrence, and tried to de- scribe how the boats capsized 3nd ji:? shipmates were lost. He also eh owed how the submarine crept round the ill- fated ship to the stern, apparently to as- certain her name. One British Survivor. I Th'3 only British survivor is the second officer, Mr. James Wood, of Belfast, who gave his version vqjr clearly when met after reporting the affair, lie said: We left Cardiff at 8 o'clock on 'Puesday night. The ship was struck by a tor- pedo without the slightest warning ships, 25 miles north-east of the Bishops, Scillics. The force of it burst the boiler, and soon the ship listed heavily to port. We never saw the submarine till after she had done the foul work. Then 6h e I vent within 20 feet, of the sinking ship- As soon as possible after the ship was struck the four boots were got out. Mine-, however, was the only one to get clear away, for one was smashed, and the other two capsized on being cut. clear of Jie davits. The captain and other ofifcers were in these. The submarine, -never offered to assist the solitary beat. Ia fact, Mr. Wood, ob- serving the Strat-hnaim was not sinking I quickly, pluekily attempted twice to get back to the ship but each time he w&» foiled by the submarine driving him ofi. He could not see the number of the sub- marine, as little moro than the peri- scope was visible. At 1245 midnight they were picked up bv the schooner Amanda, of ^Padstow, transferred to the steamer B-osahell-i, Chester, and a.t. the entrance of Milford Haven were again transhipped to the Thomond. [The Strathnairn was a steamer 4,33o tons gross, owned by the Strathnairn Steamship Co., Ltd., of Glasgow. Stl. was boilt in 1901.1

YNISTAWE PRESENTATION, I

V.T.C. AS RiFLE SHOTS.I

FINDING WORK FOR GIRLSI

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PROTECTING THE SOLDIERS I

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PARC WERN RED CROSS HOSPITAL

HIS WIFE'S PENSION.

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