Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ll victimsto the U-boats. Among them was theStandard Oil steamer Healdton,which was torpedoed without warningoff the coast of Holland at 8:15 on theevening of March 21. The Healdtonsailed from Chester, Pa., with a cargoof refined petroleum . for Rotterdamand was within the so-called safetyzone when attacked. The torpedo struckthe illuminated sign marking the nameand nationality of the ship. Thirteenout of the forty-one composing her offi-cers and crew were Americans and ofthese seven were drowned or killed bythe explosion. Twenty lives were lostaltogther. The German sea-raider Mowe re-turned to a home port reporting thecapture of twenty-two steamers andfive sailing ships, chiefly British. Theiraggregate tonnage is 123,100. Thisbeats the record of the Mowes cruiseof last March, when she took fifteenvessels. The Mowe brought in 593prisoners. Her other captives had beensent in by the Japanese steamer Hud-son Maru to Pernambuco, Brazil, andin the Brtish steamer, Yarrowdale, to>Germany.
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(■uitcsu of the London Sphere, © N. 1 Herald , A DUEL BETWEEN A U-BOAT AND AN ARMED MERCHANTMAN This sketch from the London Sphere shows how a rapid-fire gun on the stern of a steamer will compel the submarine to submerse, leaving only thetop of its periscope out of water. If this is hit the submarine is blinded. The speed of the submerged submarine is reduced by half and it cannotuse its guns. The torpedoes can be discharged while the submarine is under water, but only a few torpedoes are carried and they are not so accurate as shell fire „,, „ t-> • The provisional The New Regime * . , , government estab-m Russia lighed by thfi Duma seems to be in full control and to becarrying out its very radical programwith little opposition. It has receivedthe support of the army and navy withthe possible exception of some of thetroops in the Riga section. Three reac-tionary premiers, Stunner, Goremykinand Golitzin, are safely imprisoned inthe fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul.With

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