1 FROM 0. S. DIE WHEN MINE DESTROYS SHIP Montenegrin Recruits Are Drowned on the Albanian Coast by Sinking of an Italian Steamer. VESSEL IS BLOWN UP AS IT NEARS HARBOR Austrian Mine Layers and Submarines Busy; Fate 1 of Nine Other Ships Is in Doubt. (Special Cable br Arrangement wltb Toiidon DaiV Telegraph and International Ners Service. ) PARIS, Jan. 7. Two hundred passengers passen-gers perished when an Italian steamer was sunk by a mine near San Giovanni di Medua on the Albanian coast. On board were 45 Montenegrin recruits from the United States. The vessel, laden with a large quantity quan-tity of foodstuffs, was bound from Brin-disi, Brin-disi, on the Italian coast, across the Adriatic, when it struck a mine just off the port of Medua, and quickly went tc the bottom. News of the disaster was given out officially by the Montenegrin consulate here tonight. According to dispatches from Athens, great anxiety is felt there over the fate of nine ships laden with grain, recently purchased in America. None of the i.ine vessels has either been signaled or reported re-ported arrived in port. San Giovanni di Mcdua, situated in the Gulf of Drin, about sixteen miles south of Scutari, has been the favorite landing place of steam and sail craft running food and ammunition across the Adriatic from the Italian coast. Consequently it has been the hunting ground of the Austrian mine layers and submarines. Fully a score of vessels have been sunk by the Austrians in the waters in this region since the Italians have begun sending supplies to the relief of the Albanians and Serbs driven into the Albanian mountains.