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Show HOLLAND STEAMER A VICTIMOF WAR TORPEDOED BY SUBMARINE OR STRIKES MINE AND GOES TO BOTTOM. All Persons on Board, Including a Number of American Passengers, Rescued as Result of Assistance ; Brought by Wireless. London. The Hollnnd-Lloya paflscn gcr steamer Tubantta Hank early Thursday off tho Noord Hinder lightship light-ship as tin' roiiult of striking a. mlno or an attack by a submarine. All tho passengers, among whom nro said to havq been suvpral Amort cans, and mombors of tho crew, woro rescued, It Is reported. The steamer enrried between eighty and ninety passengers and a crow of 300. Sho was a vcbboI of 15,000 tons. Tho Tubantta loft Amsterdam "Wednesday "Wed-nesday for tho river Plato and was to have stopped at Fulmouth for nddt tlonnl passengers and freight. Early Thursday morning wlreloss distress calls from tho Hteamor woro received at tho Hook of Holland and torpedo boats and other craft rushed to hor assistance Somo of these boats reached tho steamor beforo she sank and took oft passengers nnd members of tho crow whllo others picked up survivors from tho ship boats In which thoy had taken refugo after tho explosion. |