Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-21 | Page 1 | French Soldiers Go down with Steamer

j FRENCH SOLDIERS CO DOWN WITH STEAMER London Prints Story of Torpedoing Tor-pedoing of Calvados in the Mediterranean. (SrrUl C'bl Arrangement w!:h LionSon Dlty Trlosrapri mi Iatorna;loal Newi Smc. I LONDON, Nov. 20. The Star this evening prints a story of the torpedoing of tho French steamship Calvados in the Mediterranean. According to this story the Calvados was conveying 800 French troops who had been fighting on G alii al-ii poli to France. The iuference given is that most of them were lost when the vessel sank. The Star's story, no authority for which is given, says: The French troop ship Calvados was torpedoed by an unknown submarine sub-marine in the Mediterranean. The Calvados carried 800 French troops who had been in the trenches fifteen fif-teen mouths nnd were returning home. Fifty-threo survivors were picked up by the British steamer Lady Plymouth, which found them hanging to rafts and floating wreckage. wreck-age. One survivor, an officer, said he saw three soldiers, who had lost their hold on the raft, swim toward the submarine. They reached it safely and wore clinging to it iu hopes of being taken aboard. A submarine officer in gold lace kicked the men's hands and forced them to let go. They drowned within with-in twenty yards of the raft, their comrades being powerless to assist. The French ministry of marine on November No-vember 16 issued an official report on the sinking in the Mediterranean of the Calvados, together with steamer Maria and the Italian steamer Ioni. This report re-port said nothing about the Calvados being in the service of the French gov-erument. gov-erument. It stated: "There is no news of the crew of tho Calvados. " 1 nai .;r-J----r.-gc