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Show 80 LIVES LOST WHEN STEAMER IS TORPEDOED French Liner Ville de la Ciotat, With Passengers Aboard, Sunk by Submarine Sub-marine NO WARNING GIVEN BY ENEMY WARSHIP Belgian Vessel Also Sent Down by Submarine, Part of Crew Missing, Brit-ish Brit-ish Steamer Destroyed LONDON Dec 27 8 05 p m Eighty of the pa senders and crew of tie Ville de la Ciotat lost their lives. The remainder of the per sons on board were saved PiRlS Dec 7 5 30 p m The French steamer ille de la Ciotat with passengers on board was torpedoed wjthqut warning end sunk m the Medi terranean by a submarine on December 4 thb ministry of marine announced today Host of the passengers and members of the crew have been res cued. The Ville de la O otat was returning from the far east and v. as due to ar nve at Marseilles today The survivors wore taken to Malta arriving vesterda morning The statement follows The steamer Ville de la Ciotat was torpedoed and sunk on the 84th in the Mediterranean by an enemy submarine without warning A "Biajlffitjfef the? passengers and crew were picked op by as English steamer Details have hot been re ceived. The Ville de la Ciotat was one of the largest steamships sunk recently in the Mediterranean. Her gross tonnage was 6478 She was 4S7 feet long and SO feet beam. She was built at La Ciotat Cio-tat France, in 189' and was owned by the Mesager es Mar times of Mar seilles he was last reported on her arrival at Sa gon Indo China on December De-cember 1 on a voyage from Yokohama to Marseilles |