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Show FRENCH CRUISER IS Sill BlfSUBfflll Two Sailors Killed and Two Drowned; Others Saved by Patrol Boat. PARIS, Dec. 30, 12:20 a. m. The French armored cruiser Gaulois was torpedoed tor-pedoed In the Mediterranean sea, on December De-cember 27 and sank in half an hour, according ac-cording to official announcement. Owing to the coolness of the crew and the arrival ar-rival of patrol boats, there were only four victims, two of whom were killed by the explosion. The naval registers list the Gaulois as a battleship of 11.260 Ions displacement displace-ment and a complement of 631 men.- She carried forty -two guns. The battleship Gaulois served In the Dardanelles operations, opera-tions, but was sent bark to Toulon in March, 1915, for repairs. It Is possible that an armored cruiser has replaced it- |