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Show 133 PERISH WHEN SPiMP SIS Date of Disaster Not Made Public ; Premier Reports Sinking of Second Vessel. LONDON. May 27. 9:32 p. m. Forty -eight passengers and eighty-five members of the crew of the Spanish steamship C. de Eizagulrre are believed to have perished per-ished as a result of the sinking of the steamer. A dispatrh received by Reuter's Telegram Tele-gram company, the date of which has not been made public, reports the loss of the C- de Eizairuirre. Te dispatch says that, according to the second ofneer, the steamer sank in five minutes. He was awakened by a great noise and rushed to the deck and tried to get passengers pas-sengers into his boat, but the boat was swept away and almost simultaneously the steamer broke in half. He saw no other boats afloat, except that in which he and the other survivors escaped. Among the forty-eight passengers missing miss-ing Is the Spanish consul at Colombo, Ceylon, The C. de Eizaguirre was a vessel of 4376 tons gross, owned by the Cia Trans-At-lantica of Barcelona. MADRID. May 27, via Parle. 12:30 p. m. Marquis Prieto. the Spanish premier, today announced that the Spanish steamship steam-ship Begona. a vessel of 2S62 tons gross, had been sunk. ; MADRID, via Paris, May 27. 6:30 p. j m. The long-expected assembling of the 1 elements in Madrid favorable to the en- I tente allies was held this morning at the Plaza de Turcs, There was great enthusiasm en-thusiasm on the part of the twenty-rive thousand people present. A counter-demonstration by Germano-philes Germano-philes was forbidden by the authorities in order to prevent possible disturbances. Conspicuous among the decorations of the great bull ring were the names of 1 thirty-six torpedoed Spanish vessels in huge letters. The speakers included all the leaders of the progressive party in Spain. Miguel Unamuno. former rector of Salamanca university, provoked thunderous thunder-ous applause when he declared that the liberal objects of the allies in the war were demonstrated by the entry into it of the "great American democracy." The meet in a- concluded after the adoption adop-tion of a resolution asking the premier to make public a declaration of Spain's sympathy with the allies. Some disturbances dis-turbances were caused by Germanophiles as the crowd was disbanding. A man in the crowd fired at Alejandro Ler-roux. Ler-roux. Republican deputy, without hitting htm. The police arrested a number of tiie demonst rants. |