Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-24 | Page 1 | 296 Lives Lost When Warship Goes Down

C1 HARLES H. RANDALL of California, Prohibitionist Prohibition-ist congressman, who will support sup-port Wilson. ahsgsv?, I b i ! I w ' i: 1 ! Ml ' " ' j 4 ' ' ? 1 288 LIVES LOST WHEN WARSHIPGDES DOWN French Admit Sinking of Battleship Danton by German Ger-man Submarine. PARIS, March 23. The French cruiser cruis-er (battleship) Danton was torpedoed in the Mediterranean sea on March 19, it was announced officially by the admiralty ad-miralty tonight. Two hundred and ninety-six men were lost and 606 were saved by the destroyer Massue and patrol pa-trol .boats. The statement says: "The cruiser Danton was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on the 19th and sank a half hour later. The victims numbered 296. The escort, the Massue and patrol boats, succeeded in .saving 606 men. The Massue attacked the submarine with grenades and it disappeared disap-peared and was not seen--again. " The sinking of a French battleship of the Danton class by a German submarine sub-marine in the Mediterrauean on March 19 was reported by the German admiralty admiral-ty March 20. The Danton displaced 18,-028 18,-028 tons and her complement before the war was 681 officers and men. She was commissioned in 1909. BERLIN, Tuesday, March 20, by wireless to Sayville, March 23. Entente losses in warships have now reached a total of 850,000 tons, says an Overseas News ageDcy announcement today. This computation includes the French battleship bat-tleship of the Danton class recently announced to have been sunk by a German Ger-man submarine in the Mediterranean. The statement says: "By tho destruction of a ship of the Danton class the warship losses of our enemies, excluding auxiliary ships, have reached in round numbers 850,000 tons displacement. This is equal to the combined com-bined tonnage of Russia and Japan at the beginning of the war and is only 60,000 tons less than tho tonnage of the United States navy, which was the third largest in tho world at the beginning of the war. ' '