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Show cuil SiiF STIUCOTRPEOO NEW YORK. Feb T. The Cur.Ard iiner A u r a n ! a , 1? 4t tons, was torpedoed by German submarine w-f thin the lust forty-e'.pht hours while bound for the United States, it wj.i learned from officials offi-cials of thd Cunard line today. Althoufih badly damasted by the explosion explo-sion the ship was not sunk and is bo- : lieved to be makirg her way back to ; port w-:th th assistr.r. e of ftovemnient csses. it was said. The -h:p carried j but little carjro Th?re were thirteen or fourteen pus- ! senders aboard ti-a AuraniA when ?he : was struck, it was st.itcd at the ofnea of the Cunard line. No additional par-f.culrs par-f.culrs are yet available, it was addrd The Aurania is s sister ship of the Cunard Mr.er Anr.nia. punk b a sur-m?.r:ne sur-m?.r:ne last rr.omh. She was built in lKi at N'-cist'o-on-Tyne m the same ard wh.e the Mauritania was constrv.cted The ship was M'. feet lonv. sixty. five feet beam and had accommodations accommo-dations for .-v"1"1 i asser.grre in the c bin ard '.'i steerage The A crania made her first vo aee to this port in April. U'lT. She bad' not f'.cured in the records of this port sine that time. |