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Show HEME -SAYS BIG SHIP MAY B1SAVE0 War Department Does Not Believe There Were Any American Soldiers on Board the White Star Vessel. COMPLEMENT WAS 2000 PASSENGERS British Armed Boarding Steamer Tithonus Was Sunk by Submarine on Tvlarch 26; Loss of Four Lives Reported. v LONDON, April 1. The British armed boarding steamer Tithonus ' wan torpedoed and sunk by a German Ger-man submarine March 26, according to an official statement issued by the admiralty, One mercantile officer and three naval ratings were lost. By International News Service. NEW YORK, April 1. The White Star liner Celtic lias been torpedoed; according accord-ing to a cablegram received today by official of-ficial of the line. The message read: "Celtic torpedoed. Hope to save Bhip." Xo additional information had been received re-ceived tonight. It -was assumed by White Star officials that they would have been notified had there been loss of life. They expressed the belief that the Celtic was eu route to America, but had no knowledge knowl-edge as to whether she carried any passengers. pas-sengers. The Celtic, one of the largest and most popular of the trans-Atlantic liners, was built In Belfast, Ireland, In 1310. She was 6S0 feet long with a seventy-five-foot beam and depth of forty-four feet. Her passenger pas-senger complement was 2000. More than a year ago the Celtic hit a mine off Liverpool, but was damaged only slightly. In 1016 it was reported that a bomb, presumed to have been placed on board at New York, was discovered on i tho Celtic upon her arrival at Liverpool, but this was denied by officers of the rdto Star line. It is tho Celtic which broSght $25,000,000 of .American securities from England in October, 1916. WASHINGTON, April 1. If there were-any were-any American soldiers at all on board the Celtic It ..was said hero today, they were very few In number and carried as "casuals" returning home. It was stated that there were no sick or wounded on board. , |