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Show : SAY HOSPITAL SHIP WAS SUNK BY MINE AMSTERDAM, July 3. The sinking of the Urltish liusplLU shin l.huuluvety Castle, annmineeil by the i-frltish u.lmir- i altv to liave been sent to the bottom by an 'enemy submarine off the. Irish coast on June 27 with the probable loss of more than 200 lives, was due to her strik- j lug- a liiitlsh mine, ln all probability, ! says a semiofficial note from Hcrlm, re- ! eeived here today. j "Uko all similar assertions of the ! British admiralty," the note reads, "the assertion in this case that a German submarine was responsible for the fate of tho Llandovery Castle is also probably incorrect. It appears from the later news that no one on board the steamer ob-V ob-V served a U-boat or a torpedo. ln all I, probability the cause of the loss will be j found to be attributable to a British mine." :jl if The British admiralty's accounts of ;f the sinkhiR of tile Llandovery Castle '; stated that after she was torpedoed a submarine appeared, the commander of !' which hailed tho captain's boat, ordered I him on board the U-boat and questioned ' him sharply, accusing him of having l eight American aviation officers on J board, which the captain truthfully de- ' nied. The captain, two others of the ship's officers and a Canadian medical officer also, who were interrogated, were finally final-ly allowed to go. Survivors reported that the submarine was afterwards heard shelling an unseen target. |