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Show CRUISER'S LOSS MAY CAUSE BIG SCANDAL PARIS, Feb. 22. Th opposition new, papers are trying to create a scandal out of the loss of the French cruiser Jean Bart, which they claim was notoriously unfit to go to sea. It is asserted that she broke down three times before reaching the Canary Islands and was compelled to remain tfn days at Las Palmas in order to repair her boilers. The cruiser was on the way to the West Indies, first touching touch-ing at Dakar in order to land a scientific party, when she was wrecked. |