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Show sliiEiir ANOTHERWARSHIP BRITISH NAVY HAS THREE NAVAL DISASTERS WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. Battleship Torpedoed, Steamer Sinks as Result of Accident and Battleship Battle-ship Goes Down While Operating Oper-ating in Dardanelles. London. The British battleship Majestic, another of the ships supporting sup-porting the allied army on the Galli-ipoli Galli-ipoli peninsula, was torpedoed ani eunk by a German submarine Thursday Thurs-day morning. Nearly all the officers end crew were saved. At about the same time the steamer Princess Irene, a mine-layer, built last year for the Canadian Pacific Brit-tsh Brit-tsh Columbia coast service and was taken over by the admiralty at the commencement of the war, was accidentally acci-dentally destroyed by an explosion while at anchor at Sheerness, where i4he was undergoing repairs. All her crew, numbering 250, except one seaman, sea-man, and in addition seventy-eight dockyard workmen who were aboard at the time, lost their lives. The estimates of the fatalities as made by the morning papers vary (from 300 to over 400. The Daily Mail says that in addition to the seventy-eight shipwrights there also were bn board 100 from Chatham, as well as 240 members of the crew, which (would give a total of 418 persons on the steamer. These two naval disasters, coming within twenty-four hours of the sinking sink-ing of the battleship Triumph In .the pardanelles, have cast a gloom over London, both official and unofficial. Added to this is a deep air of mystery. mys-tery. The blowing up of the Princess Irene is seemingly beyond explanation. explana-tion. Rumors that it was the work hi spies are heard on all aides. Taken In connection with the disaster to the lattleship Bulwark on November 26, rwith a loss of 750 men, which was similar in every respect and which lias never been explained, in spite of prolonged investigation, it has Stunned naval officials. |