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Show H NON-COMBATANTS PERI8H. H Many Lose Lives When Germans H Sink Two Steamers. H London. About 150 lives woro lost B n tho sinking by Gorman subma- B rlnos of tho African liner Falaba and B tho British steamer Agulla, bound B from Liverpool for Lisbon. B Tho Falaba, which was torpedoed B In St. George's channol Sunday after- M poon, carried a crow of ninety and H ono hundred and flfty-ono pnssongors, H and of this total only 140 woro res- B cued. Of tlioso rescued, eight died B later from exposure. B Tho Agulla had a crow of forty-two B and tliroo passengers, and of theso ftr twenty-throo of tho crew and all tho B passongcrs woro lost. m In both cases, on sighting tho sub- M marlno, tho captain tried to escape B by putting on all speed possible, but B the underWntor craft overtook tho B steamers, showing that Germany now B bus some of her most modorn subma- M rlnos engaged In tho blockade oper- B ations against England. |