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Show I BRITISH VESSEL IS I LOST OFFIRELftND H MERCHANT VESSEL VIKNOR BE LIEVED TO HAVE BEEN STRUCK BY MINE LAID BY GERMANS. HB Vessel Had Been Mining Several HI Days When Some of the Bodies HJ and Wreckage Washed Ashore HK and Loss Became Known. HB Londoii.It was officially announced HI nt tho admiralty Monday that tho Drlt- Hh dnh armored merchant vossol Vlknor HI Jiad boon lost off Ireland with all Hh hands. Tho vossol, It waB Btatod, HB cither Btruclc a mlno or foundered, HI Tho admiralty, in Its statement, Hb says: Hb "Sho lias been missing for somo HlJ days, and must now bo accoptcd as Host, with nil her otllcors and men. HbJ 'Tho anise of nor loss is uncertain, HlJ out aa somo bodloB and wreckage have HlJ Leon washed ashoro on tho north coast of Iroland, It Is 'presumed that Hb during tho recont bad weathor she Hi cither foundered or, bolng carried out HB of her course, struck a mlno In seas Hb -whoro tho Qormans aro known to havo laid them." HI Tho Vlknor -was formerly tho Vlk- HH lng, and was commandoorod by the admiralty on Docember 12. Sho was HI in chargo of Commandor Ernest O. HH Ballantyno. Tho numbor of her crow H cannot bo ascertained. |