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Show tote Steam- ship is AHacked Unidentified Italian Vessel Is Torpedoed Tor-pedoed While on Way to Sicily Washington, Dec. 28. An uncon firmed report from Homo thnt an unidentified Italian passenger steamship steam-ship wns torpedoed whllo, on her way to Catania, Sicily, with n loso of lght lives, reached tho stato department de-partment lato today. It was not roportcd ro-portcd whether any Americans woro aboard. Tho American embassy at Iloino Is Investigating. London, )ec. 28. Tho submarine which appeared at the surfneo shortly short-ly alter the French steamer Vino do la Ciotat was torpedoed off tho Is!-nnd Is!-nnd of Crete (low the Austrian Hag, according to a dispatch to Renter's Telegrum company from Malta today. to-day. "It la learned from survivors," says tho dispatch, "that the vessel waa off Crete on her way from Japnn to Marseilles, when at 10 o'clock on tho morning of December 21, without tho sllglitnst warning, sho was shaken by a , tcrrlllo explosion, following which a submnrluo appeared (lying tho Austrian flag. Thero wcro on board 2C3 passengers for tho most part French, among whom wcro thirteen thir-teen children and a number of worn en, and thirteen oulcers and n crow C H' tho sailors being chiefly Las earn. , Passengers Remain Calm "FoI'owIhk tho oxptoBlou there wns n terrible Inrush of water through a big hole In tho stern, yet thero was no panto. Tile passengers gathered tin deck, showing tho greatest cool noon. Klvo boats and two rafts were ro'eased. One of ttho boats loadod wllh women nnd children cnpslzcd nnd all In It wcro drowned nnd an other boat was smashed against the steamer's stdo. "Boforo tho rest on board woro able to leave, tho vessel took her tin nl plungo to which a majority of the eighty deaths wero duo. "Paosongorn say that a Dutch and a Crek steamer woro In sight Just previous to tho torpedoing nnd therefore there-fore they boliovo thnt ono of them sheltered tho submarine Tho steamers steam-ers disappeared after tho torpedoing. "Tho submarine, according to accounts ac-counts of passengers, remained on tho sccno until tho torpedoed vessel sank nnd then circled around tho life boats, culling In a Jeering mannor. There la a British steamer behind you; she will pick you up. Two Sunk In North Sea London, Dec. 28. Tho Swedish steamer Norcus of 1229 tons gross, was sunk In tho north sea Christ mns day. Tho crew drifted about In two boat In terrific weather until on Monday when they Svaro picked up. Tho British admiralty steamer Van Stlrium also has been sunk. Tho crow was landed. |
