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Show suffice WITHOUT WARNING FRENCH VESSEL ON WAY FROM ORIENT TO MARSEILLES IS TORPEDOED TOR-PEDOED IN MEDITERRANEAN. Seventy-nine Persons Drowned, Women Wom-en and Children Being Included Among Victims, Who Had No Chance for Their Life. Washington. Seventy-nine persona were drowned in the destruction of the French liner Ville de la Giotat, the American consul at Malta reported Monday to the state department. No Americans were aboard. The ship, he reports, was torpedoed without warning at 10:15 o'clock on December 24 and sunk in fifteen minutes. min-utes. The American consul reported further fur-ther that the rescued were picked up by a Moss liner after they had been in small boats two hours. The torpedoed torpe-doed ship, the consul reported, was on her way from Japan, China and Hawaii to Marseilles. The lost Included In-cluded one woman, a first class passenger, pas-senger, a stewardess and two children. |