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Show HOLLAND STEAMER A IMOF WAR TORPEDOED BY SUBMARINE OR STRIKES MINE AND GOES TO BOTTOM. All Persons on Board, Including a Number of American Passengers, Rescued as Result of Assistance Brought by Wireless. London. The Holland-Lloyd passenger passen-ger steamer Tubantia sank early Thursday off the Noord Hinder lightship light-ship as the result of striking a mine or an attack by a submarine. All the passengers, among whom are said to have been several Americans, Ameri-cans, and members of the crew, were rescued, it is reported. The steamer carried between eighty and ninety passengers and a crew of 300. She was a vessel of 15,000 tons. The Tubantia left Amsterdam Wednesday Wed-nesday for the river Plate and was to have stopped at Falmouth tor additional addi-tional passengers and freight. Early Thursday morning wireless distress calls from the steamer were received at the Hook of Holland and torpedo boats and other craft rushed to het : assistance. Some of these boats . reached the steamer before she sanS and took off passengers and member! i of the crew while others picked m . survivors from the ship boats in whiob i they had taken refuge after the explo , sion. |