Show HITS MINE AND S S BRITISH STEAMER GOES DOWN IN CHANNEL AFTER LANDING passengers AND CREW liner sailed from new york on oc tober 7 and cabled a cargo of merchandise and war supplies london lloyds announces that tho he british steamer alagnia ila has been sunk and that her captain and nien men of the crew have been landed with tho the exception of 0 a tow few MOM missing the ships company were landed by a trawler all the passengers had been landed previously the cunard liner alagnia Ala unla which from new york october 7 was sunk by a bitne in ili the english channel on thursday according to cable advances to tile the local cunard officials while proceeding to london from froin fill mouth on oil tuesday the officials said she bhe landed at falmouth all of 0 her p passengers B e 0 s including twenty one americans who sailed on her front from new york tito alagnia one of the newest vessels of the cunard cubard line sailed fron from now new york on tho the day the german submarine U aa 5 arrived at newport and must have passed nantucket at about the lre time the U 53 tile tho next morning began her operations la 14 that vicinity against british shipping incidentally ci the wilts was armed for defense ag ollist submarines tho the carried a cargo of about tons ot 01 merchandise including war supplies but no induni munitions among the items listed were rubber and copper goods food supplies and chemicals the main part of her cargo was to bo be discharged at london unlit in 19 3 the ship was f fact t long with a gross gros tonnage of |