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Show TEXAS WAS TOWN Steamship Sunk By SohUShot From a Turkish Fort Athens, May 3 According to the nowspaper Hestia, an inquiry Into the cause of the sinking cf the Turkish Btcamshlp Texas, off Smyrna, April 29, which was held at tho American consulate at Smyrna, has established the fact that a Turkish fort fired two blanks and five ball shots because the Texas was disobeying the regulations regu-lations In not having "a separate pilot boat. Tho Turkish commander testified that it must have been a mine which oxploded, as the shots were not aimed aim-ed at the vessel. As tho explosion occurred amldshlp however, the possibility pos-sibility that ono of the shots struck the steamer's bollor was not excluded. exclud-ed. oo |