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Show GREAT LOSS TO BRITISH NAVY London. Nov 13. For almost a veek It has been known to a few in London that H M. S. Audacious, a dreadnought of L'3,000 tons (built last ; year) had been In collision with a mine off the north coast of Ireland. Later the news was spread that the survivors from the dreadnought had been picked up by the White Star line steamer Olympic. The Olympic, meanwhile, was re- : ported to have put in at Lough Swllly, on the northeast coast of Ireland. Although Al-though application was made to the censor for confirmation or denial of these reports, none was forthcoming. On the contrary, the censor prohibit ed any meintlon being made of the disaster. The first of the Olympic's passengers passen-gers arrived at London at 6 o'clock I this morning Announcement had been made yesterday morning that the passengers would arrive at Eus-ton Eus-ton station on a special train at 12:40 today. There is no such train regularly and when the newspaper men wenc ! to Euston station at the appointed hour they learned that the Olympic's passengers had arrived over various roads at various stations in tho early hours of this morning. Two of the Olympic's passengers were located by the International News Service I ondon correspondent at the Savoy hotel this afternoon. One -of them denied he had been on the Olympic and the other refused to talk. It is evident the British government gov-ernment Issued instructions before the passengers were allowed to leave the Olympic at Belfast to keep secret se-cret what they may know of the disaster. dis-aster. ' Secrecy Maintained. Charles M. Schwab, the steel man the onlj passenger to be allowed to leave the Olympic at Lough Swllly, admitted today that he obtained this permission only on the condition that he keep silence. One report of the affair is that the Audacious sighted and sank a ship laying mines off the Swedish coast. Ihe Audacious is said then to have wirelessed the Olympic of the danger, dan-ger, only a moment later herself em-lhasizing em-lhasizing it by coming in contact with one of the mines. The explosion Is said to have caused her boilers to burst, scalding 147 men, three of them fatally It la said the Olympic came up in time to tow the Audacious into a small harbor on the Irish coast, where she was beached She will be quickly raised and repaired. |