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Show AMERICAN LOSES LIFE IN FALABA London, March 31, 2 52 a m. The official announcement Is made that among the missing passengers of the steamer Falaba which was sunk by a German submarine Is Leon Chester Ches-ter Thrasher, an American engineer, who had been living for the past year on the Gold Coast, British West Africa. Af-rica. Thrasher had an American passport and in the form he wab required to fill out before embarking described himself as an American citizen, but gave no American address. He was employed by the Broomassle mines, Ltd. Inquiry at the offices of the company In London elicited the Information Infor-mation that nothing had been heard from Thrasher and that it was presumed pre-sumed he had been drowned. Passengers rescued from the Falaba say that when the submarine approached ap-proached the steamer the German captain shouted in English through a megaphone "I am going to sink you." Another first-cla6s passenger from the Falaba reached Liverpool tonight, having been rescued by a trawler and landed at Milford The Daily Mail in an editorial In connection with the drowning of Thrasher, says that the question whether the Washington government will permit a belligerent to destroy an offending passenger ship, carrying an American citizen without giving that citizen any opportunity to escape. Is raised In Us sharpest form. |