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Show oo m REV. SALISBURY I WAS ON PERSIA I American Missionary Takes M Passage on Ill-Fated British M Liner at Bologne and M Is Lost. M Washington, Jan. 8. Confirmation H of reports that the Rev. Homer R. H Salisbury of this city, an American j H citi&en, was a passenger on the I H steamer Persia, sunk in the Mediter- j H ranean, was received today by tho H stat department from Consul General jH Gaulin at Marseilles, France. -H Mr. Salisbury arrived at Marseilles H on the boat train from Boulogne and H took passage on the Persia, the dis- H patch said. His name does not appear iH among, the survivors. iH Authorities at Marseilles and agents H of the P. and O. line 'there have no H record of passengers who arrived on H the boat train as they held London per- 'H mltB, the consul said, and were not ,H booked at Marseilles. H nr !H |