OCR Text |
Show MINE DESTROYS PASSENGER SHIP Paris, Jan. 7. Two hundred passengers passen-gers perished when an Italian steamer steam-er was sunk by a mine near San Giovanni Gio-vanni di Medua on the Albanian coast. On board wore 425 Montenegrin recruits re-cruits from the United States. The vessel, laden with a largo quantity quan-tity of foodstuffs, was bound from Brindisi, on the Italian coast, across the Adriatic, when it struck a mine just off the port of Medua and quickly quick-ly went to the bottom. News of the disaster was given out officially by tho Montenegrin consulate consu-late here tonight. According to dispatches from Athens, Ath-ens, great anxiety is fetf there over the fate of nine ships laden with grain, recently purchased in America. None of the nine vessels has either been signaled or reported arrived in port. San Giovanni di Medua, situated in the Gulf of Drin, about sixteen miles south of Scutari, has been tho favorite fav-orite landing place of steam and sail craft running food and ammunition across the Adriatic from the Italian coast. Consequently it has been the hunt f K ing ground of tho Austrian mine lay- K ers and submarines. Fully a score i'( K of vessels have been sunk by the IB Austrians In the waters in this re- J h glon since the Italians have begun K sending supplies to the relief of the H Albanians and Serbs driven Into the I K Albanian mountains. i B |