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Show : M'NEELY NOT ONE OFTHESURVIVORS London, Jan, S, 10:13 p m The Peninsular &. Oriental company has received a dispatch from Malta saying say-ing that eleven more survivors of the steamer Persia have been landed, Including In-cluding Lord Montague. Robert N. McNeely, the American consul at Aden, was not among the survivors landed at Malta. The Peninsular & Oriental company says the survivors consist of three English, ono Italian and seven Las-carB. Las-carB. A dispatch to Reuter's Telegram company from Gibraltar, says Edward Rose, the Denver, Colo., lad who was a passenger on board the steamer Persia, left the Persia when she put In at Gibraltar and started immediately immedi-ately for Spain. Washington, Jan. 3 President Wilson Wil-son started to Washington from Hot Springs, Va,, tonight to take personal charge of the nation's foreign affairs Ir the new crisis brought about by the sinking of the British steamship Persia with a loss of at least one American life. The situation Is regarded re-garded In official circles as being the most serious to confront this government govern-ment since the submarine operations of the central powers began. |