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Show WOUNDED MEN I SENT TO BOTTOM I i- Over Fifty Allied Soldiers Lose ! Lives When Ship ' IH Is Sunk. IH TWENTY-EIGHT INJURED ' H Great Converted Liner, Lar- H gest in Commission, and IH Equipped With 6,000 'i Beds. ! Athens, Nov. 22, 6:30 a, m., via Lon-don, Lon-don, 4:52 p. m. The White Star line jJ steamship Britannic, serving as a hos- k pital ship for wounded soldiers of the entente allies, has been torpedoed and sunk, according to an official an-nouncement an-nouncement made here today. The Britannic was sunk off the isl-and isl-and of Kea (Keos, south of Atica in the Aegean). She carried 1000 Brit-ish Brit-ish sick and wounded men. The Britannic was was enuipped with thirty-five life boats and the loss fM of life incident to the sinking is sup- IH posed to have been small. IH Fifty Lives Lost. London, Nov. 22, 4:10 p. m. The ' British hospital ship Britannic has lH been sunk with the loss of about fifty lives, says a British official announce- JM ment today. 'The Britannic was sunk by a mine ; jH or a torpedo yesterday morning in the Aegean, according to, the official state- jH ment. There were 1106 survivors of whom about twenty-eight were injured. ( Full details of the disaster, it was an- , jH nounced, will be published as soon as they are received. jH It is understood hero that the Britannic sunk was tho new White WM Star liner of that name of 47,500 tons. Largest Hospital Ship. It was reported in a special dis-patch dis-patch from London on December 6 last that the 47,000-ton White Star liner Britannic, then recently complet-ed, complet-ed, would be used as a hospital ship bv the British government, making H the largest hospital ship in commis-sion, commis-sion, with an equipment of six thou-sand thou-sand beds. Last June, however, it was reported in a news dispatch from Liverpool that the Britannic had been returned to the White Star line for restoration into a passenger steamer. The White Star liner Britannic was the largest vessel of the White Star 'fleet afloat Built in 1904 at Belfast, she was 852 feet long, 94 feet beam, and 59 feet depth. Her length was somewhat less than that of the White Star liner Olympic, which measured tM 888 1-2 feet, but the Britannic had the greater tonnage, the Olympic's being 46,300 tons as compared with the Britannic's 47,500. Late in November, 1915, it was re- jH ported that the Britannic was being fitted out for the Dardanelles Bervice aa a hospital ship. The only other British steamer Britannic is a com- tiM paratlvely small vessel of 224( tons grosB, regarding which there is no j record of having been In the British jH war service. No Americans Aboard. ! Washington, Nov. 22. At Red Cross , headquarters today it was stated there weer no American surgeons or nurses j under Its direction serving on hospital ships in European waters. Their only JM workers are several units which aro ' ashore. They pointed out that, If there wero Americans aboard, the Britannic they undoubtedly reX' unteers who had gono abroad on their -own account. IH Greo" sSer Erlsoa tos arrived fe 118 Soto of mall and forced her to H throw her curso overboard. |