Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-03-24 | Page 5 | Admit Loss of Big Battleship

ADMIT LOSS OF BIG BATTLESHIP Nearly 300 Lives Are Lost When French Warship Is Torpedoed. PARIS. March 23. The French cruiser (battleship) Danton was torpedoed torpe-doed in the Mediterranean sea on March 19. it was announced officially by the admiralty tonight. Two hundred hun-dred and ninety-six men were lost and 606 were saved by the destroyer Mas-sue Mas-sue and patrol boats The statement says: "The cruiser Danton was torpedoed, in the Mediterranean on the 19'h and sank a half hour later. The victims numbered 296. The escort, the Mas sue and patrol boats, succeeded in saving sav-ing 66 men. The Massue attacked the submarine with grenades and it disap-: peared and was not seen again " The sinking of a French battleship j of the Danton class by a German sub- I marine in the Mediterranean on March. 19 was reported by the German admiralty admir-alty March 20. The Danton displaced I 19,028 tons and her ( omplcnient before' the war was 681 officers and men. She1 was commissioned in 1909. U I