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Show FRENCH SUBMARINE GOES TO THE BOTTOM IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL Rammed by a Mail Steamer, the Boat Sinks Immediately, Carrying Down With It the Entire Crew Numbering-Twenty Numbering-Twenty -three Men London, May 2;. Aa telegram received re-ceived at the adtnirallty says that a French sub-marine was rammed and si nk In trn Kngllsh Channel today hy a mail boat run.ilng between Calais and Dover. All on board were drowned. The name of the foundered sub marine was Pluvlos. Her crew numbered num-bered 23 men, all of whom wor? lost. The submarine was sivnk by tho Dover Do-ver boat Pas DeCalla-s, two miles northwest of Callas. The Pluvlos sank in 16 feet of water. wa-ter. The crew had no chance to cs- j (Coutlnued on Page Six.) FRENCH SUBMARINE GOES TO THE BOTTOM (Continued From Page One.) cape, as their craft plunged to the bottom In the moment of collision. Were Horror Stricken. Calais. France, May 26. The ferry boat Pas De Calais, crowded with cross-channel passeneers, bound for Dover, had Just left Calais this afternoon after-noon when one of her side wheels experienced ex-perienced a lolent shock. The captain, cap-tain, believing his boat bad struck a submorg-d buoy, stopped the tssel, and a moment liter the hull of a submarine, sub-marine, tbe Pluvios, came to the surface sur-face a short distance astern. A boat was hurriedly launched from the ferry boat and went alongside of Ihe .stricken craft, but th sailors rapped In vain against her metal sides and In a few minutes after tho sub marine arose to the surface cbe tsank acaln. The passengers aboard the ferry boat were lu.rror-strlcken by th drama enacted before tbelr eyes. Th ferry' boat, which was making wotet rapidly, summoned two lugs-to th' scene and then put back to the Freucfc .shore. The Pluvios, with a crew of 2.1 men left Calais thirty minutes before tho time she came up under ths paddle wheels of the Pas De Calais, though If Is almost Impossible to concelv that she woul.f dive In Mich crowded watere. Advices received by the minister ol marine confirm the report of the probable prob-able loxs of the. entire crew. A torpedo boat destroyer has beer anchored near where the Pluvios sank and divers haie gone down to the submarine, sub-marine, a wrecking vessel also haJ gone to the scene. |