FRENCH TRANSPORT SUNK
SMALL LOSS OF LIFE. . Paris, February 4. The Ministry of Marine announces Wi'at' fcho steamer Amiral Magon, con- , . ireying 900 troops to Salonika, was submarined on January 21, and sank iu ;ten minutes. The convoying destroyer Arc, assisted by. another destroyer and seven brawlers,, saved 80S). The explosion tolled the majority of the • victims.— The "Times." • [A German official report on January 29 .stated: 1 -"One of our siibmarinos sank in ten minutes, on January 25, i an armed enemy transport full •of * troops.' The transport was steering eastward, accompanied by a French torpedo-boat, and was. 250 miles east of Malta."] , ; : TThe cable news in this issue accredited to the London "Times" lias appeared in that, journal, but only where expressly Stated is such, news the editorial opinion of "The Times."! '
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2996, 6 February 1917, Page 6
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