CHANNEL MINES

Evening Star, Issue 16049, 28 February 1916, Page 6

CHANNEL MINES

SINK P. & 0. LINER, THE MALOJA S.OST. RESCUERS SHARE FATE. SOME LOSS OF LIFE. LONDON, February 27. (Received February 28, at 8.50 a.m.) Lloyd's reports that newa has just been received that the- P. and 0. liner Maloja has been mined off Dover, and sank, all the people aboard being picked up. She was outward bound for India with passengers and mails. Later. It is believed that all her passengers and crew were, rescued. [The Maloja was a comparatively new vessel, having heen built in 1911. She was of 12,431 tons gross, and 18£ knot speed. She was for some timo on the Australian run, and was one of the P. and 0. Company's finest vessels.] • A NEST OF MINES. RISKS OF RESCUE. LONDON, February 27. (Received February 28, at 11.15 a.m.) The Maloja had 140 passengers aboard. When sho was struck a terrific explosion occurred. .Scores of vessels raced to the scone, but it is feared there will be loss of life. A steamer going to her assistance struck a mine and sank. Later (5.20 p.m.). Twenty-five bodies of the Maloja victims have been landed at Dover. Later (12.50 a.m.). The steamer Empress of Fort William was mined and sunk when attempting to rescue the Mnloja's survivors. Their crews were saved. AMERICA COWS GERMANY OVER SUBMAEIXE 11UEDEK. WASHINGTON, February 27. (Received February 28, at 8.25 a.m.) Mr Stone (Chairman of the Senate Committee) states that he has heard indirectly through a German official source that Germany has postponed tho inauguration of her new submarine proposal. BREAKING POINT. London 'Times' and Sydney 'Sun' Services. LONDON, February 27. Washington advises that it is reported in the lobbies that President Wilson has decided to_ sever diplomatic relations with Germany if «-. single American is lost in tho new submarine campaign. JN THE MEDITERRANEAN. BRUTAL THICK BY SUBMARINE COMMANDER. LONDON, February 27. (Received February 28, at 9.10 a.m.) Captain Cargill, of the Liverpool steamer Belle of France, who has arrived home, tells a tragic story of German callousness. The vessel was torpedoed without warning 29 miles from Alexandria. A lifeboat with 24 men capsized. Tho men swam to the submarine, and were allowed to clamber to 'her deck. Captain Cargill took up other lifeboats intending to take off tho men, but the German commander threatened him with a revolver, and went off at full speed. Then the submarine suddenly submerged, leaving the men to drown. Captain Cargill rowed to the spot as speedily as possible, but only saved fivo of the men.