FINE AMERICAN LINER SUNK.
FOUR LIVES LOST IN THE DISASTER. CARGO WORTH £2,000,000 DESTROYED. Australian and X.Z. Cable .Association. (Received July 12, 1.55 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 11. The State Department announces the sinking: of the liner Kansan. Four people were killed. The cargo was valued at £2,000.000. The Kansan was a fine liner of 701.'? tons, built in 100", belonging to the American-Hawaiian S.S. Company. She was 490 feet long, and fully equipped as a modern passenger liner.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 12 July 1917, Page 11
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