LOSS OF THE MAJESTIC.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13794, 15 June 1915, Page 5

LOSS OF THE MAJESTIC.

FRENCH OFFICER'S DESCRIPTION

(Received June 15, 1.10 a.m.) Paris, Juno 14.

A French officer, .describing the loss of-the Majestic, says that as the vessel heeled to port everything on the decks slid and there was a tremendous din. There was not a single instant, of panic, the crew calmly awaiting, the critical moment. Four minutes after the explosion the Majestic foundered. Six hundred men were thrown into the sea, a-number being entangled in "the torpedo nets. The French ships' boats participated in fine* rescue work.