BRITISH AUXILIARY CRUISER SUNK.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14539, 17 October 1917, Page 5

BRITISH AUXILIARY CRUISER SUNK.

SIXTY-TWO LIVES LOST.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuter.)

(Received Oct. 16, 8 p.m.)

London, Oct. 15

The Admiralty reports that the mineeweeping sloop Begonia is overdue, and is considered to be lost with all hands.

'the British armed mercantile cruiser Champagne was torpedoed and sunk. Five officers and 57 men perished.