COLLISSON OFF BELFAST.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14891, 14 October 1918, Page 6

COLLISSON OFF BELFAST.

AMERICAN .•TRANSPORT-"" SUNK

TEHKIBLE LOSS OF LIFE

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

New Yurk, Oct. 1]

T3io "Now York Times' " Belfast correspondent states that the American transport Ofcranto collided with the British steamer Kashmir in the North Channel, and it is feared that,, 900 men perished.

Damage to the steering gear of the Kashmir'in a terrfiic gale caused the «)llision. Many lifeboats were swamped. ■ ;•...•'■. .... ■ ■• ■'; ,-.:•

Tlie survivors landed in Ulstor...They said - that splendid discipline was main-: tamed- on iiie Otranto.