FRENCH TROOPSHIP SUNK.
. PARIS, Feb. 4. The Ministry of Marine announces that the steamer Admiral Magon, when conveying 900 troops south to Salonika, was submarined on January 21st and sank in ten minutes. The convoying destroyer Arc, assisted by another destroyer and seven trawlers saved 809. The explosion killed the majority of the victims ' (This probably applies to the troopship which the Germans recently claimed to have sunk off Malta.)
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 6 February 1917, Page 5
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70FRENCH TROOPSHIP SUNK. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 6 February 1917, Page 5
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