SUNK WITHOUT WARNING

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2925, 10 November 1916, Page 5

SUNK WITHOUT WARNING

P. & 0. LINER ARABIA

TORPEDOED

LOSS OF LIFE SLIGHT

AUSTRALIAN MAILS ON

BOARD

Anslralia.n-I*'ew Zealand Cable Association,

London, November 8. The Admiralty reports that the P. and 0. liner Arabia has been sunk in tho Mediterranean. All tlie mails were lost. Tho steamer, which was torpedoed without warning at noon on Monday, had on board 437 passengers, of whom 169 were women and children. They were picked up by various vessels, which were diverted to tho scene of tho disaster.

Two engineers arc missing, and are believed to have been killed by the explosion. The rest of the crew wero saved.

[The Arabia., 7933 tons, was built eighteen years ago by Caird and Company, at Greenock, and was a favourite, steamer with Australasian passengers going Home. She was equipped waß every convenience and luxury, including wireless and submarine signalling. The Arabia was Homeward bound from Australia at the time she was sunk, and left Fremantle on October 10. She bad on board a large Australian Expeditionary force mail. The New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department states that very little mail matter from the Dominion was on board. _ She had two bags of mails (including lib. of letters) for Malta, two bags for tendon, one bag for other pnrts of England, and one bag for Glasgow. _ The New Zealand mails left Wellington on September 28.] THE 'ARABIA'S 'MAILS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. November 9, 5.25 p.m.) London, November 8. The Arabia's mails were from-Aus-tralia, Manila, India, Aden, Straits Settlements, China, East Africa,, and Mauritius. OTHER VICTIMS OF THE PIRATES (Rec. November 9, 5.25 p.m.) London, November. 8. A steamer has,landed tho crews of the English steamer Seatonia,' and tbe trawlers Caswell, Harrat Castle, and Kyoto, all of wliicli were torpedoed. NORWAY AN¥IHE PIRATES REPLY TO THE GERMAN NOTE (Renter's Telegram.) . _ Copenhagen, November 8. .The Norwegian reply to Germany insists on the prohibition of belligerent submarines entering Norwegian waters, but it is moderate in ione. and further negotiations are probable. WHERE SWEDEN HELPED. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. ■ Milan, November 8. The "Corriere Delia Sera" states that the recent' German menace to Norwegian neutrality has contributed to bind together the Scandinavian tiations. _ Sweden informed .Germany thai she will be benevolently neutral • towards Norway if hostilities occur between Germany and Norn-ay. Berlin "climbed down," being unable to face the prospect of the joss of. the supplies of iron from Sweden.

SWEDEN'S LOSSES.

Telegram.) Stockholm, November 8. Sweden Las lost sixty-six 'vessels, with the accompanying loss of 222 lives, during the war, apart from ten vessels' lost during the recent German raids off the Finnish coast.