FRENCH STEAMER MINED
MAJORITY: OF ■■■■• KILLED IN THEIR BERTHS.
.-"' .! ' v Paris, January 17. ,- The French steamer recently reported to have been sunk by a mipe in the Straits of Messina,, with' the loss of 500 lives, was the Cable Assn. . ; ■'• ■■ •■;'./
. _■. •_:.' Rome, January 17. The Chaouia was 1 conveying. 650 passengers from Marseilles to Athens, and was travelling at full speed on a moonlight night, when she struck a floating mine fifty .miles off • Messina' lighthouse.; The , explosion blew the forepart of the. vessel into the air. Most of the passengers . perished in. their bunks, • The British steamer Dagbestindashed, to /the,, spot,,and 1 saved a hundred, many of whom .were "injured, and sent a wireless message for other ; help.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
IThe vessel's name wfis previous])- incorrectly cabled at Chaprdi. The Chaouia was a steamer of 4334 tons, ;owned by' a French company, 'but previously Dutch. She was originally the Komngin Wilhelmina.]
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 100, 22 January 1919, Page 7
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151FRENCH STEAMER MINED Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 100, 22 January 1919, Page 7
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