AMERICAN NEWS
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) SINKINC OF MAFALDA. CON E LICTI NO X E WS. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 26. With chaotic and utterly conflicting reports still being received nearly twenty-four hours after the Mafalda sunk off the Brazilian Coast, it is impossible yet to obtain authentic in for* mation regarding the extent of the disaster and the number of lives lost. Wireless reports from numerous sources received here estimate the death list and figures varying from fifty to four hundred, blit the present indications are that probably one hundred passengers and crew were drowned. However, this figure may materially he increased or decreased when vessels carrying survivors reach port. These vessels include the steamers Avelona, Empire, Star, Formosa, Athena, Baden, Rosetti If. and Salem.
CAUSE OE DISASTER. .MONTEVIDEO. Oct. 26. The foundering of the .Mafalda was due to a collision with a floating hulk, according to a wireless message.
AMERICA’S MUNITIONS. NEW YORK. Oct. 20,
A message from Chattanooga, Tennessee, states tho assistant secretary of war, Mr Macider, addressed the National Masufacturers Association and declared the United States army and navy were equipped with out-of-date munitions, almost worthless through age, and the armed forces of the nation would he virtually helpless in the event of war. He asserted immediate action to replace the munitions supplies was imperative, and should he authorised by Congress. Macider said if war were to start now, three months after the United States regulars and national guardsmen went into action not a rifle and not a machine gun on ground or in a plane, would he able to speak with authority.
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