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Over the Wire

Refugee Ship Torpedoed, Sunk

A NORTHERN PORT, IN ENGLAND, (Mon.)--A British refugee ship en route to Canada has been torpedoed with a loss of 294 lives, including many babies and children tossed into the sea or victims of lingering death in lifeboats, it was revealed early today.

The vessel was torpedoed about 10 P.M. last Tuesday night in the stormtossed Atlantic, 600 miles off the British coast, and 83 children were lost, virtually all of them from heavily-bombed districts of London, Liverpool and other cities.

About 112 survivors of one of the war's worst sea disasters have been landed at this northern port, hysterically describing the quick death of men, women, and children tossed into the gale-swept sea or lingering death in life-boats.

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