Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1915 — ENGLAND LOSES TWO MORE SHIES [ARTICLE]

ENGLAND LOSES TWO MORE SHIES

Germans Sink Majestic in Dardanelles and Accident Causes Loss of Princess Irene. Another British battleship was sunk in the Dardanelles Thursday. It was the Majestic, a vessel of 14,900 tons and a crew of 757 men. Almost all of the crew was saved. The vessel w;is torpedoed. The day before the battleship : T» Cn. pit had been sunk. German submarines seem to have done the work. The same day the Princess Irene, a giant merchant vessel, was blown up in Sheerness Harbor, England The crew consisting of 250 men and 78 dock hands was lost, all except one man. Nothing has happened to show the exact manner in which the American steamer, the Nebraskan, was damaged off the coast of Ireland. Whether hit by a torpedo or by a mine can not at this time be ascertained.