Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1916 — 21,000 Bibles and Testaments Sunk In Mediteranean Sea. [ARTICLE]

21,000 Bibles and Testaments Sunk In Mediteranean Sea.

Twenty-one thousand Bibles and Testaments went down with the Japanese steamer Ysaka Maru, recently torpedoed arid sunk iri the Mediteranean Sea. The books belonged to the British and Foreign Bible Society and were consigned from London to various points in the east. It is reported that the French have captured'the submarine which torpedoed the Sussex and have made prisoners of the captain and crew.