Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1918 — BRITISH TROOP SHIP IS SUNR [ARTICLE]

BRITISH TROOP SHIP IS SUNR

The British troop ship Moldavia w T as torpedoed and sunk Last Thursday morning in the British c-taae-nel and fifty three American diers who were among those «oi board lost their lives. being khieh by the explosion of the torpedo, it is tlumght, rather than by drowning, ai the convoying shije {uct-efl ■up practically all of the men vh-:< were not killed when the t»rj»e<d<struck the boat. There were mmIndiana men in the list of mweJng. who were members of the 58th U. S. Infantry, 4th Division.