Paris, Feb. 29.
It is officially announced that the auxiliary cruiser Provence LI, while transporting troops to Salonika, was torpedoed in the Central Mediterranean on the 26th. 1,500 persons were on board, of whom 696 were saved.
Later.
official communique states that 870 men were saved from the Provence IT.
London, Feb. 29. At a luncheon of the Associated Chambers of Commerce representative of the whole Empire, Mr. Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer, affirmed that after 18 months of war our credit was unimpaired. "We have thrown our immense financial power into the common stock of the Allies and we persons were thrown into the water or injured.
At the inquest on the Maloja victims, the Chief Officer said that he was of opinion that the liner was torpedoed. The inquest has been adjourned until Thursday.
HIM. the King has commanded Captain Irving to come to London. will use it to the full. Our expenditure is higher than that of any other belligerent."
The Associated Chambers of Com-
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