Havre, Jan. 3.
At nine o'clock this morning an explosion occurred on the str. Tokomaru, from New Zealand, when she was eight miles distant from Cap de la Have. (1 Cap de la Hague.) The cause of the explosion is not known. A French trawler the crew of fifty-seven and brought them to Havre. The Tokomaru sank in an hour and a half.
Reuter's Agency is informed that the Tokomaru had 97,000 carcases of mutton on board, and also gifts of clothing from New Zealand for Belgian refugees.—Reuter.
The Tokomarn, 6,238 tons, was own-the Shaw, Savill & Albion Ca., London, Jan. 31.
Lloyd's correspondent' at Douglas telegraphs that yesterday the str. Kilcoan from Garston was sunk by a German submarine eighteen miles north-west of Liverpool Bar. crew have been landed by the coasting steamer Gladys.
The Kilcoan is a steel screw steamer of 456 tons, owned by Messrs. WI. R. Harbinton 6 C. 1. MacKean.
The Minister of Marine announces that the Shaw, Savill and Albion str, Tokomaru was torpedoed even miles west-northwest of Cape Antifer, north of Havre, and the British str. Igaria was also torpedoed fifteen miles west of Cape:
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