Cairo, Jan. 2 Mr. McNeeley, the American Consul at Aden, was drowned through the torpedoing of the Persia.
OF the two other Americans, Mr. Grant, the Vacuum Oil Agent at Calcutta, was saved and the schoolboy, Master Rose, landed at Gibral tar.
The Persia was torpedoed without warning and sank in a few minutes. Washington, Jan. 2.
No submarine was seen, but an officer of the Persia saw the wake of the torpedo which struck the ship and she sank in five minutes.
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