The Admiralty have announced the sinking of the P. and
0. finer ` Arabia ' in the Mediterranean on Monday afternoon. She was torpedoed without warning while carrying four hundred and thirty-seven passengers, including one hundred and sixty-nine women and children. Fortunately all the passengers and crew were saved, with the exception of two engineers. The ` Arabia ' was a vessel of just under eight thousand tons. She was on her way from Sydney to England. We must also record with much regret a disaster in the Irish Channel on the night of Friday week. The London and North-Western Railway steamer 'Connemara,' which plied between Holyhead and Greenore, collided with the tramp steamer ` Retriever ' off Greenare, and both vessels sank. It is believed that the ` Retriever ' had become unsteerable in the gale. Ninety lives were lost. There was only one survivor, who was washed up on the beach.
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