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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The Rus-iau steamship Petsheaga has lioen sunk by a submarine. Fifteen of those aboard were saved The ietsheiiga was formerly the German steamship Erik Larson, which was captured by the Russians early in the war. She was of l.t.4i gross tons, was 288 feet long, 57 feet beam and was constructed at Luebeek in 1903. Reuters correspondent at Harbin. Manchuria, reports that a divisi M of Itttssiau troops is on the wav to the Manchurian port of Dalny. to embark there on Japanese steamships lor Mesopotamia. . Petrograd dispatch to Reuters of London says that Count Kanitz. the German commander at Ker-manshah. committed suicide when the Russians succeeded in entering the 1ersian city.
