FAKIR

name given to Indian ascetics corresponding to Muhammadan dervishes; some live in monasteries, others are mendicant. torpedoed and sunk by a Ger. submarine 8S. of St. George’s Channel, under circumstances of particular atrocity (March 28, 1915). Pa engers and crew were given five minutes to take to the boats, but before the interval had elapsed a torpedo was discharged, and out of the 237 people on board 101 lost their lives. |town, Calvados, France; birthplace of William the Conqueror. Pop. 6700.