A German submarine torpedoed the French transport Athos while it carried Chinese laborers and Senegalese soldiers toward the European war. At least 543 Chinese laborers died, alongside Senegalese troops; contemporary and later accounts vary on the total loss. The sinking illustrates how imperial labor and colonial troops were exposed to danger in service of a war whose political decisions they did not control.
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