TUBANTIA SUNK BY SUBMARINES

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 67, 18 March 1916, Page 5

TUBANTIA SUNK BY SUBMARINES

The enemy made five heavy attacks on Fort Vaux, to the north of Verdun, but aU were rolled back with great loss to the enemy. An earlier attack on the French positions in Deadman s Wood was also repulsed, the enemy falling back on the wood of the Crows, further to the northward.

It is now officially stated that the Dutch liner Tubantia was torpedoed, while it is believed that several lives were lost The look-out, first, and fourth officers have all sworn that the steamer was torpedoed and not mined. Great and growing indignation exists in HoDand. An attempt was also made to sink the French liner Patria off Tunis, when she had' a thousand men passengers aboard, but, fortunately, her periscope was observed in time, and she uodged the torpedo "by twenty feet.

The New Zealand Rifles were concerned in the recent operations against the Senussi in Western Egypt, losing three killed and thirty-two wounded. They fought pluckily and well -under adverse conditions, and marched lotfg , distances in a manner which won them high praise.

The Italians are making appreciable gains on the Isonzo front, where the enemy's Attempts to recover lost trenches have signally failed. The Italians are requisitiojiing thirtysix interned German liners.

The campaign in German East Africa is. making rapid progress, the construction of a strategic railway greatly assisting General Smuts. The enemy is still retreating southward.