SUBMARINE PERIL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2970, 6 January 1917, Page 7

SUBMARINE PERIL

3 BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK (Rco. January 5, 9.25 p.m.) London, January 4. j- The Admiralty reports that the B transport Ivcrnia (14,278 tons) was a submarined during bad weather in tho Mediterranean on Monday. Jour t military ofßeers and 146 men are missing. Tho ship's casualties are not s kuown, but it is hoped they are oiiiy light. The surgeon and chief engineer are missing. r ■" Later details of the loss of the. Iyer- / nia show that 120 soldiers and men arc ' missing!—Aus.-N.Z.. Cable Assn.-Reuter. ...'.'..,". MORE SINKINGS EIGHT VESSELS TORPEDOED (Rec. January 5, 8.50 p.m.) • I London,' January 4. . ' The latest sinkings reported are the t Greek steamer Dimitrios Goulandris . (3744 tons), the British steamer. , Thistletor (4162 tons), and Isanon, tho . Spanish steamer San Leandro, and the 3 Norwegian steamers Odda (1101 tons) i and Borre. 5 London, January 4. r The French steamer Leon- (653 tons) • and the Norwegian steamer Ellik have j been, sunk.—Aus.-N.Z.. Cable Assn. ' FRENCH BATTLESHIP VERITE GERMAN CLAIM REFUTED. London, January 4. The French Admiralty denies absolutely a German wireless message.reporting the torpedoing of the battleship ■Verite. —Aiis.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. [The Verite,' 14,635' tens, was completed in 1908. Her armament' consists. • of four 12in; and .-ton 7.6 in.,' besides thirty smaller guns. She carries \ a crew, of 822.] ■■- ENEMY CALLOUSNESS ANOTHER INSTANCE BROUGHT TO LIGHT (Rec. January 5, 8.30 a.m.) London, January 5. The Admiralty reports a'further'in- j . . stance of the callous disregard of the' lives of non-combatants. A German '. -wireless message on November 9 re- ' ported the torpedoing of the North Wales (3691 tons). Nothing had since been heard of her, beyond the finding ■ of a piece of wood marked . "North ' Wales," which was found in Semien Cove, and bodies stranded on the Cornish'coast. It is presumed tho crew took to the boats in the pre'valont gales and were drowned.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. . ;