SIX VESSELS, ONE DESTROYER AND FOUR TRAWLERS SUNK

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 73, 19 December 1917, Page 5

SIX VESSELS, ONE DESTROYER AND FOUR TRAWLERS SUNK

FIGHTING SHIPS ARRIVE TOO LATE

CHAOS IN RUSSIA

AMERICANS ADVISED TO LEAVE .PETROGRAB

CHINESE TROOPS FOR HARBIN

Another convoy, consisting of one British" and fiye neutral vessels, escorted by two destroyers and four armed trawlers, has been attacked by the Germans, and as tho result of the aeffon. all the convoy, together with ono of the d estroyers and aTI the trawlers, were sunk. In announcing tho news in Parliament, Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of tho Admiralty, stated that for some unexplained reason covering ships dispatched by the Naval Commander-in-Chief to deal with an attack by surfaoe vessels—the escort was for engaging hostile submarines only—failed to reach tho scene of tho action in time. An inquiry is now being hold. On the battlofronts there is little to report. The British front in the West is being steadily stiffened in view of tho threatened attackgby the Germans. Heavy and stubborn fighting is reported from the Italian front, and at one point tho enemy was thrown back in disorder. The chaos in Russia grows steadily worse, and civil war is spreading. In an encounter between Ukraine and Bolshevik regiments, the latter were defeated.