BRITISH TRANSPORT

Grey River Argus, 28 October 1915, Page 5

BRITISH TRANSPORT

TORPEDOED IN THE AEGEAN SEA. NINETY-NINE MISSING. The Hig-h Commissioner reports as follows:— ■ LONDON, October 26th, 11.40 p.m. The War Office announces that the British transport Marquette was torpedoed" in the Aegean Sea. Only 90,. of the ; personnel are unaccounted for. There are no further details yet.

ENQUIRY DESIRED LONDON, October 27. Nine Liberal M.P.'s have each given notice of motion for a Select Committee to. enquire into the Dardanelles campaign., Others demand a debate. "ON THE HOP."

RESULT OF THE RECENT OFFENSIVE. LONDON, October 25. A correspondent of "The Times" with the British Headquarters says: "It is a month since the offensive beg-an. The hotch-potch regiments facing: us are the best proof how successfully we have kept them e on the hop.' We have disorganised the enemy,' thrown out of gear any idea, of a serious offensive, and compelled him to bring" up reinforcements from Massines and Douai and transport troops and impedimenta in waggons and ambulances, caxising 1 him great difficulties."

THE BLACK WATCH. GREAT CHARGE AT LA BASSEE. PARIS, October 25. Although the British attack northward of La Bassee on September 25th paled before the Loos attack, nevertheless it was memorable for th n . superb gallantry, of the Black Watch The regiment went over the parapet pipers playing ahead while the " men bombed along the trenches. After the first rush two pipers stood on the parapet amid a terrific fire, and played "Highland Laddie." The regimental charge and a defiant skirl was heard above the noise of the bombs. One piper was shot down, and his companion went on playing. A Black" Watch sergeant killed seven . Germans with his bayonet singlehanded. . A sergeant of the Leicestershires lying wounded after the retirement, saw Germans bayoneting wounded men. He feigned death and the marauders were content with stealing his watch. A FORLORN HOPE. . A COMMERCE RAIDING PLOT IN AMERICA. WASHINGTON, October 24. Circumstances point to the institution of a new commerce-raiding campaign by Germans in the Carribean Sea or the beginning of a series of filibustering expeditions in Mexico. The departure, of several sea-going motor-boats, the escape of German warrant officers interned at Norfolk, and the mysterious movements of several American vessels in the Gulf of Mexico have baffled officials, who are. anxious to prevent violation of neutrality.

GERMAN "MISTAKE" EXPLAINED. A NOTE TO NORWAY. LONDON, October 24. A German Note to Norway justifies the sinking- of the Svein-Jarl, because the neutral marks were not visible, and the submarine was obliged to consider her as an enemy ship. Germany agrees to indemnify the losers, but asserts that she will be unable in future to accept responsibility for such mistakes where neutrals challenge the clangers of German submarine warfare, and neglect the precautions recommended by Berlin. The Svein-Jarl, a Norwegian steamed of 1 135 tons register, was sunk some months ago by a German submarine.

GERMAN PRIZE LOST. DESTROYED BY A MINE. COPENHAGEN, October 24. The Swedish steamer Rumina, loaded with wood pulp for London, was coptured by a German submarne in the Baltic. She was proceeding: in charge of a German officer to Libau, when she was blown up by a mine, six men being- drowned. The master and ten of the crew, and the German officer, landed on Gothland Island. The Rumina tvas a steamer of 1418 tons gross' register, built in 1883 -and owned by- J. A. Waller, of Gothenburg. . ;