THE DARDANELLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 28 May 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES.

BRITISH BATTLESHIP SUNK.

H.M.S. TRIUMPH TORPEDOED.

MOST OF HER COMPLEMENT SAVED.

TURKS REINFORCED.

■- LONDON, May 27. Official.—A submarine sank the battleship Triumph off Gallipoli. The Captain and most of the officers and crew were saved.

The Triumph was operating in support of the Australasians. Destroyers chased the submarine until dark.

A report received at Amsterdam from the Turkish headquarters state* the Triumph was torpedoed and sank in the Gulf of Saros, off Ariburna.

(The Triumph, which has been most conspicuous in the Dardanelles, taking an important part m most of the acSo2l ? e' fle^., wa* a battleship ot 11,985 tons, built in 1904. She Jad^a, speed? of 19J knots, and carried tq&r 10m. guns and fourteen. 7.5 in guns.)

ATHENS, May 27. Owing to heavy losses at Gallipoli, the Turks are receiving incessant reinforcements from the Caucasus.