EXTRA EDITION. LATEST WAR NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 10 January 1916, Page 7

EXTRA EDITION. LATEST WAR NEWS.

LOSS OF A BATTLESHIP.

KING EDWARD VH. STRIKES A

MINE

' ALL HANDS SAVED.

The-High Commissioner reports under date London, January(oth, at 5.30 a.m.: "The Admiralty announces that the battleship King Edward VII. struck a inine, and owing to the heavy seas she had to.be abandoned: She sank shortly -afterwards. There was no lossi of life, .and onb? two were injured. '~

[The King Edward was launched in 1903 and had a tonnage of I^OO. Sh? •carried four 12-inch guns, four 9.2-inch, and ten 6-in.ch.]