BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 25 May 1917, Page 5

BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK.

413 LiVES LOST. AIR RAID ON EASTERN COUNTIES LITTLE DAMAGE DONE.

WELLINGTON, May 25. The High Commissioner reports from London at 2.55 a.m. on May 24: The Admiralty reports that the British transport Transylvania was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on May 4, and 413 lives were lost.

Official.—Four or five hostile airships raided Eastern counties last night, steering an erratic course. Bombs were dropped in country districts.' A man was killed in a Norfolk village, but the material damage done was negligible. Aeroplanes chased the raiders, but they escaped in thick clouds.