ITALY AND TURKEY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15920, 4 May 1912, Page 12

ITALY AND TURKEY.

MINES IN THE DARDANELLES. TUGBOAT BLOWN UP. United Preis AsiocUtion—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 2. A tugboat in the Dardanelles, while Inspecting the buoys, fouled a mine, jond four officers, twelve soldiers and the crew were drowned. THE STEAMER TEXAS. A Constantinople message says that the Vali of Smyrna states that the battery fired seven shots at the steamer Texas, but the foundering of the Texas ■was due to collision with a mine. DIRIGIBLES AND BOMBS. (Received May ~ "■■ ROME, May 3. Dirigibles made a reconaissance over • • the Turkish camps. Thirty bombs were dropped at Axizia and a dozen at Suenibenaden. Much damage was done.