TRANSPORT TORPEDOED

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1915, Page 8

TRANSPORT TORPEDOED

WITH NEW ZEALANDERS

ABOARD

Mil MASSEY HAS NO iN-

FIIIMATION

WELLINGTON, Oct. 19

A member of the Howitzer Battery with the oth Reinforcements states, in a. letteis that he, with 43 other New Zealauders, wys on .mi- Australian transport which was torpedoed i)V a German submarine. Three ot his r-Arty )..)st their lives. The ooate <)t the warships did great rescue'work. The Right Hon. Mr Massey states that the Government ha;; no pdvice of the torpedoing of any transport containing New Zealanders