A GENERAL DIES FROM EXPOSURE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 21 October 1915, Page 5

A GENERAL DIES FROM EXPOSURE.

Ro'gai ding : the torpedoing of the transport. i\ I>innevirke resident has received,a k-tter stating: "T was <ti the iroopship Southland, which I<^'i .'A.lex:mdria oti .'6oph August, and was torpedoed 30 miles frcm Miidros, ;it 9.50 at night. Two;torpedoes wi;ie lii*d The first missed, the second struck us below the water line neartho tow. Brigadier-Genera] Lyton died from expesure and shock, *a«.J about 50 men-were drowned or killed. .The hospital ship Neuraha oicked -:p many TJio troopship >vrfs .carry«» f ■tjie.,.- 2nd. ■■Australian Division, aJ*> Creneral Legj?e and the headquarters staff. Bhe was eventually beached at M ndros."