THE DARDANELLES.
FATAL MINE EXPLOSION.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—
Constantinople, May 2. A tugboat in the Dardanelles, while inspecting the buoys, fouled a mine.
Four officers and 12 soldiers and members of the crew were drowned, through the explosion.
A cablegram published in the Australian papers states that the Italians have occupied the. islands of Imbros and Lemnos, opposite the entrance . to the Dardanelles, and intend to utilise them, as a base for their fleet. The message 4 p.150 that the Italians have occupied Chios Island, and Samos Island, 'in the JEgean Sea.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14984, 4 May 1912, Page 7
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