ATTACK ON TRANSPORT.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT. CAPSIZE OF BOATS. London, April 22. In the House of Commons to-day Mr- Macnamara, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, said that a Turkish torpedo-boat which escaped from Smyrna stopped the transport Manitou, which had British troops aboard. Eight minutes were given to abandon the transport, and then three torpedoes were fired, but all missed. British destroyers then attacked the torpedo-boat. While the troops were leaving the transport, the boats capsized, one owing to overcrowding, There was nothing disquieting in the incident, and no panic.
Twenty-four men of the field artillery were drowned in the Manitou incident and 24 are missing. Two members of the South Wales Border Regiment are also missing..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15900, 24 April 1915, Page 8
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