SUBMARINE WAR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 436, 3 July 1915, Page 10

SUBMARINE WAR.

THE LOST ARMENIAN. LONDON, July 2. The captain of the Armenian believes that the submarine rescued three of the crew. The chief officer states that the first shell killed 10 men. The wireless operator continued to send the "5.0.5." message until a shell destroyed his apparatus. Four men, after terrible suffering, died from their wounds in the boats. THREE MORE VICTIMS. BRITISH, NORWEGIAN, AND ITALIAN. LONDON, July 2. The British steamer Lomas, bound from Buenos Ay res to Belfast, with a cargo of maize, was torpedoed and sunk 45 miles west of the Scilly Islands oh Wednesday. The second mate was killed by shell-fire. The rest of the crew landed at Milford; Haven. A Norwegian barque, laden with ■wheat, was torpedoed and sunk off Fastnet Rock. Part of her crew have landed in Ireland. The Italian ship Sardomene, from West Australia, was torpedoed and * sunk without warning off the coast of Cork. Two of the crew were lulled, several are wounded or miss- ! ing, and seven (were saved unhurt. The Lomas was a cargo steamer 'of 3048 tons gross register, built in 1898 at West Hartlepool. The Sardomene was an Italian ship of 2000 tons gross register. She .Was built at Southampton in 1882. THE DARDANELLES. TURKS FIGHT DESPERATELY. AUSTRALASIANS OPPOSE FLOWER OF ARMY. LONDON, July 2. The "Daily • Chronicle's" correspondent says the Australians and New Zealanders threaten the enemy's communications with Achi Baba, and consequently draw upon themselves the flower of the Turkish army. Notwithstanding that the enemy's casualties are already 70,000, , the Turks fight gallantrly, and with tv desperation, realising that the fall of Achi Baba and Kilid Bahr means the .doom of Constantinople. Describing the French operations at the Kereves Dere on June 21, the correspondent says the 7, "seventyfives" to the accompaniment' o£"tfte h tremendous reverberations of the; "125's" and the howitzers. .captured and recaptured the ; Turkish trenches j whence they were electe'd 1 a^affn !> and • again. * Then came the order'that they'must recapture and hold the trenches. The British ; guns and howitzers were asked for, and were immediately sent.'. The bombardment was maintained' throughout the afternoon, and;itrseemed as if every gun on earth-was pouring shells into the Turkish lines/until the third attack was launched. In one trench the enemy** short of Innmlnlition. fought wife sti6Rs;'stones," and k fists. One battalion which came hurrying lip from the Turkish right was caught on open! ground by the "75'5," and melted away. Six hundred yards of Turkish trenches were taken and held, til brie trench, 10 feet deep, the Turkish dead brimmed over. They had been valiant, these dead men. Officers Western Europe say that as, /a 'fighting[ ! unit one Turk is worth tw6 Germans!' In fact, with his back to the'wall, the Turk is magnificent; The French casualties were' *f£wj cbnslderjmg; jyhat they might havebeen." ' j SPIES WITH AUSTRALIANS. A SENSATIONAL STORY. SYDNEY, July 2. Router's Cairo correspondent, recounting stories of German spies in the Australian ranks at the Dardanelles, says the most disconcerting instance of treachery is related about one of our own men, who enjoyed the reputation of being a firstclass sniper. He used to go daily to the enemy. Suspicions were aroused, and he was followed and discovered Sniping his own officers. The man was born in Australia of German parentage. While the troops were in Cairo several men were suspected of being spies. This particular man appears to have cleverly disarmed suspicion. The correspondent mentions that a telephone wire from Australian headquarters was tapped by the Germans, who sent a message stating that thev were going to drive "you Australian devils into the sea." The headquarters was moved owing to the shelling, and next day the Turks concentrated their fire on the )new quarters, proving that information had been conveyed by spies to the enemy. MELBOURNE, July 2. . A dispatch received from Gallipoll relates that a number of uniforms disappeared from the Australian camp in Egypt, and are being used by German spies at Gallipoli. PLOTS IN CONSTANTINOPLE. ARMS AND AMMUNITION SCARCE J LONDON, July 2. The "Daily Chronicle's" Constantinople'correspondent says that during the last four weeks two plots have been discovered, and secret police made 100 arrests. The arrested were summarily sentenced cither to death or internment in 'Asia Minor. The number of woundfed in the city defies computation. Not only are small arms and ammunition scarce, but the supply of < jrifies is failing, and the second line troops are armed*with a variety of .Jweapons, and they'.'are;-truly amusing. Guards at critical points on the railway proudly stvoulder shot-guns.