ONLY SIXTY-FOUR SURVIVORS FROM THE BOUVET.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13732, 22 March 1915, Page 5

ONLY SIXTY-FOUR SURVIVORS FROM THE BOUVET.

OTHER FRENCH CASUALTIES

SLIGHT.

BOUVET TO BE REPLACED AT

ONCE.

OPERATIONS NOT ARRESTED

GAULOI6 TEMPORARILY OUT OP

ACTION.

(Received March 21, 6.6 p.m.)

Paris, March 20

Official —There were sixty-four survivors from the Bouvet. The casualties on the other ships were eKgJbi.

The vigour with which the French division performed its honourable task won the high appreciation of the British sailors.

An unofficial statement says the 6auloisis out of action temporarily. The Henry IV.- replaces the Bouvet immediately.

Though the losses are painful they will not arrest the progress ef the operations.

Observers on Mount Elias «saw a terrific explosion and immense flames at Chanak and Kilid Bahr. Both places are on fire in several quarters.