BRITISH PRIZE COURT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15133, 30 January 1917, Page 7

BRITISH PRIZE COURT.

CLAIM FOR SINKING TURKISH TRANSPORT. (Reuter's Telegram.) Received January 30, 3.30 p.m. LONDON, January 2. The Prize Court reserved judgment in the claim of Boyle, commander of El 4, for prize money for sinking in the Sea of Marmora a Turkish gunboat and a transport with fiflOO troops, who were all drowned. The judge pointed out that if troops were included in the reckoning the prize money would be increased from two thousand to twentyone thousand sterling.