OCR Text |
Show j uu SINKING OF A TRANSPORT. Great Britain has lost its first troopship, a German or Austrian submarine sub-marine having torpedoed the Royal Edward, a vessel of o"ver 11,000 tons, carrying 1385 officers and men to the scene of the fighting in the Dardanelles. Dar-danelles. This loss was to have been expected although the disaster is a direct contradiction con-tradiction of statements lately made by the English that they have solved the submarine problem Eefore the war closes, the undersea under-sea craft of the German navy may worry the British admiralty to dis- traction. Undoubtedly the entire naval nav-al works 'of the Kaiser are producing submarines, all efforts in a marine way being centered on the creating of a great squadron of submerslbles. As the boats increase in size and number, the peril to English merchant mer-chant and transport vessels will be-ccmo be-ccmo alarming. oo |