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Show BRITISH SINK TWO DISABLED WARSHIPS (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) London, March 30. Private advices have been received here from the Dardanelles Dar-danelles to the effect that the British Brit-ish battleships Ocean and Irresistible sunk during the bombardment of the Turkish fortifications on March 18 were torpedoed by British warships after they had been badly damaged bv the fire of the Turkish forts It Is said this action was taken to prevent the helpless battleships from drifting ashore where they might have fallen into the hands of tho Tnri-a The statement of the British adniir alty said that the Irresistible "sank halng probabl) struck a mine." and that the Ocean, "also having struck a mine, sank " |