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Show oo CONFIRMATION OF LOSS OF CRUISER London, Aug. 12, S p. m. An official offi-cial communication issued this evening even-ing announces that the British auxiliary auxili-ary cruiser India, while engaged in patrol duty in the North sea August S. was torpedoed and sunk by a German Ger-man submarine. The announcement adds that twenty-two officers and 119 men of the India In-dia were saved. A dispatch from Berlin last Tuesday, Tues-day, coming by wireless to Sayvillc, N". V., announced that the India had been torpedoed off the Norwegian coast and that eighty members of her crew were saved by the Swedish steamer Goesteland. It was added that the attack was made on the vessel north of Bodge, while the India was entering Restf-jord. Captain is Saved. Chrlstlanla, Aug. 12, via London. Aug. 13, 12-35 a. m Captain William Kennedy of the British auxiliary cruiser India, who was on the bridge of his ship when she was torpedoed by a German submarine In the North sea August S, was among the eighty-six eighty-six members of the crew who were saved. Among the survivors were nine other officers. Some of these rescued were taken from a raft, where they stood singing "TIpperary." In the India's two lifeboats were fifty-two fifty-two other men. The bodies of eleven sailors who perished were buried today with military mili-tary honors. When the bodies were brought ashore they were taken to a chapel, where they were placed in caskets, each of which was covered with the union jack. The natives are showing much sympathy sym-pathy for the British sailors, who havo been taken to private houses, where they are being provided for No decision has been reached as to whether they will be interned here during the war. Turkish Ship Sunk. London, Aug. 12. 5:21 p. m. The following announcement was made tonight: to-night: x "The vice admiral in the Dardanelles Darda-nelles reports that one of the British submarines operating in these waters sank a Turkish battleship on the morning of the Sth of August, at the entrance to the sea of Marmora. "A Turkish gunboat, the Berk-i-Satvel, and an empty transport also have beeu torpedoed in the Dardanelles Darda-nelles by one of the British submarines. |
