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Show TURKISH BOAT SINKS TRANSPORT British Warships Give Chase ! and Turks Blow Up Their HH Own Vessel. LONDON REPORTS H Claim Manitou Was Not Dam- IH aged But Men Missing Were Drowned in Small Boats. I Constantinople, April 20, via Lon don. 2:45 p. m The attack or a Turkish torpedo boat on the British transport Manitou off the coast of Chios last Saturday and the subsc- quem destruction of the torpedo boat, IH were reported In an official state- B ment Issued today at the war office '19 here. The statement follows IHH "A Turkish torpedo boat, on April IH 17, successfully attacked the British H9 transport Manitou in the Aegean sea. Hl The torpedo boat was pursued by Hj BritJish 'cruisers and destroyers to 'B9 Chios, where the crew blew up the HbH vessel in order that it might not fall B9 into the enemy's hands. HB London reports of April 17 and 13 IhI said that the Turkish warship which attacked the Manitou was driven ifll ashore and destroyed by British ves- 'flEHI sels. The British admiralty an- 165 nounced that the Manitou was not WEB damaged by the torpedo boat but that Bsffl twenty-four men had been drowned BSSff and twenty-seven were missing owing HuS to the capsizing of two small boats. KaBI Swiss Troops Kept Mobilized. 'He! Rome April 19. 8:30 a. ra., via Paris, !B9 April 20, 5:40 a. m. Ulrich Wille. rtf! commander of the Swiss army, is quo- flu? ted in an interview In the Tribuna as declaring his country's military forces BlSo must be kept mobilized. Although wvu no other power at present threatens Ski Switzerland, he said an incident. might occur on the frontier at any KSi time which would compel the Swiss Knl to enforce their rights and their neu- trallty. WM After describing the military organi- Wj zation of Switzerland, Colonel Wille E$ closed the interview by saying: BlE Supposing, as a mere hypothesis that anyone wished to violate our neu- '4 trality, they must first crush us." Mr Staley's Time Limit Expires. J flg Paris. April 20 5 29 a. m Italv some time ago fixed April 20 (today) as the latest date for the considers Wt tion of any proposals Austria might wish to make, according to a report E current in Rome, says a dispatch from K the Figaro's correspondent. Baron R. de Macchio. the Austrian ambassador. Ifc already has given notice to embassy Ex servants who now are paid daily, it Hfr is said, and the same is true of the payment of tradesmen's bills for goods supplied the embassy. K The Figaro's dispatch says it 1r 'stated In vatican circles that the visit Kg made to the pope a few days ago by KKj Prince von Buelow, the German am- Bap bassador. was to bid farewell to the pontiff as the diplomat believes his HSf departure from Rome is iminiuent. W$ |