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Show I BRITISH LOSE A 1 NEW SUBMARINE London. April IS. 10:30 p. m The : British, as an offset to their success In destroying a Turkish torpedo boat : which attacked the transport Manltou off Chios yesterday, lost the subma-'rine subma-'rine E-15 which, while carrying out a difficult reconnaissance in the Dardanelles Dardan-elles mine field, ran agTound on Kepbez point the crew being made prisoners. According to the Turkish report, seven of the crew are missing. In Egypt, British airmen have been dropping bombs on t.ho Turkish encampment en-campment near the border, while a French cruiser the fire of which was directed bv a seaplane, has been throwing shells on the Turks near El Arish. where the army for thp Invasion of Egypt has its headquarters These operations were undertaken presumably tn harass the Turks as the Turks have not shown any intentions of attacking thp British since their last repulse along: the canal In the Carpathians therp has been fighting, but no battle to be compared with those which the arrival of spring brought to a close The Austrians officially of-ficially report that they have repulsed Russian attacks to the southeast of Lupkow pass, inflicting heaw losses on their adversaries, but elsewhere comparative calm prevails The F'reneh hae again been active in the Vosges. capturing an important height near Metzeral. The British too. have attacked the Germans in the neighborhood of Ypres. where fighting was. still in progress when the last Mport was displaced. German Eforts Fail. Tt fs again stated that the German efforts to brine about an accord be 1 tween Austria and Italj hac failed, ft 1 report, which, if confirmed is likely I to magnify in the eyes of the Italians r the frontier incident which occurred I yesterda. According to the latest re-1 1 ports, the Austrians. who were passln;: I over Italian territory actually fired upon the Italian trocps. who repulsed them, and In return penetrated into Austrian territory. The sinking of the Greek steamer Ellispontos by a submarine off the Dutch coast is likely to bring about some friction between the Greek and German governments. The EUispontos was destroy d while on a voyage from Vmuiden, Holland, to Montevideo, In ballast |