Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-17

600 have been saved
SO far as has been reported Off.
cally this is the first instance in
which a British transport has been
attacked successfully hv a submarine
II had been a matter of pride with the
ported hundreds of thousands of
troops across many seas without the
loss of life. 1t is probable that the
number of troops sent to France and
Belgium since the beginning of the
war is considerably in excess of 700,
000 In addition, large numbers of
men have been transported to the
Dardanelles, Egypt, South Africa and
Serbia.
Troops have been brought in from
Canada, New Zealand, Australia and
India for the defense of the mother
country. The transports areeaceenaE.
panied by an escort of warships, chief
reliance being placed OH destroyers for
warding off submarine attacks.
Troops Bound for Dardanelles.
The British announcement shows
that the Royal Edward was engaged
in conveying troops to the Darda-
nelles front, having been sunk in the
Aegean sea. German submarines sent
10 these waters to assist the Turks
have been very active. One of them,
the U-51, under command of Captain
otto Hersing, made tue voyage from
Wilhelmshafen to the Dardanelles
ha Drift ch hatflacbinC
Triumph and Majestic.
The Royal Edward apparently had
been engaged In the transport service
since early in the war On August IL,
1914, she sailed from Montreal with
500 French reservists on board The
last report in maritime records
showed her arrival on October Is at
Avonmouth, England, from Montreal.
Vessel 11,117 Tons.
An unofficial dispatch from Berlin
on February Il reported the sinking
of British transport with troops and
OF steamer which was accompany
Ing the transport. Later it was said
prize offered in Germany for sinking
a transport had been distributed. No
official statement was made on this
subject, however, either in Berlin or
In London.
The Royal Edward was lilly tons
gross and 526 feet long. She was
owned by the Canadian Northern
steamships of Toronto. She was built
In Glasgow in 1908.
BERLIN, Aug. II (via London, AIS
p. m).-One of the outlying forts of
kovno, between the Niemen river and
Gesia, to the south of the main for
tification, has been captured by the
Germans, it was announced by Ger
man army headquarters today.
More than 240 cannon and 4,500
prisoners were captured at Kovno,
the statement adds.
Three forts at Novogeorgievsk also
have been captured, army headquar-
ters report.
Gesia is a small town two and a
half miles south of Kovno on the left
bank of the Nienen, which bends
twice sharply to the south and then
runs northward again in the approxi-
mate shape of the letter wv" shortly
before Kovno is reached
by the United Press.
LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE Russians
are beginning to evacuate the forth
fed railway center of Bielostok, one
Of the vital points on the Kovno-
Brest Litovsk line, before the onward
rush of Won Hindenburg's armies.
Dispatches from Petrograd today
said the big machinery works at
Bielostok have been dismantled and
removed to the inner and the Nun
palace emptied of it's art treasures.
A large part of the civilian population
has fled.
Indicates New Retreat.
Military men here took this to mean
that the Russians don't intend to
hold The Kovno-Bre Litovsk line.
Bielostok, forty-five miles east of
J.omza, is the junction point of the
great Warsaw Petrograd railway and
the Brest- -Litovsk railway. It's re-
tention is necessary If the Brest-
Iitoysk line is to be held. Conse-
auently the opinion was expressed
here that the grand duke has found
it necessary to continue his retreat
eastward.
ON both Russian flanks, the Austro-
Germans are now attacking with
greatest violence. Petrograd claims
fha repulse of all attacks in the north,
but is silent regarding the opera
tious sotls1 and west of Brest- Ltovsk.
Berlin advices today reported Bavar-
ian troops closing in on Biala. twenty
seven miles west of the fortress, with
Auetro-German forces barely twenty
miles away on the southwest.