Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-02-26
Torpedo Boat Destroyer
Dague Lost with 50
of Crew.
ACTED AS ESCORT OF
PROVISION CONVOY
Liner Syart0n Mined or Tor
pedOed on Way to Rot
terdam.
THREE LOST ON cARlB,
SAYS OFFICIAL REPoRT
Report British Transport Sunk
in channeIu With 800
Troops.

Two additions to the long list o.
disasters at sea during the war wsrz
made known today. The French dea-
troyer Dague struck a mine in the
Adriatic and went down. with tie
probable loss Of thirty eight lives
The Swedish merchantmen svartun
was damages badly by a mine or tor
pedo in the North Sea. but was abis
to reach a Dutch port.
BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Feb. 26.-The destruction of
the French torpedo boat destroye1
Dague in the Adriatic sea was at1rs
nounced today by the French MIN
istry of marine
The official announcement f0lloWF=
THE French torpedo boat destroyer
Dague, which was escorting q cor.
voy with provisions for Montenearo.
struck an Austrian mine on the part
Of Antivari (Montenegro), on Febrr-
airy "A and sank.
Thirty eight of the crew disap<
peared. The accident did not hinder
finishing the work OF provisioninx
and the return of the convoy
Until the French cruiser Desais
made a demonstration against Aka
bah lArabia), on February q,
landing party, aided by the ships
cannon, dispersed and put to fight
small band OF Turks occupying tbs
village"
The Dague was 25s fest long 4na
had a displacement of TO toms Sbn
was built in 1911 and was rated a.
speed OF 33sl knots. Her ccmplerneTsf
was eighty-ofle men. She was arxne1
with two 3.9-inch guns. four ~
FOUNDERS and four 1s-inch torpedo
tubes.
BY the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM. Feb. 26. via London
The Swedish steamer Svarton, from
Rotterdam, arrived today at YmHi~
den, Holland, with a large hole II
her starboard side near the bow. The
captain reported that the Svartoa
had been damaged on Thursday aft
ernoon by either q mine or a TORPEDO.
It is his opinion that the damage was
inflicted by a mine
WASHINGTON, Feb. rs. - That
three men lost their lives when tho
American steamerCarib sank Off Nor.
deny was officially reported to the
state department today in a dispatch
from Consul-General Listoe at Rot
terdam.
The dead men are Assistant Engt-
neer William Bazzelle, Pensacola,
Fla: Fireman Antonio Martinez, Co
runna, Spain; Trimmer Secunda
BlaZ, Corunna, Spain.
Listoe's report, the first giving de-
tails other than mere announcement
OF the accident, reads as follows:
The steamer Carib, Clyde line, witb
cotton for Bremen. Il o'clock Monda
morning of February p. ten miles
westerly of Nordeny, North sea, ao
parently struck a mine and sank
soon thereafter.
Captain Edgar Cole and twenty
six men, rescued by German patrcl
boat. arrived Bremerhaven evening
of the Gath. Thr, men lost: A
sistant Engineer William Bazzelles
Pensacola. Fla; Fireman Antontc
Martinez and Trimmer Secunda Blaa,
both of Corunna, Spain.
Grew win be sent home earliest
possible time. Full report foliows
Ambassador Van Dyke, OF The
Hague unofficially reported that the
entire crew of the destroyed Ameri-
can steamer Evelyn was safe at Brees
(probably meant for Bremen). This
was the first word tending 70 show
that the vessels missing nfeboat had
actually landed.
Loss of the American ship Theodore
Palmer. Of New London, with Sd
hands, was indicated by a dispatch
received here today from the consui-
general at Copenhagen. saying an
Esjorg newspaper reported the ar
rival there of the Swedish steamship
Valla with news that on February g
it picked up in mid-ocean an iron
lifeboat bearing the Paimer's name
ny the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Feb. 26 (by wireless fe
Sayville, n. T.)-The Overseas NeWe
Agency today gave out a story 10 thH
effect that the Corriere Della sera. q
newspaper Of Milan, declares thai
LlOvds agency has received a tela.
gram from Eastbourne, in Sussex, 70 |
the effect that a British transport has
gone down with 1890 men.
The foregoing dispatch doubtless y
another reference to the reported t0r-
pedoing of a British transport BY .
German submarine. Announcement t.
this effect has been officially mads ~
Berlin. but the British authorities
deny the story.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 26.--A Geneva an
patch to the Daily Express says:
THE three new German submarines
sent TO Pola will begin operations im-
mediately in the Adriatic and the
Mediterranean. Their activity IL 10 4
be directed chiefly against transpor< A
ships. dozen more submarines WIN 4
be sent to the same base later.
''The Austrian admiral, Won Beck
says that Germany and Austria nos
have fifty submarines availabis To-
service"
LONDON, Feb. 2e.-The BrifioE
tank sfaa Il1er Weeha vixen f.1nnErn