Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-05-29
Triumph TOlpedOed on WedneS.
day and Majestic on
Thursday.
STEAMERS ARE ALSO SUNK
AuStrians and Germans Batter
Away At Cars Forces Near
PrzemySl.

London, May 28.-The British bat
tleship Majestic, another of the ships
the allied army on the
Gallipoli peninsula, was sunk by a
German submarine yesterday. Nearly
all the officers and crew were saved.
At about the same time the steam
err Princess Irene, built last year for
the Canadian. British Columbia coast
survey and which was taken over by
the admiralty at the commencement
of the war, was destroyed by an &C.
cidental explosion while at anchor at
Sheerness, where she was undergo
ing repairs. All her crew number
ing about $50, except one seaman,
and IS dock yard workmen, aboard
at the time, lost their lives.
The Majestic, which was the oldest
battleship on the active list Of the
British navy, is the sixth capita ship
lost by the allies since the beginning
of the Dardanelles operations and
the second which has fallen a victim
to German submarines which recent
ly arrived in these waters.
The submarine menace is a grow
ing one, both in the Aegean sea and
home waters, and these vessels prom
Use to take an active part in the op-
eraticns in the narrow waters of the
AdriEtic, where. as in the Aegean,
islands afford good shelter,
While the warships are able to es-
cape submarines in the waters
around the British Isles. theincrease
in their numbers makes the carrying
on Of sea-borne trade more and more
hazardous.
The admiralty still believes that
the American steamer Nebraskan,
now on her way to Liverpool, was
torpedoed. The British steamer
Morwenna, bound for Canada, and
the Danish steamer Petty have been
sunk by submarines. Only a few
days ago the commander of a sub
marine informed a Danish captain
that he had no orders to sink Danish
Amidst the activities on land and |
lea and in the air, from the Dardan-
elles to the waters around the Brit
sh Isles, middle Galicia remains the
Gene of the greatest and most i'm
1ortsnt fighting. The Austrians and |
Germans continue to batter at the
Russian lines northeast and south
asst OF Przemysl, and, according to
eports which have not been confirm.
d by official statements, they have
avered communications between tire
ormer Austrian fortress and Lem
erg.
Despite these claims, Petrograd !.
nnounces with the greatest optim- :
I'M the belief that the Russian rein
will stem the Austro-
erman onslaught. "
The repulse of the counter attacks
ld the carrying ont of attacks bv
le allies themselves, have resulted e
considerable losses on the allied q
De, to which must now be added j
e losses sustained by the sinking r,
the battleships Triumph and Ma. o.
site. f
The Italians continue their offens. u
on the frontiers of Tyrol, the ,,
entino and lstria, and have taken ~,
chain of important positions. but =" =,
ey have not yet come into contact VI
tn the main Austrian forces, which
e waiting for them behind en-.
A dispatch to the Times from its N
adros correspondent says that $50 !.
IN of the crew of 200 OF the Brit. y"
battleship Triumph, sunk We'd.
sday by a submarine in the Gulf er
Saros, were saved. tn