Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-18
sUBMERsIBLE BOAT in AT.
TEMPT TO SINK TRANS
PORT FILLED WITH BRIT
1sH TROOPS.
RUSSIAN LEADER ASSAULTED
Grand Duke Nicholas Reported
Shot by General Whom He
Reprrimanded.

1SSpI14AdUUSO.
London, April 1.-THE British ad-
miralty tonight announced that a
Turkish torpedo boat, which attacked
transport carrying British troops,
was sunk in the Aegean sea this morn.
ing by the British cruiser Minerva
and British torpedo boat destroyer.
1t is reported that 100 abord the trans.
port were drowned.
The Turkish submersible fired three
torpedoes at the transport, the state.
ment says, all of which missed. The
torpedo boat then made off, but was
pursued by the British war craft,
which finally ran it aground and de.
strOyed it on the coast of ChlOs, in
Kalammuti bay. Members of the
crew of the Turkish submersible were
made prisoners. The statement con-
cludes, 1T is reported that about 100
men aboard the transport lost their
lives through drowning, but full par.
ticulars have not been received
Attacks on the DardanelIes.
How the men were drowned with
out the transport being struck was
not explained. This is the only Off
cial statement from the Allies on land
or sea operations against Turkey, but
from unofficial sources, it is learned
that warships have been attacking
the forts at Bulair on the Gallipoli
peninsula, while the Turkish reports
say the attacks made on the Darda-
nelles were made from the outer en-
trance.
Opportunity for Aviators.
The arrival Il Of spring, which has
given aviators their opportunity, al
most brought to a standstill the battle
in he Carpathians. The Russians are
still attacking in the neighborhood of
Uzsok Pass, but the melting SHOWS
are overflowing the streams and riv-
ers and the whole country is covered
with deep mud, SO nothing on large
scale can be attempted. a5
In the west there have been at
tacks at widely separated points, but
on the whole the condition is unchang
ed.
A frontier inciden, which, during Or
binary times, would pass unnoticed,
occurred on the Italio-Austrian bor-
der. It is said an Austrian patrol re-
Gently passed through Italian terri
tory, ignoring protests Of the customs
officers Il.
No Confirmation.
No further confirmation of the re-
port printed in Duisberg, Rhenish
Z Prussia newspaper, which said it
learned from an absolutely unim-
peachable source the reported sick
ness of the Grand Duke Nicholas,
commander-in.chief of the Russian
forces is due to shot in the abdo-
men, fired by the late General Baron
Sievers of the defeated Tenth army
corps, when the Duke asked him to
explain his defeat. Sievers then COM
mitted suicide, the newspaper says.
The Russian Tenth army corps was
defeated in February by the Germans.
1t was officially stated:
Owing to the possibility that the
war may last long time, and in or
der to secure the necessary reserves,
the unframed Landsturm men be-
tween the ages of 18 and so hereafter
will be liable for military service.
Boat 10 lnterned.
It, was stated here that the COM
mander and crew of the Turkish Tor
pedo boat which ran aground on the
coast of Chios when pursued by the
British warships, surrendered to the
Greek authorities to be interned.
It was officially announced: "A
British aeroplane brought down
German aeroplane in Belgium near
Boesinghe, Flanders. The machine
fell within our lines and the pilot was
killed and the observer taken prison.
er. One of our dirigibles bombarded
station and aviation sheds at f'rei-
burg in Breisgau." >,
The naval department announces 1t
was informed the Greek steamer Ellis
pontos, which left Muiden, Holland,
Saturday for Montevideo, Uruguay,
has been torpedoed in the North sea,
and her crew of twenty-one, with
Dutch pilot were rescued by the North
Hinder Lightship. They will be
brought to Holland.