The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-06-02
SUBMARINES SCORE
BRITISH BATTLESHIP SINKS In
The DARDANELLES
TEUTONs PRESS RUSSIANS
Accident in shipyard Causes Death
of $50 Others-Germans Claim to
Have Surrounded PrzemysI -
Pressing Russians Hard in Galicia
Italians Continue Forward.

The British battleship Majestic,
another Of the ships supporting the
allied army on the Gallipoi penin-
sula, was sunk by German sub
marine Thursday. Nearly all the Of
ficers and crew were saved.
At about the same time the steam
er Princess Irene, built last year for
the Canadian Pacifc-British Colum-
bia coast survey, and which was
taken over by the admiralty at the
commencement of the war was de-
stroyed by an accidental explosion
while at anchor at Sheerness, where
she was undergoing repairs. All her
crew, numbering about two hundred
and fifty, except one seaman, and
seventy-eight dockyard workmens
aboard at the time, lost their lives,
The Majestic, which was the old
est battleship on the active list ofthe
British navy, IS the sixth capital 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 those waters.
The sinking of the Majestic makes
the fifth British battleship lost in the
Dardanelles campaign, and the third
by hostile submarine, the Triumph
having been sent to the bottom in the
Gulf of Saros last Wednesday and the
Goliath a few days before. The
French also have lost one battleship
in the Turkish campaign-the Bou
vet.
The submarine menace is grow
ing one, both in the Aegean Sea and
home waters, and these vessels prom
ise to take an active part in the oper-
ations in the narrow waters Of tho
Adriatic, where as in the Aegean,
islands afford good shelter.
While the warships are able to
escape submarines in the waters
around. the British Isles, the increase
in their numbers makes the carrying
on of sea-borne trad more and more
hazardous.
The admiralty still believes that
the American steamer Nebraskan,
now on her way to Liverpool, was
torpedoed. The British steamer Nor
vienna, bound for Lanada, and the
Danish steamer Betty have been
sunk by submarines. Only few
days ago the commander Of sub
marine informed a Danish captain
that he had no orders to sink Danish
vessels.
Amidst the activities on land and
sea and in the air from the Darda-
nelles &c the waters around the Brit
ish Isles, Middle Gahcia remains the
scene of the greatest and most I'M
portant fighting. There the Ger
mans continue to batter at the Rus
sian lines northeast and southeast OF
Przemysl, and, according to reports
which have not been confirmed by OF
fetal statements, they have severed
communications between the former
Austrian fortress and Lemberg.
If these reports are true Przemysl,
which less than three months ago
was taken by the Russians after a
long siege, again is surrounded. 1t
would appear, however, that while
the Teutonic allies are pressing hard
on the fortress they have not yet
forged the circle, the completion OF
which is being stubbornly opposed by
the Russians.
The Germans have forced another
crossing of the San river eleven
miles north of Przemysl, and have
extended by several miles the zone
held by them east Of the San. To
the southeast they also claim to have
broken the Russian lines and to nave
taken some important positions.
Despite all these claims, Petrogr&d
announces with the greatest optimism
the belief that the Russian reinforce
ments will stem the Austro-German-
onslaught.
In the west the French and Brit
ish report further advances, which
are generally denied by the Germans.
The latter, who themselves nave
made another air raid on Southland,
make no reference to the French
statement that eighteen French air
men flew over Ludwigshafen, and,
dropping bombs, set fire to a chemlcal
works.
The allies report continued pro-
gress against the Turks on the Call =
poll peninsula. During the armlstlce
which the Turks asked for, they
buried many more than three thou
sand dead while the British gatner-
ed no less than twelve thousar7
Turkish rifles-proof that the Turx
ish losses have been extremely heavy.
These losses were sustained IN ter
rife counter-attacks delivered
against the positions which the allies
had strongly fortified. The Turks
came under the fire of the ships at
the time.
The repulse of these counter-at'
tacks, and the carrying out OF at
tacks by the allies themselves have
resulted in considerable losses on the
allied side.
The Italians continue their often
siye on the frontiers of Tyrol, the
Trentino and Istria, and have taken
a chain of important positions, out
they have not yet come into contact
withthe main Austrian forces, Wnlcn
are waiting for them behind en-
trench m entS.