New Britain herald., 1915-03-10
GERMAN SUBMARINE
 U-20 IS SUNK BY
 BI IT|SH DESTROYER
Ariel Rams SubmcTSIb|c- ---P|sCG Of Sinking Not DiSClosct-- Crew Su.-
 renders and Is Saved.

0LIiLO LULU nVvniVuLV IN DARDANfLlES NARROWS
 Italian Warships Reported 10 Have
 Put to Sea and Bound for Dar-
 danelles - Allies Push Trenches
 Forward in Argonnc-Russians
 Capture Several Villages in South cIn Persia.
 Another of the German submarines which have been seeking to enforce Germanys naval war zone decree has gone to the bottom. The British ad- nliralty announced today that the U-20, built in 1913, had been de- stroyed
 The German auxiliary cruiser Prnz Eitel Friedrich, which has succeeded in evading for months a large number of British warships, reached Newport News. Va, today, and may be in-
 termed there.
 Allied Fleet Advances. Bombardment of the Dardanelles, which was again interrupted by un- favorable weather conditions, is ported unofficially to have been re-
 sumed, and the allied fleet to have made further progress in the narrows. Berlin and Constantin opIe, however, persist in statements that no serious damage has been inflicted except to
 the weaker Notifications of the en- trance to the straits A despatch from Geneva gives a Vienna report
 that Italian warships have put to sea and probably are on their way to the l Dardanelles. This report lacks sub- 1 stantiation.
 Germany has taken further meas
 tres to conserve food supplies The l Bundesrath has ordered the expro- l pration. with certain exceptions of all i stocks of barley exceeding a metric ten.
 German Submarine Sunk.
 London, March 10, 2:35 F. M-The 1 German submarine U-20 has been sent i tc the bottom. according to state ment issued today by the British ad- l nllralty
 l The submarine, according to the 1 Cfflcial announcement, was rammed ] today by the British torpedo boat de- ! stroyer Ariel. It went to the bottom. lie memDerS CT the Subm erSible'S crew surrendered and were saved Location Not Disclosed. The location of the sinking of the submarin is not disclosed in the ad- miralty announcement.
 The captured crew will be deprived
 of all special privileges as done in
 the case of the men on board the
 US and they will be held for trial i'm, wi merchant vessels
 The U-20 probably is the submarine which yesterday sunk the British steamer Blackwood.
 lE5ftEtN 4 tf 'J5uilt in 1915 The submarine U-20 was built in. 1918. She had a displacement of $40 | tons and a speed of IT knots on the surface and 12 knots submerged. She was equipped with four torpedo 1 tubes,' two in the bow, and two in the 1 stern. She was one of the larger of l the German submarines The max ] imum radius of boats of the U-20 type has been given in marine authorities i at 2,000 miles The loss of the sub- | marine makes the seventh German l submarine to be destroyed since the | l the statements given out officially in London These boats are: U-15, sunk ! by the British cruiser Birmingham in l August: U-1S, rammed and sunk by 1 British patrol boat November 23, and i three unidentified Submersibes off Sicily, declared lost on october 26, Oc- { tCber 30, and February 2S. The sixth
 submarine to be destroyed was the US, which was sunk off Dover, March f.
 silence Turkish Batteries. Paris March 10, $40 a. m.-Oper- ations of the allied fleet in the Dar- danelles stopped yesterday (Tuesday) morning by unfavorable weather con- ditions were resumed vigorously in the afternoon, says an Athens despatch to the Matin. The warships are reported to have made additional
 progress in the narrows, silencing
 Turkish batteries on the heights of
 proved troublesome to the fleet n it's maneuvers. Russiahs Capture Villages.
 Tiflis, Transcaucasia. Tuesday,
 March 9, Via Petrograd. March 10, II a. m., and London, 11:25 a. m.-
 The Turkish forces and the Kurds
 who have been concentrated in the
 district of Khoi, in northwestern Per
 sia, are being slowly forced by the
 Russians to retreat to the southward. l
 Russian forces already have como
 into possession of several villages in
 which Turkish troops had been quar-