, 1915-04-21
Censored at Jutnaica.)

London, April 2Oth.-Ihe Adlnlfalty III
a statement says that submarine & 10 ran
ashore on Saturday at Rephez point, IN the
Dardanelles, attempting n difficult recon
Nuisance Of the Kephez mineiield.
The Admiralty gives the substnLce of a
further report concerning the attack on the
transport o1IauItou7 in the Aegean Sea. 1t
was at first rep rted that one hundred lives
had been lost, but il has now been ascer-
tained that tw"nty-four We're drowned and
tweuty-seYen are missing, The transport
was not damaged, the fatalities being due
to the capsizing of one boat ia the water
and another while being lowered, owing to
breaking Of a davit,
An official despatch from Cairo stat7s
that on Thursday three aeroplune~ made
a flight from the Canal to EI SIR, twenty five
miles south of El Arish, on the Sinui PENN
sula, dropping bombs which were effective.
From $50 to POO tents were seen, the dis
lance flown over being 40 mites. No other
enemy troops were seen on the Cairo side
of I'll SIR, although one or two small posts
Of about twenty mon are known to exist.
On Thursday q French cruiser bOmbarded
"a camp near El Arlsh, Il etapIane directing
her fire. No large number of troops was
seen, and although the oncimy's guns opened
fire both on the cruiser and the seapIane
HGlJlGl WAS III. Ou Ddl OAN INC 11GuCu
cruiser again assisted by u seaplane bonn
barded the enemy's camp south OF Ghuzzeh,
the ancient Gam, forty miles southwest
of Jerusalem, and considerable damage was
done.
a Reuters despatch from Athens says that
the commandment of the Dardunelles was
resumed on Saturday.
Mr.. Churchill has issued the following
statement "'Thcre has been no naval action
Of any kind in the North Sea within the
last month, or any action Of any kind in
the Dardnnelles other than local lombard
meuts aud reconnaissance by single ships.
Since March eigh oeuth only two or three
men of the force at the Dardonelles have
been wounded, and there has been no loss
OF injury to the British OF French ships
A Reuters despatch from Copenhagen
states hut three Danish fishing boats were
seized by the Germans uud taken to
Cuxhaven, where their catches were sold.
They have now returned to Esbjerg and re-
port that at the time of their seizure they
were fishing III the open son, and their cup
tains say they were told by the Germans
that they might secure payment for them
catches through the Berlin Prize Court.
A despatch from Berlin states that an
official Investigation is proceeding regarding
the sinking Of the Dutch steamer "Kntwijk",
and if is shown that she was sunk by a Ger
man boat Germany is ready at once to pay
damages and apologies, according to the
provisions Of international Law. Tension
between Holland and Germany is not feared.
The sinking Of the Greek steamer ellis
poutos" is likely to cause friction between
the Greek aud German Governments, &C
colding to unofficial dispatches from Athens.
Her crew Of II have arrived at Flushing,
and her captain, who is badly wounded, has
been taken to u hospital. He said the yes
sci was torpedoed without warning, but that
the crew got away safely in the boats and
rowed unassisted to the N~orthhinder light
ship, five miles to the east. The "Ellispon-
tos' was empty and was proceeding to
Buenos Aires to load grain for the Dutch
Government.
The correspondent of the "Daily Express"
in Northern France states that at Amiens on
Friday 30 persons, mostly civilians, were
killed OF wounded by a single bomb from n
taube machine, proving that the Germans
are using more deadly explosives than ever.
Twenty-Five houses were destroyed outright
ana many others seriously damaged. One
woman was decapitated at a distance of 200
feet, while another woman who was working
100 feet away from the explosion was struck
~, n miami IF ioUOpd steel and killed i'm n