The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-12
GERMAN SUBMARINES SINK BRITISH SHIPS
BIG Battle DEVELOPS ON THE WSTULA RIVER
TURKISH FORTS SHHLED BY SIXTY WAR SHIPS
Refugee From Constantinople Declares 1t Is in a State of Panic and
That Large Numbers Of Persons Are Fleeing in Dread
Of Possible Mosem Uprising
BATTERIES ON THE HEIGHTS OF SMYRNA SILENCED

London.-Three British mercantile
ships have been sunk by German sub
marines, according to an official state
ment by the Admiralty, n off Liver
pool, a second on Scarborough and
the third off Hastings. Thirty-seven
men out of a crew of thirty-eight are
believed to have been lost on one yes
sci, while all on board the others were
saved. The Admiralty announcement
follows:
The British steamship Tangistan,
3,738 tons, owned by Strick Company
of London, was SUNK by a torpedo of
Scarborough at 1890 o'clock in the
morning. The vessel had a crew OF
thirty-eight, of whom only n was
saved so far as is known at present.
The steamship Blackwood, 1890
tons, owned by the Tyneside Lime OF
North Shields, was sunk without warn.
ing by a submarine at 6 O'Clock in the
morning off Hastings. The crew OF
seventeen men was saved and landed
at Newhaven.
The British steamship Princess Vic
toria, 1,1O8 tons, owned by L~anglands
Sons of Glasgow, was sunk without
warning in the morning by a submar-
inc off Liverpool. The crew of twenty.
four men was saved and taken to Liv.
erpool.
These disasters are believed 30 he
the result of a concerted raid by Ger
man submarines which had been com
paratively inactive for a week past.
The steam trawler Clan Macrae
which entered Birkenhead sighted a
submarine at a distance of 200 yards
at dawn off the Mersey. A lodging
match of twenty-five minutes followed.
The submarine tried alternately to get
a position either to the port or star
board of the Clan Macrae, but the
latter's speed and zigzag movements
saved her. She saw the submarine
dive and SEN out a wireless warming.
The crew of the Blackwood were
able to take to the boats and subse-
quently boarded a trawler. They say
they saw two submarines.
The survivor from the Tangistan,
which was bound from Algeria for
Middleboro, says the boats were kept
swung in the davits from the time the
ship entered the Channel, but that
there raj no time to launch them.
The torpedo struck the steamer amid
ships and she sank in four minutes.
He had on n life helt and wac in tho
water for two hours before a boat
from the steamer Woodville rescued
him. Meanwhile he heard cries from
others, who were evidently clinging to
the wreckage. The Woodville search
ed in vain for other survivors.
The captain of the Princess Victoria
saw the torpedo approaching his ship,
slightly submerged, and tried in vain
to dodge it. It struck the forepart of
the ship, which sank in fifteen min
utes. The crew were able to launch
the boats and escape.
While the A%nglo-French fleet was
battering away at the inner forts of
The Dardanelles and the Turkish port
of Smyrna, a cor of transports car
rying French troops to the scene of
action was h%urrying across the Medi-
terranean, according to a report from
Rome via Berlin. This is taken to
indicate that the troops already being
landed OF Turkish soil will be rein
forced by about $4,000 men.