Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-10
Germany Learns Of British
Disaster by CONSTANT
nople Advices.
DEATH LIST UNKNOWN
# Any Went Down With
Transport No Mention
Is Made in Dispatch.

Berlin, Jan. 10 (by wireless to Say
Vile, N. Y.)-The sinking of a trans
port ship of the allies, filled with
troops, at the time of the withdrawal
of the French and British forces from
the tip Of the Gallipoli peninsula, is
reported in Constantinople dispatches
given out today by the Overseas News
agency.
The following dispatch, under date
of Constantinople, was given out by
the news agency:
"The Mill agency states that the
Turks were making preparations for
three days for the attack on the Brit
ish and French, and results are not yet
fully known. All the positions of the
enemy near Seddul Bahr and Teke
Burnu were occupied by the Turks,
nine cannon being captured. Turkish
artillery sank an enemy transport
| filed with soldiers An enormous
amount of booty was captured.
"a Turkish aeropiane shot down an
enemy biplane near Seddul Bahr."
| The official British account of the
evacuation said that the only casualty
included in the withdrawal was the
wounding of one British soldier.
London, Jan. 10.-The British bat
tleship King Edward VII has been
sunk as the result of striking a mine
| The entire crew was saved
Loss Officially Announced.
The sinking of the King Edward VII.
was announced by the admiralty in
the following statement:
H. NJ. S. King Edward VII. has
| struck a mine Owing to the heavy
sea, 1t had to be abandoned, and sank
shortly afterward The ships COM
pany was taken off without any loss
Of life. Only two men were injured"
(The King Edward was battleship
Of 1880 tons, laid down in March,
1902 1t was 453 feet long, rs feet
| beam, and 26 feet draft. 1t had four
12-inch, four go inch and ten 6-inch
guns in it's main battery, and was
! equipped with four torpedo tubes, sub
merged It's speed on its trial trip
was 10 knots. 1t had a complement of
| III men)
JOlts British Public.
The sinking Of the King Edward VII.
has caused another pang to the Brit
ish public.
The brief official statement does not
reveal the scene of the action and
merely says that the disaster occurred
in a heavy sea, despite which the en-
tire crew was saved before the ship
went down.
The King Edward VII. represented
an investment of nearly sS.000,000 and
was one of the finest Of the last class
Of e-dreadnaughts, corresponding in
general to the American ships OF the
New Jersey and Nebraska type, and
was only slightly older than the Natal,
which was sunk by an internal explo-
sion about week ago.
Abandon Dardanelles.
London, Jan. lot is officially an
nounced that the complete evacuation
Of the GallipoH peninsula has been
successfully carried out.
General Sir Charles Monro, accord
ing to the official statement, reports
that only one British soldier was
wounded In the evacuation Of the Gal
: lipoli peninsula, that there were no
casualties among the French, and that
: all the guns were saved, except II
; WORKOUT ones, which were blown up.
Only One Man Wounded.
The official communication issued
last evening says:
General Sir Charles Monro reports
the complete evacuation of Gallipoli
, has been successfully carried out.
"All the guns and howitzers were
got away, with the exception of II
: WORKOUT guns. Shich were blown up
r by us before leaving.
: Our casualties amounted to one
member of the British rank and file
t wounded.
There were no casualties among
) the French.
General Monro states that the ac-
complishment of this difficult task was
7 due to Generals Birkwood and Davies
and invaluable assistance rendered In
I an operation OF the highest difficulty
by Admiral De Robeck and the royal
lnayX."