' BLEW UP THEIR OWN SHIP
A BLACK SEA INCIDENT
Petrograd) November 13. The official i version of the sinking of the Russian transport Prut (announced on October 31),-is that the Russians ■blew up. the transport rather than 'surrender.to the German-Turkish battleship cruiser Goeben. The Prut had no guns on' board. When called to surrender, she hoisted the military flag and made for .the'coast... Hia captain .opened the "Kingston" valves, and blew a hole in the bottom of the vessel.
Lieutenant Rogowsky perished heroically in attempting to fire a second charge of explosives. Part of the crew oscapod in boats; others flung themselves into the water, wearing life-belts. Turkish torpedo boats picked up 6ome of them,. The chaplain and a handful of men remained aboard the Prut. As she sank the chaplain gave his blessing to the men, who went down. cheering, and singing the National Anthem.
According to the messago of October 31 (from Constantinople via Amsterdam), the Turkish squadron sank the Russian mine-layer Prut, with seven hundred mines aboard, torpedoed and sank a Russian destroyer, captured another vessel, and damaged a torpedo coastguard ship. The Turks sustained no loss. The Prut was a ship of 5500 tons, armed with eight 3-poundcr and two 1-pounder guns. '
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2308, 16 November 1914, Page 6
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206' BLEW UP THEIR OWN SHIP Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2308, 16 November 1914, Page 6
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