BRITISH PRISONERS AT CONSTANTINOPLE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2492, 19 June 1915, Page 5

BRITISH PRISONERS AT CONSTANTINOPLE

RKC'EIVED "WITH GREAT KINDNESS." • J lie High Commissioner reports:— .u, ii i r . . |. , London, Juno 17, 7.45 p.m. 1,, " V , > ,n rt' l < 'udirato Hint Australian officers who arc prisoners of 111 f • lin'p'm i'.'.'/i'/'Vi''n :, "| l luM " l V vc11 treated. Tlio following has reached Lon.l i | . la 'J Ollll ' I ', an Australian officer:—"l am in Constantinople iv 111 other prisoners ol war. Wo baro rweivod gr'oat kindness from Turkish oliiooin, ami liavo nvoiral advance pay from Commandant Djcvad Rey. s !- ENEMY'S TRANSPORTS SUNK BY BRITISH SUBMARINE MAJORITY OF TROOPS AND OREWS DROWNED. (Press Asaoo'ation.), . „ on Wednesday torpedoed and sank'threVkansJorts bnjnnd Nagara. A groator part of tho troops and crows wero drowned. Two gunboats ivoro escorting tho troopships. BRITISH SUBMARINE AT CONSTANTINOPLE. (Reo. Juno 18, 5.6 p.m.) C^nitni^mnnl! rol qu orao | S 4 at(!S that i anothor Dritish submarine i?I s ,."' l rH'L ? ll0 t Bnnk two vessels and a largo steamer in tho Goldon Horn. All tlio ruiltish forts and warships fired but did not hit tho submarine. TURKISH 'CRUISER SEVERELY DAMAGED. Tho "TompsV' Potrograd correspondent states that a Russia^uadron f J™ r y i th ? 0r111 . 60r i*" 1 "? 1 ® I '' was recently reported to havo boon sunk by a Russian rrnno off Otchakoff, on tlio Russian coast of the Black boa, and subsequently refloated.