ATTACK ON BRITISH CRUISER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2497, 25 June 1915, Page 7

ATTACK ON BRITISH CRUISER

H.M.S. ROXBURGH TORPEDOED REACHES PORT UNDER OWN STEAM London, June 24. Tho Admiralty reports that a torpedo struck the armoured cruiser Roxburgh (10,850 tons, 22 knots) on Sunday night in tho North Sea. The damage done was not serious, and she was able to proceed under her own steam. There were no casualties. [The Roxburgh (1904-5) carries 655 officers and men. She is armed with four 7.5-inch guns, sis 6-inch, and twenty small guns, and was built in 1904-5.] CERMAN 17-INCH CUN SHIPS. ENEMY RUSHING COMPLETION. London, June 23. The "Daily Mail's" naval correspondent, commenting on.the reports that the Germans are rushing tho completion of ships armed with 17-inch guns, declares that victory in naval warfare has gone uniformly to the biggest guns and urges the Admiralty not to allow the Germans to gain an ascendancy. SUBMARINE PIRACIES TWO STEAMERS TORPEDOED London, June 23. The steamer Tunisian (10,576 tons), from Montreal to Hull, -with wheat, was run aground at Pakefield, after being torpedoed. The crew are safe. The steamer Belgrade (273 tons) was torpedoed off Pembrokeshire, and towed to Broadhaven, bottom upwards. ' The crew is missing. FIVE SWEDISH SHIPS CAPTURED. CARRYING TIMBER FOR ENGLAND. Stockholm, June 23. Germany has captured in the Baltic fivo Swedish ships bound for England with timber. THE LUSITANIA CRIME. GERMAN LEADERS AT ODDS. London, June 23. A Berlin message states that on the Lusitania question some of the German leaders declined the responsibility for the submariue policy.' Several of Herr Bethmann Hollweg's supporters approved, whereupon tho "Deutsche Tage Zeitung," Admiral Von Tirpitz's organ, protested, and the paper was suspended. The incident shows grave differences between Admiral Von Tirpitz and i the Imperial Chancellor.