BRITISH PICKET BOAT'S EXPLOIT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3098, 31 May 1917, Page 5

BRITISH PICKET BOAT'S EXPLOIT

_ « — For torpedoing an Austrian monitor on the Danube a British picket boat's officers and crew were awarded £Ma bounty in the Prize Court recently. It was stated that the picket boats were transported from the Fleet across Serbia; stationed on the Danube at Belgrade. On \pril '-0, 1915. a number of enemy monitors ' were sighted, and LieutenantCommander Lester Kerr, in command of the picket boats, was instructed to reconnoitre and attack them if possible.The enemy was discovered two days later, and a picket boat, setting within n hundred yards, torpedoed the monitor Keresh. There was a terrific explosion; no survivors were taken. Receiving 35 lodge votes out of 40, Mk Iltirry Dack, president of the Cleveland Miners' Association, has been selected as prospective Labour candidato for the Cleveland Division of Yorkshire, to op-, pose Mr. Herbert Samuel. (The cable news in this issue accredited to the London "Times" has appeared in! that journal but only • where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinion of The "Times.") THE ENEMY IN YOUR MOUTH' To combat the dangerous disease oj,' caries, or decay of the teeth, , nonsuit. W. P. Sommerville, The fS" Dentist." Molesworth Street. Hun- ; dreds of "cases have been successfully; treated by his pwnless, antiseptic meth-ir od and up-to-date aPPl™*": . Ho can ? wve or repair your teeth.-Adrt. r