BIG LIZZIE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 7 September 1915, Page 5

BIG LIZZIE.

STRUCK BY GERMAN TORPEDO. (I ,' '' ty ii ■'.. U. 1... ..... GREAT BATTLESHIP TAKEN TO PORTSMOUTH FOR REPAIRS. DARDANELLES.EXPECTED TO ! "BJlSti' THJS MONTH., ~„,. 11 ' •*," '■'* '....1, ~t i 'T.d "iy\ . The 'troopship,;, Wftitoino, t in ncpnii riiiiftd 'of'Captain.s Harris, returned to Bluff 6h*l iSatnvday, having, been; five mentis, absent from New: (Zealand Waters".' • -t .i' I .i.. ;'(,'■ .ij'i : ' i

The principal news brought back by'i the Waitomo is that "Big Lizzie" (H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth), which has not been heard <of at the '.Dardanelles for "some months',' : was'torpedoed by a Geinian ialJbhough she was not sunk. She was assisted ,to Malta badly damaged, and ultimately, from all accounts I ,' 11 reached Portsmouth', wher,efifthe! wak cables "said)"<;o, haye, her 'ls-iiuih"<guns.< ! relined:l' It!.appeals, that only, one tqrepdo: was fjve,d I at,ißiiitain'fs fam.our battleship, the, SjUbmaHiie, diving! promptly out: of ibarm's, wa|.y- Had a ; ;seeand; or third been firedL x \}\ #IJ I probability ..''Big Li/Hie," would-have spoken from her terrifying pinchers for the last time. Reports • .state that a • few., months should, see, her once.agajn raining shells,uppij the.enemy;.somewhere. ~■ MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Unttib Priks Ajmooution. i ■ Amsterdam, August 5. The German;Crown Prince, in a congratulatory telegram to Enver Pasha on the successes expressed confidence. iin the final success. Enver PasW Replied expressing admiration at the results of the German army in the East against a superior enemy, which were only obtainable by the bj;avery of the Germans in the western theatre. He added that the ()smanli|[jare proud to and hoped I soon to throw the British and French into the st>a. j Athens, September o. i Enver:. Pasha was recently at the Dardanelles, and delivered a patrioticaddress to raise the morale of the troops, Whd "are depressed with their losses, which "exceeded twenty thousand kiled and wounded in the last battles. j Paris, September 5. Le Temps'' correspondent at Dedeagatch say's ithat"a Turkish colonel states that .Turkey mobilised 1,300,000 men. She has 190,000 men at Gallipnli, and. 800,000 in -the Caucasus, with 70,1)00 jaf Constantinople, 50,000 at Adrianople, 40,000 at Chatalja, and 200,000 in 'Asia Minor. London, September 5. The Times! says: "We all have our own opinion j of, the strategy that actuated the Enterprise at the Dardanelles, but only one opinion of the men sent to carry it through. Mr Ashmead Bartlett's should make tha least imaginative realise the conditions at Gallipoli. The Turks are well entrenched, they'have an abundance of machine guns and artillery, and the hills ofFer an .ideal defence. The Australians*, New Zealanders, Indians, and British have gone forward again and again, with "stern bravery, yielding ground only when it was so swept by fire that, u.Ol living thing remained. We cannot, find words to express our pride in the Gallipoli, troops. The Australasians are our own a s much as the English-born, and they are as conscious of the call of the 5 race, as proud of our traditions, and, as resolute to maintain the honor of the; Empire."