DELAYED CABLEGRAMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 100, 29 July 1916, Page 5

DELAYED CABLEGRAMS.

Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, July 20. How the light cruiser H.M.S. Cleopatra rammed a German destroyer on the night of March 25 was told with dramatic terseness in the British Prize Court to-day. The affidavit of Commander Loder-Symonds was read. It stated: ■ . "1 made out two enemy destroyers on the po>'t bow. I turned find rammed the rearmost, hitting her fairly amidships and cutting her clean in halves. Each half floated past my ship." The Court awarded the commander £460 bounty money, and the crew £5 each. The Cleopatra is one of a class of eight "C" light cruisers (so styled since each name begins with C), burning oil fuel, and completed only last year. They are of 3800 tons displacement, and have the great speed of 30 knots an hour. They carry two 6in and eight 4in guns, and four 21in torpedo tubes.' - ■

The women memorialists who desire that Mr Hughes shall return ;to England for Empire work have decided to dispatch a deputation 10 Australia, to present another memorial to the Commonwealth Prime Minister. The signatories include representatives of the Suffragettes and of women's' Labor and Liberal organisations. The memorial is signed by a peeress and many workers. The author of the movement was Miss Christabel Pankhurst, of the well-known Suffragette family. 1 Reuter's correspondent m Paris says that the Germans lost 12,000 men in their counter-attacks on Contal Maison, thus indicating the importance they attached to the position. A German prisoner formerly a waiter in London, said that the officers had told the men that "Kitchener's conscripts" knew nothing of An Admiralty cable to the British their rifles directly they came to close quarters with the valiant Germans. "We, therefore," concluded the exiwaiter, "expected a walk-over; but it was verv otherwise, .ja!"

Washington. July 20

\n Admiraty cable to the British Embassv announces that positive proof has been found that the two German Dreadnoughts,. Kaiser and Kronprinz, were sunk by torpedoes m the Jutland battle. Montreal. July 20. The Montreal Financial Times says that British engineers have come to the conclusion that the Panama Canal is a failure, and that an admission of this failure by the American Government is probable this summer. The article declares that American engineers are now in England securing data for an alternative route through Nicaragua. ■