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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 162, 15 December 1914, Page 5

A YANKEE YARN.

A SUPER-DREADNOUGHT SUNK. CTiHE STORY DENIED. Auakland, Last Night, d American papers to hand by the Makura contain a circumstantial account e of the supposed loss of the super-Drcad-g nought Audacious, which was struck - either by a mine or torpedoed off the Irish coast on the morning of October 27th. When the Audacious began to s settle a wireless call for help was sent I to the Olympic, ten miles away. The )' Olympic arrived soon after, and, in spite of the rough sea, succeeded in saving the whole of the warship's crew. An attempt was then made to tow the sinking warship fifteen miles to the Irish coast, but at 9 p.m., with a liner and 'a number of cruisers standing by, the bulkheads gave way. There was a terrific ; explosion aboard the Dreadnought, and she disappeared. The Olympic proceeded to Lough Swilly, where she remained for ( three days, but no one was allowed to , land. Then she proceeded to Belfast, but ' before they landed the crew and passen- , gers were asked to keep secret the loss of the warship. ' The whole elaborate story is given an [ emphatic denial by Dr. Beaumont, sur- ■ gcon on the Olympic, who left that vessel at Lough Swilly, and who was interviewed in America early in November. He declared that no bluejackets were rescued by the Olympic, which saw 110 trace of tire Audacious, and that, so far as be knew, the whole story was a fabrication.