SUNK BY A MINE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 23 February 1915, Page 5

SUNK BY A MINE.

AN AMERICAN STEAMER. Received 22, 9.30 p.m. London, February 22. The American steamer Evelyn, cottonladen, was mined and sunk off Borkum. Th-_ crew was saved. Received 23, 1.30 am. Washington, February 22. Mr Bryan has requested Mr" Page Gerar to supply the details of the sinking of the Evelyn. SINKING OF THE DOWNSHIRE. TREATMENT OF CREW. Received 23, 12.20 a.m. London, February 22. The Germans ordered the Doivnshire's crew aboard the submarine. A bomb was attached to the Downshire amidships, and she sunk in a couple of minutes. The crew were afterwards re-embarked in their own boats and landed at Dundrum, in County Down. THE HOLGER INTERNED. Received 23, 12.30 a.m. Buenos Ayres, February 22. The Holger. which landed the crews of the Kronprinz's victims, has been interned, the Government treating her as an armed cruiser as she did not sail in the stipulated time. THE DARDANELLES. OPENING WOULD RELEASE FOOT} SUPPLIES. Athens. February 21. The warships bombarded the Turkish camps on the coast opposite the island of Tenedos. [Tenedos is an island off Asia Minor near the opening of the Hellespont, which leads to the Dardanelles.] London. February 21. The forcing of the Dardanelles, besides securing the mastery of Constantinople. would open the way to the Black Sea and facilitate tlie export of t"n million quarters of Russian wheat vhicli is lyins at various ports, and thus cheapen food in Britain and France. Constantinople, February 21. Official: The battleshins fired six hundred shots, killing one Turk and wounding another. Three of the enemy's battleships were damaged.