WORK OF GERMAN SUBMARINES.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1915, Page 5

WORK OF GERMAN SUBMARINES.

MAGICAL WORK OF THE FLEET. Received Nov. 1, 11.50 p.m. London, Nov. 1. Mr. Aehmead Bartlett, describing the German submarines' work in tlie Dardanelles says that one .of their first fruits was the Albion which ran ashore. The enemy directed a heavy gunfire on her and shrapnel was bursting all round. The Canopus went to the rescue and finally towed oil' the Albion, which was hit two hundred times by shrapnel and common shell. The men on the Swil'tsure arranged a sweepstakes (or sighting periscopes. The fourtecn-pounders were ready day and night to lire at a moment's notice. One day a submarine appeared about three hundred yards off the port bow, Tlie Swiftsuie gunners fired and she disappeared. It was thought the submarine was trying to force an entrance to the Dardanelles and came up blindly among our ships. When the alarm was given the destroyers were immediately alert, and as if liy magic every battleship and transport weighed anchor and steamed at full speed away. THE END OF THE TRIUMPH. Received Nov. 1, 11.15 p.m. When the Swiftsure signalmen announced that the. Triumph was listing we rushed to the quarter-deck, and while our guns were bombarding the Turks, and theirs leisurely responding, we watched the dying struggles in silence. It suddenly seemed a weary, hopeless fight against invisible forces. Eight minutes after the Triumph was struck she turned turtle, floated for half an hour, and then plunged and disappeared.