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Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1915, Page 5

Describing tlie sinking of the British transport Royal Edward in the Aegean Soa on August 13th, Captain A. E. Wilkinson, of the Auckland Mounted Rilies, with the ath Reinforcements, says in a letter to his wife: ''We sighted the Aegean Islands i:i the early morning, and about 8 a.m. we saw the large British transport Royal Edward, with over 2000 English territorials aboard, coming up on our starboard bow. At 9.25, when she was about five miles-away, we wore horrified to see her reel in the water. A cloud of water rose in the air as high as her masts, and then she quickly sank by the stern; her nose rose in the air, and she went down stern first within five minutes of the time she was struck. Our ship sent a wireless message to a hospital ship that had passed between the two steamers half an hour earlier, and the latter returned to the scene of the horrible disaster. She saved some lifeboats full of men, who reported that the ship had been torpedoed doubtless by an Austrian submarine when not far off an island. Our ship promptly altered her course and in- - creased her sjieed. Onr men were &tste