ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1916, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

A MAMMOTH LINER. SUNK IN TIIE AEGEAN SEA. London, Nov. 22. The Britannic (47.500 tons) has been Mink in the Aegean Sea. Eleven hundred were saved. The Admiralty states that the hospital >l.ip Britannic was sunk by a mine or torpedo in the Aegean Sea. There are 110(i survivor.-;, of whom 2S were irjurod. ]t is estimated that 50 were lost. r l.he Athens correspondent of the Chronicle states that the Britannic was sunk by a submarine off the island of Zea. The survivors and mirses were landed at Phaleron. They witnessed the departure of two of the expelled Ministers going to the Piraeus.

Athens, Nov. 22. The Britannic was apparently from Salonika. She lowered all her boats, numbering thirty-five. Details are lack-

Wellington, Nov. 23. • The High Commissioner reports under date London. Xov. 22, 4,lf> p.m.: The Admiralty reports that the hospital ship Britannic was sunk by a mini or torpedo yesterday, in the Aegean Sea. There were llOli survivors and 50 live 3 were lost.

(The Britannic was the largest vessel of the White Star Lipe, and was only completed in 11)14. She was in use a"» a hospital *hip some time ago, and was probably still employed for the same purpose.)

A DELIBERATE CRIME.

HUNS' U-\ MITIGATED BARBARISM. TWO SUBMARINES LIE IN WAIT. A TERRIBLE STORY. / Received Nov. 23, 5.5 p.m. " London, Nov. 22. The Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent /.tatcs that details of the outrage prove that the Britannic was the victim of another example of Germany's unmitigated barbarism.

Two Hun submarines lay in wait in the narrow sea for the express purpose of Fending the vessel to the bottom, the submarines attacking on both sides simultaneously. Each launched a torpedo. One missed, but the other struck fatally. It wag a deliberate crime, all the worse becau.se the submarine commas, evs must have noticed that the Britannic was going north, the fact implying that she lmd aboard only the usual crew and complement of nurses, doctors, and medical service men. But that did not count with the cowardly foe.

The Britannic was going to Mudros to take aboard the sick and wounded. She was fitted to carry three thousand.

A survivor says that perfect order pre vailed. The nurses, like the officers and men and the medical corps, lined the deck. There was not the slightest suspicion of panic. A stewardess tells a terrible story re' garding the launching of the first two boats near the stern. The ship was heeling over and the screw was out of the water, and whirled round two loaded boats, which \v< re sucked towards it and cut up like matchwood. Many were killed outright and others horribly injured.

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN 2,.>00,000 TONS OF BRITISH SHIPPING DESTROYED.

GERMANS DELIRIOUS WITH DELIGHT Received Nov. 24, I a.m Amsterdam, Nov. 23. Berlin has announced that 308,500 tons of the Allies' shipping was destroyed in October, and 2,500,000 tons of British shipping sunk during the war. ■The newspapers are delirious with delight, and claim (.hat the submarines' commerce-destroying will ' put an inevitable end to the war in Germany's favor in twelve months. FURTHER ARMING OF SHIPS. Paris, Nov. 22. Shipowners and others are discussing the arming of all merchantmen both bow and stern.