AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT LOST.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1917, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT LOST.

ALL THE TROOPS -SAVED. Sydney, January 20. The Underwriters' Association have been advised that,the Australian liner ■'Pert Nicholson (formerly the Makarini) has been lost. N'o details aio given, beyond mentioning that it was a war loss. She was homeward bound with a large Queensland and Sydney general cargo. Advices have been received in Melbourne that all the Port Nicholson's troops wore landed before the ■ vessel sank. NO LIVES LOST. Received Jan. 21, 5.5 p.m. Sydney, Jan. _O. j ne naval authorities; confirm the report that ail troops were di -emiinricrt before the Port Nicholson sank, and that no lives were lost. GREEK SHIP TORPEDOF.a Received Jan. 21, 5.5 p.m. Athens, Jan. 20. A German submarine torpedoed Ike Greek steamer Armardi, of 750 .on-. The cvew were all saved. TWO VESSELS SUNK Received' Jan. 21, 5.5 p'.m. London, Jan. "0. Further sinkings reported ire:—Tho Spanish steamer Valle (2303 ten-), nd the Norwegian steamer Bergcnous (3COO tons). : NORWEGIAN SHIPPING LOSSES. Copenhagen, January 10. Norwegian newspapers make bittev anti-German comments in connection with the publication of the Norwegian shipping losses in lOili. Three hundred ships o"f 405,000 tons ,vcr- mined or torpedoed. AN EXTRAORDINARY ST VrEMEXT. (Renter). 4 London, Jar. Ift. An extraordinary and unexplained statement in the late evening papers reports that a Spanish submarine of 500 tons Ims arrived 'from America bound for some Swedish port.