THE ALLIES’ CAMPION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4005, 11 August 1915, Page 5

THE ALLIES’ CAMPION.

ALLIED SUBMARINE’S SUCCESS. MAJORITY OF THE GREW SAVED FATE OF OLD GERMAN WARSHIP CONTANTINOPLE, Aug. 9Official': The battleship Kheyreddin. Barbarossa, 9901 tons, with six 11inch guns (formerly the Kurfurst Friedrich Wilhelm )waa sunk by an Allied submarine. A majority of the crew were saved. [The Kurfurst Friedrich Wilhelm was a battleship of 9874 torus, 10,000 h.p., built in 1891. Her speed was 16.5 knots, and she was armed with six 11-inch (old), eight 4.1-incli quickfirer, eight 3.4-inch quick-firer, and 16 smaller guns.] Sir John French reports: “Since August Ist the artillery on both sides have been active northward and eastward of - Ypres. In these exchanges tho advantage has been with us. After a successful artillery _ bombardment this morning, wherein the French on our loft co-operated effectively, wo attacked tho trenches at Hooge captured by the-enemy cm tlie 30 th. All were re-taken. Wo thereafter further progressed northward and westward of Hooge, extending tlie front of ilie captured trenches to 1200 yards. During tho lighting we shelled a Gorman train at Langemurkea, derailing and burning live trucks. Our captures amounted to three officers, 124 men, and two macliineguns. Tire French .troops have already been furnished with 300.000 steel helmets, painted grey, and hardly visible at a distance. ' Already specimen casques received from the front, after undergoing the enemy’s fusilade, bear marks of bullets wlilcli would have killed men wearing ordinary kepis.