14 AUGUST 1915, Page 3

Further evidence of the activity of the British submarines operating

in the Sea of Marmora was supplied by the Turkish official communiquis published on Monday, which announced the sinking, with most of her crew, of the battleship Hairredin Barbarossa,' a vessel of 9,900 tons and carrying six 11-in. guns. She was stated recently to be in the neighbourhood of Maidos, supporting with her big guns the action of the enemy on land, and the moral effect of her loss is sufficiently shown by the wording of the Turkish communiqué. In this connexion we regret to have to record the loss of the British destroyer Lynx,' which struck a mine in the North Sea. Four officers and 22 men were saved out of a crew numbering about 100.