17 JULY 1915, Page 2

It has been officially announced at Petrograd that the sub-

marine which sank a German battleship on July 2nd in the Baltic was British. This is the first official admission that British submarines have been operating in the Baltic. On Thursday week at dawn the Italian cruiser Amalfi' was sunk by an Austrian submarine in the Upper Adriatic. The captain of the ' Amalfi,' when giving the order to the crew to leave the ship, shouted, "Long live the King I Long live Italy !" The discipline was excellent. The captain, the last to jump free, slipped down the side of the ship as she was sinking. Nearly all were saved. The' Amalfi' was built in 1908, and her officers and crew amounted to nearly seven hundred.