26 AUGUST 1916, Page 1

Lieutenant-Commander R. R. Turner, of the submarine E 23, on

returning that day from the North Sea reported that last Saturday he torpedoed a German Dreadnought of the 'Nassau' class. While the ship was being escorted back to harbour by five destroyers he torpedoed her again and believes that she sank. The German Wireless says that the ship attacked was the Westfalen,' that the second torpedo missed, and that the ship did not sink ; but the ideas of truth harboured by the German Admiralty are so peculiar— or shall we say so complicated—that its messages really do not deserve even passing attention.