in last Saturday's papers the Admiralty announced that the British
transport Cameronia,' with troops on board, had been torpedoed by an enemy submarine in the Eastern Mediterranean en April 15th, and that one military officer, one hundred and twenty-eight other ranks, and two officers and nine men of the crew were missing. They also announced that the Rear-Admiral commanding the British Squadron in the Ad riatic had reported that on May 15th an Austrian force of light cruisers, reinforced by destroyers, raided the Allied drifter line and succeeded in sinking fourteen British drifters and taking seventy-two prisoners. H.M.S.
Dartmouth,' with the Italian Rear-Admiral on board, and H.M.S. •
Bristol' immediately chased the enemy off, assisted by French and Italian torpedo-boat destroyers, and the chase was continued till near Cattaro, when some enemy battleships came out and our vessels had to withdraw. Italian airmen, however, after a battle in the air, attacked the Austrian warships outside Cattaro, and they confidently assert that one of the enemy cruisers was heavily on fire and in a sinking condition. Another enemy cruiser is reported by the British Admiral as being "badly damaged."
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