3 JULY 1915, Page 10

News was received on Thursday afternoon of the sinking of

the Leyland liner ' Armenian' by a German submarine. The vessel was bound from America to an English port, and encountered the submarine on Monday night when fifty-four miles north-east of the Bishop Rock. Some of the crew, it is reported, were killed outright or drowned, while others were badly wounded. The ' Armenian was a steel four- masted steamer of 8,825 gross tonnage. It is stated that the majority of those lost—about twenty—were American citizens. If so, we shall have reached the decisive point in the conversations between Washington and Berlin earlier than was expected.