21 AUGUST 1915, Page 3

We deeply regret to have to record that last Saturday

morning the British transport ' Royal Edward,' a steamer of 11,000 tons, was torpedoed by a German submarine in the Aegean. The transport had on board thirty-two military officers and thirteen hundred and fifty troops—mainly rein- forcements for the 29th Division and details of the Royal Army Medical Corps—and a crew of two hundred and twenty officers and men. Of these six hundred have been saved. The lose of valuable lives is grievous ; the wonder is that in all the hundreds of voyages made in dangerous waters by our transports none should have been lost before.