5 MAY 1917, Page 2

The Admiralty announces that a homeward-bound troopship, the ' Ballarat,'

carrying Australian troops, was sunk by a submarine on April 25th, when she was thirty-five-miles from the nearest land. By good fortune and good management, we have had few- such losses, and this time there were, happily, no casualties. The troops and the. crow showed the courage and discipline which wo expect from British soldiers and sailors, and every man was saved.