An item referred to the Secolo which reported that the British troop transport Transsylvania struck a mine on 5 May off Savona and sunk. She was underway towards Marseille. Five thousand soldiers and eighty nurses were saved.
The Soldaten Courant dated the 27th reported that according to tidings received from the British Admiralty 29 officers and 373 soldiers, the captain and another ships’ officer and nine sailors were killed.
The edition dated 20 June supplied other interesting details dealing with this disaster. The Japanese naval attaché at London announced that one of the Japanese destroyer flotillas active in the Mediterranean attacked on 11 June in the Mediterranean enemy submarines. One Japanese destroyer was torpedoed although she was towed back to a harbour. Of her crew were 55 men killed. The secretary of the British Admiralty added that she was one of the destroyers who supported so bravely the torpedoed Transsylvania.
