ON THE SEAS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15871, 10 April 1917, Page 7

ON THE SEAS.

DESTROYERS SUNK

SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAIDS,

Tiic High Commissioner reports:— LONDON, April 8, 8.50 p.m. An official report states: — "Our seaplanes attacked Zeobrugge mole v.-ith bombs on Saturday night. "Ammunition dumps at Ghent, and Bruges were also attacked. All our machines are safe. "Two destroyers were torpedoed off Zeebrugge, one being sunk, and one severely damaged. Thero were no British casualties." THE PIRATES' LOSSES. STATEMENT BY BLOCKADE MINISTER. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cab 7 e Association.) . LONDON, April 8. "Le Petit Pension" has published an interview with Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of' Blockade, in tho course of which he said: —"It cannot be denied that the losses to merchantmen are serious, but it is no exaggeration to say that they are considerably below what the Germans anticipated. Is ought not to be forgotten that while wo talk so much about victims of Teuton piracy, we say nothing about tho pirates' losses." Tho Admiralty, ho added, had authorised him to say that between February 21st and April Ist thero had been 49 fights between British vessels and German pirates. AMERICAN STEAMER AGROUND. (United Service.) LONDON, April 8. Tho American steamer JZeafandia is aground. It is feared she will become a total loss. ARMED MERCHANTMEN. HOLLAND'S DECISION ADHERED TO. (Beruter's Telegrams.) AMSTERDAM, April 8. The Dutch Government has informed Great Britain that it adheres to the decision not to admit armed merchantmen to Dutch ports. In the meantime Great Britain lids agreed to release Dutch grain vessels in Halifax and allow them to procecd homo -without , touching at a British port. NORWEGIAN STEAMER SUNK. WITH BELGIAN SUPPLIES. COPENHAGEN, April »■ The Norwegian steamer Camilla, with a cargo of grain for Belgian relief, was sunk without warning. Nine survivors and two corpses were landed. Tho men were five days in an open boat. RUSSIAN TORPEDO-BOAT'S FEAT. SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS IN THE BLACK SEA. — Admiralty per Wireless Press. LONDON, April 8. A Russian official report states:— "One of our torpedo-boats landed eastward at the mouth of tho River Termeh, eastward of Samsun, on the Asia Minor coast of tho Black Sea, and burned a Turkish observation post. "The same torpedo-boat captured ten schooners with valuable cargoes, and brought them to Trcbizond."