ON THE HIGH SEAS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2243, 1 September 1914, Page 6

ON THE HIGH SEAS

' ADMIRAL MILNE RETURNS ' HOME ' MEDITERRANEAN COMMAND t ___ ' I London, August SO. Tho Press Bureau states that ; Admiral I3oue de'Lapeyrcre is in coms . mand of ' the Anglo-French Fleet in the f: . Mediterranean. • ■ , ■ , ' . | ■ . Rear-Admiral'Sir Archibald B. Milne, Commander-in-Chief in: tho Mediteri ranean, has returned Home. , . , }; Tho Admiralty has carefully exam- !• ined,' and entirely approved. Admiral i Milne's measures regarding the German ! ■ cruisers Goeben and Brcslau. BLOWN UP BY A MINE, ' : ANOTHER VESSEL LOST, i . Copenhagen, August 29. . Tbo trawler Gerda, of Hamburg, was • Mown up by a mine in tho Langeland |,<v Sea. The crow was saved.. . Many ; mines aro drifting near Denmark. ; London, August 30. The Press Bureau states that much of ; the mine-laying in tho North Sea was ! done by Gorman trawlers.- : ' MACDEBURC'S CREW. ARRIVE IN ST. PETERSBURG. | St. Petersburg, August 30. . Sis officers and sixty sailors have ari • fived from the German cruiser Magde- [ burg, which went ashore on Odensholm i j Island, in the Baltic, and was attacked] j, by the Russians. i TUREEY RELEASES .'GRAIN SHIPS. London, August 28. In response to energetic representar tions, the British grain-loaded ships detained in the Dardanelles have been permitted to enter the Mediterranean. ■—' "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services. Shanghai, 'August 30. ;\'y. The cruiser Hampshire, of the British /ar 'Eastern Fleet, has captured some German vessels. \ • . • IN THE "WHITE SEA. j ;?* / . London, August 30. ' .-Reports from tho White Sea state ■1- i- ;hat all'- Gorman vessels found there on the outbreak of the war were set ahre onsuiik and the jcr.ewfi taksn pjipopercif