TO ZEEBRUGGE VIA THE CANAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2521, 23 July 1915, Page 5

TO ZEEBRUGGE VIA THE CANAL

GERMAN TORPEDO BOATS AND DESTROYERS By Telegraph—Press Association—Coriyririn Amsterdam, July 21. A Ghent message states that a number of German torpedo-boats and destroyers reached Zcebrugge by way of fclie Hoboken-Ruppelmonde Canal during the night.

RUSSIAN STEAMER SUNK BY PIRATE. ' CREW SAFEL\T LANDED. London, July 21. A submarine torpedoed and sank tho Russian steamer General Radetzky, 2118 tons, timber-laden, off the Shetlauds.

The crew of twenty-two were landed at Peterhead. •

NINETY-FIVE NEUTRAL SHIPS DESTROYED. ' London, July 21. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Dr. Macnamara (Secretary to the Admiralty) said that ninety-five neutral ships had been destroyed by German warships and mines up to the 20th instant.

BRITISH SUBMARINE IN THE BALTIC, THE SINKING OF A GERMAN • BATTLESHIP. London, July 21. In the House of. Commons, Commander Bellairs asked the name of the officer commanding the British submarine. which sunk tho German battleship Poiumern in the Baltic on July 2. Dr. Macnamara, Secretary to the Admiralty, said that no official report had been received, but that a Russian semiofficial report gave the name of tho commander as Max K. Horton.

As commander of E9, Horton sank the . German, light cruiser Hela off the German coast, six miles south of Heligoland; on September 15; in tho first week in October, lie sank a Germau, destroyer off the mouth of the Ems. : The l'ommern is a battleship of the Deutschland class, of 13,040 tons, armed with four 11-inch, fourteen 6.7-inch, and twenty-two 3.4-inch guns.