The British Navy

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 93, 10 August 1914, Page 6

The British Navy

REPORTED FIGHTING IN THE NORiH SEA. ■ •• London, August 7. The British Fleet go.. iM iei.cn -with the German high , sen 1h el v "',;th <i the Dogger Bank. Afte - the engagement they chased the Ger.nrtiis inwards Holland. The Admiralty state u.-at they have no news of the lepnrroci filming in tho North Sen. Naval reservists 'practising gnu firing in the North Sea has givei me to highly colored rumors of »oa ''allies. All are discrelhed. It is now stated that Hu- Goeben anil ’Breslau (German cruiser-) lave left Messina Straits. .The Austrian warship Taurus innsued the British' destroyers, v.’nich took refuge in Brindisi. . . , Rear-Admiral 11 Frederick f l udor has boon appoinited First-Sea Lord. RearAdmiral Moore returns to the float. DEFINITE NEWS AWAITED FROM THE NORTH SEA. TJIE BRITISH LOSS. (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, August 7. The Prince of Wales’s fund is already a. quarter of a million. The hanks re-opened without excitement. There is intense anxiety for definite nows from the North Sea. Mr Churchill says there has been no British loss except the Amphion and no lighting except with the Koenigin.