On the Sea.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 15, 4 September 1914, Page 3

On the Sea.

fhi'fight at Heligoland THE MAINZ SPITTING FORTH FURY. "LIKE A WILD CAT MAD WITH WOUNDS." [United Press Association.] (Received 8.10 a.m.) London, September 3 (morning). A naval lieutenant, after describing the Heligoland fight, adds: "The Mainz was immensely gallant. When last seen, she was absolutely wrecked below and aloft, and her whole midships was a fuming inferno. She had one gun forward and one aft, but was still spitting forth fury in defiance like a wild cat mad with wounds. A cruiser of the Breslau class recommenced firing, but Ve did not care a farthing, for straight ahead of us, in lorcllj procession like elephants walking through a pack of dogs, came the Lion, Queen Mary, Invincible, and the New Zealand—all great,grim, and uncouth as some antediluvian monsters."

(Bordeaux is a seaport and commercial city on the left bank of the Garonne, situate sixty miles from its mouth in the Atlantic. The old town is not very attractive, the streets being crooked, narrow and badly paved, but it lias a number of handsome edifices. The new town, however, is finely built, has more than three mile., of quays, and the bridge over the Garonne is one of the finest m Europe. The most remarkable public buildings are the Exchange, the ancient Hotel des Fermes, the palace founded by Bonaparte in 1810. The manufactures are glass, earthenware, cottons, carpets, chemicals, brandy and liquors, also iron foundries and sugar refineries. Vinegar, plums, raisins, cork, honey, hams and wines, including some of the finest clarets, are exported. Population 262,000. Tin's town was the Burdigala of the Romans. Under the Normanss it was the capital of the Duchy of Guienne, and in 1152 passed by marriage into the hands of the English until 1451.)