On the Sea.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 17, 7 September 1914, Page 5

On the Sea.

Thi E DAMAGED GERMAN DES-

$i TROVERS, j ... , - ,v Ui ; v London, September ,4, Ifc is surmised that the German destroyers and torpedoers were damaged by their own mines.

SO Vi/ INC GERMAN MINEFIELDS.

London, September 5

The Germans continue to sow minefields. usually 30 miles out opposite the East Coast commercial harbours. The Admiralty has taken Crystal Palace for naval purposes.

ADMIRALTY WARNING.

London, September 6

The Admiralty has announced that all aids to navigation in the North Sea by day and night may be removed without further warning at any time.

LAID UP FOR REPAIRS.

(Received 8.0 a.m.) London- September C

Some newspapers think it is probable that the damaged torpedoes at Kiel wore sent there for repairs after the Heligoland fight.

WILSON LINER ROMO STRUCK A MINE.

MANY DROWNED AND WOUNDED.

(Received 10.10 a.in.) London, September C,

An exchange states that the Wilson liner Hone, with 300 refugees, bound from Hull to Russia, struck a mine when forty miles off Shields. Eighty were drowned and trawlers landed 200 survivors at Grimsby, and many were taken to the hospital.

CAT-O’-N INE TAILS ON THE MAGDEBURG.

(Received 8.50 a.in.) Potrograd, September 6. A formidable cat-o’-uine-tails lias been found in every officer’s cabin, in the cruiser Magdeburg. Each bore sings of long and hard usuage.