On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 29, 21 September 1914, Page 3

On the Sea

SEVERAL CARGO STEAMERS CAPTURED.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, September 18. A warship lias brought to Queenstown the Holland-Ameriean liner liendam, from Now York for Rotterdam, carrying contraband. The steamer Wernervinnen, bound for Hamburg, was captured and taken to Sierra Leone. The cargo consisted of nitrate to the value of £‘50,000. Four large German steamers were seized at Hongkong.

AUSTRIAN BOMBARDMENT OF ANTIVARi ABORTIVE.

Romo, September 19.

Six Austrian torpedoers, in the absence of the Anglo-French fleet, bombarded the French wireless station at Antivari, in Montenegro, but did no damage. BAD WEATHER IN THE NORTH SEA. London, September 19. Destroyers report that owing- to gales in the North Sea patrol work was carried on with the greatest discomfort. It was impossible to light the galley fires for two days. Still the men continue in the highest of spirits.

AUSTRIA’S 1913 BATTLE-

SHIP.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF THE VIRIBUS UNITIS.

(Received 8.50 a.m.)

Rome, September 20

Advices from Vienna state that the Dreadnought Viribis Unitis miraculously escaped while being pursued in the one side of tho ship being demolished.

(The Viribus Unitis was put into commission only last year. Her displacement is 20,000 tons, 25,000 h.p. She has twelve 12in. guns, twelve Sin. guns, and four torpedo tubes. Speed 20 knots, and complement 1000.)