On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 45, 9 October 1914, Page 5

On the Sea

A GERMAN LOSS. United Press Association. Amsterdam, October 7. A torpedo boat was patrolling the mouth of the Ems. The Dutch coastguards heard an explosion, saw a high column of water rise about the bows of the torpedo-boat, which capsized and sank in three minutes. Some minutes later two German submarines rose. Soon afterwards a German cruiser steamed up and rescued some of the torpedo-boat's crew. Later in the day several torpedoers were seen patrolling the spot. (The Ems, a river of North-west Germany, reaches the sea at The Dollart, whose coastline on the west is Dutch and on the east German.) WORK OF THE E 9. TWO TORPEDOES AT TWO CERMAN DESTROYERS. ENCLISiH TRAWLER MINED. London, October 7. Submarine E 9 sighted two destroyers off the mouth of the Ems on Monday morning. Submerging, she got within comparatively close range. Her first torpedo sank the destroyer, and her second struck the other, considerably damaging it. The E 9 then got away. An English trawler was blown up by a mine in the North Sea. Seven perished, and of the three survivors two were severely wounded. MINES IN THE ADRIATIC DESTROY AUSTRIAN VESSELS. Rome, October 7. The Messagero reports that four Austrian torpedoers and two destroyers were sunk by Austrian mines. Nearly all the crews perished. CHASED BY A CRUISER. THE KARLSRUHE EVADES CAPTURE BY BRITISHER. (Received 10.10 a.m.) New York, October S. Several vessels witnessed a British cruiser chasing the Karlsruhe off tho Cuban coast. On the cruiser overhauling her, the Karlsruhe, turned landwards, risking destruction by Indden rocks and escaped behind the Island in neutral waters. Sho apparently slipped out in the darkness. GERMAN SHIPPING. PRESTIGE IN DANCER OF BEING SERIOUSLY DAMAGED. Times and Sydney Sun Sbbyiom. (Received 8 a.m.) London, October 8. The prestige of German shipping has been seriously damaged through the inability of German vessels to complete their voyages. It will he damaged further if the present attempt to make merchants share the cost of maintaining the vessels in safety is persisted in, the vessels refuged in neutral ports knowing that if they put to sea they will be undoubtedly captured by the British and French warships.