On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 56, 22 October 1914, Page 6

On the Sea

REPORTED LOSS OF BRITISH SUBMARINE E 3. FIGHT ON THE BELGIAN COAST. (Received 9.0 a.m.) London, October 21. A German official wireless says that the British submarine E 3 was sunk in German Bay, in the North Sea. The Press Bureau, which has no information of the loss, reported that while the British ships were bombarding the Germans on the Belgian coast they were attacked by German submarines. Destroyers went to their assistance and drove off the submarines with loss. THE POTSDAM'S SAFE ARRIVAL. (Received 9.25 a.m.) London, October 21. The Holland-America liner, Potsdam has arrived, but the story that she was struck by a mine in the North Sea is contradicted. CHILDREN KILLED BY MINES ON THE SEASHORE. " ' (Received 9.0 a.m.) London, October 21. ,Of mines washed up at Blankenberg. a watering place in West Flanders, three' exploded, and two children were killed. i J GERMAN' FLEET AT KIEL PROVISIONING. SOMETHING IN THE WIND? (Roooived 9.0 a.m.) ( Amsterdam, October 21. German murines at Antwerp who rejoined, the fleet, states that the warships at Kiel were extensively provisioned at the week-end. SEA SHELLS. EXCELLENT WORK BY BRITISH NAVAL GUNS. ON THE COAST NEAR OSTEND.

(Received 9.0 a.m.) London, October 21

The Allies have made excellent progress in Belgium. The British naval guns, which are finding the range marvellously, shelled the enemy along the dyke, and the German artillery were forced to retire. The Allies made a general advance, and many Germans were taken prisoners, and a large number of Belgian and French prisoners released! -~» The German officers are dejected, and confess that the armies in France and Belgium are retreating.

Seventeen train-loads of German wounded reached Bruges. British warships on the coast near Ostend raked the villages southward of Middelkerk, and dropped heavy shells in the rear of the Germans. A detachment with machine guns advanced, and the Germans, who were caught between two.fires, wavered and yielded, and the infantry, pressed forward. Cannonading from the sea increased, the infantry fire redoubled, and the whole German line resting on the sea retreated. The Germans removed their guns towards Ostend, the wounded traversing Bruges to Ghent and Brussels.