On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 277, 20 November 1914, Page 5

On the Sea

RUSSIAN TOWN ON BALTIC BOMBARDED. United Press Association. Petrograd, November 19. I Official: Two German cruisers and ten torpedoers bombarded Lilian, causing several lives. ■ 'Hie bombardment of Lilian killed five, including some women. Thirty in the fort were injured. it is reported that a German destroyer enuring the bombardment was mined and sunk. | (Libau, a seaport and wateringplace on the Baltic, 140 miles by rail south-west of Riga. Population 65,540). CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE. (Received 8.20 a.m.) Petrograd, November 19. The bombardment of Libau damaged several factories, the railway 1 station and the poorer parts of the town. The petroleum reservoir was destroyed. A cruiser sank several small steamers across- the harbour, ‘entrances. * HEAVY CANNONADING. (Received 8.20 a.m.) Copenhagen, November 19. Heavy cannonading for an hour was heard off Gothland. (Gothland. —Swedish island in the Baltic, about a hundred miles from Libau.) CAPTURE OF CONTRABAND. Athens, November 19. The British seized the American steamer Kroilland in the Mediterranean, with a cargo of 2500 tons of war munitions from New York, destined for Germany.

THE EMDEN’S KILLED. Melbourne, November 19. In view of the official intimation that 150 of the Emden’s crew have been landed at Singapore, the correctness of the previous statement that 200 were killed is questioned. Allowing for twenty of the Emden’s men lieing placed on a captured steamer as a prize crew and 40 who escaped from Cocos in the schooner Ayesha the number of killed out of the total crew of 320 must be, at the most, 110, or, if the wounded are not included in the Singapore figures, only 80. THE SYDNEY’S WOUNDED ALL DOING WELL. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Melbourne, November 19. The commander of the Sydney reports that one officer, seven seamen, and one boy sent to hospital at Colon! ba are doing well. THE SYDNEY’S DASH. Kurow, November 20. In the course of his speech at Kurow to-night the Premier announced that the Emden was destroyed by the Sydney, which was one of the convoy of the Australian and;New Zealand troopships. In consequence of a message from Cocos being intercepted, the Sydney was despatched, because she was the fastest.

A HINT OF TREACHERY. .London, November TO. The Earl of Meath, in the House of Lords, hinted that the German minefield off the north-east of Ireland had been laid by Irish fishing boats in the service of German agents. Ho ass'erted that there was a good deal of German money in Ireland. Lord Crewe confessed that Lord Meath’s suggestion' had. not been hoard of before, the Government belief being that the mines had been sown there under a neutral flag. GERMAN NAVY BURN FOR A « BRUSH WITH BRITAIN. Washington, November 19. A correspondent of the New York American alleges that the German navy is burning with anxiety to attack the English, but Admiral Von Tirpitz is holding the ships back till the moment when a sudden, unexpected, and decisive blow will influence the situation, so a-s to enable Germany to dictate a settlement favorable to herself. He adds: "The Germans are obsessed with the belief that England will cry ‘Enough!’ the moment that English blood is spilt on English soil.” THE WRECK OF THE OCEANIC. London, November 19. A court-martial has opened into the wreck of the armored cruiser Oceanic. The vessel was wrecked on Fould Island (north of Scotland). LOST THROUGH NEGLIGENCE. THE NAVIGATING OFFICER FOUND GUILTY. (Received 9.20 a.m.) London, November 19. Lieut. David Blair, navigating officer of the Oceanic, was found guilty of negligently stranding the ship on Sepember 10th. CONTROLLING THE PACIFIC. A SYDNEY SUGGESTION. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Sydney, November 20. j The Telegraph, commenting on the

local navy question says: “Jl Canada, Australia and New Zealand could arrange to co-operate with a few British vessels, though they could not hope to control the Pacific, they should certainly have something to say in the control. SHIPPING MOVEMENTS. (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, November 19. The Beethoven, from Newcastle to Valparaiso, is posted missing. Arrivals at London, Kiramoa; ut Avonmouth, Kaikoura. Sydney, November 20. Arrived: Niagara (0.15). Newcastle, November 20. Arrived; Kauri, from Auckland. Sailed: Kororniko, lor Tim am.