On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 30, 6 February 1915, Page 6

On the Sea

‘‘GERMAN BLUSTERS” .a ■£. f| OPINION IN; SYDNEY SHIPPING ' } Cl ROLES. [United Peers Association.] . (Received 9.10 a.m.) Sydney, February 6. Shipping circles regard the German threat to attack unarmed merchantmen with''equanimity. The general opinion is that, this is another instance of German,^ and thatVthe Brutish 'Navypvquite capable of protecting the merchant , service. This sort of thing is / a|ivijs to bo expected, and the wonder- is' that wo have had so little of it.. The passenger vessels are filling as ‘Ssuai The general'"manager, of the Orient Line thinks the Gomans capable of any action after their attack-on the hospital shrp» : Astuiius. Possibly the war rates anil W raised, but it* is inconceivable in view of the other German threats; that the- public is going to be intimidated. w.Colonel Miss, ,of. the : Philip Co., says;purely ‘the greatest 1 ‘ seapower in the world is capable of undertaking ov^ything necessary for , the safety of vessels in the Channel; • A threat of is a despite peal to try, kind frighten pcifple from following their usual business.

PROHIBITION ON" EXPORT OF WQOL,^

AMERICANS ALARMED.

(Recife! 9.10 a.m.) , ' '' Sydney”, February 6.„ ;. X The stoppage of the export of rneri- > no wools tijdAmerica caused some consterimtiou Americans, whose free buying has-been -one of the boom factors of.|hs rc£pni ; ,sales,. - v Prior to ' fcfc,* .-Mfck bourn© last, night, a deputation of ' wool-hnyerisTohtained Mr Tudor’s promise that the matter would be further . considered at a Cabinet meetirig on Monday. H© said the of the proclamation was unavoidable, but, if v it were posaiHladtb {blond it, doubtless ' ; it would bo done'. It transpires that the order was issued as the result of a despatch from the Secretary of . Stjite for the Colonies. IVlr Fisher took the stand, that that was a good y and sufficient reason to stop the trade, bh’t aIT that it was advisable to say at present was that the action .was, taken in the-public interest, as • the export of crossbred wool to the .United States was previously prohibited, arid the new order means that no wool will he allowed to he shipped there. ,Thp ..sailing of the steamer Lord Erne* with 1f).704 hales, which had cleared for, Poston, has been stopped! r.'- - .• ’-f . •' •

THE SEA CiVES UP ITS DEAD.

London, February 5

A fisherman discovered the body of the Gorman aviator (who was reported missing on Christmas Bay) in the Thames ‘estuary, with a shrapnel bullet in his Rings. ...