On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 33, 10 February 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

BOMBARDMENTS IN THE BLACK SEA. 1

United Press Association. (Received 11.25 a.m.) Petrograd, February 9. The Breslau bombarded Yalta (on the south coast of the Crimea), damaging five buildings. Russian cruisers retaliated, bombarding Trebizond, and sank four vessels.

CONFIDENCE IN GERMANY’S

FLEET.

London, February 9

High-Admiral Koester, addressing a meeting at Kiel, said: “We have every confidence in our fleet, but we must not allow ourselves to be drawn intd an action in which we may succumb. We must not risk combat unless we can count on success.”

STEAMER ORIOLE OVERDUE.

London, February 9

The steamer Oriole, with a crew ot twenty-two, from London to Havre, has not arrived, and is believed to have been torpedoed at the tsarae. time as the Tokomaru, as some of her lifebuoys have been picked up at Rye.

JAP SEIZURE OF NORWEGIAN VESSEL.

(Received 8.25 a.m.) Tokio, February 9

The authorities seized the Norwegian steamer, Christian Hors, because she surreptitiously conveyed to China Von Hintze, who was lately the Gorman Minister in Mexico.

USE OF A NEUTRAL FLAG.

DAILY EXPRESS COMMENT.

(Received 8,50 a.m.) Loudon, February 9

The Daily Express writes that while the use of a neutral flag by British merchantmen may be legally consistent, it will nevertheless disturb British opinion. Such tactics seem inexpedient, and even humiliating. Since when, the paper asks, has the Union Jack become the colors to be hauled down timidly or to offer inadequate protection on all seas? The whole affair leaves a. disagreeable taste in the mouth of England. Our confidence in the Admiralty and the Navy is such that we are bound t.> regret profoundly the resort to subterfuge, which, while it in no way excuses Germany’s,piracy, may give the enemy and neutrals an opportunity for the sneer that we are at least inclined to tolerate it.

THE DAMAGE TO THE COEBEN

Times and Sydney Sun Service London, February 9

English refugees at Constantinople state that the Goeben was damaged beyond local repair.