On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 38, 16 February 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

NONE LEFT TO TELL THE TELL. i i Times and Sydney Sun Service, i (Received 8.0 j London, February Id. Admiral Stnrdee states there were no survivors of the Soharnhorst. ACTIVITY AMONG GERMAN FISH. INC FLOTILLA. i (Received 8.0 a.m.) ! London, February Id. | Copenhagen states that there is ’extraordinary activity among the German fishing flotilla, all available boats having been pressed into service. CLEARING SCHLESWIG ■ HOL" STEIN COAST. j Times and Sydney Sun Service. London, February Id. Copenhagen officially announces that Germany has notified the Scandinavian Governments that no neutral fishing or sailing ships will bo allowed off the Schleswig-Holstein coast until further ' notice.

OUTWARD AND VISIBLE SIGNS.

Times and Sydney Sun Service, London, February 15,

Danish ship-owners are painting on their ships big representations of national flags on each side, with the word “Denmark” in white letters in the middle. REWARD FOR MERIT. CAPTAIN AND CREW OF THE LAERTES COMMENDED. United Press Association. ~j London, February 15. The Admiralty announces that Captain Probert, of the Laertes, has fyeen gazetted a lieutenant of the Naval Reserve, and receives the Dintinguished Service Cross. Each officer gets a gold watch, and the crew sixty shillings a piece. \

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.

Amsterdam, February 15

The Zeeland Company’s boats commence to-day transporting the English and German seriously wounded prisoners, who are being exchanged.

BRITISH SUBMARINES IN THE BALTIC.

(Received 8.50 a.m.) London, February 15,

The Standard’s Amsterdam correspondent says that the Berliner Tageblatt, discussing the sinking of the Gazelle opines that large modern British submarines are in the Baltic, three having been at Helsingfors lor sometiinei A great belt is thickly strewn with mines, but the submarines evidently entered by following close in the wake of steamships, and were thus piloted through the minefields. COPPER CARGO SEIZED FROM GERMANY. (Received 10.5 a.m.) Copenhagen, February 15. The Armendfkoege, which was supposed to contain sugar, but was heavily laden with copper for Germany, has been seized and Captain Merchant arrested. USE OF NEUTRAL FLAGS.

(Received 10.5 a.m.) Amsterdam, February 15. A writer in the Berliner Tageblatt,

said that the use of a neutral Hag was a customary ruse de guerre, but Britain prescribes as a principle what is only occasionally permissible.

PRECAUTIONS FOR THE SAFETY OF PASSENGERS.

(Received 9.5 a.m.) London, February 15

The Admiralty and the management of Atlantic liners are taking extreme precautions to ensure the safety of passengers.