On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 43, 22 February 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

... THE BLOCKAGE i ~ “THE GREAT DAY.” - '*■« V GERMAN PEOPLE’S LONG WAIT. Times and Sydney Son Service, (Received 8 a.m.) \ London,, February 20.

The Times, in a leader, commenting on the blockade, says: “The great day has come and gone. At the moment of writing nobody seems to be any worse. We can imagine the streets of German cities being crowded with a credulous and expectant people watchiu gthe bulletin boards and eagerly awaiting the downfall of England. They will have to wait a long time.”

INSTRUCTIONS TO DUTCH CAPTAINS.

(Received 8 a.m.) London, February 20

The Dutch Government has recommended shipowners to instruct their captains that in the event of meeting submarines they should stop and give all information.

EFFECT ON SHIPPING. DANES LOSE THEIR LOVE OF THE SEA. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, February 20. Anxiety is felt at Copenhagen at the effect of the Germans’ piratical operations. Owing to a number of crews having refused to take the risk of sailing and having loft their ,ships, there are but fifty Danish ships crossing the North Sea. NO SURVIVORS. NORWEGIAN STEAMER FOUNDERS. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, February 20. The Norwegian steamer Nordcap struck a German mine in the Baltic and foundered, the whole f;rew being drowned.

MERCHANTMEN SUNK.

COPPER-LADEN STEAMER TORPEDOED OFF HOLYHEAD.

NORWEGIAN VESSEL MINED.

London, February 20,

The steamer Cambank was sunk off Holyhead, three of the crew being killed in the engine-room and one drowned. The Cambank was copper laden from Huelva towards Liverpool. She had taken up a pilot and was gathering speed when she saw a periscope two hundred yards away. She received no warning. Her engines

wore reversed, but while tinning she was bit by a torpedo amidships. The Norwegian coal steamer Lyoerke bound from Leitli to Nakitow was mined and sunk, the crew being saved. GERMAN CONFIDENCE IN THE BLOCKADE. London, February 20. The Times says the Germans are confident that the submarine blockade will lead directly to the decisive result of the entire war in Germany’s favour. The public confidence is simply fantastic. It is expected that every merchantman hound for England will he stopped within three weeks. The newspapers have worked the people to a state of tension hitherto unknown.

WITHOUT WARNING.

Paris, February 20

Without warning a submarine torpedoed the French steamer Dinorah, hound from Havre to Dunkirk. Ihe Dinorah reached Dieppe.

GERMAN "BLUFF.”

Romo, February 20

The newspapers regard the statement that the Germans have built a hundred mine-sowing submarines as “bluff.” ♦ THE BELRIDCE TORPEDOED. .London, February 20. Tiie Admiralty announces that pieces of a torpedo have been found in the Belridge. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Loudon, February 21. A special examination by the Admiralty of the pieces found on the Belridge definitely proved that the vessel had been torpedoed.

FIVE MINUTES TO LEAVE.

SMALL COAL-LADEN STEAMER TORPEDOED.

(Received 11.50 a.m.) London, February 20

A submarine torpedoed and sunk the small coal-laden steamer Bownshire off the island Calf of Man on Saturday evening. The submarine gave the crew live minutes to leave.

THE LOSS OF THE LILLE.

SHIP’S BOATS TOWED BY SUB-

MARINE.

United Press Association. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Paris, February 20. Yilled, the Lille’s boatswain, states that the submarine, seeing the ship’s boats’ desperate efforts to reach the coast, towed them towards Barfleur until they saw the smoke of approaching ' torpedoers, when they leisurely submerged. IS IT THE KARLSRUHE? THREE STEAMERS AND TWO SAILERS SUNK iN THE ATLANTIC (Received 9.20 a.m.) London, February 21. The steamers Potai’o, Highlandbrae, Hemisphere, and two sailers were slink in the Atlantic, presumably by the Karlsruhe. The crews, numbering 192, landed at Buenos Ayres, also fifty-one passengers from the Highlandbrae. RELEASE OF INTERNED VESSELS

(Received 8.50 a.m.) London, February 20

The Government releases the Birkenfels at Capetown, for Australia. It is hoped soon to release the Hamm Appolda.