On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 49, 1 March 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

THE BLOCKADE

OFFER OF £50,000 FOR DESTRUCTION OF A ZEPPELIN.

Boulogne, February 28

On Tuesday the Marquis Ornato offered £50,000 for the next Zeppelin brought down in France,

GRATEFUL INSURANCE COMPANIES. (Received 8.25 a.m.) Paris, February 28. French marine insurance companies have paid the Government £2OO for division among the crews of the ships belonging to the second light cruiser squadron that sank the German submarine.

CAPTURE OF THE DACIA BY FRENCH CRUISER. (Received 8.25 a.m.) Paris, February 28. Ofiicial: A French cruiser captured the Dacia., and is bringing her to Brest.

THE PRINZ EITEL FRIEDERICH’S

VICTIMS.

(Received 8.0 a.m.) Times and Sydney Sun Service Valparaiso, February 28

Prinz Eithel Friederlch in December sank the steamer Kildarton, and the French barque Jean. The crews landed at Faster Island.

MISCELLANEOUS. United Press Association. Amsterdam, February 20. The Swedish steamer Svarton has arrived at Ymuiden, seriously' damaged by a mine or torpedo near the Dutch coast.

Paris, February 26

The torpedoer 'Hague, escorting a supply convoy, struck a mine oil Antivari, and sank, 38 being drowned. London, February 27.

The Austrian Admiralty has decided to sink all ships in the Adriatic over five, hundred tons.

Official: Britain has declared a block, ado of the coast of German East Africa after the 28th.

The Dacia is four hundred miles west of Land’s End.

London, February 27

A trawler landed two German aviators at Lowestoft. They left .Ostend on Sunday, and fell into the North Sea. They clung to their machine for two days, and were terribly exhausted. , _ • Mr Hobhouse,- speaking at Bristol, said the circle round Germany was narrowing I'flqily, and Soon the net would be closed together. He added that Britain would not forget to repay the losses caused to our innocent merchant seamen.

New York, February 27

Reuter’s correspondent states that Britain and her Allies have informed the neutral countries that because of the German submarine attacks they hold themselves liable to stop all shipping to and. from Germany and those countries wlrich are her allies.