On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 64, 18 March 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

TWO SMALL STEAMERS' TORPEDOED. SIX LIVES LOST IN NORTH SEA. United Press Association. (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, March 17. The Admiralty announces that the small steamer Atlanta was torpedoed off Inishturk Island (west coast of Ireland) on the 14th. The crew landed. The steamer Fingall was torpedoed on the 15th off Northumberland. Twen-ty-one landed, but six, including the chief mate and stewardess, perished. LINER CAMERONIA ESCAPES FROM THREE SUBMARINES. (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, March 17. The liner Cameronia eluded a submarine off the Mull of Galloway. A quarter of an hour later two submarines appeared, one on either side of the liner, but she zig-zagged for twenty minutes at a speed of eighteen knots and escaped. THE DRESDEN’S CREW. New York, March 17. The Qrama has arrived jit Valparaiso. She reports that nineteen of the Dresden’s <)rew are missing. HAMBURC-AMERIKA ELUDESTHE / GUARDSH IP. London, March 17. Las Palmas reports that the interned Hamburg-Amerika liner Macedonia slipped out from the inner harbor during the temporary absence of the guardship, and despite the removal ‘of parts of her machinery. It is believed that she is using her wireless to attract German commerce destroyers, m order to deliver war stores which are aboard the Macedonia.

(Las Palmas is the chief town ■ on Grand Canary Island, a Spanish possession in the Atlantic south-east of Teneriffo). GERMANS SEIZE SWEDISH STEAMER. London, March 17. lleuter’s Copenhagen correspondent reports that the Swedish steamer Glor-ia,grain-laden, from La Plata to Stockholm, was captured by Germans and taken to Swinemunde, in the Baltic. SNIPING THE CREW OF THE ATLANTA. (Received 1.30 p.m.) Buenos Ayres, March 17. The steamer Ashburton reported that the crew of a submarine which sunk the Atlanta tried to snipe the crew of the Steamer with rifles and revolvers. THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BY. (Received 1.30 p.m.) Amsterdam, March 17. The British fleet is supporting the Allies in the attack on .\ iouport and the Ys'er front.

GERMAN AEROPLANE ATTACK AT SEA. BOMBS NARROWLY MISS A COLLIER. (Received 1.30 p.m.) Paris, March 17. - A German aeroplane three miles off North Foreland on Monday, dropped five bombs, narrowly missing the collier Blonde. WORK IN DARDANELLES. SILENCING THE LAND BATTERIES. I, ~ (Received 10.20 a.m.) Athens, March 17. Searchlights assisted the land batteries in shelling the mine-sweepers in the Dardanelles. Motor-cars continually moved the guns to different positions, which retarded their location. After two hours’ duel, the batteries were silenced. MISCELLANEOUS. United Press Association. Athens, March 16. A British trawler, mine-sweeping in the Dardanelles, was blown ,up. British vessels silenced several of the mobile Turkish batteries above Kum Kale. The Amethyst braved the mine area and advanced to Nagaro. Three shells struck her, inflicting some damage.