Second Edition On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 74, 30 March 1915, Page 6

Second Edition On the Sea

GOADING THE DUTCH TO WAR. < . UmtD Fum lAmooiation. • , (Received 1.20 p.m.) London; March 29. r'r '' The Admiralty announce that the ■.-Hl)ut«h steamer, Amstel was mined and , sunk off Flamborough Head, on the ..•ait coast of England, but the crew were saved. i.Twentytsix are missing from the Aj»hUa. ' The Falaba had 147 passengers and 95’ of a crew, df whom 96 of the passengers and 46 of the crew were savedIt ,is. feared the remainder were drown? ©d, many being probably killed by the explosion. |tj" - HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT. The High Commissioner reports y ' /.’London, March 29, 2.55. p.m.: rV , Petrograd reports that the Black Sea f i v ijiet bombarded outside forts and batteries of the Bosphorus on both sides ofi .the Straits. According to observations of, .ships and seaplanes, shells fell with exactitude. Russian airmen above the Bosphorous batteries in reoonnaisance dropped bombs with suc- : ; cess. Heavy artillery fire on airmen 'without success. Enemy torpedo boats tried to come out and were driven back ipto the straits by fire from our guns. , A large hostile four-masted ship, bryihg to get into the Bosphorus from , seaward, was bombarded by us and she tonally and blew ,up. ■' ’V .V?;...... ■ r : ::, ■ MR WliiilTwl CHURCHILL OH THE BLOCKADE. —r —- 7 ; • ;1 “The sea is free!” said Mr Winston Churchill in a remarkable inter * fjW given to “The Matin” early last month. “Fob, the first time in Her history Great -Britain can say the are free, in the days when" France ‘ Mfas atwar with us, no victory, howfyer important, brought us a security sComparable to thafe which we enjoy today. Even .after Trafalgar we knew nothing like it.”" , Turning price more toward the iriap rin the .wall,- Mr Churchill went on ' this map. . Thanks to the 5 ... freedom of the.seas, almost the ( whple dr Aria is open to ns and our Allies as >an inexhaustible source of supplies. We .can say the same of Australia and Africa—that is, .four-fifths of . the world.. As for America, supposing eten that in South America the Germans .have certain friendships and'relationships, how could supplies sent —'•from, there ever reach them? “There remains only the United States. Perhaps public opinion in

that (country hesitated a jittle in its sympathies' are; definitely in our fay-

our, and we‘shall know how to Jake the precautions which are , compatible both with the rights of belligerents and those of , ’ 4 ‘At the. same'tim© ; 1 have no/illusions/ X know as long as neutral *countries a blockstde 1 without leakages is an impossibility. Gerifceogiwf secretly, a that of which she has h ut , while iyou and wo can, breatbre freely,“owing to the sea which we will maintain free: this is jiow Germany can main** tain her Ip-eaUi.” ; , v ,Br Churchill put his hahd v, over the part of his face, and/ added: “Well, you know the effect produceji % » gag .when one has to exert one’s self ; aam> time. It uses up the .heart, amd Germany knows it. This prjesiure upon Germany will never ■ he ,relaxed, until she surrenders unconditionally, for even if our Allies, ! Erance and Russia, were both -to up/the struggle,- a thing which is inconceivable,.we British would i end. * ’