On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 76, 1 April 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

damned in the eyes of all the civilised world.” STEAMER’S ESCAPE AT LANDS END. (Received 9.15 a.m.) London, March 31. A submarine off the Scillys chased the City of Cambridge (or one and ahalf hours. Shells damaged the City of Cambridge’s deck, but she escaped. BOSPHOROUS OPERATIONS. FLEET HINDERED BY FOG. United Press Association. Petrograd, March 31. Official: The fleet approached the Bosphorus, but was unable to bombard, owing to fog. RUSSIAN TOWN BOMBARDED FROM THE BALTIC. Petrograd, March 31. German warships fired two hundred shells at Libau, killing a civilian. - (Libau is a Russian seaport on the Baltic, in the province of Courland. Has. a great trade. Population 74,500.)

THE BLOCKADE. ; , \ FALABA CASUALTIES, 111. United Press Association. London, March 31. The Elder-Dempster Company estimate that 111 died when the Falaba was torpedoed. An American citizen named Leon Thrasher is among the missing. / SUBMARINE CHASED AND SUNK. (Received 8.50 a.m.) ; London, March 31. Official.—A French light cruiser chased a submarine,at Dieppe and fired heavily on the periscope. When she passed above the spot where the submarine had been, it was . noticed that oil had risen to the surface. U2B SECURES VICTIM OFF SOUTH OF ENGLAND COAST. j \. f (Received 8.50 a.m.) Loudon,/March 31, The U2B torpedoed the Flaminan, bound from Glasgow for Capetown, off the Scillys (hear Lands End) on Tuesday, and the crew lauded. VICTIM NO. 2 AT LANDS END. (Received 11.20 a.m.) "London, March 31. The steamer Crown of Castle was torpedoed off the Scillys. The crew was rescued. DUTCH TRAWLER ATTACKED BY SEAPLANE: (Received 11.20 a.m.) t Amsterdam, March 31. A German seaplane /bombed the Dutch trawler Hibernia in the North Sea, but it was harmless. Later, a torpedoer stopped and searched the Hibernia, but allowed her to proceed. SWEDISH NEWSPAPERS ASTOUNDED. "HORRIBLE DESPERATION." (Received 11.20 a.m.) Stockholm, March 31. Swedish newspapers scarcely credit the accounts of the attacks on the Falaba and Aquila. The "Tidningeu” ■declares it reveals a state of perfectly horrible desperation. ("HIDEOUS DEPTHS OF GERMAN DEGRADATION. (Received 11.20 a.m.) Petrograd, March 31. The Novoe Yremya refers to the hideous depths of German degradation. "The hour of reckoning is near,” it remarks, "when the enemies of humanity will pay to the fullest extent.” * "DAMNED IN THE EYES OF ALL THE CIVILISED WORLD.” (Received 8.50 a.n... New York, March 31. The New York Journal hopes the brutes responsible for the sinking of tho Falaba will be caught and hanged. The Press says: ‘‘Because of the submarine atrocities, Admiral Von Tirpitz and the German Admiralty is