On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 6 April 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

THE BLOCKADE. TOWING SUBMARINES TO THE NORTH SEA. . __ United Pbess ASSOCIATION. (Received 8.50 a.m.) Amsterdam, April 5. Germans towed two submarines from Antwerp to the North Sea through the Canals via Ghent. There was a vigorous cannonade from Zeebrugge on Friday, the ships replying. , HOIST WITH OWN PETARD. TWO GERMAN STEAMERS BLOWN UP IN BALTIC. '. ' (Received 8.35 a.m.) Copenhagen, April s"5.

Tlie Germtin steamer Grethehesoth struck a German mine in the Baltic and sank, the crew of twenty-six being drowned. . i Another German steamer foundered similarly. These incidents are attributed to the melting ice loosening the mines. QUESTIONS TO ANSWER. WHERE IS THE GERMAN NAVY? (Received 8.35 a.m.) New York, April 5. The Press asks if Admiral Tirpitz has definitely abandoned naval warfare, inasmuch as the German submarines are giving the enemy warships a wide berth, and are hunting excursion vessels and fishing smacks. The paper asks how General von Hindenburg would contemplate an order to use the army to kill men. women, and children, who were workers in the fields, and then dash away from the, enemy's troops!

MORE SUBMARINE VICTIMS'. * # (Received 9.45 a.m.) y i London, April 5. / The Russian barque Hemes was sunk by bombs near St. Catherines. The same submarine torpedoed and sank the steamer Olivine which was near by. Both crews were saved. GERMAN DREADNOUGHTS AC TIVE IN THE BALTIC. , -, (Received 12.45 p.m.) Copenhagen, April 5. Large German Dreadnoughts are active in the Baltic. London, April 4. The collier City of Bremen was torpedoed and sunk off Land's End. Four were (drowned. A Dutch collier, the Schieland, was mined near the Hurnber. One of the crew was blown to pieces and four injured. Seven are missing. The Middlesborough steamer Loek(f*w* **---- *-■ *■-—'«*--■' T-T!tt=--*~ ~r r»;g

wood was torpedoed and sunk off Start Point. The captain .sent his vessel at full speed and cleverly manoeuvred, making it impossible for the submarine to,get a straight shot, but later a Jug sea liit the Lockwood, which prevented her answering her helm. The submarine fired two ineffective torpedoes, and then, rapidly closing in, fired a third at a range of fifty yards. The steamer was struck amidships and badly damaged by the explosion. A fishing smack picked up the crew of twenty-two men. Paris, April 4. The French fishing boat Paquerette Mas torpedoed off Fecamp. The crew was "saved. IN THE DARDANELLES. PAUSE IN THE PRELUDE TO OVERWHELM ATTACK. (Received 11. If) a.m.) \ • Sydney, April G.

The Herald, commenting on the cabled statement that the present pause in the Dardanelles operations is a prelude to an attack by an overwhelming force, says that this can only mean that a considerable army will be landed. THE MEDITERRANEAN EPISODE. Vienna, April o. A newspaper publishing a Goeben officer's letter describing the Goeben and Breslau's escape in the Mediterranean, says: "When it was found that a British squadron was shepherding us we asked what they wanted. We received a reply that war was threatening between Britain and Germany, and as we were out-numbered we bolted. All, from the officers downward, assisted in the stokehold, and we worked' up a speed of 30 knots. The same night we were informed by wireless that war had been declared, and half an hour later we beat off an attack by six torpedoers. We reached Messina utterly worn out, but a French squadron lay in wait. The Kaiser telegraphed that he was convinced that we would fight our way through, and we did. Our life or death run through thirteen sbips and ten destroyers was vouched for by the heavily damaged French and British cruisers seeking refuge at Port Said and Alexandria." THE RECENT NAVAL DISASTER.

United Press Association. London, April 5. A German officer assisting in the operations in the Dardanelles claims that the Irresistible, Ocean, and Bouvet were sunk by Turkish batteries, not by mines. STORIES OF THE DRESDEN. Washington, April 3. Details of tbe attack on the Dresden received by the State Department indicate that the Dresden was about to be interned for overstaying her allotted time at Juan Fernandez when the British cruisers arrived and opened (ire. Tbe German commander thereupon blew up the Dresden. The Chilian Government detained the German sailors on the ground of a breach of neutrality, and made representations to Britain against attacking the Dresden in territorial watei'S. It is understood that Britain lias offered reparation,