On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 83, 12 April 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

THE BLOCKADE. BRITISH SQUADRON. ATTACKED BY SUBMARINES. Christiana, April 10. The newspapers opine that a Bufcish squadron was attacked by submarines at Sartoro. (Sartoro is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, near Bergen, Norway, with am area of 20 miles). IN THE DARDANELLES. OPERATIONS ON THE GULF OF SARDS. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Tenedos, April 11. Warships, on approaching the coast of the Gulf of Saros, destroyed a Turkish battery-

MINE-S WEEPING OPERATIONS AT THE NARROWS'. Paris, April 10. A communique states that minesweeping at the entrance to the inlet at Chanak is continued nightly, the dragging vessels acting under the direction of two large battleships. opposition is feeble and ineffective. WARSHIPS IN THE AEGEAN SEA. London, April 10. The Chronicle’s Mitylene correspondent reports that )varships bombarded the inner forts on the Ith and 7th, and fires broke out. (Mitylene, or Mytilene, is a Turkish island in the Aegean Sea, having an area of 618 square miles. It is ten miles from the coast of Asia Minor. Population 40,000, over half being Greeks, the remainder being Turks). THE KRONPRINZ WILHELM IN HAMPTON ROADS.

(Received 9.5 a.in.) New York, April 11. The Kronprinz Wilhelm lias arrived iu Hampton Roads. HARPALYCE TORPEDOED. BELGIAN RELIEF VESSEL SUNK. Rotterdam, April 11. The Belgian Relief Committee’s vessel Harpalyce was mined or submarined off the Noordliinden lightship, though supplied with papers professing to protect her against attack. Twen-ty-seven survivors were picked up. hut another twenty-six were apparently drowned. TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING (Received 9.20 a.m.) Rotterdam, April 11. The Harpalyce was torpedoed without warning and sank in less than The Melbourne Clothing Company have put on sale a remarkably fine line of Roslyn all-wool sport suits for boys, 7 to 1(5 years, at prices ranging from 19s fid to 25s fid. These suits are the equal of anything previously offered at at least 25 per cent, more money. Knickers are of thu kind popularly known us “ahorls,"

five minutes. The crew jumped into the water, having no time to lower the boats. Some' of the survivors were badly wounded. The captain of the rescuing steamer saw a periscope. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY. CRUISE OF THE ALABAMA SHIPS. THE CASE OF THE EITHEL. (Received 8.0 a.m.) Times and Sydney Sun S«evice. y London, April 10 The American authorities gave the Eithel an absolutely clear way through territorial waters by preventing the exit of belligerent ships. For twentyfour hours the warship Alabama cruised outside with cleared decks, having been ordered to prevent at all costs any violation of American neutrality. The captain handed the c-.d----ector at the port a note stating that ho had decided not to deliver up the crew and ship to certain destruction. In a message to newspaper reporters, he said: “It makes me sick. The officers said the supply ships had been replenished, but it is impossible to obtain ammunition for eight-inch guns.” “TEN MINUTES TO LEAVE A SAILER.” Paris, April 10. A submarine gave the crew of the French sailer Chateaubriand, off the Isle of Wight, ten minutes to leave the vessel, and then torpedoed and sank her in three minutes. The crew of twenty-four took to two boats in rough sea, and, after intense suffering, being without food and in intense cold for forty-eight hours, reached Troport with the help of a lifeboat.

0.5.0. FOR SEA-CAPTAIN. London, April 10. John Green, captain of the steamer Vosges, has received the Distinguished Service Cross. Tiio Admiralty is issuing letters of approbation equivalent to mention in despatches to officers and men for meritorious services in the presence of the enemy, not necessarily under lire. Six officers were the first recipients, in connection with the U 8 and the Ul2. (The Vosges, a Liverpool steamer, was torpedoed on March 28th off the Cornish coast). THE KARLSRUHE’S SURVIVORS. Copenhagen, April 12. The Karlsruhe was in the Canibean Sea ou November I. While part of the crew was taking tea in the lorepart of the vessel, with no enemy visible, a terrific explosion suddenly broke the vessel in twain. Three hundred, including the commander, went down with the forepart. One hundred and twenty suoeeded in hoarding the collier, ami reached Kiel after great hardships. They hugged the American coast, and thence, went to Iceland, finally sailing down the Norwegian coast to avoid the British. THE GENERAL SONIS. London, April 10.

The General Sonis, which was torpedoed by a German submarine off Sunderland, has been towed into Deal, apparentl.v undamaged.