On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 8, 10 May 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

RUSSIANS SINK SIX TRANSPORTS United Press Association. (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, May 9. Reuter says the Russians sank six transports in the Bosphorus. Two of these were sunk in the sea of Marmora. BRITISH DESTROYED MINED. London, May 8. The destroyer Maori, operating on the Belgian coast, was mined and sunk two miles north of West Willengen lightship. The crew took to the boats. The Crusader went to her assistance, but the enemy’s shore batteries opened fire. The Crusader was under fire for one hour and a half. She had to - leave the boats and retire. German sources report that the Maori’s crew, the boats’ crews of the Crusader, seven officers and eighty men were made prisoners and taken to Zeebrugge. SUBMARINES VICTIMS. .p— \ London, May 8. The steamer Don was torpedoed and sunk off the Northumberland coast. The crew was rescued. A submarine sunk the trawler which escaped on Sunday seven miles off Cruden Bay. The crew were saved. The U 39 sunk the steamer Truro off the Isle of Man. The crew were saved. The Admiralty anounces that the statement that a German airship sank a British submarine is false. On the contrary, the submarine returned uninjured. The submarine reported that it damaged the airship by gun fire, and drove it off. Petrograd, May 8. Official; German cruisers and torpedoers bombarded Libau on Friday HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT. The Prime Minister has received the following from the High Commissioner dated London, Bth May, 2.35 p.m.:— The Admiralty reports that sixteen hundred and four vessels of over sixteen tons sailed from British ports during the week ending 31 ay sth. Five were sunk by submarines, the gross tonnage being 11,488. One fishingvessel was mined and sixteen sunk or captured, the gross tonnage being 3011.