On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 29, 4 June 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

GERMAN TRANSPORT , HOLED. WORK OF BRITISH SUBMARINE. [United Pans* Association. j (Received 8.55 a.m.) London, June 3. ' Official. —A British submarine in the Sea of Marmora torpedoed a large German transport on Wednesday morning at Panderma Bay. I (Panderma, or Peramo Bay is on the coast of Asia Minor).

THREE TORPEDOES.

THE ATTACK ON THE TRIUMPH.

(Received 8.55 a.m.)

London, June 3

i Tho Daily Telegraph says the survivors state that H.M.S. Triumph was stationery but was not anchored. The first torpedo was seen coming and was fired on by light guns, the shot missing by a couple of inches. The torpedo traversed the netting and probably did a little damage, but a second and third missile were fired almost simultaneously and traveresd the same hole in the netting. The

explosions lifted the ship, and she heeled rapidly and disappeared in fifteen minutes, bow first. The majority of the crew slipped down the starboard side and,; swam clear. The German submarine, which was one ol the large type which assailed her, was sighted early in the day, hut was then fired upon and escaped.

SUBMARINE VICTIMS.

London, June 3

A submarine sank a Belgian trawler. The crew were landed at the Stilly Isles.

ANOTHER STEAMER SUNK.

London, June 2

The steamer Sicleli, with a general cargo, bound from Alexandria to Hull, was torpedoed in the North Sea. Part of the crew were lost. THE TRANSPORT SERVICE. Writing to a friend in Sydney, the master of one of the English vessels doing transport service across the English Channel, says:— We cross the Channel in perfect obscurity, all lights out, under all conditions, for our army must be looked after. I have seen a lot and heard a lot, much more than 1 write here, and there is a lot to come yet, We are going to beat the Germans just bebad’se lan Englishman is better than a "German, and* for no other reason. L have seen such a lot, far more than many others have, and I hear a lot more, too, through both naval and military circles. You may take it as a fact that this war has only now begun, it is nothing to what it will be yet. We have 4,000,000 men under arms now—four million. 1 know what I am talking about, and we shall have six million before we finish, and we are going to do tins job properly. I need not dilate on what onr fleet has done, and you needn’t worry about German submarines. . You will understand in my capacity I have to receive secret and confidential information, so am able to judge outcomes a bit. It has been a little exciting of late crossing the Channel. The other night a vessel was torpedoed a few miles from me—but 1 got no harm. 01 course, the Germans have sworn to do all sorts of things to us. We smile and get on with onr work, and we’re killing them every day. I expect a huge movement is about to he made when Kitchener’s army gets to France. Most of our troop transport has been done' lately by the small river and lake excursion boats. We have the London to Margate, Liverpool to Isle of Man, and all the Scotch river and lake boats employed. They are all fast boats, steaming from 18 to 2;?" knots, and adapted to carry from GOO to 1500 people. They are ideal for the job, they slip across through the night, and are over in five or six hours at the most — 1 have seen 80,000 men go in one night, and we can do half a million just as easily. I tell you, the British are the most expert of any nation at transport. No one can equal them.