On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 35, 11 June 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

TWO TORPEDOERS SUNK. BRITISH LOSS ON EAST COAST. WORK OF ENEMY SUBMARINE. t)HiTwtJ Pbm» Association. (Received 9.20 a.m.) London, June 10. Official: A German submarine sunk the torpedoers Nos. 10 and 12, which were operating on the Last Coast. Forty-one survivors were landed. - r A PIRATE SEA-COOK. (Received 9.45 a.m.) London, June 10. A British cruiser in the Straits of • Gibraltar arrested aboard an Italian steamer the Prinz Eitel Frederick s fugitive captain disguised as a cook. . ' SUBMARINE VICTIMS. TRAWLERS’ TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. I (Received 9.50 a.m.) London, June 10. A German submarine fired five shots and sank thje Grimsby trawler Velocity. The crew were in a small boat for fifty-two hours without water or food, and were terribly exhausted when picked up. THE BRITISH NAVY. STINGING REPLY TO CRITICISM. GERMAN FLEET NOT LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.

I (Received 9.55 a.m.) London, June 10

Commander Carlyon Bellaires, replying to criticisms in the United States papers, on the inactivity of the British Navy, said: “The man who wrote them ought to procure a chart and study it for a few minutes with an American naval officer at his elbow; them he might learn a lot. The Cuxhaven pier is hidden behind miles oi heavily-mined sandbanks and a breakwater, At 'Heligoland there are only a few German torpedo boats and submarines. In naval warfare one goes by probabilities, not possibilities. British submarines would not have one chance in a million of getting beyond the stonewalls where the Germans hide their fleet. It is not a question of Initiative. What our marines have done scouting around Heligoland and the Dardanelles proves that this js just a question of comrnonsense tactics. The German Fleet only need to come to sea and leave the stone fortress, for a few hours to get all the trouble it will ever be able to seek.” THE HUNNISH WAY. BERLIN BELITTLES A RUSSIAN SUCCESS. . r/ ■ (Received 10.35 a.m.) V London, June 10. Petrograd reports claim that a Russian submarine on June 4th sunk a torpedo boat and a transport, and damaged another torpedo boat. Also that another enemy ship struck a mine and was‘blown up. Berlin wire Iqss asserts that only n collier was sunk and slight damage done to the torpedo boats.

ITALY TRIES SUBMARINE WORK. (Received 9.50 a.m.) Paris/ June 11. The Parisien states that an Italian submarine sank an Austrian torpedo boat which was endeavouring to leave the Gulf of Trieste. FURTHER PIRACY ON ENGLISH COAST. (Received 9.45 a.m.) London, June 10. The steamer Erneboldt was torpedoed off Harwich. The crew landed. The trawler Saturn was torpedoed and the crew landed at North Shields. ' Amsterdam, June 10. A Hutch steamer has arrived with the crews of two Lowestoft fishing boats torpedoed in the North Sea.