Second Edition On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 53, 2 July 1915, Page 6

Second Edition On the Sea

DESTROYER DAMAGED.

HARBOR. H.M.S. LIGHTNING BACK IN

FOURTEEN OF CREW MISSING.

United Press Association. ''.'-_ (Received 1.35 p.m.) ,_. London, July 1. : The Admiralty announce that a mine or damaged H.M.S. destroyer Lightning off the East lasfc■niglrt, and that she is.now in harbor wHijh fourteen or her crew missing. !(:The Lightning is? a destroyer of our oldest type, being launched nearly twenty years ago. Her speed is 27 knofcand her ainnimeMt one 12-poun-dejr, five smaller gflris, and two torpedo tiibes. She carries fifty officers and men). ■ . ;

I THE GnfWMVF&StQnV. SINKINC' THE. Af*M€Hl*N

GALLANT ATIPBM<FT AT ESCAPE

FOUR S»ELLS;aiSA*kETHE SHIP DOZtN M<6W=DE<A*DaQM THE. DECK

(Hfecei ved 1. 35 .p. m.) ;; , London, July 1. ' •Captain' Trickery., captain of tbe Araienian,- in an -interview, said: "The submarine signalled to us to stop V,y piitting a couple of gunshots across oiitybows when four miles off. I put' my:<&tern to him, and ran for it. He shelled continuously, and the shrapneJUkilled several of theciew and precipitated some into f the sea. I realised thjat the- enemy was gainings but I struggled on till a shell knocked the steering gear- out of order, another, " fell in the -engW room<s4third away the Mafconi hoiise, and.a fourth ~ - cut down the fuinneKand disabled;the ( men in the stokehold, x me getting steam. The ship was afire, : in three places when I decided to surrender; I had resisted tor an-horn j , and'twelve or,thirteen:|nen dead on the deck, i The submarine ■ commander made me clea,r■ the ship, j and .the Armenian, was sunk. T% submarine picked'up some of the crewj 'floating with) lifebelts. Most of the members who perished were Americans."

MORrCCRMAN CAS! According totan extremely optimistic "German philosopher, the British Davy's prestige has , gone, for even The ./Sew York Times publishes the .'/" following:— . ' .'■". Th>. Eugene Kuhnemann, of the University of vßreslau, Germany, a noted philosopher, now German Exchange Professor to Universities, who delivered an address in St. Louis . on "German Militarism," declared ' that the sinking of the LusWahia by the Germans within ten miles- of the English.shores "ended the prestige oi I the English. Navy for ever." . _' . Regarding the Ipss of life he said; "Americans aboard that ship were responsible, to no one but themselves J for, the'ir lives. Every', passenger on, ■ board that ship "was notified personalty * that.the Lusitania was to I>e sunk. The

German, Embassy advertised the fact in. the newspapers throughout the United' States and all the. passengers took Che trip af their own risk. "The tofpedoing of the Lusitania "proyes two things: First, that Germany is determined and.lias the power to crush any ..nation that tries to starve lier out; second, that the prestige of the English, navy is gone for ever, . ■ ■ ;

'.'lt. is. shameful that England, with its powerful navy, is not able to pro T tect its own commerce. With all'her. navy, England has been unable t£ protect.one lonesome ship within sighf. of her own shores when .she had advance infomatiou that the ship was to .he destroyed,, and knew how eager the German, were to wreck it," Dr. Knbnemann' said he expected, the destruction of the Lusitania, as did all who realised the efficiency the Germa»**uUmarinfi v iiieet. :.'V|