On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 70, 22 July 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

| SUBMARINE VICTIMS. I I RUSSIAN TIMBER STEAMER SUNK OFF THE SHETLANDS

United Press Association. (Received 9 a.m.) London. .Inly 21. A submarine torepdoed and sank the Russian steamer General Radetzky, timber-laden, off the Shetlands. 1 Of a crew of seventy, two landed at retorhead.

BLACK SEA OPERATIONS.

Petrograd, July 21. Official: —Torpedo boats destroyed u convoy of fifty-nine Turkish sailing vessels, bound from Trebizond with 'war material for Turks in the Chorokh region. The crews were taken prisoners. COMMANDER MAX HORTON | A SUBMARINER’S RECORD. (Received 9.10 a.m.) London. .Inly 21. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bel la irs\ asked for the name; of the officer commanding the British submarine which sunk the battleship Pommem in the Baltic on July 2. Mr McNamara, said there was no official report, but he gave the name of the Commander as Max Horton.

NEUTRAL SHIPS LOST.

ENEMY DESTROY NINETY-FIVE,

(Received 11.30 a.m.)

London, July 21. Replying to a question in the House of Commons. Mr Macnamara stated that ninety-five of the Neutrals’ ships had been destroyed by German warships and mines up to the 20th inst.