On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 81, 4 August 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

IN THE BLACK SEA

United Piucss Association

I’otrogrucl, August 3

Official: Torpedoers in the Black Sea ignited a coal depot, and sank ten coal-laden vessels. They have also destroyed two hundred coal sailers and three shipyards on the Anatolian coast.

TRANSPORT TORPEDOED.

I’etrograd. August •). Official; A British submarine sank a German transport in the Baltic.

l V AMERICAN LIVES LOST. l ; Lnmlun. .\u;;uxt. .'l. i 'l'lu'v(,~ '/\nlm'i('znls \\'(‘l'o killnd by the Tsinking of tlm lberiun. OFFICIAL NEWS. l —_f‘'’‘-- . E . i The High Con'lmissmn(3l' repm-t.s:_.. i London, August 2 (10.10 pm. i A 'l3l'itish ‘ sill)iiiani'iiip I'eporL.~; the lsinking of :1. German dé’sti‘(3_\'ei',_ heliev\ed to be of the G 196 ‘Class. zi week ago near the German cbast. ((.lerlna.n destroyers of t;h__e (.‘]s)(i type were launched in.~l9‘lo. They li£L\’C :1 (111-;pl:lC0l‘ll(‘l1t of 6-15 tons and :1 speed of 32.; lmots. Tlieir :inmimenc (,'()nsist~s of four torpedo tithes. two ‘.21-pminder quick-firers, and two nun-liine-giiiis. The crew numbers 83. Tlierl-. are twelve. dest.royel's of this "description in the Germaui .\'ovy). : A llritisli submarine in the Sea of Murmora torpedoed a large steamer nfl’ Mundzmia pier, several sailing vesIsels luaillg spclli'ecl alongside, The exiplosimi was very ‘lleavy. l A small stezuncr in Karahoglin Bay i\\'&lS tmpedoed.

Torpedoes wore fired at lighters alongside the arsenal at Constantinople, the result not being seen, but the explosion was heavy. The Zcitunlilk powder mills were fired at, but owing to the darkness the result was not ascertained. A railway cutting west of Karaburnu was bombarded and the line blocked temporarily. A troop train which Was unable to pass was fired at, and as it steamed back three truck-loads of ammunition were blown up.

‘ FIGHTING THE SUEMARINE. ‘ l lHo'w ‘in ‘it that~ tlief'VGel'inan sub» marines have not homi able to get a single one of the stream of Briti.~'.h transports oar:-ying troops to Franc-.e? E\'ei'yl)()(l_v knows that it is just these transports that the-._v would give almost anything to get., and one may be sure that tlwy have not failed for want of tl‘_vi'n;4', -'.[‘lieV@on.'el'al opinion has lwic-n that -the tl’()opSlli])s cross the chamlol along a I'e;_r,ulal' line forined ‘l)_v dostro_vor.< and other warsliips. and sonnhavom ilnagined that (-loud.~,- o|’ aeroplanes were set to watc-h I'ol‘ Gonnan .~‘;ulnnarine.'~'. through the water. ‘V "But the .\'on' York Times has a story on tho suhjet-t which is at least interost~ ing. lt declares, on the a.uthorit_v of travellers returned from London and Berlin. that the channel has l.)2(‘H, in efl'e(.-t, netted off; that tluoro has been stretched between ]9‘olkos;tom.- and Cape (lri.~,- Ne’/. a wire vahlo netting, with an 18-ill(:llimesllA.t The not, it rszi_ys. wag‘ woven in the north of England and is clamped togetlieigin sections-. It is snbmerp,‘ed to a depth of l-" 50 foot, and kept in place by anchor lmofs. and a narroxv ]_)ass;agu left open for inercliant shipping is ,aarol’ull_\' guartlml h_v dcstl'o_vel':_<. The ..stor_v goes on to say that competent authorities in Berlin admitted having lost_as many as l’onrteeil submarines _(and that was a couple ol’ months ago); and that it in holie\'e(.'l many of them have \"()lll(.‘ to gritrl in the inoslios of this vast channel net... 'l'l':’lv¢,=llin;__r, at six or oiglit knots under water it .5-inlnnarin.t* letcliod up tsliort hy the not would! thrust itself inextricably into the tanglo of $2-tool; and be heard of no more. One line of netting is said to be en—--0l1f_l(ll. l)(‘(':1llS0 though the Il()0O¢xnilu l'2I(llll,\' of the Gornian sulnnarines allows them to travel tllrougli tho North So.-1. round the British Isles. and l)3l('l{ to their hasos a<,v;ain, it fallsbjnst short of allowing them to reach tlie prott-«rt-led a l'(,‘il. Wliotlwr such a vast netting H('ll(‘l'H(‘ is pra('t_i{":lhlo it would take ox-\[)<-rts to (l(‘('lll(‘. hut it is not llT1})0SSil)l(‘ that sonw British ports. at any rate inay he protected in some aur-h manner. The radius of the latest German snhniarines is not, llo\\'o\'er. (-ortain yet, ill; may he more than 3000 miles.