On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 13 August 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

THE SUBMARINE MENACE.

A NORTH SEA INCIDENT. United Psesb Association. (Received 8.50 a.m.) Copenhagen. August VI. A submarine stopped the mail steamer Iris in the North Sea and compelled the captain to throw over the valuables and the Russian mail. EXPERIENCE WITH SUBMARINE LETTER FROM REV. BLAMIRES. Wellington, August 13. \ Chaplain-Captain Blamires, in a letter, describes an exciting experience with a submarine while aboard a transport hospital ship between the Dardanelles and Alexandria. The periscope of the submarine was sighted about four miles away, and the steamer turned tail. The stokers and firemen double-banked, but the vessel was old and could only attain a speed of thirteen knots. Gradually the submarine drew near, until almost within striking distance, when it mysteriously dropped astern and disappeared. Every preparation had been, made aboard the transport. Th© Rev. Blamires shared a cabin wjth tlie Rev. Father Richards, where there was but one lifebelt, and each wanted the other to wear it. They became so insistent that finally they quarrelled, and the dispute was settled only by handing the lifebelt to a sergeant-major.

SUBMARINE VICTIMS.

London, August 12. 'l'he Admiralty announces that fontofficers and .39 of the Ramsay’s crow were saved . The Meteor was formerly a Ham* bnrg-Amerika liner, with a powerful armament of quicklirers. Amsterdam, August 12. A Berlin official message says that the Meteor, after sinking the Ramsay, picked up) forty of the crew, including four officers. : Next day tfour British cruisers surrounded the Me-, teor. and the latter s commander sank, the Meteor after the crew of British prisoners- and: the crew of the sailing vessel; which’had previously been sunk as a prize,’ had been 1 saved. The Meteor’s crew reached a German port. , London, August 12. , The Krancivee, .la 1 French barque ■hound from 1 Australia, has been-sunk. The-crew" landed. ! i 1 1 ; [ r Five other vessels and seven’trawlers liavcT- also b'ddii sunk. ■ The British steamer Onkwood has been sunk, the Rosalice beached, and the Norwegian steamer Garager and barque Morne, and the Russian barque Zalatzer have been simk. All the crews were saved, and likewise the crews of three trawlers and three smacks, which were torpedoed. ; j 1' ‘‘ ‘ ’ :Rome, August 12. ( A naval official statement says;: Two, Austrian destroyers bombarded • Bafi, ; t Sanlos Pirito and Mulaetta. One civilian wa-s killed and seven were wounded. *

Our submarines torpedoed Ul2 in the Upper Adriatic, and the crew perished. OPERATIONS AT RICA. Amsterdam, August 12. A German naval official message says: We attacked, on August 10. the fortified Island of Uto, at the entrance of the Alands Archipelago, and compelled the Russian force, including a cruiser of the Makaroff clasas, to retreat. We also silenced the enemy’s coast batteries. On the same day 'our cruisers drove back Russian destroyers in the Bay of Riga, one being afire. Hostile submarines repeatedly attacked us, but all their torpedoes missed.

THE COEBEN AGROUND. London. August 12. Athens reports that the Goehen has been torpedoed, and is aground in the Bosphorus. . Athens, August 12. The Goehen is aground in a narrow creek alongside The shore. In default of a dry dock, the Turks built a dyke round her, and pumped out the water. There are no details of the damage. ANOTHER LIE DISPROVED. London, August 12. The Dutch Company states that the Lokal An/.ieger’s story that the British compelled a steamer to ply between Dover and Calais is a fiction. VISIT TO GRAND FLEET. I London. August 12. Mr Asquith and Mr McKenna hare visited the Grand Fleet, Mr Asquith addressed a portion of the officers and crews, expressing congratulations and confidence. TURKISH GUNBOAT TORPEDOED. (Received noon.) London, August 32. Official.—A British submarine torpedoed the Turkish gunboat Berk I Satvt at the Dardanelles.