On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 89, 16 August 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

SUBMARINE BUILDING IN BELGIUM. Umted Press Association. Amsterdam. August 14. The Telegraaf’s special correspondent visited the German submarine yards at Hoboken. Since March 19 new submarines have been constructed. British airmen almost entirely destroyed one ou April 2(5. two have been launched and are now in service, ami the remainder are rapidly approaching completion. Since the successful British attack every possible precaution was taken against aerial bombs. The yard was roofed with steel plating, and covered with sandbags. Only the hulls were constructed at Hoboken, all the interior parts being made in Germany. One submarine from Hoboken has already been lost. She was called Kaiser Wilhelm the Second, and carried three officers, one petty officer, and twelve men.

j t GERMAN NAVY LEAGUE,

(Received 10.30 a.m.) London, August 15

Journal states that the German Navy League l is appealing * for subscriptions for five hundred motor boats armed with machine gnus to act at Corsairs.

GERMAN LOSS IN THE BALTIC.

London, August ii

Reuter states that it is unofficially reported at Petrograd that a naval battle took place near Ossel on August 12. A large German cruiser was destroyed, and several warships were damaged severely. It is surmised .that the enemy’s purpose was to bottle up the Russian fleet in tlhe Gulf of Finland and Bothnia. | ” uirrsTOu» m/w A PROTEST FROM N.OR,WAY. “ _ _ nnh th. against If ennan.v attacknig' £Ym Lidia in] Vestf im |l|i(|hj.is Xorw|><|iajl territory throughout' .1 -flMdlilY ffUAU • .iHAIMIin JrIJS UHL SUBMARINE VICTIMS. London, August 13. The! Grimsby trawler Thrush has been sunk. Her crew were in the boats from Monday to Thursday, and when ‘laHened were terribly . exhaust- % heQiia;fio I lie. steamer Summerneld was sunk, and the 'chief engineer and the chief officer and hf-A wffl drowned. " ’

The steamer Jacoua and the Norwegian steamer Aura have also been , 1 ? i«?> The Glasgow steamer And...the fishing smack Ani et h yStLve- : N^e ll sunk. The crews were;’sri'yed.' > Copenhagen"' Angnst H; J ' Tlie Danish barque M tor na. ..has been sunk. The crew landed- • T'r-'-"/