On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 97, 25 August 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

•j B (• THE ARABIC’S END.

GERMAN PRESS STATEMENTS.

United Press Association. (Received 11.10 a.in.) Amsterdam. August “21

Tlio Hamburger Nachrichteh hopes that the report that tlie Arabic w astorpedoed will he confirmed, because, since the Lusitania foundered, only rarelv were vessels over live thousand tons sunk by (human torpedoes. Germany's Note to the /Washington Government clearly pointed out that she could not in a war against a brutal enemy like England renounce any method of offence, least of all. the one that wasj the most Effective. Ihe newspapers then prints a apparently from the Censor ‘rath'dri than from the leader writeiy saying that Germany’s eiiemies; |iop|e thdt President Wilson will deliver them Cuipp. ,s*9;,. gangers of submarine wat. Meanwhile it) has not been .proved that jthe AVaiii was struck by a ' toVpedo. .There is a possibility of her having been the victim of one ol the bad 'British mines. The leader writer? .summing' up, states that possibly a boat of the U class destroyed the Arabic. In that case, she acted rightly and if some Americans were drowned that again would serve as a warning that noi one should lighthea.rtedly enter the war /one or come within the range of modern weapons." , .

RIGOROUS ACTION DEMANDEb.

];ff .id* Washington. August 23

President Wilson is., still awaiting details regarding the Arabic. The British announcement that the Arabic was.not convoyed, did not attempt To escape, and was not warned, has inflamed public opinion.* -Even the New-York church sermons demand more rigorous action .by the Government.

ZEEBRUCGE BOMBARDED. BRITISH BATTLESHIPS PUMP IN SHELLS. Amsterdam, August 23. The Handlesblad states 1 that five British battleships bombarded Zeehrugee harbor with good effect. The ■ British bombardment of Zeebrugge began at six o’clock on Monday morning and lasted three hours. The shock smashed many windows in the Dutch Zeeland. There was excellent shooting against the vessels in the harbor. . ."

A destroyer crept 'darVngi’y'inshore, jin cl drew the fire of the German hattie cruisers, which pumped shells into the sand dunes where the-sixteen ,-hig (vims, defenders of Zeebrugge, were concealed. The British shells thoroughly searched the dunes. The garrison at Zeehrugge remained in spec-ially-prepared shelters, but the marines at Knocke assembled behind the Grand Hotel, the officers fearing a British landing. .

A Gorman aeroplane directed the lire of the Gorman batteries. Tim Germans were apparently surprised, and tile defences were manned. They practically did not interfere with the British, who were twelve miles out.

The British lire was concentrated principally on the Zeehrngge inner harhor. where parts of the new submarines are being; assembled, and also the poison gas factory at Gissewghie.

Heavy smoke clouds over the harbor and the factory are reported, and

Knocke is afire.. The harbor works at Zeehruggp were extensively damaged, and several guns at Heyst and Knocke put out of action. Most of tlie German shells fell sliort. while some British shells exploded in the country behind Zeebrugge. ■■■ ■