On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 41, 18 October 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

THE BRITISH NAVY. [United Press Association.) New York. October 13. - Mr FeVderick Palmer, in Collier’s Weekly, describes a visit he was permitted to make to the British fleet in the North Sea . A destroyer was placed at Ills disposal, and he journeyed to an unnamed port to the serried lines of dreadnoughts. He declares that he is able to convince America that tjiie licet is absolutely submarine proof. He eahnot say all that he was permitted to see and learn, hut he says that if people are worrying about torpedoes menacing the British.. wartships tlleV may dismiss their tears. , The article supplies ; strong confirmation of th P Fleet’s'power at any time..to accomplish its pripiairyj objective, and of the immense reserves <>l strength which are ' available! for all most Aliy emergency. Mr Palmer pays a tribute to the British ships, the armament, and the men, SUCCESSES IN THE BALTIC. BRITISH SUBMARINES’ WORK. Pcti'ograd, October 17. Official: British submarines in the Baltic sank five- German transports and forced another to run ashore. SUBMARINE VICTIMS. FRENC HSTEAMERS SUNK.

Paris. October IC. . The Yunnan and two other French steamers have been torpedoed in the Aegean Sea, without warning. Fight persons were killed and five wounded on the Yunnan. _ NEW LAURELS FOR THE El 9. London, October 10. Renter’s Copenhagen -correspondent reports that the evening papers there report that another German torpedo boat was sunk on Thursday afternoon by the KB), near the Faroe Islands. ’Hie German flotilla which was in action on Wednesday was returning t with reinforcements, when a fisherman heard an explosion and saw a great column of water, and a second tor-pedo-boat disappeared. The flotilla again hurried off. The Exchange Telegraph’s Copenhagen correspondent wires: Official news states that a naval action was fought three-quarters of a mile from land, but nothing certain is known. A fisherman declares that he,saw some -ships disappear after the, cannonadihg. Another Copenhagen message states that a British submarine was attacked in the Sound. The submarine fired shells at a torpedo boat, which was sunk.

A REAL GERMAN TRSCK. SEIZURE OF DANISH COTTON BY GERMANY. (Received P.-lo a.in.) Copenhagen, October l(i. Tlie Norwegian steamer Kira, with six thousand bales of cotton left Gothenburg for Copenhagen. and took aboard an nncertiheated pilot. When the Kira entered the Kattegat, a German torpedoer captured her and is bringing her to Germany. Another torpedoer landed the so-called pilot at Helsingborg. BERLIN'S NAIVE VERSION. (Received 1 I.’)() a.in.) I amdon October 1 < . A semi-oflicial Berlin story states that the supposed sinking of a German torpedoer at -Moen Island was probably based on the explosion of a mine.