On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 53, 1 November 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

BIG BLACK SEA BATTLE. RUSSIAN SQUADRON ATTACKED. COEBEN, BRESLAU AND HAMIDIEH ENCAGED. RESULT AT PRESENT UNKNOWN. Umted Press Association. (Received 8.40 a.m.) Copenhagen, October 31. ' Bucharest telegrams state that tlie Goebeu. Breslau, and Hamidieh attacked three Russian battleships, several cruisers and destroyers, and that there was a violent battle, but the result is unknown. H.M.A.S. SYDNEY IN THE LIMELICHT. CAPTURE OF GERMANS FROM THE KRONZ PRINZ WILHELM. New York. October 29. It is reported that the captain of the cruiser Sydney boarded the liner Bermudian. off Sandy Hook, and reported having sunk the Eclipse, with all on board. ♦ I Six German officers from the interned Kron Prinz Wilhelm escaped by the Eclipse. One report states that they were taken prisoner by the cruiser, which sunk the yacht. LOSS OF AUXILIARY MINESWEEPER. London. October 30. The Admiralty states that the auxiliary mine-sweeper Hythe (Commander Bird) was sunk on Thursday night, after collision with another British ship, near Gallipoli. Ten naval men and 145 military men' are missing.

THE HESPERIAN INCIDENT. Washington, October 30. Mr Lansing has announced that American naval experts have found, after the closest investigation, that .the Hesperian was beyond all doubt sunk by a torepdo. ,\ ' Germany will be immediately informed, with a request for an explanation, in view of her repeated assertions that the Hesperian was not torpedoed. SUBMARINES IN THE BALTIC. Copenhagen, October 31. ' Denmark is extinguishing several lights in Hie Sound, and at night navigation is practically impossible. The Germans have been complaining of British submarines slipping through The Sound, which is territorial waters. Copenhagen, October 2U, : The -Berlingske. Tidende says that British and Russian submarines in the Baltic are extending their operations northward in the area near Skaergaarden and Lulea, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, with the object of cutting off the enormously in-, creased Swedish ore exports to Germany. German vessels at Lulea have been ordered to remain in port.