On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 59, 8 November 1915, Page 8

On the Sea

THE SINKING OF THE RAMAZAN. [United Press Association. j London, November G. Tiie Press Bureau states that a submarine shelled the Ramazan oil 1 Ante cyethera, and smashed a number of boats by shellfire. The survivors reached Autecythora in their own boats the same night. Twenty-eight of th© crew were also saved. FIRE ON A SUGAR STEAMER. Halifax (Novo Scotia), Nov. G. The British steamer Rio Lagos caught fire in mid-ocean, and has rej turned here. She reported that ai: (incendiary bomb had been discovered in the sugar cargo. . A steam hose enabled tbe crew to control the outbreak and return. The vessel’s cargo was consigned to the British Sugar Commission at Queenstown, and wag loaded by Austro-German stevedores at ! Yonkers, New York. S _ I THE MERCANTILE MARINE. j ... J London, November i. The Financial Times says that the Admiralty has acquired the control of eight hundred ocean-going steamers, aproximately twenty-two per cent, of the British tonnage engaged in the overseas trade. Probably the number, will be raised to nine hundred in the near future.