On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 72, 24 November 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

ENEMY FEAR LOSS OF NINE SUBMARINES. United Puess Association. Paris, November 22. The Turco-Germans are concerned over the disappearance of nine submarines in the Mediterranean, and they fear that they are lost.

NAVAL ACTIVITY IN THE BALTIC -—-»+■•/ I > London, November- 22iWilter’s Copenhagen correspondent says that the; uavaj activity* . oi\ the* part of British* l and! German ib ’tlie Cattegat during the past week is said to be due to the successful] pass- ; age of large numbers of subpiarints into'/ the Baltic. t• ) ■ : i (17.; . A British squadron, including dreadnoughts, ’ several cruisers, 'and many torpedoers' l , escorted the submarines and entered The Scaw, where the larger vessels stopped, while the torpedoers escorted the submarines as far as Elsinore, from whence, the submarines , proceeded! to! the Baltic). 1 f i« i The Germans were too late in discovering (the movement,, but sent a flotilla of ; torpedoers at full speed up The Sound, “but - when they t saw the British squadron in The Scaw they retreated to, Thelma. and at Golljerburg safely. - -* ! A'hrf.r ■ d'l?" v ■ I .’’ ' f ?;’-a f'l-S'- ■ ■"! IMW M 3 .>■ I*7, GERMAN OR£AD&p UC H T IN THE BALTIC. 1 Amsterdam, November 23. It is reported that one of Germany’s newest dreadnoughts has been mined and sunk in the Baltic. All on board were saved, with the exception of thirty-three. TURKISH TRANSPORT SUNK. FIVE HUNDRED DROWNED. Amsterdam, November 22. A urich telegram states that a Turkish transport with five hundred troops struck a mine in the Sea of Marmora, and sank, nearly all on board being drowned.