On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 76, 29 November 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

THE HIRE OF MERCHANT CRUISERS. United Press Association. London, ..November 27. The Admiralty announce that they 'nave arranged to reduce the hire of merchants‘cruisers by 30 per cent, and of the slower by 20 per cent, after the chartered year. Obey have also arranged pot to pay the special allownice of 3s and 3s Gd per ton monthly that is given to vessels in Australian waters. QUESTIONABLE NEUTRALS. New York. November 27. The steamer Zealamiea. winch a finish cruiser searched on .the .Mexican .•oast, has arrived at New York, with her cargo unloaded. A British cruiser based the Zealamiea an route hack, hut the Zealamiea kept to American erritorial waters. Her crew are exclusively Germans. The American Trans-Atlantic Comoanv has requested tne Government L n convoy its steamer \\ icchags from Buenos Ayres lest British warships seize it, owing to the douot existing is to the legitimacy of its transfer to Tie American flag.

AN ATTACK FROM THE AIR. STEAMER UNDAMAGED BY AEROPLANES. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Amsterdam, November dS. Throe German aeroplanes near the Noordhinder lightship attacked the steamer Haloownie t'roin London to Rotterdam. The rifle and machmognn lire and bomb-throwing lasted for twenty minutes, but without effect, as the steamer was kept at full speed and escaped undamaged. Ihe *eioplanes disappeared southward,