On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 99, 2 December 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

; 11 ■■ • .10 ' ••• * BLOCKADE OF THE BALTIC. •' - ' - ■ ’ ~; j - . . . i T ' ' -ll.' I I EFFECTIVE BRITISH ACTION. W ■ ■ ' - ' • f ’• ‘ [United Pkess Association.] (Received 8.30 a.m.) London, December 1. The New York Evening Post’s Stockholm correspondent states that Britain’s blockade of the Baltic is proving thoroughly effective as regards the iron and timber exporting ports, where a German steamer is afraid to come out. Nineteen German steamers have already been torpedoed or driven ashore, while others are missing. The (arrival of British submarines encouraged the Russian submarines to develop greater audacity and activity, and the German crews became panicstricken; even armed trawlers shooting at sight sunk at least one Swedish submarine in mistake for British. GIRL’S MARVELLOUS HEROISM ADRIFT IN A BOAT WITH SUBMARINED CREW. CARE FOR HER INFANT BROTHERS. United Pkess Association. (Received 8.30 a.m.) London, December 1. Mr Martin Donohue tells a thrilling story of the heroism ol an eight-year-old girl, who was a passenger by the steamer Bosnia when the vessel was submarined near Candia. She was. in a boat which had been adrift for four days, having been buffetted by a furious wind ami an angry sea, with her brothers, aged three and two years old respectively, who had been separated from their parents, who were in another boat. The children were scantily clad. The girl’s coinage never wavered, and she cheered the sailors, and clasped her little brothers’ arms to impart warmth. On the third day the food, and water were finished and although land was sighted the crew .were too exhausted to reach the shore. The girl exhorted them to further efforts, and herself helped at the oars. To add to the horrors, an Italian passenger went mad and slashed an artery in his arm and then sought to attack his companions. A desperate struggle ensued, and, finally he was overpowered. Then the wind dropped and the boat was able to reach M.ikvos Island, Cieto.