On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 29, 10 January 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

MINED ANB SUNK. BATTLESHIP iCENC EDWARD VII. A TOTAL LOSS. NO LIVES LOST : : TWO INJURED The High Commissioner reports-: London, January 9 (5.30 a.m.) The Admiralty announces that the second-class battleship King Edward VII, struck ;i mine and owing to the heavy,seas she had to he abandoned. 'She sunk shortly afterwards. There was no less of life and, only two of the ere\y were injured.

BRITISH STEAMER'S ESCAPE.

GERMAN TORPEDQER ELUDF-D

WARSHIPS LYING IN WAIT.

ONTTED PrEBH ASSOCIATION - (Received 8.15 a.m.)

Stockholm, January !'

..The 'British steamer Oitaiis, which lias refuged at Norryoentig since the war. -slipped out on New Year's Day, followed by Swedish torpadoevs. A German torpedoer tried to captured the G'itans in Swedish waters but the Swedish torpedoers forced it to desist. The Gitans reached. Malmoe, and left again for Gothenbtiry to reach which she must cross a small streatch of international water, and many German warships are l\i'ig «i? wait..

AT THE GOLDEN HORN.

Athens, January 8

' A British submarine from the Sea of Marmora entered the Golden Horn, and attacked and considerably dam-aged-the arsenal. The workmen and inhabitants became panic-stricken.

ITALIAN STEAMER MINED.

London, January 9

An Italian stamer has been mined in the Adriatic, and two hundred persons perished.

425 MONTENEGRIN RECRUITS ON

BOARD

(Received 10.0 a.m. 1 ) ' Cettinge, January 9

The mined Italian steamer carried 120 Montenegrin recruits from America.