On the Ssa

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 32, 13 January 1916, Page 5

On the Ssa

LOSS Of" CLAN MACFARLANE. DEATH OF THIRTEEN LASCARS'. Uvitpi) Prm'fl Association ''Received S.-3 a.m.) 5 ■ .Malta. January 12. Tin Clan flJucFai'lanc was sunk on December 30. The chief officer, engijneer, lour other officers, and eighteen Lascars were picked up. Thirteen Lascars died in the boat. THE LOSS OF H.M.S. NATAL. COURT-MARTIAL PROCEEDING. The High Commissioner reports:— London, January 12 (4.15 p.m.) In the House of Commons, Dr. Macnamara announced that a court-mar-tial was being held on the loss of the cruiser Natal. OUR SILENT NAVY. WATCH DOGS ON THE BELGIAN COAST. i Received 9.10 a.m.) London, January 12. Admiral Reginald Dayhon's dispatch regarding operations on the Belgian coast from August to December, reveals the fact that a British arm'ed yacht was sunk by gunfire, and that a drifter and minesweeper were sunk by mines,, the total casualties being thirty-four killed and twentyfour wounded. Operations comprised six concerted incidents of considerable magnitude and eight : mailer ones. The enemv lost a torpedoer and two

submarines, and'we destroyed three military factories with thirteen heavy guns. Many depots were extensiyely damaged at Zeebrugge and locks and also wharves and nicies at various places. Our killed included l.iciiteu-ani-Commauder Gartside Tipping, the oldest naval officer afloat. THE CASE OF THE 6ARALONC. London, Jan may 11. The naval correspondent of the Observer says that the submarine sunk by the Baraloug was the destroyer of the'Arabic, and the crew's hands were • still dripping with the blood of women and children. Germany's allegations have not been proved, and witnesses are contradictory and unreliable, but the commander of the Baraloug obviously could not allow the Germans to reach the Xicosian, whether they swam instead of to the Baraloug. The Germans could have taken out the valves, held u ptheir hands .mul "Kamerad." Concerning the German commander, most think that the destroyer of the Arabic deserved his alleged fate. The statement that be attempted to surrender has been contradicted. The correspondent was sorry that the British kicked the faces of tlse dead men. Palpably the world knows what to think of those who whine over the necessary sinking of a submarine and crew while perpetrating outrages like the -sinking of the Persia. ——————i——