On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 44, 27 January 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

THE BLOCKADE. i ' IN CONFLICT WITH HOLLAND. t DUTCH PRESS COMMENT. [United Pkebs Association.] (Received 8.30 a.m.) The Hague, January 26. 1 The Vaderland comments on the tightening of the British blockade, and says: “ft is in consequence of our lawful commerce with Germany, but this is not in the British interests, and might involve a conflict with Holland and prolong the war.” TWO STEAMERS SUNK. NEUTRAL VESSELS HELD UP. London, January 25. Tile Dominion liner Noreman has been sunk. j An Italian steamer picked u,p the crew and passengrs of the Cunard boat Pallentia, which foundered in a . g< nle - ~ I Fifteen cases labelled “hammers , were seized on the Swedish steamer Varna, bound from America to Copenhagen. They contained copper, brass and aluminium fillings. | Sixty-nine postal parcels that were seized aboard the Dutch steamer Gelrha contained four hundred revolvers, ’consigned to Copenhagen and Amsterdam by Spanish firms. REPORTED USE OF CAS. Copenhagen. January 25. Two German destroyers, by means of suffocating gas, enveloped the steamer Lambert and endeavored tc force her out of territorial w atei s off Fulsterbq. A Swedish warship drove off the aggressors. BEACHED, AND ALL HANDS SAVED. / (Received 10.30 a.m.) London, January 26. The Norseman was beached, all hands being rescued.