Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 55, 10 February 1916, Page 6

Great Britain

MORE BOMBS IN ENGLAND. NO CASUALTIES.

[Pnttkd Pkkbß Amooiation.) (Received 1.50 p.m.) London, February 9. ' Two German seaplanes dropped three bombs on the outskirts of Ramsgate and four near a sehoo\ *et Broad- ... stairs without casualty. NAVAL POWER COMPARED. BRITAIN'S SUPERIORITY. London, February. 8. An illuminating article in the Daily Chronicle on the Allies' sea power says that Captain Perseus, in the Berliner Tageblatt, reviews the.naval maritime' during the war and shows the lo%ps of the British merchant marine owHg to the German na'ya] campaign to be less than 5J per cent, of the tonnages He admits British sea power is stronger than at the beginning of the war. Dealing with submarines,! the critic says that Germany had! thirty submarines at the beginning ofj the war, and has probably about the? some now. The Allies' submarines have greatly increased. Of twelve hundred German merchantmen two hundred were captured at the outset of, the war and six hundred took refuge in neutral ports. Most of the re- - niainder are in the docks at Hamburg and Bremen. j At the beginning of 1916 Britain was three times as strong as her enemies. The position was as follows: j Central Allies. Powers. Pre-dreadnoughts ... 89 33 Dreadnoughts and sup-er-dreadnoughts ... G2 21 'Battle cruisers ... 71 65 Lesser vessels ... 133 35 :> Destroyers ... 542 180 j .:-- ■• -Totals ... 897 234; |.' • . The goes on to say that it is more difficult to compare the submarine power, but it is believed the proportion is the same as in the larger