On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 68, 25 February 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

RAIDING THE ATLANTIC. THE MOEWE IN EVIDENCE, Madrid, February 23. Teneriffe officially reports that the Engnsn steamer Westburn lias arrived, controlled by a prize crew that is believed to be from the Moewe. She also has 20b prisoners from the Flamingo, Horace, Clan MacTavish, Cambridge, Beige, and Luxemburg. HUSSIA’S FREE SEA OUTLET. SAZANOFF’S SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT. Petrograd, February 24. M. Sazonoff concluded hi s interview with the Daily Chronicle representative) by saying that Russia had not any designs on Sweden, and added significantly, ‘‘We must obtain an outlet to a free sea in quite another direction.” BLOCKADE DEBATE. THE FLEET UNHAMPERED. London, February 24. In the House of Lords, Lord Crewe, winding up the blockade debate, denied that the fleet was hampered. The question was complicated by unrevealable difficulties, and Britain must uphold the international law whereon which she ha s embarked on the war. Lord Sydenham withdrew hi s motion. APPOINTMENT OF A MINISTER. GERMANY’S LOSS OF TERRITORY. London, February 23. Mr Asquith, in the House of Commons, announced tnat Lord Robert Cecil had been appointed Blockade Minister. Mr Bonar Law stated that 730,000 square miles of German territory has been captured since the beginning of the war. BRITISH NAVAL PERSONNEL. London. February 23. Dr. MacNamara, writing to Mr Parker, stated that the navy’s active list at tlie beginning of the war was 146,000 officers, men and boys; it is now 320,000, and is expected to reach 350,000. Eighty-five thousand men are employed in the royal dockyards.