On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 70, 28 February 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

THE SUBMARINE MENAGE* Enemy fire on drowning MEN. Ppvbp Association.! Paris, February 25 A torpedoer has readied Mare Mies towing a boat belonging to the Rouhine, which steamer a submarine torpedoed in the Mediterranean on Feb-

ruary 23. The boat contained mx S" - vivors and the bodies of two of the Roubine’s seamen who wei'o ! i!lecl by the submarine’s rifle five while endeavouring to save themselves in the boat. GERMAN CALLOUSNESS. MEN SWEPT OFF A SUBMARINE. •k-e" TRAGIC STORY OF THE SEA. "WILFUL MURDER.” (Received 9.10 a.m.) London, February 27. Captain Cargill, of the Liverpool steamer, Belle of France, who has arrived home, tells a. tragic story of German callousness. The vessel was torpedoed without warning when twenty-one miles from Alexandria. A lifeboat with twentyfour men capsized, and the men swam to the submarine and were allowed to clamber on to the decks. Captain Cargill took the othei lifeboats, intending to take off the men, and the German commander threatened him with a revolver. The submarine then went off at full speed and suddenly submerged, leaving the men to drown. Captain Cargill rowed to the spot as speedily as possible, but on.y saved five lives. LINER MALOJA MIN«£D. SUNK NEAR DOVER. OUTWARD BOUND FOR INDIA. {Unitid Feeds Association.] (Received 8.50 a.m.i London, February 27. Lloyd’s reports, which has just been received, shows that the Maloja was mined off Dover and sank. Her people are being picked up. She was bound for passengers and mails. Later it was stated that it was believed all the passengers and crew had been rescued. CHANNEL FULL OF MINES. ' V A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. TWENTY-FIVE CASUALTIES. ONE RESCUING STEAMER MINED AND SUNK. (Received 10.15 a.m.) , London, February 27. The Maloja had HO passengers; When she struck, a terrific explosion occurred. Scores of vessels raced to the scfne, but it is feared there will be los^ 1 of life. A steamer going to her assistance 1 struck a mine and sunk. Later (5.20 p.m.) Twenty-five bodies of the Maloja s passengers were landed at Dover. Later (12.50 p.m.) The steamer Empress of Fort William was mined and sunk while attempting to rescue the Maloja-’ s survivors. J lie crew was saved. The latest loss of the P. and O. Steam Navigation Company will be deplored. Hie Maloja was well-known in Australian waters, from where she traded to England and Eastern ports. Her tonnage was 12,500, and she was in command of Captain H. S. Bradshaw. On her last trip from Australia, she left Adelaide on January 13, due date of her arrival at London being February 19,