On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 76, 6 March 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

—~—«*» KEWS OF TliE GERMAN FLEET. TWENTY DREADNOUGHTS QUIT KIEL. ...... ; DESTINATION UNDISCLOSED. United I'rkbh association. (.Received 8. 10 a.m.) Rome-, Mart']] 5. A wireless message to the press estates that twenty Dreadnoughts have .rpiitted Kiel. A SWEDISH RUMOR. I GERMAN NAVY COMING OUT TO FIGHT. London, March '3. In Swedish shipping circles it is persistently rumored that the Germany navy is coming out to fight before March 22. A naval expert, with an intimate .knowledge of the German shipyards, in the Naval Military Record Journal points out the possibility of the German navy being much strengthened, as tbev are able to construct twenty-live dreadnoughts at the same time. NEWS OF THE MOEWE. ALLEGED ARRIVAL AT CER- : r i i MANY. (Received 9.5 a.m.) London, March 5. A German official message states that the Moewe has .arrived at Germany. THE PROVENCE TRACEDY. NEARLY 4000 ABOARD. ("United Press Association.] (Received 9.5 a.m.) New York, March 5. The French Ministry of Marine reports that nearly four thousand- .men were aboard the Provence when she sunk. (It was reported at the time of H* disaster that of dSOO only about 700 were saved). : J »: THE CASE OF THE KAIPARA. POSTPONED FOR THREE MONTHS. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Amsterdam, March 5. The Prize CoUffc at Hamburg has postponed for tlifjeemonth* .(' , » is , icl " i ; rjflnjof the ' wKich wis sunk with New .Zealand frozen niiat aboard when' bound for Plymouth. ITALIAN STEAMER SUNK. Athens, March 5. An Austrian submarine torpedoed the Italian Steamer Java. The crew landed at Piraeus. SINKING OF SWEDISH STEAMER Rome, March 4. The Austrian submarine which sank the Swedish steamer Torborg towed the ciew in boats to the Spanish coast, where a steamer picked them up. GERMAN SEAPLANE WRECKED. OBSERVER DROWNED. London, March 3. Official.—A German seaplane returning from England fell i«to th* \orth Sea. The observer was drowned, but the pilot was picked up and made prisoner.