On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 87, 18 March 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

DUTCH LINER TUBANTIA. CONE TO THE BOTTOM. Unttbd Pebss Association. • London, March 16. Lloyd's report that the Tubantia 'has sunk. Mij>/ f .j ■. ■•,; [\H v..* :,- ■ !.•■•> ■,'■ AN AMOUNT OF THE.DISAST^R^ ;:. i ]!%'.-|)' ~•Rotterdam ( March: i.7/.-' ' < Tll^.lTubantia' was NorMlnd'fk, ;.J;glitshtp. in .Tl • was' Nrei-jf;dark"-' and ?a'bagh:]seai was- running. The: ex-; plosion! rentc|t. great bole imidshipsi^-i; Despite thal| ; ii^p.y f oijf of % JVag: no, jpanieX ; The plnolid#:«mt out' "S!b S 'Si%a^b/ : ; a. fi j vessel disappeared. Tlfe look-out saw the torpedo c'om- j mg.":j CAPTAIN'S REPORT.•■■'/> ■~| v< , London,/Match IG. T&K Tubantia V* captain reports that the Vessel was torpedoed, There" was an, iirsroejo.§e,.,explosion > and the ship » '>VJ • £ ,'; A' Dufeflfo A h £ PRESS AND PUBLIC INDIGNATION. DELIBERATE GERMAN DEED. (Received 8.5 a.m.) Rotterdam, March 17. Dutch newspapers and the public are indignant at the destruction of the Tubantia, and insist that it is no credit to the Germans if no lives are lost.

There is no reason to expect that there are floating mines in that area of the North Sea. If a submarine laid a mine it must have been for the do-, liberate purpose of sinking the Tubantia an hour after sailing, as the route is well known. !' The general belief is that the loss was due to a torpedo, which the lookout affirms. THE WORK OF A TORPEDO. SEVERAL LIVES BELIEVED TO BE LOST. (Received 8.5 a.m.) i London, March 17. Official.---The Tubantia was torpedoed. Latest reports show that several lives are believed to have been lost. MINED OR TORPEDOED ? SWORN EVIDENCE OF THE LATTER. (Received 10.50 a.m.) Hague, March 17. The Tabantia's first and fourth officers and the look-out man have sworn affidavits that the ship was torpedoed. They clearly saw the wake of the torpedo. Mr Schilling, the American Consul at Stuttgard, one of the passengers, says the steamer was mined.

FRENCH LINER'S ESCAPE.

EXPERIENCE OF THE PATRIA

(Rcce'ved S.. r ) a.m.) .New York, March 16

Tjjc French liner Patria, with nine hundred passengers, has arrived from Palermo. She reports passing near Tunis a submarine which fired a torpedo, without warning, but it passed twenty feet astern. ; BIG PASSENGER LIST. CAPTAIN'S LUCKY SAVE. (Received 8.5 a.m.) New York, March 17. There were two thousand aboard the Patria, including Mr Olney, the American Consul at Florence, and twenty >ther Americans, as well as three huntred women. Captain de Chelles and an American :aw a periscope- at a distance of 120 /ards, and almost simultaneously came the discharge of a torpedo. By :n once ordering full speed ahead, the japtain saved the ship. FURTHER COMPLICATIONS FEARED. '.- .__, IV.' . . :!!! .Hi' Washington, March 16. The torpedoing of the Turmrttia is ikely to cause further complications .vith Germany. It was 'hoped in ; American Government circles that the recrement of Admiral'Tirpitz, with the probable control of German naval >olicy passing to the Kaiser and Heir /on Bethrnann-Hollweg, was likely to •esult in the improvement-of the; subnarine campaign. The announcement of ,iJ\e, torpedoing, ■if the Patria also aroused public feeing. THE MATATUA DISASTER. NOT CAUSED BY CERMANS. PROBABLY.DUE TO ACETYLENE CAS. The Prime Minister has received a •cable in answer to one sent to the Canadian.Preniiesr (Sir R. L.'Borden) y follows :4ff < &Dhed( ■.Marine .BepartInlnt does not believe- the disaster to |he Matttkla jWemy act. The explosion was profeaSry due to otttffflfcfllby' water ?eoming into contact with the carbide, Iwhich composed_ part of the vessel's 'cargo." '" -f I >-• I '., *, ■ ' .I , J ■ VON TIRPITZ'S SUCCESSOR (Received 8.5 a.m.) j j London, March 17. I AdmiraT"Ydn Capelle, who is sixty ■years of age, has not been to,sea since !? m ; was a captain. For many years ho was in England. Under VorfTir:>it?i his main business was to'juggle tr'fth the Navy the Reich ;tng. '• . -,._■ : ' ...