On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 90, 22 March 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

A MAVAL SCRAP. GERMANS TURN TAIL. BRISK RUNNING FIGHT. ENEMY SHIPS HIT. ALLIED CASUALTIES TOTAL 4. United PRESS ASSOCIATION. The Higli Commissioner reports: — London, March 21 (1.50 p.m.) The Admiralty announces that yesterday morning four British destroyers sighted three German destroyers off the Belgian coast. The latter turned and ran for Zeebrugge, being chased hv our destroyers. >

! Shots were exchanged during a short 'running fight, and two of the enemy’s boats were observed to have been hit. Our casualties amounted to four men wounded. I CONFIRMATION OF THE NEWS. I (Received 8.5 a.m.) | London, March 21. (‘ The Admiralty reports that four British destroyers on Monday chased three German destroyers on the Belgian coast towards Zeebrugge. In a running fight two enemy boats were hit. The German destroyers turned and ran towards Zeebrugge when the British approached. During a short fight, four British were wounded. I . . AMUSING HUN VERSION! ODDS 3 TO 5! BRITISHERS RETIRE AT FULL SPEED! j (Received 12.20 p.m.) \ Amsterdam, March 21. ; A German communique states: Three

torpedoers were successful in an engagement with live British destroyers on the Flemish coast. The enemy were hit several times, and broke off the fight and retired at full speed. We suffered trifling damage. SENSATION IN SWEDEN. BRITISH SUBMARINES ENTER ' !f1 THIE BALTIC. i> ,_e steaWer’^ papers examined. f CERMANTORPEDOERS in the J '’;i ,; srundJ,. i' , , ■ (Received 8.5 a.m.) Copenhagen, March 21. The arrival of British submarines in .the southern Cattegat caused a sensation in Sweden;One was off. to-day ? and examined a Swedish steamer’s papers. Large flotillas qf'German torpedoers traversed The Spffnd; northwards day';'ADMISSION BY GERMAN PRESS.

' t London, March 20. The Hamburger Nachrichten forecasts early British naval activity, including an incursion by submarines into -the Baltic, and frankly admits that Britain has cut off Germany from the sea since the beginning of , the war with the smallest conceivable; expenditure of ships arid without risk of the impairment of her own strategical naval freedom.