On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 92, 24 March 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

ECHO OF THE RUSSO-JAP. WAR, , JAPANESE WARSHIPS. I TRANSFERRED 70 RUSSIA. i JTlKrrvri \MxoruTntN, i • (llcecived 8.30 a.m.) Sydney; March 24. ( Japanese files state that two .Tepan--1 ese battleships and two ooast-defenee ships have been transferred to Russia ■ and will shortly appear in the North Sea. All of these were formerly units in Russia’s Baltic "Fleet and were cap- ' tured by the Japanese in the llussoj Japanese war. A LIGHTSHIP TORPEDOED. London, March 23. Lloyds reports that the Galloper lightship, at Harwich, was torpedoed and sunk. It is satirically explained . from Rotterdam that the German [Admiralty sank the ship because she ! refused to stop. The Daily Telegraph, in commenting on this, recalls the fact that a ! French privateer, ip 1697, carried off Mr Winstanby (the designer) and his men, who were engaged an constructing the Eddystone lighthouse. King i Louis XIY. immediately released them, saying that he was at war with England, not at enmity/with mankind. i ONLY RUMOUR AFTER ALL. j (Received 10.30 a.m.) London, March 23. Tho Galloper lightship was not 'sunk, but was merely withdrawn. WORK OF THE RUSSIAN FLEET. '' Bucharest, March 23. The Russian fleet torpedoed and sunk the 700-ton steamer • Esperanza, laden with foodstuffs, off Kaliakha. She was flying the German ensign and was hound for Constantinople. The Russians also sank twenty foodladen sailers. DUTCH STEAMERS STOPPED. London, March 23. Tho Netherlands Lloyds’ Company is stopping traffic until Germany clearly defines her aims. THE SUBMARINE MENACE. NORWEGIAN VESSEL SUNK. . .. (Received 10.30 a.m.) j London, March 23. The Norwegian vessel.(LinlilTld was sunk. Thirty of the creiv were taken on a liner to Queenstown., A BAG OF THREE, (Received 10.30 p.m.) London, March 23. The steamer Sea Serpeant and the French barque Bougainville were sunk. Twenty-three of the crew of the latter were picked up. The Norwegian steamer Kannik was sunk. The crew was saved. HEARTLESS CONDUCT OF SUBMARINES. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Paris, March 23. When the Renaudin was torpedoed the officers and crew of the submarine impassively watched the drowning sailors. On a French destroyer hastening to the rescue, the submarine disappeared.