On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 23, 2 May 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

THE BRITISH NAVY. ! | 1 IMPRESSIONS OF MR HUGHES’,* j VISIT. j ' "MIGHTIEST INSTRUMENT Off POWER,'’ ; I "I AM CONTENT.” *. V [Uwitw Fkiu Amooutiow.] j (Received 8.5 a.m.) -■* London, May 1. | Mr Hughes was deeply impressed with his visit to the Fleet. In an in| teryiew, he said ; "I have seen th| mightiest instrument of power ever fashioned by man. Stretching awas far into the horizon with number! seemingly endless, I have seen our in| vulnerable Navy, behind whose ampll cover the Empire has rested since th| outbreak, and still rests, in perfect security. I have spoken to the mei| into whose hands the Empire has en| trusted its‘care. This is the emhodil raent of its power; this is the bulwark of its safety—l am content., I anl satisfied that ; these are the omen wha will not fail us. They realise that up-* on them rhsts the safety (riot pnly ofi Britain and the Empire, but of civilis-| atioh. They are quietly confident, be-| cause the pulses of youth leap in then| veins. In them is the moral force! springing from the tral ditioris; in lives the spirit Which led Drake and'Nejson to victory-. W,e may berid every energy towards the prosecution of the war with the certain assurance that command of the sea is safe in their hands.” ICE BROKEN IN THE BALTIC. RESUMPTION OF TRAFFIC. land has been H 11 ‘ ViirTs|, Captain Southward has rewrued rpm Algiers, where he was in hospital for four months‘recovering from shellfire wounds. f He describes the sinking of the Clan McLeod. After the eighth shot the funnel was hit, and he realised that ho would be unable to save the steamer, so he hoisted signals of surrender and stopped the engine, hut the submarine started to .shell the, bridge,.hqats.and boats' crews, killing nine man ana wounding three fatally, . ■ <>|*aij| Sodtlpiirdlt was f s|ruck . jßiy the firet ,shell. wid went* : rouitd ; the* decks aftS ' Mtt that nobody alive was left on the steamer. He was ordercd~t)ft Iwftrd’ thW'slTbttnft - - ine which flew the German naval flag. He found the commander, a lieutenant, sooner. The commander shook his fist ijd His f &c€. jt %n pr-iceelmd ‘aipfe ’fche steamer % "shell 'tri’e. Till commander ordered him back to hip boat and told him t* inform all cap| tains that they would be fired they attempted to escape. They then parted company, and Captain Southward picked up two wounded men and set sail for Malta with the carter and , lifeboat and 69 men on board.

GERMAN SUBMARINE BASE ON SPANISH COAST. AUTHORITIES WINK AT operations. (Received 8.5 a.m.) . - Paris, May 1. Le Journal .states that Germany is equipping wireless stations on t o coast adjacent to Barcelona. ihero are daily- proofs that submarines are revictuailed and in the vicinity. i One instance occurred where the commander landed and dined with the Consul-General. Twenty-four hours later, two Britishers were sunk in'the vicinity, and the captain refused to tow the crews to the shore, explaining that he was waiting to sink two other Britishers. V ——— CITY OF LUCKNOW SUNK. (Received 11.30 a.m.) nnrr London, May 1. Lloyds’ report, that the Britislt. steamer City of Lucknow lias beco sunk. '• ■ ‘ ■ f