On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 42, 24 May 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

SUBMARINE ViCTIMS. I t J SEVERAL VESSELS SUNK. i United Press ApkoowATlon. 1 I London. May 23. The Greek steamer Anastasios Coro-? neos, and the Italian steamer Birmanaa, have been sunk. Paris, May 23. The steamer Longuehoc was. submar-| ined in the Mediterranean, the crew' being saved. The Germans took the' captain prisoner because the vessel -resisted when attacked. Rome, May 23. ; An Austrian submarine torpedoed the * Italian steamer St. Andrew, off Sardinia. ’ — t LOSS OF THE TUBANTIA. London, May 22. Germany’s unsatisfactory explanation of the sinking of the Tubantia has greatly angered the Dutch press. The Tyd says "the ways of the German teorpedoes are more mysterious than those of Providence.” | The Dutch Government does not in-* tend to allow the matter to drop. KIEL CANAL CLOSED BY MINE; ' FIELD.' * , ' _ U ' Copenhagen, May 23. The newspaper Pplitiken reports that a Danish steamer was stopped by a German submarine commander, who stated that a mine-field had been laid from Schmart to the Danish waters south of Langeland, in order to close the entrance to the Kiel Canal. RUSSIAN SUBMARINE’S WORK. Petrograd, May 23. A communique states; One of our submarines sank three German steamers in the Baltic, ,