On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 44, 26 May 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

T»:ANS-ATLANTIC SUBMARINE SERVICE. • GERMAN PROPOSAL TO CARRY MAILS AND PASSENGERS. United Pbesh Association. New York, May 25. An American shipper who was recently in Hamburg, stages that a regular trans-Atlantic submarine service is commencing. The first boat is to reach New York on July 7 making the trip in twelve days, via North. Scotland, it is armed for defence and will only carry mails, parcels post, and a few passengers. , The Germans expect that five boats will be ready in August. They will each he -150 feet long, with a crew ot sixty } and a speed of eighteen knots.

1 SINKING OF GREEK VESSELS CAUSES INDIGNATION. Athens, May 25. There is indignation over the Aus-tro-German submarines torpedoing three Greek steamers. British underwriters are increasing insurance rates, which hitherto were low, as the Germans spared Greek ships. THE KATTEGAT. London May 2-1. The Times' naval correspondent states that the Germans are obliged to consider the eventuality of the forcing of the Kattegat. Whatever their North Sea object, tlie conjunction of military operations with their Baltic policy rules the strength of the naval forces to be used. The initative if assumed, will remain with the Germans, and will continue to do so if we relinquish the offensive assumed at the beginning of the war.