On the Sea.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 68, 24 June 1916, Page 5

On the Sea.

MINED IN THE BLACK SEA. I j UNITKtJ PBWW ABBOCXjtT.OJf. 1 (Received 9 a.m.) Petrograd, June 23. i The steamer Mercery, with eight hundred passengers, was mined near | Odessa, and sank in a few minutes. The majority of those aboard were :saved.

BRITISH -SHIPBUILDING FOR ALLIES AND NEUTRALS.

London, June 22. J Mr L. V. Hhrcourt states that thir-ty-seven ships are under construction in Britain for Allied and neutral owners, averaging 7280 tons. RUSSIANS SINK ENEMY VESSELS IN THE BLACK SEA. Petrograd, Juno 23. Torpedoers sank five largo sailing ships and some smaller ones in the Black Sea.

THE BRITISH NAVY.

liondon, June 23.

Sir Edward Goschen, in a letter to an English journalist, written from Switzerland, referring to statements in the Swiss press that Germany has been victorious on land and sea and is ready to make peace, says:— “The German Chancellor has not formulated the terms upon which ho is prepared to accept peace, and appears to think that the Entente Powers, having failed to conquer, are conquered. The answer is ludicrously simple. The Entente Powers will not accept tho view of being conquered. If, by some miracle, every Entente gun and every Entente soldier were swept out tomorrow, it would still be for the Entente fleets to determine whether a single German merchantman could issue from the Heligoland Bight. They could wither the whole growth of German oversea trade at its root. When these things are brought home to the Germans us they will be p they will per-, haps be ready.;to suggest? .terms which the Entente Powers can-accept. ’’ i GERMANS CAPTURE NEUTRAL ■ i0,7.m ■ VESSELS, a. bel . . J as; - • ’ DANISH AND SWEDISH INTERESTS SUFFER. (Received 12.45 p.m.) Copenhagen, June 23. A German warship at the entrance to The Sound captured tho Danish steamer, Hebeandncxos, which was timber-laden, and also the Swedish steamer Artimes. Both were conveyed to Swinemuud, on tho isle of Usedom, which is strongly fortified, and engaged in shipping and in the building of small craft and the breaking up of ships.