On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 97, 26 July 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

— THE DOVER PATROL,, j ADMIRAL BACON’S DESPATCH. REMARKABLY SUCCESSFUL WORK.

CHANNEL-TRANSPORT WITHOUT

LOSS OF SINGLE LIFE.

Press Association —Copyright, Austra lian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.5 a.m.) London, July 25.

Admiral Bacon’s despatch covenng the operations of the Dover patrol for six months’ to the end of May, shows that twenty-one thousand merchant ships passed the patrol, of which the enemy sunk and damaged twenty-one. Four per cent, of the patrol vessels were sunk, with a loss of i 7 lives. Not a single life was lost in the transport of troops across the Channel. The activities of submarines operating from Belgium wore much reduced. We destroyed several submarines and one surface vessel.

WORK .OF SUBMARINES.

TWO STEAMERS SUNK. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.5 a.m.) London, July 25. The steamers Knutsford and Llonguen were sunk.

ANOTHER BRESLAU STORY.

Press Association—Copyright, Austra

lian and N.Z. Cable Association. I Amsterdam, July 21

A Turkish communique states that the cruiser Midillieh, formerly the Breslau, encountered at South Sebastopol a strong enemy squadron of new dreadnoughts of the Empress Maria class, and four destroyers. After four hours’ fighting tbo Midillieh evaded the enemy’s efforts and returned undamaged. A Turkish monitor attacked two enemy monitors in the Euphrates, sotting one afire.