On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 7, 7 August 1916, Page 8

On the Sea

THE FRYATT MURDER.

GERMAN OFFICIAL REPLY.

Press Association—Copyright. Reiner's Telegrams London, August I. The German Government is much perturbed as to Lhc effect of telegrams to neutral countries emphasis-

ing the infamy of the murder of Captain Fryatt. Berlin issued an official reply, wherein a lame attempt was made to justify the execution, brazenly alleging that Captain Fryatt had made a treacherous attack on the submarine. FUTURE OFFENDERS HANCED INSTEAD OF SHOT.

Press Association—Copyright, Australian and S.'/j. Cable Association.* London, August 5.

Newspapers quote the suggestions of the Cologne Gazette and Yolks Zeitung that future British captains who copy Captain Fryatt's methods should be hanged instead of being shot.

THE SUBMARINE MENACE.

SEVERAL SHIPS TORPEDOED.

London, August (i

1 The crews of two schooners, a barge, and a coasting steamer, which were submarined, have been landed at Weymouth and Plymouth. Submarines elsewhere sank the Italian steamer Siena, the Greek steamer Tricoupis, and the British steamers Tottenham and Favonian.

GERMAN DUPLICITY EXPOSED.

Copenhagen, August (i

A German submarine destroyed 'a Swedish steamer and schooner, tim-ber-laden lor England. The newspapers complain that Germany recently promised to spare timber ships, and thereupon Sweden permitted the export of hundreds of horses to Germany.

WRECKAGE OFF NORWAY.

Christiania, August 5

Lifeboats, rafts, and wreckage washed ashore on the Norwegian coast indicate jjhat the British steamers Calypso and Aaro were mined or submarined. It is. feared that the passengers and crew have been lost.

TOWN BOMBARDED NEAR CONSTANTINOPLE.

Constantinople, August 5

Advices stale that a submarine recently entered the He;, .of .Marmora and bombarded Cartel Penbik, an hour's journey from the capital, causing serious damage.

AUSTRIAN DESTROYER SUNK. Press Association —Copyright. United Service. Rome, August 5. An Italian submarine torpedoed an (Austrian destroyer in the Upper Adriatic. ONE OF THE PEACE TERMS. Press Association— Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, August 5. The Imperial Maritime League lias joined the movement demanding that peace conditions should include the taking of an equal amount of shipping to' that ruthlessly destroyed by the enemy. THE LOST LETiMBRO. AMERICAN ENQUIRIES SET ON FOOT. L'ress Association— Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.15 a.m.) Washington, August 15. The American Consuls in Italy have been directed to enquire into the circumstances attending the '.Olbmarining of the Letimhro.