On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 28 August 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

TORPEDOED !N ike north sea i'ius.s Asbouiiiuon—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Loudon, August 2b. The Admiralty reports that the boarding steamer Duke of Albany was torpedoed and sunk in tho Norte. y,;i, Twenty-four perished. The Duke of Albany was sunk uy a submarine on Thursday. Commander ilanage, Engineer-Lien b. Maskeil, and 22 men were lost. Eleven officers and 70 men were saved. ■'v-'-A;',:. THE FRENCH FLEET. five new dreadnoughts. Press Association-Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 5.55 a.m.) Paris, August 27. Five new French Dreadnoughts have been completed since the commencement of the war, and now form a powerful homogeneous fleet. german denial of submarine LOS'S.

Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. 1 (Received 9.55 a.m.) Amsterdam, August -27. A German communique denies that a submarine was destroyed on the 19th. , ALL BRITISH MERCHANTMEN ARMED. ASSERTION BY THE GERMANS. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. . (Received 9.55 a.m.) Amsterdam, August 27. A wireless message states; The German Government asserts that Britain has informed the Netherlands that all armed British merchantmen have boon ordered to use arms against all enemy vessels, but Neutral waters will be respected. SALE OF SHIPPING BUSINESS, ‘ross Association-—Copyright, Austra.Aianimd NLZ. Cable Association. 1 | (Received 11.10 a.m.) London, AflQtftjjt .The. Weekly Despatch;that* the' 1 business of the steamship Company has been sold to Pyman, Watson, and Coy, for upwards of two million sterling.