On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 31, 4 September 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Copenhagen, September -• A Geiman submarine lias been sunk oil' Sonderburg. Several of the crow wciv killed. Swedish captains report that the Germans are imitating the British anti-submarine methods i" the North

THE ECONOMIC WAR. AN ANCLO-NORWECIAN DEAL. RESENTMENT CAUSED IN GERMANY. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.25 a.m.) New York, September 3. The New York Times' Berlin correspondent says there is a feeling of resentment owing to the report that Norwegian shipowners have closed a contract to place at the immediate disposal of the British Government fifty steamers with a tonnage 150,000. ft is believed that the contract is for- a year at a rate of four to five shillings ahead of current rates. Germany sees in this another move of Britain's economic war. THE BRITISH NAVY.

i VISIT TO CLYDE YARDS. SHIPBUILDING EXTRAORDINARY Press Association—Copyright, Australian anri X.Z. Cable Association. (Received II a.m.) London, September 3. Mr Alfred Noycs, in his f6ni\tb. article, describes a visit he paicji ;to tlie Clyde, where, lie says, pneumatic rivettcrs .rang on a hundred ships in forest-like yards. Here lay the slipway, wherein the Lusitania was. born, and all around were the cradles of her avengers stretching for mile after mile. England lost eight destroyers in the Jutland Battle. I saw a shipyard whence that same week they launched 15 destroyers. I saw brood after brood of ships in yard after yard ready to follow. .No sooner was one launched than another was laid down. England is not taking any risks to keep the command of the Sea. If she lost half of the Fleet to morrow, she would still have a Fleet as large as she started the war with, r and many more to follow. There never was building like this in the history of the world. I saw nearing completion in this one cradle, a fleet of destroyers, a fleet of submarines, and a fleet of battle cruisers which would have constituted a formidable riaxy for any country. There were certain mystery ships and also a new type around which screens were built against inquisitive eyes. I saw several submarines larger than any hitherto built, and battle cruisers which could outstrip any ship in the world, being considerably larger than any of the battleships in existence. Ti writer deplores the attention ! ■ ;i::, focussed on so-called labour trouble on the Clyde. He points out that work goes on in long shifts unceasingly.