On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 73, 24 October 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

)GERMAN CRUISER TORPEDOED. Press Association— Copyright, Australian and 'N.Z. Cable Association. London, October 22. Tho Admiralty reports that a submarine torpedoed the Arnan, a light cruiser of the Kolberg class, in the North Sea on Thursday. The cruiser was last seen steaming slowly homewards under difficulties. (The Kolberg class arc boats of 4200 tons, with a speed of 25 knots, and carrying twelve 4.1 in. guns). numerous steamers sunk. ’ Stockholm, October 22. The Swedish ’ steamer Algseld has been sunk, and eight persons' have perished. Christiania, October 22. Three Norwegian steamers and three sailors have been submarined | and sunk. 'The crews were usually given ten minutes to take to the I boats. Norwegian torpedoers were 1 active rescuing the crews. GERMAN COMMANDER’S BOAST. Stockholm, October 23. A German submarine commander, when setting fire to the Swedish schooner Greta, boasted that three hundred submarines were preventing traffic with England. NORWAY’S SUBMARINE POLICY. Copenhagen, October 22. Germany has presented a Note to Norway protesting against the prohibition regarding submarines. The contents of the Note hag not been repealed, hut the Norwegian Aftenposten’s correspondent interviewed Herr Zimmerman, the German' Foreign Under-Secretary, who said the Note was serious, and that Norway’s conduct cquflicted with the Hague convention concerning tho simplest demands of neutrality. Meanwhile, submarines continue their operations off the Norwegian coasts.