GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 84, 6 November 1916, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITISH CIFT OF SUBMARINES TO CHILI.

Press Association—Copyright,, Anstra lian and N.Z. Cable Association. Santiago, November «5. Britain is giving Chili, live Ameri-mn-built submarines as compensatioii tor the delay in delivery v oi" (J J^reatl^

longhts contracted for by Chili 'in England.

HURRICANE OFF IRELAND.

STEAMERS IN COLLISION.

OVER NINETY LIVES LOST, u fccuiial i\iiin

Press Association- -Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, November 4. Wreckage from five ships has been washed ashore from the Bristol Channel.

Shortly after leaving for Holyhead, in a heavy gale, the North-Western Railway Company's steamer Connemarra collided with the steamer Retriever outside Carlingford bar. Roth vessels sank, and only one survivor is yet reported. Many bodies have teen washed ashore on the County Down coast. The Connemarra carried 51 passengers and 80 of a crew. It is believed that all have perished. The whole of the Retriever's crew of thirteen, with one exception, were drowned. It was impossible to launch boats , owing to the hurricane. The sole survivor of the Retri.'ver I is a seaman, who drifted ashore on I iin upturned boat. He states that the • Retriever was unmanageable v in the i rale and rammed the Connemara. i fhe tatter's crew numbered thirty, '. lot eighty. Slie had a large cago of loi'ses and cattle. ! Forty-three bodies have bsen ie- , covered.