On the Sea.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 313, 12 June 1915, Page 5

On the Sea.

TORPEDO BOAT LOST. n 1- mv<) SUNK BY SUBMARINE. ; ' n „. . . , ~ London, June ]o. - Oilicial: A ( en,,;,,! submarine .sunk i torpedo boat, numbers la and 12, which y wen, on the Kast Coagt _ i *orty-one survivors wore landed i- (Torpedo boats are not built' now ■s their pmcc having .been taken by de[i Btroy.'i* \uinbers 10 and 12 'were lauMWd in KKW-7. Th , y ],av.e. a dis . placement of about 250 tons and a speed of 27 or 28 knots.) TOLL OF THE SUBMARINE. MERCHANT VESSELS SUNK. London, June ■lo'. A German submarine, after firm* five 1 shots, sank the •Grimsby trawler Vc- ! locity. The crew were -in a small boat ' for fifty-two hours without watier or . food and were terribly exhausted "when ' picked up.' The steamer 'Erneboldt was torpedoed offflarwich. The crew were landed. Tuns trawler Saturn was torpedoed and ' the crew landed at North Shields. ' Amsterdam, June 10. A Dutch steamer arrived with the crews of two Lowestoft fishing boats torpedoed in the North Sea. London. June 10. A British cruiser in the Straits of Gibraltar arrested on board an Italian steamer the captain of the Prinz Eitel Friedrich disguised as a cook. MORE VESSELS SUNK. / .MANY TRAWLERS LOST. Received June 12, 1.25 a.m. London, June 11. The steamer Athcarron, coal laden from Barry, was sunk by a submarine without notice. The crew was saved. The schooner Express was sunk by a subiiiariii". The crew was landed in Norway. A.submarine sank two trawlers and chased a third for twelve miles until a patrol boat appeared, and the pursuit was precipitately abandoned. All the crews were saved. Submarines in tue past four days have sunk seven Lowestoft trawlers. GERMAN SUBMARINES DAMAGED. ! TWO ARRIVE AT LID3AU. Received June 11, 11.5 p.m. London, June 11. Copenhagen declares that two German 'submarines, severely damaged, have ar- ' rived at Libau. THE BRITISH NAVY. WILY THERE ARE NO ACTIONS. London, June 1-0. Commander Carlyon Bellairs, who was a member of Parliament from IflOfi till 1010, replying to the criticisms' of the United States papers on t'.ic inactivity of the Rritiish navy, said: "The man who wrote them ought to procure a chart and study it even for a few minutea with an American naval officer at his elbow. Then be might learn a lot. Cuxhaven and Kiel are hidden behind miles of heavily mined sandbanks and the breakwater. At Heligoland tbcre are onlj{ a few German torpedo boats and submarines. In naval warfare one goes by probabilities, not possibilities. A British submarine would not *iave one chance in a million of getting beyond the stone walls where the Germans bide the fleet. It is not u qucs- . tion of initiative; what our marines have done in scouting around Ileligo- , land and the Dardanelles proves this. ( It is just a question of common-sense , tactics. The German fleet only has to come to sea and leave its stone fortress for a few hours to get all the trouble it . will ever be able to se,eli." j i