On the Sea.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1915, Page 5

On the Sea.

SUBMARINE WAR RENEWED. A NUMBER. OF CASUALTIES. Received July 20, S.:)f> p.m. London, July 2(i. The steamer Firth, from France to the Firth of Forth, was torpedoed in the North Sea.~ Six of the crew landed at Ixiwestoft, and reported that four had been killed bv the explosion. The Admiralty reports that the trawler Briton bus been lost. The skipper was killed, five of the crew are reported drowned, and two have been sent to hospital at Lowestoft The Grimsby trawler Perseus has been mined and sunk. Three of live crew were picked up dead.

ALL FLAMM. EXPLANATION OF LI'SITASI A CM.UK. Amsterdam, duly 2.1. The Vossichc Zeitung imblishcs an outrageous theory about the loas of the Lusitania. I>y Professor Hamm. 'Die professor says that Captain Turner and the Admiralty purposely invited attack and assisted the submarine by following the usual course in daylight at reduced speed, lie adds that the second explosion could only have been t!*' result of the intention to sink the ship I>y some person on board.

IU'SSTAX COLLIRI! SUNK. London, duly '23. A submarine sank the Russian collier llubonia. hound from Cardiff for Russia, between tl»e Oiikne'ys and Fair Isle. The crew of thirty reached Orkney in their own boats, TRAWLERS LOST. London, duly 2.1. An Aberdeen trawler was submarined in the Xorth Sea. The crew landed at Stroiiuiess. Four Lowestoft trawlers have been submarined in the North Sea. The crews landed.