NAVAL ACTIVITY IN THE BALTIC
A DAILY CANNONADE .. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Copenhagen July 25. Naval activity is noticeable in the Baltic. Cannonading is heard every day, and patrolling squadrons Of torpedo boats and submarines are' constantly seen. THE CHANNEL PATROL NOT A SINGLE TRANSPORT LOST. London, July 25. Vice-Admiral Sir R. E. S. Bacon's dispatch covering the operations of the Dover patrol during the six months to the end o£ May, states that 21,000 merchant ships' passed tho .patrol, out of which the enemy sank or damaged twenty-one. Four per cent, of the patrol vessels were sunk, with the loss of 77 lives. "Not a singlo life was lost in the transport of troops across the Channel." "The activities of the submarines operating from Belgium aro much reduced. Wo have destroyed several submarines, and one surface vessel'.'
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2834, 27 July 1916, Page 5
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