IN THE BLACK SEA

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 93, 16 October 1914, Page 7

IN THE BLACK SEA

CRUISER GOEBEN ACTIVE THREATENED RAID ON RUSSIAN" COAST. ROME, 14th October. A Constantinople telegram states, that the commander of the battle-cruiser Goeben aims at attacking the Russian Black Sea fleet, and threatens a raid on the Russian coast. [Yesterday it was stated that a Tnrkish battleship, believed to be the Goeben, and four cruisers, had been sighted off the Bulgarian port of Varna, in the Black Sea. The Goeben is the German boat which sought refuge in the Black Sea — and was later supposed to have been purchased by Turkey. Russia has five battleship and four cruisers in the Black Sea.] HEAVY CANNONADING HEARD\ ROME, 15th October. A message from Bucharest states that heavy cannonading was heard all Wednesday off Constanza. It is believed that the Goeben and Breslau were fighting the Russian fleet. [Constanza, or Kustendji, a seaport in the Dobrrfdja, Rumania, stands on the Black Sea, at the end of Trajan's Wall and of the railway to Tchernavoda, on the Danube. It is. about 100 miles north of Varna. The population is, approximately, 23,000.] OFFICERS AND CREWS OF THE GOEBEN AND BRESLAU. EIGHT-FIVE PER CENTUM 'ARE GERMANS. (TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.) (Received October 16, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 15th October. It is stated that eighty-five per centum of the pfficers and crews of the Goeben and Breslau are Germans, most of them retaining their German uniforms. More j German artificers and gunners arrived aboard on Monday. LADIES OF BRITISH EMBASSY TO LEAVE CONSTANTINOPLE THE HAGUE, 14h October. The Frankfurter Zeitung states that Sir Louis Mallet, British Ambassador to Turkey, has requested the ladies of the Embassy to leave Constantinople. ONE OF MR. ASQUITH'S SONS IN THE TRENCHES. (Received October 16, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 15th October. The Daily Express states that Mr. Arthur Asquith, one of the Premier's sons, accompanied the Naval Brigade and fought in the Antwerp trenches. 1