On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 34, 26 September 1914, Page 5

On the Sea

RESULT OF MIME-LAYING.

THREE AUSTRIAN VESSELS LOST IN THE ADRIATIC.

[United Press Association.] Milan, September 24.

Advices from Trieste state that t wo tqrpedoers of the Austrian high sea fleet and an Austrian destroyer struck mines off the coast of Dalmatia, and sank. The fate of the crews is unknown. BOMBARDMENT OF MADRAS

FHE EM OEM’S NIGHT ATTACK ON MADRAS.

Calcutta, September 24

Official.—The Emden arrived off 31 a dras on the night of the 23rd and fired nine shots. The first hit the Burma Oil Company’s tanks, igniting them. Two other buildings were struck, butwere undamaged. Three Indians were killed. When our guns replied the Emden ceased firing, extiguished her lights, and departed. The affair lasted 15 minutes.

DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £20,000

(Received 8.55 a.m.) - Bombay, September 25. After the bombardment of Madras, it is estimated that the damago amounts to £20,000. The population behaved admirably, and there was an entire absence of nanic. INDIA COMPANY’S STEAMER IN THE LINE OF FIRE. EIGHT OFFICERS INJURED

(Received 9.50 a.m.) Delhi, September 2i During the bombardment of Made i a British India Co’s, steamer cam•;to the line of fire and eight, officers ..ere injured.

Shells fell inland as far as Veperey spurtank and Shoolay.

BOMBARDMENT OF LISSA BY THE FRENCH FLEET.

(Received 9.50 a.m.) Rome, September 25

It is -officially admitted in Yienna iiat the French fleet bombarded Lissa ,nd did some damage.

/m THE SOUTH ATLANTIC.

KRONPRINZ WILHELM SINKS STEAMER INDIAN PRINCE.

(Reecived 8.55 a.m.)

Rio de Janeiro, September 24

The cruiser Kronprinz "Wilhelm sank the steamer Indian Prince. The crew were landed at Santos, the capital of Southern Brazil.

DESTRUCTION OF THE BRITISH CRUISERS.

London, September 24. Despatches indicate that the Cressy alone saw the submarines in time to attempt to retaliate. An officer said it was satisfactory to know that the Germans }mve destroyed only three comparatively obsolete vessels, which were shortly destined to he scrapped. They were 'manned by scratch crews, who had only been together for six weeks. The hardest thing was the fate of the cadets. Many were only fifteen years old, but they acted as coolly as the old hands. Twenty-four men were saved after clinging for hours to a target which had floated off the Hogue’s deck. The Titan’s captain, ignoring risks, cruised for hours about the scene of the disaster, and rescued many exhausted men. Some of the submarines came to the surface, and their crews, from the conning-towers, jeered the drowning Britishers.

Five Germans from the wrecked su’ marine were saved.

TOTAL LOSS 1368.

The High Commissioner reports under date London, September 25th, 12.50 p.m. : The Admiralty announce that the following petty officers and men were saved: From the Hogue 354, Aboukir 235. Cressy 188.