On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 44, 8 October 1914, Page 5

On the Sea

THE INVERCARRY. FEARS FOR THE SAFETY OF COAL-LADEN BARQUE. V-' . United Press Association. (Received 10.4 a.m.) Sydney, October 8. Fears are entertained for the coalladen barque Invergarry, which left Newcastle for San Francisco on June 2nd and has net been heard of since. DESTROYER SUNK. mystery of the destruction OF A GERMAN VESSEL. (Received 10.4 a.m.) The Hague, October 7. A German destroyer was sunk off Schiermonnikoog Island. The Central News Agency states that it was caused hy a British submarine. Reuter mentions the presence of two German submarines, which were either assisting or were possibly the cause of the accident. MOVEMENT OF GERMANS TOWARDS LILLE. (Received 9.20 a.m.) Ostond, October 7. A column of 20,000 German horse and foot artillery, with the commissariat and convoy traversed Tompleuve towards Lillo. THE STOLEN SUBMARINE. ARRIVAL OF THE SUBMARINE AT BABTIA. Pam, October 6. The Central Nows' Rome correspondent reports that the Minister for Marine has been advised of the arrival of Captain Belloni with the submarine at Bastia, a-fortified town in the north-east of Corsica. DISCOVERY OF OIL IN AN INNO-CENT-LOOKING VESSEL. London, October 6. The Scotsman reports that when Customs officials were searching an innocent-looking neutral vessel on her entering a port in Scotland, they discovered large stores of oil fuel hidden under the rope coils. It is believed the vessel was engaged in supplying the German submarines which have been operating in the North Sea. BRITISH DESTROYERS. _ GERMANS WOULD NOT HURT A FLY! (Received 10.20 a.m.) London, October 7. The Vossische Zeitung states that the Germans remained a fortnight in Compeigne without damaging the town, while the British destroyed beautfiul stone quarries. SHELLING THE BRESLAU. THE GALLANT GLOUCESTER’S EXCITING CHASE. Fremantle, September 30. The latest files of English papers contain the story of a grand attempt of the small British cruiser Gloucester, to engage the Goeben and Breslau in the Mediterranean. The German cruisers raced away to the Dardanelles, but the Breslau bore marks of the Gloucester’s guns. A wireless operator on the Gloucester has now sent homo an account of the chase in a letter to his mother, at West Hartlepool. ‘‘The Gloucester,” he says, “opened fire upon the Breslau, but her first shot fell short. The Breslau replied with thirty shots, of which only two took effect, two of the Gloucester’s boats being smashed on their davits. After the first shot our lads v arc quite cool,” adds the writer, “and they kept firing as quickly as possible. One chap nearly swallowed his chew of ‘baccy* when the first shot fell short. The next one dropped on the foredock, and it took half the Breslau’s funnel away. He repeated the operation at the next shot, which cleared the Breslau’s quarter-deck, and put her aft gun out of action. Then he began to smile.”