On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 306, 24 December 1914, Page 5

On the Sea

VON TIRPITZ KNOWS! United Press Association Amsterdam, December 23. A semi-official agency circulates an interview with Grand-Admiral Von Tirpitz, in supreme command of the I German navy, in which he stated that I the duration of the war depended on • England. Questioned as to whether j the German fleet would come out to i attack the English, he replied: “Can you expect our fleet, which is only one third of the English, to come out and allow the English to deliver its deathblow?” Admiral Tirpitz believed that the use of submarines against English merchantmen would be more effective than and Zeppelin raid. OUR TRUST IN THE NAVY. London, December 23. The Lokal Anzeiger says the English are trembling more and more at every thought of a German invasion, and that there is the utmost mistrust of the navy and its controllers. ANCIENT HISTORY. London, December 23.

The Viennese newspaper Die Zeit publishes a German sailor’s letter, describing the raid on Yarmouth. This indicates that either the Seydlitz or the Moltke carried out the raid. The vessel started at 6 o’clock in the evening. The crew were at the guns all night, and they reached the coast at 8 o’clock next morning without sighting the enemy’s ships. The vessel was unable to get close owing to' mines, but the main object of the raid was gained by enabling the smaller cruisers to strew English waters with mines.

BOTTLING UP THE KONICSBERC.

London, December 23

The crew of the British steamer Newbridge, which has returned to Shields, state that vessels belonging to the East Indian and Mediterranean Squadron caught the Somali, which accompanied the' Konigsberg on her raiding expeditions, and sunk her at the mouth of the Rufigi river. The Britishers then took the Newbridge and another vessel, and sunk them across the channel, completely bottling up the Konigsberg.

THE FIGHT OFF CHILE.

London. December. 22

A member of the Glasgow’s crew states that Admiral Craddock’s last message to the Glasgow was: “Get away at full speed.” The Monmouth’s captain signalled: “I can’t get away, because the ship is making water rapidly, so I will go back and engage the enemy,' apd try to ram or torpedo one.”

The Glasgow at one period received the concentrated fire of five German guns. The rolling of the ship saved her being riddled.

MINED OFF YORKSHIRE COAST.

London, December 23.

The Norwegian steamer Boston, timber ladexl, for London, was mined off Filey, on the Yorkshire coast. The crew landed.

CHANCES IN THE NAVY CONTROL AT THE NORE.

(Received 8.50 a.m.) London, December 23

Admiral Sir George A. Callaghan, G.C.V.0., Oommander-in-Chief of the First Fleet, succeeds Admiral Sir Richard Poore, K.C.8., as commander-in-chief at the Nore.

(In the July naval manoeuvres of 11)14 Admiral Sir Geo. Callaghan commanded the Blue, or defending fleet, being attacked by the Red fleet, under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, the decision on that occasion being that the defending fleet was unable to prevent raids on a large scale, or to destroy the attacking fleet, notwithstanding the Blue’s great superiority).