On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 28, 29 December 1917, Page 5

On the Sea

BUILDING U-BOATS. GERMANY'S NEW EFFORT. Press Association —Copyright. Published in "The Times." London, December 16. "111x0 Times" correispondejat at Amsterdam states that Germany has established a special department of the navy to expedite TT-boat construction. 'Admiral von Tirpitz, speaking at Hamburg, stated that the pretext that Germany would be unable to coerce Britain and America collapsed in view of, the decline of the archenemy's shipping. Victory was only a question of keeping cool. Besides Antwerp and Flanders the Germans must secure Boulogne. He warned them to remembers the Channel tunnel menace.

DARE NOT COME OUT. CHALLENGE TO GERMAN FLEET. Press Association—Copyright. Reuter's Service. I London, December 16. . A Paris message quotes a state-; ment of M. Leygues, Minister for Ma-| rine, in which he says that Germany dare not challenge the Allied Fleet.' Each time her fleet had come out the British had severely chastised it for its temerity. j M. Leygues is of the opinion that the German crews are not so good or enterprising as they were at the be-.j ginning of the war, and their ' nmui-j tions seem inferior. However, bo would not draw too optimistic conclusions from that. . JAPANESE STEAMER SUNK. London, December 27. A Spanish steamer brought part of ; the crew of the Japanese steamer Mayori Maru, which was submarined off Spain on October 20 while en route from Kobe to Marseilles with a cargcv of rice. Two submarines shelled the steamer and killed a fireman. The crew of forty escaped, the steamer being sunk. The crew were picked up by a French transport and taken to Bakar. FIVE NORWEGIAN VESSELS SUNK. LOSS OF THIRTY LIVES. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received 10.25 a.m.) Copenhagen, December 28. Submarines sank five Norwegian steamers, killing thirty men.