30 JANUARY 1915, Page 15

The British merchant steamer ' Durward,' from Leith to Rotterdam,

was torpedoed by the German submarine ' U19' on Thursday week, thirteen miles off the Maas lightship. The submarine took off the crew of the • Durward' before sinking her, and towed them in their boats to the lightship. German submarines some weeks before had sunk two British merchant- men in French waters, These triumphs of illegality have thus been on the further side of the North Sea or the ChanneL Admiral von Tirpitz evidently means to do what he can— though it will be very little—towards carrying out his policy of destroying British trade "by torpedoing every English and Allied ship which approaches the British coasts."