Next, We Must Record The Splendid And Successful Dash Made
by the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamship Ortega,' of eight thousand tons, to escape a German cruiser. The Ortega,' which had three hundred French Reservists on board,......
Meanwhile, Even At The Risk Of Injuring Recruiting, We Are
bound in the interests of truth to point out that every week that passes makes it more and more certain that if the raiders come they will get a good deal more than they bargain......
News From The Polish Theatre Of The War Is Not
this week so good as last. There is, however, no mystery about what has happened. The Germans were being hunted west by the central Russian Army—the Army which has Warsaw in its......
Heaven Forbid That We Should Seem To Preach To The
Navy a policy of mere defence, or seem to suggest for a moment the lowering of the signal: " Engage the enemy more closely." In the last resort action is essential for the......
During The Past Week A German Raid Was Generally Expected,
and is still expected and in accordance with that belief, all the necessary precautions have been taken. Whether the Germans ever intended or now intend a raid it is, of coarse,......
A Very Satisfactory Piece Of Russian News Is The Account
of a fight between the Russian Black Sea squadron and the Goeben ' and ' Breslau,' which is recorded in Friday's papers On Wednesday the Russian squadron, which had been......
There Are Several Interesting Minor Naval Matters To...
is good reason to believe that since we last wrote three of the enemy's submarines have perished in the North Sea, two at the hands of British ships and one owing to the skilful......
Though We Gladly Acknowledge This, We Shall Not, Out Of
any false generosity or excess of zeal, fail in our duty of reminding the Government, Lord Kitchener, and the country that not only are we not getting the men we require in......
The Naval Situation In Home Waters Remains Unchanged....
Vigilance, Patience and Vigilance, Patience and Vigilance," must still be the motto of the Navy, and nobly it is acting up to it. Though the sailors' physical sufferings are, of......
The Action, We Are Told, Lasted Fourteen Minutes, After...
the Goebel)? which was very much faster than the Russian Fleet, disappeared in the mist. The Breslau,' it appears, did not take part in the action, but kept in the offing. The......