Evening star., 1915-02-19
NEUTRAL VESSEL
SENT TO BOTTOM
OF SEA BY MINE
Norwegian Ship Founders and
Lifeboat of Spanish
Carrier Is Found.
FRENCH STEAMER HIT
BY TORPEDO OFF DIEPPE
Zeppelins Are Used by Germans in
Carrying Out Blockade
of England.
DUTCH CRAFT HALTED BY ONE
Assurance Is Given That Food Car
goes for Relief of Belgium
Will Not Be Mo
Tested.

Tested.
LONDON, February Io.-With
Germany bending every effort to
inforce her avowed blockade of
British waters comes announce
ments OF loss and damage to neu-
trails merchant vessels from tor
pedoes and mines. The Nor
wegian steamer Nordcap has
been sent to the bottom, it is de-
clared. while the Spanish steamer
IIoracio is believed to have SUI
fered like fate. A German sub
marine torpedoed the French
steamer Dinorah without warm
ing this morning.
The Norwegian tank steamer
Belridge, which sailed from New
Orleans January 2S and Newport
News February s., for Amsterdam,
struck mine today off Dover.
The vessel was only slightly dam
aged by the explosion. and she
probably will finish her voyage to
the Dutch port.
All England Is Stirred.
All England is stirred by the present
declarations that channel sailings would
not be curtailed. preparations are be-
. ing made looking toward this end. A
dreaded expectation seems to pervade
the nation. that if the neutrals persist
in sending their vessels through the
sea war zone, American, as we'll as
ships of other neutral nations, will be
destroyed. With this fear there comes
the demand from all sources that the
British admiralty act with decision to
rid surrounding waters Of the foe
The French steamer Dinorah was
proceeding from Havre for Dunkirk,
and at apoint sixteen miles OFF Dieppe
German submarine fired torpedo. 1t
struck the Dinorah with loud explo-
sion, but the Dinorah did not sink. she
is made of the loss of any of her crew.
Pumping Saves Vessel.
A plate on the port side of the Di-
norah below the water line was stove
n by the torpedo. Nevertheless the Di-
norah managed to keep afloat by hard
pumping. Word of the occurrence was
taken into Dieppe by fishing boats,
and assistance for the Dinorah was
promptly sent out She was towed into
port, and her cargo will be discharged
here The presence of German sub
marine off Cape ALLY was reported
four days ago. The daily steam traffic
service between "Dieppe and England
has been suspended.
Norwegian Vessel Sunk.
The Norwegian steamer Nordcap, ac-
cording to the Exchange Telegraph
Company's Copenhagen correspondent,
struck a German mine IN the Baltic
and foundered. All her crew perished.
The Nordcap was a steamer of thirty
two tons and was owned by Wrangell
& Company of Hangesend.
The crews of one Danish and three
Norwegian ships at Aarbuus. Denmark,
refused today to sail for England and
left then ships
Mfeboat was picked up early this
morning on Goodwin sands. 1t belonged
to the Spanish steamer Horacio which
left Bilbao a week ago for Hartlepool
The Horacio is overdue and it is feared
that she is the victim of German mine
or torpedo.
Kaiser Directing Blockade.
Emperor William, with his brother. Ad
iniral Prince Henry Of Prussia and AS-
Iniral Won Tirpitz, the minister of the
navy, and their respective STATS, is Wis
sting wtlhelmshaver. Helgoland, and
"ther naval stations 10 direct the block
sde Of England
II Is reported that the Germans have
built 129 big mine laying submarines
during the last six months, each with a
carving capacity of over one hundred
mines
zeppelins Used as Patrols.
A dispatch to the Daily Express from
Rotterdam describes how Zeppelins are
being employed in patrol operations
along transportation lanes II saws the
Dutch steamer Helena last TUESDAY
was cverhauled i'll the North sea bv
zeppelin Il. which trained her guns on
the steamer and ordered her 10 beave
10 When satisfied Of the Helena,s
identity the captain of the Zeppelin
@pologlzed and reascended with his
craft.
The Zeppelin airships presym. b,v are
watching for food-laden craft moving
toward England The hsItins of the
Dutch steamer Helena by Zeppelin
lowering over her mastheads gives a
new role to dirigible aircraft which so
far during this war nave done little on
land or sea to Justify their tnainte-
nance
Adriatic Reaches England.
The White Star steamer Adrfstic
which arrived az Liverpool this after
noon from New York after an uneyept
full trip, few the British flag all the
way across the Atlantic. The Adriattc
crossed the Irish sea at night
No Immediate news from the subnas-
rine campaign against Great Britain
- expected in German naval circles in