1915, air raid, artillery, Belgium, casualties, Defence of the Realm, E. G. Riggall, English Channel, France, Germany, Great Britain, Groningen, HMS Clan McNaughton, Hon. Desmond O'Brien, Imperial German Navy, law, Les Eparges, merchant navy, merchant shipping, Meuse, missing, Netherlands, Ostend, prisoners of war, Robert Jeffreys, Roy Parana, Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Navy, sinking, SM U-8, SS Carib, SS Harpalion, submarine, Thomas Spencer, torpedo-boat
The Harpalion and the Roy Parana torpedoed in the Channel. Loss reported of another United States ship, the Carib, by a mine off the German coast. H.M.S. Clan McNaughton, armed merchant cruiser (Commander Robert Jeffreys, R.N.), missing since February 3, and it is feared she has been lost. The Admiralty announce that three of the British airmen who made the raid on Ostend on February 16 are missing. They are Flight Lieutenants E. G. Riggall and the Hon. D. O’Brien and Flight Sub-Lieutenant T. Spencer. Another, Flight-Lieutenant D. Murray, was also missing, but is now known to be interned at Groningen, having been rescued from the sea by a Dutch torpedo-boat. French artillery successes on the Meuse and fighting at Les Eparges, in which the German casualties are said to have reached 3,000. Second reading in the Commons of Bill for the amendment of the Defence of the Realm Act by restoring to British subjects their right to be tried by a civil Court with a jury.