NAVAL OPERATIONS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2231, 18 August 1914, Page 5

NAVAL OPERATIONS

HOW -THE GOEBEN ESCAPED BRITISH CONVOYING TROOPS Malta, August IS. British ships were guarding the transport .of the French army corps from Algeria, which accounts for the escape ot the Goeben and Breslau. When transport was completed the Britishers hunted and searched among the Cyclades and Sporadese Islands. Tho big ships failed to locate them, though the Gloucester and somo destroyers got into. touch and attempted to bring them into action. . , ■ Tho Germans, thinking the whole fleot were at their heels, fled to tho Dardanelles.

Paris, August IG. The "Echo do Paris" states that Britain demanded, before 'discussing tho Goeben-Brcslau incident, that Turkey should land tho German crews, disarm the vessels, and place Turkish crews aboard under English instructors. TURKS ACT ARBITRARILY. (Eec. August 18, 0.10. a.m.) Constantinople, August 17. The Turks are acting arbitrarily at the Dardanelles in detaining Entente vessels without explanation. The newspapers pablUh 'bitter nntiBritith articles. / - The Turks at Smyrna have seized the property of British subjects. GERMANY'S EASTERN SQUADRON. . . 1 IS IT CORNEEED? Peking, August 14. It is stated that the British warships have cornered the German squadron. Coastal shipping which has been in the harbours has resumed, trading—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) FRENCH LINER CHASED. ESCAPES LN A FOG. „,, ~ . _ ■• Paris, August 16. .the liner Lorraine has arrived at Havre with 450 reservists. She was chased off tho American coast/by the German cruiser Dresden. Sho intercepted messages between the German cruisers Strasburg and Karlsruhe, which were awaiting her, but she.escaped in a fc?. The Dresden is a third-clajs cruiser of Sail tons, completed in 1908: Her main armament consists of twelve i.lin. guns and two submerged 18in. tornedo tubes, one -has a speed of .27 knots Thei Strasbiirg is a slightly' larger vessel with the same armament and speed. The German third-olass protected cruiser Karlsruhe, 4900 tons, twelve 4in. guns, ,27 knots, was the vessel which was chared and daniagod by H.M.S. Bristol and Suffolk on Thursday, August 13, in the Atlantic. PIONEER TAKES A PRIZE'. GERMAN SHIP BROUGHT INTO POET. . . Sydney,. August 17. A prize crew from the warship Pioneer has brought the German-Australian-steamer Noumunster, en route from Antwerp to Australia with a general cargo, into Fromuntle. Prize Courts are being established in tho various States to deal with the casos of seized ships. , ' H.M A.S. Pioneer i£ a light cruiser of 2200 tons built in 1900. She carries eight 4in. guns and eleven 3-pounders and has a speed of 20 knots. Before she was' attached to the Australian navy the Pioneer was drill-ship on the New Zealand station and has. frequently visited Wellington. ■ I ' The Neumunster is a steel ■ screw steamer of 4221 tons built in 1907 and owned by the German-Australian line of Hamburg. GERMANS SHELL A LIGHTHOUSE. St. Petersburg, August 16. . German cruisers' shelled the Dagerot Lighthouse in the Baltic, but no 'damago was done. ■ ■ • 1