LONG-LAID WAR PLANS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2264, 25 September 1914, Page 6

LONG-LAID WAR PLANS

jv GERMANY PREPARING ON !{;;-."':' r -y. ■: ———.;. ■■•.'■"'.■ ': ' ' : p.v ' (Rec. 'September 24,7.50 p.m.) ' f- "•■■''' ,. :-v -;' • ' London, September 23. /' Th'e'«steamer Baden (? Badenia) was ■"■. '..acting- as tender U» the German cruiser' ■•'.■■•'.- Dresden when the Holmwood was sunk. •'-."■'; She cleared Cardiff'with another.Ham- )■: ■hiirg-Americaii liner with coal on July ; :V/ 20, and-proceeded to Las Palnias, and : - there, awaited, the .German cruisers and '.;■ :'• the-;."declaration."-.'of war. i Never under ;.'. ..normal /conditions did. she carry coal. '-. ■■':' The! vessels were chartered a -week beSiiV'."'. fore-July;2o to act as'tenders to German j: cruisers in the" war, which Germany had h'/■■' determined,'on before Austria" delivered p, ;.:v. her ultimatum tcServia;. F;:J' V Tie"Adrian ultimatum to Serviawas V? July 23 .and expired- on !; "July.'2s. The assassination of the.ArchK:')duke/Francis Ferdinand'" took/ place r-' '■':; three-Woks'/before: the /ultimatum- -was ; .v"-'.' delivered,;,andtho. German; preparations ;L-:. for war would,thus hare -begun about v: ;; .; a fortnight.after that'ev'ent./ '.". .;. % "- : :' v : The Badenia is.a;yessel 0f'6930 tons, -'''r ! belonging'-'to' the":Hamburg-America i:; : Line, and built'in 1902. -The Holmwood, '' v : 4220 -ton'sj is a new ship built two years %-'\ ago for/Mr: F./S. Holland; of London. 1 i.■■■■'"No-report '. of.-:the. sinking of the; Holm;:;'.wood has previously come to hand. ■... ; i'.; : The' Dresden is one of the three Ger-, ;:„;", man warships reported in the .West-. ■W' -Atlantic 6ince the'outbreak of; war; the ■■', ■'■''■■others-;being the - ; Karlsruhe and ■■; the ;' : : .■•■"Strassburg..-■ The .Dresden .has.a ,disfc/ placement' of 3544' tons,--carries twelve '■"•' i.l-in/. guns,. and steams at about 27 '." ■■ V. -