ESCAPE OF THE KARLSRUHE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2266, 28 September 1914, Page 7

ESCAPE OF THE KARLSRUHE

FOUND COALING FROM KRONPRINZ WILHELM | New, York, August 14. Tho British cruiser Suffolk, flagship of Admiral Sir Christopher Oradock, on arriving at Halifax yesterday for coal, brought'another version of the engagement last Friday between the " British cruiser Berwick and the Gorman cruiser Karlsruhe. Officers of tho Suffolk say that shots were exchanged as tho two fighting ship's raced through the sea. No damage" was done to tho Borwick, and it is admitted that tho Karlsruhe when last seen was going at a rato which indicated that she had not been injured. Early on Friday morning tlio Suffolk name upon tho IJarlsruho l as sno was beginning to , take coal from tho Kronprinz Wilhelm, tho North German Lloyd linor, which slipped out of New York Harbour on the night of August 3j When tho Suffolk was sighted by the Gorman liner*'the-latter separated from the cruiser, left some of her boats behind, and dashed away to safety. The Karlsruhe was also quick to get away. The Suffolk took up the chase, and "from eloven o'clock in tho morning until five in tho evening the two cruisers raced across the open sea, the German gradually pulling away until finally

those aboard the Suffolk could seo only tho 6tuoke from her funnels ns sho fell below, the'horizon. , Meanwhile tho wireless ' aboard the Suffolk was sending a message to the distant Berwick, and sho, coming in'the opposite direction, headed off the Karlsruhe, and forced ' her to change her course. The Berwick worked in toward her, and sovoral shots wore exchanged, but thero was no hit, and tho Karlsruhe" widened tho distance between the two until the .Berwick turned about and gave lip the chase.—Now York '.'Evening Post."

DODGED GERMAN CRUISERS . CANADIAN PACIFIC LINER ARRIVES AT YOKOHAMA, •'.■'■■ Yokohama, August 18. Tho Canadian Pacific Railway liner Empress of Russia, recently taken over by the British Government, and ordered delivered to the British naval authorities/at Honkkong, arrived from Vancouver to-day'. ■ The steamship dodged two German cruisers, crossing tho Pacific with her lights extinguished.—New York "Post."