THE FIGHTING SHIPS ON THE HIGH SEAS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2315, 24 November 1914, Page 5

THE FIGHTING SHIPS ON THE HIGH SEAS

NEWS OF GERMAN PACIFIC SQUADRON OTHER RAIDERS REPORTED TO HAVE! LEFT THE KIEL CANAL (Reo. November 23, 7 p.m.) Santiago de Chile, November 22. The steamer Sacramento, which has arrived at .Valparaiso, reports that she was seized by German warships, t-aken to the island of Juan Fernandez, a obliged,to transfer her cargo of 6000 tons of coal. The Chilean authorities are investigating the affair. The American authorities bad previously detained the Sacramento while passing San Francisco, as they ware not satisfied as to the destination of the cargo, and questioned the vessel's transfer to American registry. She was eventually allowed to proceed. • . The Sacramento brought to Valparaiso the crew of the French' barque Valentina, which wa3 sunk by. th© German cruiser Dresden. REPORTED MOVEMENTS OF GERMAN CRUISERS. (R-ec. November 23, 7 p.m.) . , ,• London, November 22. Daily.. Mail's" correspondent at Copenhagen reports that the cruiser Berlin is bound from Wilhelmshaven for Iceland, and thence to the south to attack British trans-Atlantic liners, and that another cruiser :is reported to be going to Iceland with the same object. 1 It is understood that the Berlin is equipped for mine-strewing-in the Atlantic routes, and also for provisioning depots suitable for submarines at an uninhabited Norwegian inland. A British naval officer writes:—"We have long evening!!, but are always ready to move. German submarines are outside even now. lr, is funny whence they get information of our movements. They knew where the fleet was when ; we were at Devonport, and we did not know ourselves."