RAMMED AND SUNK BY BRITISH'PATROL VESSEL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2316, 25 November 1914, Page 5

RAMMED AND SUNK BY BRITISH'PATROL VESSEL

GERMAN SUBMARINE OFF SCOTTISH COAST • . London, November 23. Official. —A British patrol vessel rammed an<l eunk a German submarine off the Scottish coast. The British rescued the crew. i . (Rec. November 24, 10.20 p.m.)' London, November 24. The German submarine TJIB was detected off the North of Scotland during the morning, and the patrol vessel 1 reported the Tamming at noon. The submarine was not sighted again for an hour, when the crow were seen on deck, flying a. white flag. The destroyer Garry came alongside* as the ' submarine foundered, and rescued three of the officers and twenty-three of the crew. One was drowned. The US— : TJ2I olass of German submarine torpedo boats are of 800 tons, 17 to 18 knots, and carry two guns. GERMAN DESTROYER SUNK IN COLLISION, Copenhagen, November 23. 'A 1 Danish! steamer collided with the German destroyer 5124, which' foundered. All the crew were lost. ' (Rec. November 24, 10.20 p.m.) Copenhagen,; November 24. Tlie destroyer 5124 was steaming at full speed off the island of Falster, with lights out, when the Anglo-Dane rammed her amidships. German tor-pedo-boats rescued most of the crew. ; ■ The destroyer 5124. waß a vessel of 420 tons and 28 knots Bpeed, s.rmed %.6f) tferes lgift. forped? Ssi

Falstor is a Danish' island in the Baltio Sea. The German destroyer flotilla must have been either returning to or steaming from Kiel Bay. The steamer Anglo-Dane ia Danish owned, of 803 tons, and registered at Copenhagen. • / . ARMED LINER KRONPRINZ WILHELM AT WORK. v London, November 23. The North-German Lloyd's armed liner Kronprinz Wilhelm (14,908 tonB), which has been raiding the commerce routes in the Atlantic, sank the Houlder liner La Correntina (8529 toils), and the four-masted French, barque Union. The passengers and crews were landed at Buenos Ayres. BRITISH FISHING BOATS MINED AND 'SUNK, (Rec. November 24, 11.30 p.m.) London, November 24. Two Lowestoff fishing-boats have been gunk by mines and their crews los^r . ALLEGED GERMAN NAVAL BASE ON CHILIAN COAST* (Rec. November 24, 9.15 p.m.) Washington, November,23. ; The State Department has been informed that the German Fleet ia South American waters is maintaining a secret naval base on the Chilian cpaßt, The Government of Ohile states that it will immediately,- investigate- and*' , suppress this breach of neutrality, if it is proved. NAVAL ACTIVITY IN GERMANY . SIGNIFICANT PREPARATIONS AT PORT EMDEN e / . ' London, November 23. Reports from the north of Holland! state that unusual activity prevails in the neighbourhood of Port Emden, giving the impression that the German Fleet is preparing for decisive action. Prince Henry of Prussia visited Port Emden on Saturday and inspected the tor pedo and submarine craft.—("Times'* and Sydney -"Sun" Services.) Emden is the terminns of the Dortmund and Ems Canal, is' itself intersected by nayigable canals, and is connected with the Ems and Dollart Rivers by large harbour works .'.the town was formerly situated on the Ems, but is now 2J miles from it. On the opposite shore of the Ems estuary is Dutch territory, while 6eaward, to the north, are the East Friesian Islands. -

EMDEN'S LAST FIGHT: SURVIVORS' STORIES AUSTRALIAN JACK TARS IN ACTION. I (E-ec. November 24, 7.35 p.m.) Colombo, November 23. The Sydney's wounded and the Emden'B survivorß have .bean landed and sent to the hospital. They tell a gallant story. -The "Times of Ceylon"; publishes the following from eye-witnesses; —"At seven on themorning of November 9 t'he Sydney got a wireless saying that a* German cruiser was off Cocos Island, and she wont off so fast that you could not see her for the furrow she cut in the water.' At 9.40 a.m. the Sydney sighted the Emden, which offered . fire at 10,000 yards, carrying away the Sydney's forecast. ■ "The range-finder of the Sydney replied most effectively, and it did your heart good to hear the yells of joy from our chaps as the shots' w.ent home. Most of our ladß were quite young, hut were not the least afraid, and gloried in it.' The first' salvo damaged the Emden, and we soon shot away successively the foremast,'funnel, and second funnel, and at each success our lads!, shouted 'Hurrahl There's another —she's a goner!' • , •'The Emden, badly damaged and afire aft, went ashore at 4.20 p.m. The Sydney then chased and captured the collier .Buresk, but she sank, owing to the crew'smashing the valvea, so we returned to the Emden, sending outboatß to pick up the Germans who were in the water, but as the 1 German flag was flying; and those on board refused to answer our demand for suiTender, the: Sydney was compelled to. fire dgain. Five minutes later the German ensign was hauled down. . • "If it is vrue, as we have been told by many German pnsoners.-that they fired no less than 1460 shots at ns, then their 6hooting must have been very po°r throughout the action. It was very, clear that our shooting l was far superior. The'trajeotory of the Emden's guns was more pronounced than .ours. She seemed to drop her shot on board us when she was anywhere near us,, while our shells went far straighter, and appeared to do a good deal ■ more damage when they got home. The Emden's shells completely failed to penetrate our armonr-plate. One shell came very near doing <a lot of misohiof; it struck the edge of the armour-plate, within a few inches of one of the wardroom portholes, und all were wounded who wpre in the wardroom with the surgeon and his staff" , ~ m According to the German wonndedj the Emden left Tsicg-tao on. Jnly 31, and her engines had been working for three months witnout a break. They > deny that they flew the Japanese flag when they entered Penang. They were flying the German flag, and the only thing they did was 'to put on a dummy fourth funnel. One man said: "So far as I saw, everybody on; the. .Sydney proved himself a real little hero. They never stopped .working, and the way they,:; kept the guns served was a fino example of Australian pluck."- \