CHASING GERMAN WARSHIPS
(AUSTRALIAN STOKER'S STORY . , . ■ Fremantle, March 20. ; A returned stoker of an Australian [ warship supplies interesting details of i the long chase after the German war- ! ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.. Ho | .says we would learn ; from Islanders that two huge ships liad . crept into harhour to provision at night, i ana had hurriedly left at night. Fre- ; quently, ethergrams came the way of i our worships, and in a few minutes sho , would" be a throbbing engineroom. but always there was nothing at the end of , a. long chase; Once we caught a, wire- '. less message from one of tne jmrsued | ships. We asked: Who are you?' and ; the German> arrogantly replied : 'We are : all right. You will have to learn German- soon!' We replied: 'Perhaps .you I will havo to. learn Japanese.' Our men > always slept at their guns. The'sweep-' f ing operations on the_ west coast of ' America were made in company of J Japanese cruisers, and were Tesjjoni sible for driving the . Geimans into ; Admiral Sturdee's guns." ..
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2415, 22 March 1915, Page 6
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172CHASING GERMAN WARSHIPS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2415, 22 March 1915, Page 6
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