THE FLEET AT SEA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2698, 18 February 1916, Page 5

THE FLEET AT SEA

WHAT A NORWEGIAN SHIP SAW By Telegraph- Press Association—Oopyriffht London, February 16. A German wireless message, quoting tbe Danish newspaper '•Politikon," states that a Norwegian ship met, during the week, a largo English Fleet within the zone between the Dogger Hank and the Norwegian coast, lie lleet consisted chiefly of squadrons of light cruisers. Norwegian vessels-also met English cruisers in the Atlantic. They were doubtless chasing the Moowo. EATING THEIR WORDS THE HUNS ,VNL THE SMITTEN "CRUISER." London, February 16. A Gorman wirele-is message now admits that tho Arabis, recently sunk by tho Germans, was not a cruiser, but a special vessel constructed for tho milling' and air defence services. Sho had a crow of sevonty-eight and a speed of sixteen knots. This sudden conversion is amusing, .as a few hours oarlicr a wireless message had bcon claiming that a second British cruiscr had heen torpedoed. This claim was based on tho fact of tlio British Admiralty'.s'admission that a minesweeper had been sunk. The wireless 'message states that a surgeon and three of tho crew of tho Arabis died after their rescue from tho effects of their long immersion. r.Tlio German Admiralty recently announced that during an advance their torpedo boats met off Dogger Bank soverc.l British cruisers, which fled. Tho, German boats pursued and' sank a now cruiser, tbe Arabis, and hit a second cruiscr with a torpedo. "We rescued the commander, two other oflienrs, and twenty-one men from the Arabis." The British Admiralty announced that tho "cruiscrs" mentioned were four minesweepers, of which three had returned safely.]

INVASION SCARE IN SCHLESWIGHOLSTEIN ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rec. February 17, 7.40 p.m.) Loncion, February 16. It is reported frojn Copenhagen tliaj; the German Genoral- Staff has prosecuted three women at Freusberg, in Sclileswig-Holstoin (the German subDaniali province) on. a charge of spreading a report of a British invasion, and sentenced them to small terms of 'imprisonment. The scare caused a flight of the population inland. [