Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 June 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Received This Day b.45 a.m.) THE QITSEN MARY. London, June 7. A midshipman survivor from the Queen Mary said that a Uerman salvo Bei the whole of the after deck afire. After the guns had been thrown out of action, apparently {lie whole turret became hneeated. A lew minutee later there was a terrible explosion in the second magazine, and the ship immediately was lying on her side, broken amidships, with her bow and Btcrn sticking out of the water at an acute angle* with' the stern afire andi red hot. Another explosion blew the whole bow out of'tho water and threw

! the midshipman into the sea. The after-magazine next exploded and the : vessel sank i.i a minute. ihe Tigor, i which had been steaming behind, passI i;d over the Bpot. A destroyer's boat I picked up the midshipman.

I J THE GERMAN .FLEET.

.Rotterdam, June i. The captain ol a Dutcli trawler paw German wars laps of all classes, steaming towards the scene 01 the naval engagement on Wednesday of last week.

KING CONST AiN TINE.

±\bw i orik j June <. Messages from Rome announce that uncensored despatches iroin Athens assert the probability ol an abdication bv King Conatantine. A Petrograd message in the ltussian press urges that pressure be put on Greece consequently upon her uncompronrisia g attitude. The article has caused sometiling of a sensation, particularip one in the bourse Gazette, whicn opines that the King wild take a rest in some place better suited to lus health than Athens. Other papers denounce what they call the political felony of Greece toward the Aillies. Hie Novoe vremya considers that tlie measures taken in Salonika were insignificant, and calls upon the Entente to take the necessary steps in regard to Athens ind Piraeus. . SPEECH BY THE IvAISEiI. "GOD — AND lHii SUPREME WAR LORD." Amsterdam, June i. The Kaiser went aboard the flagship at Kiel and addressed dtetacliments from the verssejK that participated in the naval battle. He said that while the German army had been conquering enemy after enemy the lleet had vainly waited for a fight, though numerous i isolated, deeds had manifested the navy's heroic spirit} but its hour had not struck. Proposal alter proposal vainly had been made to bring the enemy into the held, till finally the day came when the gigantic fleet of Albion, which since the liattle of Trafalgar had imposed upon the world a bane ol sea-tyranny and surrounded hersell with a nimbus oi invincibility, came into the field. its admiral, almost more than anyone, enthusiastically admired the German fleet; he was a brave leader, and leading splendid. material, formed ol the bravest veteran saiiors. The Bratish Armada approached our fleet and engaged it. What happened ? The British Fleet was beaten in the first great hammerblow struck, and the nimbus of British world supremacy disappeared. The news rushed over the world like an electric spark, causing unprecedented jubilation wherever German hearts beat and tnose" of our allies. l'he emperor concluded:— ' iou opened a lieu chapter in tiie world's history when the G&rman lleet, defeated a supei 101 British fleet; God Aiimighty steeled your arms and uept your eyes clear but 1, as your supreme War Lrord thank you from the bottom of my .iieai t, in the name ol the Fatherland). Ihe army at Verdun begun the collapse; the Allies are driving the ltaJtians from mountains, and the world was prepared far almost anything, but not a German victory over the British -Navy. The start has made a tear tliat Will creep iuto the enemy's bones; you have drone this so that the .Fatherland may for all time have ireeway ol the sea& lor industry and strength."