THE RECENT FIGHT

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1917, Page 1

THE RECENT FIGHT

A German Claim. (Australia & N.Z. Cable Association,) LONDON. Jan. 25. A wireless German official message says UG9 received a direct bit, on the bridge, and Captain Max Schultz, commanding the flotilla since the beginning of the war was killed, with two officers and a few others. The steering gear was damaged, caning her to collide with another ship. _ UG9 was seriously damaged and ran to Ymuiden unmolested. The ship previously rammed by TJ69 continued to participate in the light, ramming and seriously damaging a British destroyer, which a German aeroplane subsequently reported as sinking. The German vessel escaped at reduced speed, and reached a German point ._>» support. A third ship encountered numerous enemy destroyers, and attacking them immediately sank a large destroyer with a torpedo at close range. She then reached port in safety.

A denial LONDON, Jau. 25. The British Admiralty reiterates tnat the only British casualty was the destroyer torpedoed and sunk as cabled. In Austria- „ GENEVA. Jan. 25. An official Vienna message says that a compromise between Austrian and Hungary has been concluded for a period of twenty years. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 25.

'Count Tisza. ,alluding to the Hungarian deputies’ views on President Wilson’s speech, said the Central Powers sympathised with any efforts to i«ostablisli peace, therefore lie was inclined to continue the exchange of peatw thoughts with the American Government. • The Entente aimed at dividing Austria and Turkey, thus proving that the Entente was the real obstacle to peace The Ententes avowed war aims showed that the Entente wanted peace with conquest, making an unbridgable gulf between the Central Powers and the Entente’s view point He added that the existence of an Austro-Hungarian Government is the best guarantee for the free development of the principle of nationality in soutneastern Europe.