THURSDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 January 1915, Page 2

THURSDAY

Some., trawlers estimate the ~ 1 number of German ships at 35, | others at 25. All accounts agree . that they promptly fled when the ' 3 British battle-cruiser squadron J} was sighted. Two of the Ger- ~, 4 man battle-cruisers were seen to 'J-'----be ablaze and their guns were silenced after they reached the - J^ safety of their own mine area. * One of them was the Derflingeir^ r \ A and the other either the Seydlitz or the Moltke. .Some of the ') German light cruisers were, also damaged. r \ A Zeppelin and a -number of ji aeroplanes hovered over the J British ships when they could I escape the anti-aircraft guns. % ~ The aeroplanes dropped bombs on <% the British seamen who wero -\ rescuing Germans after the sink- 'v ing of the Biucher. Butforiheir - v intervention few lives would have -tf i been lost. "^«-'l The Admiralty publishes a list % of British casualties, which total ,m} 14 killed and 24 wounded. All the §1? British ships and destroyers Sfehave returned to port. , W§ - Russian submarines are re- -^ ported tq have appeared in the * Baltic Sea, off the coast of Germany. The German cruiser l ' Gazelle has returned to port . seriously damaged by torpedo, Reports from the battlefront v in France refer to hot fighting in the region of La Bassee. Five attacks on the British lines were made by the Germans, but all were repulsed. - v