NAVAL SUICIDE.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 25 June 1919, Page 3

NAVAL SUICIDE.

GERMANS SCUTTLE THEIR FLEET

FORTY-SIX VESSELS SUNK. London, June 22. STIO Germans sank forty-sis out of geventy-two warships at Seupa Flow, as follow: —Nine out of ten battleships, Sill five battle cruisers, twenty-seven »nf ef forty-nine destroyers. The total Ejimago sunk approximates four hunSrcd thousand tons. The larges • s ip S 3 the Bavern, of 28,000 .tons. Tho ■cet was worth seventy millions stert-s-n. All the crews concerned were taken in custody. They had Been aboard attending the upkeep of the vessels during their internment G»dcr the terms of the armistice. an inquiry demanded, arrangements for boarding VESSELS FORESTALLED. ETondon, June 22. Tho newspapers arc aghast at the Bcana Flow sensation, and demand < Sri pointing o»t tl»t tho Sot JlMod i» tho custody of the Bnfish Navy as trustees for the Alhc.. The German Ensign was hoisted on *U ships before they wore sunk. Tne Sen Is now flying the White Ensign aver the German flag. Sveral Germans ewam to the Island of Camt. Arran e(Hants had been made to J»Md t Shiga on Monday m the event i * Bffing signed and they thus wouK l tog gassed into the possession of the A ■ TllO largest ships were sunk to a del ©S 126 ft.