GERMAN NAVAL ACTIVITY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11652, 22 August 1916, Page 5

GERMAN NAVAL ACTIVITY.

GERMANS EVADE A CONFLICT. TWO BRITISH CRUISERS LOST. GERMAN SUBMARINES DESTROYED London, Aug. 21, The High Commissioner reports:— The Admiralty announces that there was considerable enemy activity in the North Sea on Saturday. The German High Sea Fleet camo out, but, learning by their scouts that the British forces were considerable, avoided engagement jmd returned to port. Searching for the enemy, we lost the light cruisers Nottingh am and Falmouth, All the officers of the former were saved, but B 8 of the crew are missing. All the Falmouth’s crew were saved.

An enemy submarine was destroyed and another was rammed and possibly sunk. TheJGerman statement tbat'a British destroyer was sunk and a battleship damaged is untrue, THE LOST CRUISERS. The Nottingham.—Launched in 1913; tonnage 5440; speed 25 % knots; main armament nine 6 inch guns. The Falmouth.—Launched in 1913; tonnage 5350 tons; speed 34>£ knots; main armament eight 6 inch guns. Both were modern vessels of the well known four funnelled type, similar in appearance to the Australian cruisers Sydney and Melbourne. They were units of the “town” class, of which a sister ship, the Birmingham, earned fame in the early Jstages of the war by sinking a German submarine in the North Sea.

GERMAN WARSHIPS,

OUT ON SATURDAY,

London, August'2l

The Daily Telegraph’s Rotterdam correspondent says trawlers off the Dutch coast on Saturday morning met a squadron of sixteen German warships accompanied by two Zeppelins,