On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 30, 22 September 1914, Page 5

On the Sea

BRITISH EAST AFRICA.

BRITISH CRUISER PEGASUS ATTACKED AT ZANZIBAR.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, September 20.

The Times publishes messages from British East Africa, reporting that the German cruiser Konigsberg unexpectedly attacked the cruiser Pegasus while she was anchored at Zanzibar having her boilers cleaned. The Pegasus was disabled, 25 of the crew being killed and eight wounded. The Konigsberg escaped.

The High Commissioner reporting from London under date, the 20th jinst., 10.35 p.m., says:—Since the outbreak of war the Pegasus has been i working from Zanzibar, and has | rendered useful service, including the destruction of the Daresaalaam, the sinking of the German gunboat Mowe land the floating dock. The Pegasus was attacked by the Konisberg while at anchor in Zanzibar harbor, at cleaning boilers and repairing machinery, and was completely disabled. It is reported that 25 were killed and !eighty wounded out of a crew of 234. I The damage done to the Konigsberg lis not known. She was last seen i steaming southward.

(Zanzibar is a Sultanate of East Africa under "British protection, and includes the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba and a strip of the mainland, the total area being 7!20 square miles with a population of 770.000. Zanzibar was under Arab influence in 10th century, the Portuguese cm.' "oiling it from the. 15th to the 17th yntnry, and since 1870 British ';as prevailed over the territories on the mai 'hind, the Sultan being merely a figurehead, the British Agent and Consul-General having tlit real governing power vested in him. The capital is Zanzibar, on the wvsi coast of Zanzibar island; populatioj 60,000).

GERMAN VESSEL CAPTURED AMD RELEASED.

(Received 9.10 a.m.) London, September 21. A British warship raptured the 9 German ship Ponape Ryndam, but the vessel was released after landing Ger- |' man reservists.

SHIPPINC. PACIFIC CABLE BOARD'S STEAMER IRIS.

]"PlB PUT**; ASfI«OIATTON 1 Auckland, September 22. | The Pacific Cable Board steamer ' Tris arrived this morning, bringing three officers from Norfolk Island, beins: the usual «HflF exchanges. Secrecy is observed as regards the vessel's movements. | The Marama left Suva for Auckland, ' on Monday night.