On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 30, 22 September 1914, Page 6

On the Sea

BRUSHING WITH THE ENEMY'S

UNITS.

The High Commissioner reports under date London September 20 (10.35 p.m.):—On the 10th September, the German cruiser Emden, after being completely lost for six weeks', appeared suddenly from the Bay of Bengal. During the period from September 10th to 14th, she captured six British ships, oi which five were sunk, and the sixth sent into Calcutta with crew. The Emden is now reported to be at Rangoon. The British auxilary cruiser Carmania fought a German armed merchant cruiser mounting eight 4-inch guns. The action lasted for one hour and forty-five minutes when the German ship capsized and sank.

The warship Cumberland reports from Cameron river that a German gunboat on the night of the 14th September, attempted to sink the gunboat Dwarf with an infernal machine. The attempt, failed, and the steamboat with one prisoner was captured. On the 16th the Dwarf was purposely rammed by the German ship Nichtigall and slightly damaged, but the Nachtigall was wrecked. A further report from the Cumberland states that two German launches were destroyed. NO NEWS FROM FANNING ISLAND. TPIR PBEBB AfIBOOIATION. I Auckland, September 22. Mr Millward, manager of the Pacific Cable Board, arrived on the Iris. He states that there had been no communication from Fanning Island since the cable was cut. The Board's employees and families on the island numbered thirty. Mr Millward said he had no idea of what happened to them.