On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 63, 10 November 1914, Page 5

On the Sea

THE JAPANESE AND GERMAN FLEETS. United Press Association. Tokio, November 8. Tt is reported that the Japanese Admiralty has received information that a battle is pending between the Japanese and German Pacific fleets. The locality is not indicated. THE NAVAL BATTLE OFF CHILI. London, November 9. A correspondent in New York says that the JGfeiman silence as to tno whereabouts of the Leipzig and the Bremen makes the American naval authorities believe only part of the story has been told, and we will probably find that the German losses were heavier than indicated. i . GERMAN VESSELS INTERNED DURING THE WAR. Honolulu, November 8. The German gunboat Geier, and the Nordeutscher-Lloyd''s steamer Locksum have been interned for the duration of the war. and have been placed under a guard of United States troops. GERMAN SPY ON THE CERAMIC. Sydney, Noveber 9. The Ceramic reports that after leaving Liverpool one of the saloon passengers aroused suspicion, >vas j arrested, and identified as a German spy, a resident of German South-West Africa, who had participated in inciting the rebellion in the Union colony. He was handed over to the authorities at Capetown. i-; ■ THE EMDEN ON THE MOVE. Fremantle, November 9. The Mongolia reports that the Emden is well posted in the movements of British ships from four land wireless stations, one of which is believed to be nedr '•Adams' Peak, Ceylon.

DANCER ZONE ON THE SCHELDT.

(Received 9.5 a.m.)' ' Amsterdam, November 9. The burgomaster at Flushing issues a warning- that: oujirig to Hijbe presence of unknown vessels'in the Scheldt at night i time 'all i exeep£ 4nail' boats &Vo liable to be fired upon.

THE KARLSRim £ active; SWEDISH STEAMER MINED IN v THE NORTH* SEA?'

(Received 11.25 a.m.) r November,.9

The crew of the Dutch steamer Marina have arrived at Plymouth. They report that the Karlsruhe sank the Marina with her, fi§rgo of American wheat for Belfast. B: , ,_ ~... ' The Swedish steamer.-^tie a mine and was sunk in, the North Sea. Six lives were BRITISH WARSHIPS, .NEAR THE PANAMA CANAL. SUSPECTED GERMAN PLOT. • '-* 'llVoS a:m.) u * November 9. A squadron''! of Britislf warships, headed \ towards the Panama Canal, and believed to be bound for South American waters, was observed off the Bahamas.' The guards watching the canal Bave been strengthened in view of a German plot to destroy the locks by dynamite.

ABOARD A GERMAN STEAMER. . __ | ,'■.

London, November 9

Mr Sheppard, of Godalming, Surrey, a passenger | ny" the Zieten, who. was landed at Liverpool, reports that when about two days from Aden they found themselves going east. On inquiring the reason he was told that owing to the European complications the steamer was going to Sokotra. Martial law was proclaimed aboard, and all: were compelled' to obey the orders of j the German sailors.. From New Gui- j nea the lights had been put out after j dark. 'The Koenigsbcrg-convoyed the Zieton and'the City of Winchester from Sokotra to the Persian Gulf, .where the Koenigsberg- stripped the City* of Winchester of crew, cargo, coal, > and-fittings. Everything moveable was transferred to the Zieten. Afterwards the Koenigsberg sank the City of Winchester, while the Zieten, for the purpose of coaling, entered the Mozambique flying the British flag. I The passengers were kept below for I two hours previously to the arrival of l them to Santome, Madeira, and Lis- i bon, transhipping to England. i