NAVAL WARFARE

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 71, 23 November 1914, Page 5

NAVAL WARFARE

j "NEUTRALITY" OF AMERICAN ; PRESS. PUOSITION OF ALLIED FLEET DIVULGED. NEW YORK, November 21. The San Rrancisco press publishes details of the rendezvous of British-Australian-Japanese vessel;, oh' Lower California with the object of giving battle to the German fleer known to be in South American water. H.M.S. GLASGOW . RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 21. The Government has allotted the Glasgow seven days m which to repair. [The Glasgow was damaged during the fight oft' the Chilian coast.] *. r»- < NORWEGIANS CARRYING CONTRABAND. LONDON, November 21. British warships have brought to Glasgow two Norwegian steamers carrying four thousand tons of American copper ore for Gottenburg underneath a general cargo. SUPPLIES FOR THE GARLSRUHE. TWO STEAMERS APPRENHEDED. NEW YORK, November 21. British warships captured the Norwegian steamer Thor and the American steamer Lorenzo in West Indian waters while taking supplies to the Karlsruhe. The crews have arrived at New York and the vessels are now prizes at St. Lucia pending the prize court's decision. GERMAN RESERVISTS CAPTURED. PARIS, November 21." A French battleship captured a steamer with 150 German reservists in the Mediterranean. FEEDING- THE ENEMY. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 21. The Gorman steamers Memphis and Luxor escaped from Chilian ports with provisions for the German fleet. The Government ordered the capture of tlm Luxor and protested to Germany. The I Government also prohibited the provi- \ sioning of the Flosimos line.