NEW ZEALAND NEWS
CHASING GERMAN CRUISERS.
SOME SMART RETORTS. (Reed. 0.10 a.m.) PREMANTEL, This Day. A returned stoker on the Australian warships supplies interesting details of a long chase after the Sharnhorst and Gniesenau. Sometime they would lerim Aoni tj'he islanders t,hat two huge ships crept into the harbour to provision at night and hurriedly left at night. Frequently ethergrams came a way olf the warship, and in a few minutes ■hare would be a throbbing engineroom, but we always .got nothing at the end cf a long chase. We once caught a wireless from one of the pursued ships and we asked who are you? The German arrogantly replied, “We are alright, you will have to learn Gefanan soon.’’ We replied: “Perhapg you will have to learn Japanese.” The m'sn always slept at their guns. During sweeping operations on the West Goast of America a company of Japanese cruisers were responsible for driving the Germans- into Admiral Sturdee’s guns.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 168, 20 March 1915, Page 5
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