ON THE SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 27 November 1916, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

THE CHANNEL EAID. MORE VIGOROUS NAVAL POLICY. Received 8.45 LONDON* Nov 20. The Channel raid has stimulated the demand for a more vigorous Admiralty policy and the arming of all merchantmen. GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESS. LONDON. Nov 25. The Germans claim that in a Channel raid they sank a patrol vessel and bombarded the fortified place of Rams gate. They saw nothing of the British fleet, and withdrew safely to their home base. THE RAIDERS BAULKED. LONDON, Nov 25. The Admiralty reports that during the night of the 23rd six German destroyers attempted to approach the northern end of the Downs. Tire enemy were seen by a patrol vessel, and steamed off after firing 12 rounds, there were no casualties, but a drifter was slightly damaged. The open town of Ramsgate was not touched. LONDON, Nov 2*J. Lloyd’s Weekly correspondents at Margate and Ramsgate agree that there was little excitement cn Thursday night. It is {calculated the gun fire was ten miles 6ff. Vivid flashes lit the horizon. Many quitted their beds and joined the sea front crowds. Gunfire was heard at Dover, apparently in the direction of the Gull lightship in the Goodwins. Thirty or forty flashes were seen, and the commotion ceased as abruptly as it began.

SINKING NEUTRAL SHIPS. DENOUNCED BY SWEDEN. Received 9.5 1 COPENHAGEN. Nov 2d. Swedish papers of all shades of opinion denounce the erman torpedoing of neutral vessels . The Conservative papers consider the latest tactics are due to Herr Zimraerniann’s appointment as foreign secretary THE BRAEMAR CASTLE. LONDON, Nov 25. Four -hundred British sick were aboard the Braemar Castle, bound for Malta. The casualties were onrdrowned and ten injured. SUBMARINES TO ARRIVE. AMERICAN LINERS WARNED. Received 10.50 NEW YORK, Nov 20. Incoming liners are receiving wireless warnings from Canada. It is believed two German submarines arc due to arrive in America . MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS. LONDON, Nov 25. The German Admiralty denies that the B'ritannic was submarined. The Admiralty has no further news of the steamer Rappahannock, which Berlin reported was sunk on November 8. Unless the crew of 37 were taken aboard the submarine or transferred to some other vessel, of which there is no indication, there can be no hope for their safety. If the crew ■were forced to take to the boats so far from land and in bad weather Germany is again guilty of constructive murder on the high seas.

THE BRITANNIC. GERMAN INSINUATION ANSWERED. LONDON, Nov 25. The Admiralty, in reply to a German allegation that tuere was an extraordinary number aboard the JbVitannic, states that the total was 725. hatches of No 2 hold were thrown fifty staff. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Athens correspondent says the Britannic was struck well forward. The starboard hatches of o 2 hold were thrown fifty feet in the air. It is officially suggested in Berlin that a Turkish submarine recently sold by Germany was responsible for torpedoing the Britannic. It is reported that a German submarine recently visited Lauriom, opposite Zea. An officer landed and took aboard a woman, who it is believed was concerned in supplying submarines. The “Patras” says: The Braemar Castle was torpedoed thirty miles west of the Britannic. Allied aeroplanes saw two submarines between Mitylene and Zea.