TWO ENEMY SHIPS SUNK.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 22 December 1916, Page 6

TWO ENEMY SHIPS SUNK.

NAVAL SECRET REVEALED IN PRIZE COURT. LONDON, Oct. 24. Dails of a litle liveliness in the North Sea which liave not hitherto been told, were revealed in the Prize Court yesterday, when prize bounty of £245 was awarded to the officers and men of three British destroyers—Murray, Morris, and Mansfield —for the destruction of two Geronan armed trawlers—the Otto Rudolph and the Braunschweig near the island of Sylt on March 25 of this year. The destroyers were in charge of Commanders H. T. Daring, E. S. Graham, and C. F. W. Howard, and, according to the affidavit by the senior officer, the three destroyers were cruising in company when the two armed enemy trawlers were sighted. The British ships pursued them at full speed and destroyed them by gunfire. One of the enemy vessels surrendered by hoisting a white flag,' but it was found that she had been scuttled by her crew, and it was necessary to destroy her by gunfire.