ON THE SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 5 September 1917, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

THE NORTH SEA SKIRMISH PIRATE SUPPLY SHIPS TRAPPED COPENHAGEN, Sppt, 3. Survivors of the trawlers destroyed off Jutland by the BVitish torpedo boat patrol state that the vessels were carrying great quantities of food for the victualling of submarines. Suddenly they discovered that the British warships had surrounded them and that the only way of escape was to flee into Danish territorial waters. The British ships fired fifteen hundred rounds. Two German submarines and two seaplanes participated in the fight. The fate of the submarines is not known.