Sank Like a Stone

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 71, 13 August 1914, Page 5

Sank Like a Stone

FATE OF THE CERMAN Uls ONLY TWO SHOTS FIRED. Received 12, 11.45 p.m. London, August 12 (morning). The cruiser squadron on Sunday sighted a submarine flotilla with only their periscopes showing. The cruisers' officers coolly pretended that they did not see them, and deceived the German, who steamed within range. The Birmingham saw the opportunity, and, steaming at full speed, fired at the. periscope, which .was shattered. The submarine, blinded, rushed on under the water, in imminent danger of self-de-struction through collision with the cruisers or her own consorts. The latter, recognising that their attack had been defeated, steamed off. The cruisers knew that the sightless submarine must come to the surface, and when the eonning-tower appeared the Birmingham prepared a second shot. There was just time to seo the distinguishing number of the submarine when the shot, striking the base of the conning tower where it was awash, ripped the wihole of the upper structure, and tiie submarine sank like a stone. AUSTRIAN WARSHIP ON FIjRE. BRITISH DESTROYER'S MISTAKE. I , or Rome, August 11. British destroyers accidentally fired and made holes in the Taurus in four places. An Austrian Admiral was cn board. THE GOEBEN AGAIN. MAKING TOR THE DARDANELLES. Athens, August 1:1. The captain of a Greek steamer reports that he met the Goeben apprgaching the Dardanelles on August 10. ANOTHER THEORY. Received 12, 7.30 p.m. London, August 11 (Midnight). The official Press Bureau states that there is good reason for believing that the Goeben and Breslau have refuged in the Dardanelles, and will be dealt with according to international usage. SEVERAL VESSELS SEIZED. v Sydney. August 12. The steamer St, Louis has .readied 1 Newcastle from Noumea. She reports sighting throe German cruisers, believed 1 to be from Samoa, four German vessels, •• and the steamer Wotton. The barques Susane, JJinnen, and Carl Drudgert and the ship Olinda have been seized at Newcastle. Melbourne, August 12. The German-Australia steamer Hobart has arrived and been seized. She only called at Cape Town and the captain was unaware that w.-ir had been , declared.