On the Sea

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 24 August 1914, Page 8

On the Sea

AUSTRIAN BATTLES HIP SUNK. STRUCK BY A FRENCH SHELL. Received 23, 5.5 p.m. 'Paris, August 22. It 13 officially stated that during the fight in the Adriatic the second shell fired by a French vessel struck the Austrian battleship Zrinyi'a magazine, and she sauk immediately. ANGLO-FRENCH NAVAL RAID. INDESCRIBABLE PANIC. TRIESTE TO CAPITULATE. London, August 21. J The Daily Mail correspondent in Venice reports that the news of the Anglo-French naval raid in the Adriatic produced an indescribable panic in Trieste. A special "train .had been waiting for days, to take away Prince Ilohenlolie, wlio arranged to hand over power to thb Mayor. When the fleet appears the Mayor is to surrender immediately, in order to save, tihle city and dockj-ardis. GERMAN VESSELS IN AMERICA. AMERICA'S SCHEME OF PURCHASING Received 22, <> 20 p.m. London, August 21 (evening). Commenting on President Woodrow 'Wilson's approval of fclie pToject to devote five millions sterling to the purchase of German liners interned in American ports, the Times' Washington correspondent, referring to the stories of British objections, points out that Great Britain will not suffer by the transaction, as Germany will lose the ships, whereas if merely laid up they would recover them at the end of the war.