On the Sea

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 102, 23 September 1914, Page 5

On the Sea

OX THE EVE OF BIG EVENTS.

GERMANS ]N THE BALTIC.

AGGRESSIVE MEASURES EXPECTED.

Times anil Sydney Sim Services. Petrograd, September 21. Papers predict that the main German fleet will enter the Baltic and operate against Russia. The Kronstadt Viesnik says: "We are on the eve of big events, and shall see the German fleet hastening from one sea to another under the Wow of the jEnglish fleet and the resistance of our own." The Russian fleet in the Baltic, aided by, mines, is considered competent to frustrate any attempt against- the Finnish ports or Reval.

THE EMDEN AT WORK,

FIVE BRITISH SHIPS SUNK.

OUR LOSS, £750,000.

BRITISH WARSHIP GIVES CIIASI'

deceived 23. 1.40 a.m. Calcutta, September 21. The cruiser Emden, assisted by misty weather and intercepting wireless messages, sank between the 10th and 14th September two colliers, two empty steamers, and the steam Diplomat, with a cargo worth £350,000, including 40,000 packages of tea. All the captured crews were transferred to the Kabanga, which was sailing for America. The Kabanga arrived at Calcutta on tuo 10th. A British warship is pursuing the Emden, which escaped to the southward. All sailings in the Bay of Bengal have been temporarily cancelled. Tile Emden lias caused British owners and underwriters a loss of threequarters of a million. Iler people treated the crews well, GERMAN VESSEL CAPTURED. London, September 21. A British warship captured the German ship Ponape Ryndam, which was released after landing German reservists.