Maritime Activities

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 129, 24 October 1914, Page 5

Maritime Activities

I & MONITORS ON THE BELGIAN | OOAST. y|| A SUCCESSFUL MANOEVUEB. '"'%£ ANOTHER STEAMER SUNK, -"^M London, October It is stated that the warships on t?&%t| Belgian coast are armoured monitanjjraH purchased from Brazil at the outtoreaSsSffl of the war. They were built by at Barrow-on-Furncss from a Britirogra design, for river work in Brazil. TiOTggß displacement is 12S0 tons, and speed hafcpf] •been sacrificed for low draught. The/j||| only Bteam 11% kuots, drawing less thaj*'jffi| 9 feet. They are armed with 6-inch, m guns. They left hurriedly on Saturday*, 4 with scouts and torpedo boats. The ife '% ing commenced on Sunday, and. they re» turned on Monday with seven wounded % by shrapnel. "*i The marksmanship of the monitor*. •'.■. utterly destroyed a dyke between Ost- * v end and Nieuport, which was strongly held, and blew up a house occupied '; by the German headquarters Btaff. * (Monitors are war vessels of small l > draught, with a revolving turret on • deck containing one or two big gung.).

London, October 22. An English steamer saw the IriiA *■ steamer Cormorant sink in the North: ■ ■ Sea. It is supposed she struck a mine. "'{■ The captain belifrves a torpedo boat ke f <l noticed was leaving tho spot. He took 'I off the crew. v;

New York, October 22. ,' { The State Department baa protested ,; against the seizure of the oil steamer --?.; John D. Rockefeller, captured off the -£' Orkney*. It declares that she mi -.. ■** never under a foreign registry, and wa»." _\ bound for New York from Copenhagen. -£$ y '$ TO TACKLE THE MONITORS. -';#? GERMANS BRING NEW GUNS. -\"M Received 23, 10.20 p.m. r ;fi Amsterdam, -October 22. ■.? i 52 The Telegraaf states that the Ger-'« (mans have brought new guns to Ostesid-As' and Zcebrugge to shell the warship! |i'*J The Allies are persistently repulsing; *\> the Germans' attempts to cross Hoe ' Yser, the dykes and banks of which hare ri • been cut, and the country flooded. Ten thousand marines, with machine • guns, have left Antwerp. f lt is rumquftd" ''' that Namur is their destination. „•< ' if' - . ty THE AUDACIOUS EMDEN. , i • —-■ v.li CAREER SHOULD BE ENDED. .^ Received 23, 8.10 p.m. ' ''"{M London, October 82.'' ' '.lg The Times, in a leader referring Jo ' Jj; the exploits of the EnrnVn, says:—"The ■ .".'* time has come to enquire when the Ad- 'Va miralty proposes to terminate bet/fiM audacious career. The Emden's »• vy| appearance means a direct loss of •£' ".*|| least another million, nearly the prieeS".&?|S of a Dreadnought. The Emden is solely 'l?m responsible for the present high rate «! *'Wi insurance on eastern routes, and may conceivably interrupt the Indi» SHI mail services." 'xJ3& A. COLLIER SIGHTED. lM EMDEN COMMANDER'S JOKE. ' '-|jj Received 23, 11.20 p.m. *A Eremantle, October 23. JjmJS The Medina reports that in the bian Sea she sighted a Dutch collier,,®! with hatches open and derricks as if about to coal a Tessel. It is im*'m| jested that the collier was one of possible sources of the Emden's coal,' sp supplies. JMsj& The vessel brings a story from that once the British mails were hung ''Jm up at Rangoon for fear of the Emden. ,3fl| The lattor's commander sent a wirelewt wjm "1 will take your moil to Calcutta, & J% you so desircl" '.'Jaj

SEVEN STEAMERS IN FOUR DAYS- M THE PASSENGERS LANDED. M Received 23, 1 a.m. /'j London, October 23. \( { The Bombay steamer Egbert ha* W-igt rived at Cochin with 325 members of tb«fOH crew and 22 passengers of seven steamer* '£s .sunk by the Emden between the ISih'•£ and l!)th. ' * Oaptiirod merchantmen report thai 'J? the Emden is using the White Ensign ""Stf to avert suspicion until within ewy gun-fire. •s** ,€- A SUBMARINE MISSING. »!W Received 23, 11.45 p.m. " * |«[ffl London, October S3. .'s> Official: The submarine E3 is missing k*" and it is feared she has been sunk. - r „; ,. ' ,j ITALY A\ND AUSTRIAN MINES. s »Ji Received 23, 8 p.m. ''■'•■ Paris, October 22. §S A New York Herald message from£J| Rome states that Italy has agreed fcm allow The Hague Court to settle •ultito arising out of Italian dißastant»'f| from Austrian mines. . ;!|g

OIL STEAMER RELEASED. "')

Received 24, 12.40 ajn. vg Washington, October 2J,:!g Sir C. A. Spring-Rice has announci§; that the John D. Rockefeller has been; released, as Denmark prohibits *hfe mente of oil to Germany. ' .2 COAL FOR GERMAN WARSHIPS. J . SUSPECTED STEAMER BTOPPEJ), J | Received 24, 12.40 ajn. -jl London, October i&M Five shots wero fired at the BonMiK ston steamer Lowther Grange, ostenalwß bound for Australia. She was liojjiilf by a British cruiser, and broogV&§9 Eaquimault, on suspicion of I for a German warship.