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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 132, 28 October 1914, Page 5

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! | illi-l SINKING of Tliri I'EGASLS. I IN EAST AFRICAN WATERS. ! RIUIJ. H HUP ALMObT ' K)•,*•.■ ERLI.SS.. • | RcCeleed 27, 1«.30 p.m. ] Loudon, Oeaiber 27. i Relit. r's Saata Ai'i-.cin agency K u<>I p'.ics fun:;, i- j,.;riici:k:r,- of ih o sinking jof ti: ( ; lYg.;>iis. li. appears tiiat the | Koemsbcrg approached at fa!l v speed at j five o'clock on Sundae morning. She-fii-s-t ik-alced the patrol b;a« with three -dmU, aed (hen opened fire on the Pegasus at nine thousand vards. All the Pegasii,, broadside win enraged, "but i h <; r giliH wen, disabled' in'" fil'lee:, Uiini'.'.es. • After a lull tiie Keenisberg again opou- : <vl lire for another quarter 'of' an hour. : lie Pegasus was unable to reply. Nc-irlv a!| the casualties occurred loun.l Cue rrnin and the upper deck of the ship wa, badly holed at the wai-c-r----lino, and listed, heavily. The fires were, 'put otit. and rdie was moved to shallow water, where she grounded forward. Wind and tide subsiapienily drove the vessel into deeper wafer and she eYcntuallv sank. The flair was twice shot away, but marines held, it up again. fl.-io Poga-us was not wilder steam at the time, and the Koenisbovg, a more powerful boat, had the Britis-h vessel at. her mercy.) AUSTRIAN CRUISER SUNK. ! TX KIAO-CITAU BAY. Received 27. 0.."!5 p.m. i Pel.:in. October 20. , T(; is reported that the Japanese ar--1 tiller-, Paul: an Austrian cruiser in Kaio. I chju Bay I THE BADGER GETS BUSY. GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK. Received-'27. f1.M.5 p.m. London, October 2':!. , The Bad'-ner, when erui-ing on tic- ■ BuUdi coa-t. caw a submarine ahead. i laeuircd it at full speed and fired ..hot* I into the c,,i,v,..,rii" ,» it drew off. The | repairs wili <.111;,- require a few hours.

mink iv the channel. rfkucek steamer struck. Received 27, 0,40 p.m. London, October 27. A Belgian refugee steamer struck n mine oil' Bo'i'ognr. Thirty were drown(rl in the panic, but the rest were landid at Koikes l .one, "" THE GEO! AT HONOLULU. TTME SHE WAS OUT. SAYS JAPAN. Received 27, 0.40 p.m. Tokio, October 2d. Japan baa protested to America, against the Airman cruiser Giir remain:ng longer at Honolulu as the repairs are finished. THE GOER-EN AND BUKSLAU. STILL GERMAN SUITS. SCARED RACK TO RORT. Rome, October -2«. The Tribima states that the. hasty return of the Gocbon and Rrcslau to the Rospborus is due to tlie Russian and British Ambassadors informing the Rorte that they did not regard the sale of the vessels a" valid, and that the Allies would attack them the next time they came out. London, October 2(1. The Badger, which rammed a German submarine, lias arrived at Sheerncss. It had an enthusiastic reception. (The Badger is a destroyer of the I Cla«s, built between 1011 and 1913. They displace from 700 to S2fl tons, and carry two 4in. guns and two 12-pounders. They have a speed of 27 to 33 knots.)