Maritime Activities

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 136, 2 November 1914, Page 5

Maritime Activities

j REFUGEE SHIP WRECKED. [ ASHORE IN TERRIHC WEATHER. ALL HOPE OF RESCUE ABANDONED. A TRAWLER MINED AND SUNK. London, October 30. The hospital ship Rohilla has been wrecked during a gale at Whitby. She is breaking up. Several were drowned and eighty are still on board. All the ■urses have been saved. Received 1, 2.40 p.m. London, October 30. The Rohilla, bound fiom Queen's Ferry to Dunkirk, to pick up Belgian wounded, struck at 4 o'clock in the morning. A terrific sea was running. Two hundred were aboard, including a medical unit. Her bows were smashed, as she lowered the lifeboats, and few were rescued. -VLiny clung to the wreckage until they were exhausted and swept away. The ship broke in twain, and eleven were drowned. When the stern carried away the remainder took refuge on the bridge and in the rigging. Lifeboats made desperate efforts to bring succour. | One was smashed, and two of the crew' were drowned. Sixty were rescued. The I remainder, about a hundred, remained I en the forepart of the doomed vessel, j and attempts at rescue had to be aban-1 doned. Rocket lines proved unavailing \ (Many (bodies were washed ashore. !

The trawler Kosilla struck a mine in the North Sea, The captain and mate vera drowsed

THE POSITION BECOMES STORS* Kec«ived 1, 10J20 p.m. (London, October 81. The Rohilla's position is worse. The hull has broken into thre« parts, and is settling down. The bridge is mow the o»ly refuge of those aboard. A number jumped into the seft. Some were drowned, but others were washed on the beach. Several further attempts of the lifeboats to reach the wreck were unavailing, likewise the rocket-lines. THE ELUSIVE EMDEN. IJST OP CAPTUKES GROWING. A RCSSIAN CRCISER SUNK. THE GERMAN CLEVERLY DISGUISED

Sydney, October 31. Eastern files give interesting/ details of the capture and sinking of merchant vessels by the Emden already cabled. In all cases the captured crews were courteously treated. It is Btated that the commander of the Emden displays complete silence regarding his tactics, and his oilicers are given no idea of his intended movements. They receive and carry out orders, but the commander alone knows their object. The Emden'g wireless plant intercepts all messages. One officer stated Unit they knew well enough where the English warships were. German ships and cargoea interned in the Dutch East Indies are valued at £-2,000,000. The Emden which was reported to be interned at Sabang is a merchantman, not the cruiser. It is believed that the cruiser obtains her coal from interned colliers, though the Dutch Government is honestly trying to pre-1 serve neutrality. Large numbers of i Arabs in the Dutch Indies are stated to j he pro-German. i I London, October 30.

Renter's Tokio correspondent states that the Emden torpedoed nnd sank the Russian cruiser Zemtehug and a French destroyer at 'Penan;*. (Tiie Zemtehug is a light cruiser of 3100 tons, built in IUO3. She carried eight 4.7-inch guns. The Emden is a little larger and more modern, but has only 4.1-inch guns). Petrograd, October 30. Official.—The Emden attacked the Zemtehug by daylight on Wednesday disguised with a faurth funnel and other: alterations. The Zemtehug was unsuspicious. The Emden, at full speed, launched two torpedoes, the second of which was fatal. Eighty-five of the crew of 335 perished and 112 were wounded. Tokio, October 30. The British Embassy is informed that the Emden ilew the Japanese flag. Colombo, October 30. Tho captain of the Exford and the crew have landed. They reported that the Emden took off 7000 tons of steam coal, intimating that it was intended to sink the Exford.

LORD FISHER RETURNS TO OFFICE. Lord Fisher succeeds Prince Louis of Rattenberg as First Sea Lord of the Admiralty. / (Lord Fisher was First Sea Lord from 1004-1910, when he- retired under the age. rule. He is 73 years of age). The newspapers pay a tribute to Prince Louis of Batenburg's chivalrous decision. BOMBARDMENT OF CATTARO. Cettinjf, October .10. Official: The bombardment of Cattaro continues successfully. Fort Waloate has been practically destroyed. A shell blew up the magazine. A TRADER TORPEDOED. A CRIME AGAINST INTERNATIONAL 'USAGES.

Received 1, 2.30 p.m. Paris, October 30. Official: The steamer Amiral Ganteaume was torpedoed witlout reason, contrary to all international usages of %var. THE WALDECIv ROUSSEAU AFFAIR. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE AUSTRIAN'S FAILURE.

Received 1 4.'30 p.m. T.ondon, Ocober 31. Details of the attack on the cruiser YValdeck Rousseau show that the •.-raiser simultaneously came under the ftre of machine guns from the land, torpiiloers, and an aeroplane. The lattcf come within SOO yards and dropped a hmnh which exploded the forward-bridge, gnashing the j;la*s of the captain's observation post. Someone shouted "submarine," and a periscope emerged a hundred vards ahead. The. biff guns V.'i/.cl away, and when quiet was r< stored a -sheet of oil floated where the f'lbmnrine had been. Before disappear;n<r the submarine fired a torpedo, which ins' missed the cruiser. M'of ether three submarines attacl-erl. Tt is believed that only one returned to