Maritime Activities

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 4 November 1914, Page 5

Maritime Activities

T' 'itPEDOES FROM LAND STATIONS. Amsterdam, November it is slated that Hie Germans are mounting caissons citable of firing torpedoes at the entrance of the Ostend and Zeebrugg'e harbors. ' KARLSIIUIIE STILL 'AT LARGE. AUSTRALIAN NAVY PRAISED. London, November 2, Lloyds state that tlis Karlsruiie has sunk three steamers in tin South Atlantic. There ia some reinsuring ef the Remuera.

WORK OP 'AVSTRLIAN NAVY. Melbourne, November 3. Admiral Ilendcrs.m, writing to Mr J'earee, expressed the opinion that tne Australian Navy was '.'oiii# good wort, and that undou|i'.--ily Germany was beginning to feci the gradual pressure of llrit.iin's sea power. Tile navy was riylif. in not taking risks until the German lleot came out.

THE HERMES DISASTER. THREE SENT, London, November 2 A survivor of the Hermes states that | the vessel had reaehnl mid-Channel, | "when there v>as a tremendous crash and la shower of splinters. Ji-e crew were thrown down so violently that many suffered broken li'.nbs. The first torpedo struck the port engine-room. Twentyfour minutes ater a second torpedo was seen coming from a different-quarter. Before the Hermes could manoeuvre she was struck amidships. While the crew were being taken off, a third torpedo | narrowly missed the bows. Forty art missing.

OUR XAVY ]S I.NVJNCmLK. THE LESSON OE Til 12 HERMES. CHANNEL ROUTES. BECOMING Ri-KY. Received p.m. London, November li. The Times, in a leader, Kays: —"The lesson of tin- Wi of the Jiernip.s is 1 hat our line of communications with France are by no means as safe as ill the early days of the war. The enemy, by the use of submarines and mines, has diminished, though not to any vital extent, the safe conditions we Bought to maintain at sea. We continue to achieve the main object, but at some cost and increasing risk. Our strategy compels our ships to remain at sea. We must cxI pret more of these losses, but must take I them calmly, remembering tnat the losses are steadily made good to an extent | which still maintains our relative supc- ! riority in naval strength. We know our Navy is invincible/'