Maritime Activities

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 142, 10 November 1914, Page 5

Maritime Activities

NAVAL BATTLE PENDING. BETWEEN GERMANS AND JAPANESE. Received !), 9 p.m. Tokio, November 8. It is reported that the Japanese Admiralty has received information that a battle is pending between the Japanese and German Pacific fleets. The locality is not indicated.

THE NAVAL BATTLE OFF CHILI. AN OMINOUS SILENCE. AMERICA WANTS MORE NEWS. Received T), C p.m. London, November 9. A correspondent in New York says that the German silence as to the whereabouts of the Leipzig and the Bremen makes the American naval authorities believe that only part of the story has been told, and wc will probably find that the German losses were heavier than indicated.

GIVING THE GEIER A CHANCE. Washington, November 8. In order to give the German cruiser Gcier a, chance of avoiding a Japanes* cruiser, the date it was ordered to leave lias been kept a secret for five days. Received 10, 12.15 a.m. Honolulu, November 8. The German gunboat Geier, and the Nordcutscher-Lloyd's steamer fiocksum have been interned for the duration of the war, and have been placed under a guard of United States troops.

GERMAN SPY ON BRITISH STEAMER. Received 9, 10 p.m. Sydney, November 0. The Ceramic reports that after leaving Liverpool one of the saloon passengers aroused suspicion, was arrested, and identified as a German spy, a resident of German South-Wcst Africa, who had participated in inciting the rebellion in the Union colony. He was handed over to the authorities at Capetown.

! THE EMDEN WELL POSTED. THE WARSHIP SIGHTED, BUT ESCAPES. . GOEBEN ESCAPES ONCE MORE. Received 9, 9.30 p.m. Fremantle, November 9.' The Mongolia reports that the Emden is well posted in the movements of British ships fr«n four land wireless stations, one of which is believed to be near AdaW Peak, Ceylon. Perth, November fl. The steamer Paroo, from Singapore, leporia that a British cruiser sighted the Emden near Penang, coalingt from two store ships. The Emden bolted. The Emden bolted. The cruiser sank one of the store ships and captured the other, a Greek collier. A German naval lescrve lieutenant aboard, replying ,to the suggestion that the Eniden's successful raids were due to someone aboard who was acquainted with the'; Eastern trade Toutes, declared "I'm the; man."

Constantinople, November S. I The Goeben and her consorts have arrived, having escaped encounter with I Russian warships. | A PASSENGER'S -STORY. ' EXCITING TRIP BY GERMAN ! -STEAMER. j Received W, 1.3 11.111. j London, November fl. ' .Sheppard, of Codaloing, a passenger by tlie Zieten. who was landed at Liverpool, reports that when about two day? from Aden they found themselves going east. On enquiring the reason he was told that owing to the European complications the steamer was going to Solistra. Martial law was a'board, and all were compelled to obey tiie orders of the flerman sailors. 'From Xew jfiiiine.il the lights had been put out alter dark. Tlie Koenigsbcrg eonvoyed the Zicten and the City of Winchester from Sokotra to the Persian Gulf, where the KocTiicsberg stripped the Cite of .Oil Winchester of crew, cargo, coal, fittings.

Everything movable was transferred t« the Zienten. Afterwards tin; Koenigsberg Giinlc tin; City of Winchester, wliilitin- Zie.ten, tor tlie purpose of coaling, entered the Mozambique flying tlie Uritisli (lag. ■ Tlw passengers were kept below for two hours previously to the arrival of tlie .steamer Bcira, which brought them to fiantome, Madeira, and Lisbon, transhipping to England.