Maritime Activities

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 148, 17 November 1914, Page 5

Maritime Activities

THE' CHILIAN FIGHT AN IMPROBABLE STORY. Received 10, 5.5 a.m. London, November 15. A German official version says that' the Nurnberg fired at a range of 10,400 metres (11,"200 yards), and silenced the Britishers within 52 minutes. It does not mention the participation of the Scliarnhorst or the other vessels.

(The Good Hope and 'Monmouth carried 9-inch and 0-inch guns.) GERMANS MUST COME OUT. EVEN FOR DESPERATE ENTERPRISE. Received 10, 5.15 p.m. London, November 15. The Times' military correspondent, commenting on the unusual activity in the Kiel Canal, says the hour will most surely strike when the fleet must put out to sea. There will be an outcry unless it can make some desperate enterprise, probably in co-operation Svith the army.

GERMANS FLYING JAPANESE FLAG. Received 10, 12.5 p.m. New York, November 15. A telegram from Valparaiso states that the Dresden and Leipzig have joined the three other warships. It is believed the fleet include the Seharnhorst and Gneisenau. All hoisted the Japanese flag.

AVERTING TROUBLE. Paris, November 15. A message from Madagascar states that the Konigsberg demanded the surrender of Mojanga. The commander replied that lie held twenty Germans as hostages, and one head would fall for each shot the Konigsberg fired, whereupon she disappeared. GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK. Paris, November 15. Calais newspapers state that a French torpedo boat entered Dunkirk on Friday, and reported the ramming and sinking of a German submarine at Westende, south of Ostend.

A GERMAN JEER. Received 16, 8 a.m. London, November 15. The Lokal Anzeigcr, commenting on the Emden, says: "Britain has regained her reign, but to do it it took the, French, Russians, Australians, and Japanese, along -with Britain, to dFStroy the Emden." CASUALTIES OX THE SYDNEY. Received 16, 0.45 a.m. Melbourne, November 10.

The Navy Office issues a list of the Sydney's casualties:—Slighthlv wounded, Petty-Officer Harvey, Seamen Hooper, Williamson, and Stevenson; wounded, Seamen Kinniburgh, Green, and Crosby; severely wounded, Seaman Home, in addition to the four cabled yesterday. The authorities state that from the absence of information they presume there were not any deaths.

FOUR KILLED ON THE SYDNEY. Melbourne, November l(i. The Navy Office announces that the Sydney's casualties include four killed; —Petty-officer Lynch, Seamen Hoy, Bell and Sharp. VESSELS SUNK AT TSING-TAO. Wellington Last Night. The High Commissioner reports, under date London, November 15, as follows: Official: The Admiralty announces that the following vessels of the enemy were found to have been sunk by explosion after the surrender of the Tsingtao fortress: Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth; the German gunboats Jaguar, Jochs, Tiger, Cormoran; German destroyer Toku; and the mine-layer Ruciian.