Maritime Activities

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 149, 18 November 1914, Page 5

Maritime Activities

j A NAVAL BOMBARDMENT. ! FEATURES DESCRIBED. Received 17, 5.15 p.m. London, November IU. The surgeon of the warship Brilliant says no one can have any conception of a modern naval bombardment like theirs —the deafening roar of ! the big guns, which shake the ship; the irritating smell of the explosives; ' the enemy's shells whistling overhead, while they have to contend with submarines in the sea around, and aeroplanes are hovering overhead. It is a trial for the strongest nerves.

BRITISH AND GERMAN LOSSES. FAIRLY EVENLY DISTRIBUTED. London, November 10. In the naval war the relative losses (f Britain and Germany are as follow: Britain. Germany. Armoured cruisers .... 5 1, ' Light cruisers 5 t) Gunboats ..2 8 Armed liners 1 3 Submarines 2 5 The Germans have lost two minelayers,, eight destroyers, and one tor-pedo-boat, according to the German official list. The armoured cruisers lost by Britain are: The Crcssy, 12,000 tons' (1901); Aboukir, 12,000 tons (1002); Hogue 12,000 tons (1!)02); Good Hope, 14,100 tons (1002); Monmouth, !)800 tons (1003). The Germans lost the Yorek, 11350 tons ,(1005). The light cruisers lost by Britain are: The Pathfinder, 3000 tons (11105); Pegasus, 2135 tons (1890); Amphion, 3440 tons (1012); Highflyer, 5000 tons (1000) and probably the' Glasgow, 4820 tons (1910). Tlie German light cruisers are: The Madgeburg, 4478 tons (1012); lvonigsberg, 3350 tons (1907); Emden, 1544 tons (190!)); Mainz, 4281 tons (1010); IColin, 4281 tons (1911); Ariadne, 2010 tons (.1001), and two others, j

| ;MINES WASHED ASHORE. Amsterdam, November 15. Eighty mines have been washed up on the coasts of Zeeland. COAL FOR THE GERMAN NAVY. Sydney, November 17. The Sonoma brings the news that the Lowther Grange, coal laden from Newcastle to Mexico, was seized by British cruisers oft' Guaymas (west coast of Mexico) on October 11' and taken to Esquimault. Passengers state that there is much friction in San Francisco owing to German sympathisers shipping coal to Mexico and transferring it to scows which coal German cruisers.

GERMAN PACIFIC FLEET. Sydney, November 17. The latest German accounts state that the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipsic and Dresden participated in the Chile battle. HOW THE EMDEN GOT NEWS. Tokio, November 17. The Emden was enabled to sink the Troilus through a wireless niesage sent by a German merchant at Kobe. He has been arrested. THE CANOPUS SAFE. London, November l(i. Tn the House of Commons, Mr Churchill said he had every reason to be.ijve that the Canopus was safe. (The Canopus, battleship, 14,900 tons, armed with 4-12 in. and 12-(iin guns, was supposed to have joined the Good Hope, Monmouth and Glasgow oil' the Chilian coast.]

CONGRATULATIONS TO ADMIRAL PATEY. Melbourne, November IG. Mr Pearce has communicated to Admiral Patey congratulations on the. Syd- j nay's exploits, and alsp conveyed Mr Mussey's appreciation. AN OVERDUE STEAMER. Times and Sydney Sun Service. London, November 10. The, Houlder liner La Correntina which left Buenos Aires for Liverpool on October 5, is overdue. She was armed and it is suggested that possibly she engaged the Kronprinz Wilhclm and both sank. STRANDED MINE EXPLODES. Received 17, 10 p.m. Amsterdam, November IC. Four naval oificers and tliree sailors were killed while examining a mine that had been washed up at Westcapelle, Holland.