Maritime Activities

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 150, 20 November 1914, Page 5

Maritime Activities

BOMBARDMENT IN THE BALTIC. GERMANS SET TOWN AFIRE. Received 19, 9.40 .p.m. Petrograd, November 19. j Official: Two German cruisers and ten [ torpedoers bombarded Libau, causing several fires. (Libau, a seaport and watering-place on the Baltic, 140 miles by rail southwest of Riga. Population, 05,540.) AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE. AMERICAN CARGO OF CONTRABAND : 'vi#-'- » " ~ ■ v --" ' j.i Received IS, 10.40 p.m. Athens, November 19. The British seized the American steamer Kroilland in the Mediterranean, with a cargo of 2509 tons of war munitions from New York, destined for Germany

LOSSES ASHORE NOT SERIOUS. ATTACKING SHIP BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN SUNK. Received 20, 1.40 a.m. Petrograd, November 19. The bombardment of Libau killed five, including some women. Thirty in the fort were injured. It is reported that a German destroyer during the bombardment was mined and gunk. GERMAN WARSHIP INTERNED. VIOLATES DUTCH NEUTRALITY. Batavia, November 18. Commander Lupcke and the wireless opemtor, Voltz, of the warship Preussen, which is interned in Sabang Bay, have been arrested on a charge of violating ]>utch neutrality. Although the wireless installation had been dismantled, the authorities discovered that secret antennae were being erected on the most.

(The Preussen is a battleship of 12,907 tons, built in 195, and armed with four 11-ineh and fourteen 0.7-incli guns.)

THE EMDEN'S KILLED. SOME DISCREPANCIES, Received 19, 9.40 p.m. 'Melbourne, November ID. In view of the official intimation that 150 of the Em<lcn's crew have been landed at Singapore, the correctness of the previous statement that 200 were killed i g questioned. Allowing for twenty of the Emden's men placed captured on a steamer us a prize crew, forty who escaped from Cocos in the schooner Ayeslia, the number of killed out of the total crew of 320 must be, at the most, 110, or, if the wounded are not included in the Singapore figures, only 80. HOW THE SYDNEY "HAPPENED TO BE THERE."

OKE OF THE COLONIALS' CONVOY. Ivurow, Last Night. In the course of his speech at Kurow to-night the 'Premier announced that the Enid en was destroyed by the Sydney, which was one of the convoy of the Australian and New Zealand troopships. In consequence of a message from Coeos being intercepted, the Sydney was despatched, because she was the fastest.

A HINT OF TREACHERY. UNPLEASANT SUGGESTION AGAINST IRISH FISHERMEN. Received 20, 1.25 a;m. London, November 19. The Earl of Meath, in the House of Lords, hinted that the German minefield off the north-east of Ireland had been laid by Irish fishing boats in the service of German agents. He asserted that there was a good deal of German money in Ireland. Lord Crewe confessed that Lord Meatli's suggestion ha 3 not been heard of before, the Government belief being that the mines had been sown there under a neutral flag.

IMPOTENT GERMAN NAVY. BURNING FOR A HRUSH WITH BRITAIN. FALLACIOUS IDEA OF THE GERMANS. Received 19, 11.20 p.m. Washington, November 19. A correspondent of the New York American alleges that the German navy i s burning with anxiety to attack the English, but Admiral Von Tirpitz is holding the ships back till the moment when a sudden, unexpected, and decisive blow will influence the situation, so as to enable Germany to dictate a settlement favorable to herself. He adds: "The Germans are obsessed with the,belief that England will cry 'Enough!' the moment that English blood is spilt on English soil."

THE WRECK OF THE OCEANIC. Received 20, 1.25 a.m. London, November lfl. A court-martial has opened into the wreck of the armored cruiser Oceanic. The vesel was wrecked on Fould Island (north of Scotland),