Maritime Activities

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 27 November 1914, Page 5

Maritime Activities

OUR NAVAL LOSSES. OVER SEVEN THOUSAND i CASUALTIES; Received 26, 11,5 p.m. London, November 2G. The Press Bureau supplies the total naval casualties since the commencement of the war as follows: Officers: Killed, 220; wounded, 37; prisoners, 5; interned, 46. Men: Killed, 4107; wounded, 437; missing, ACS; interned, 1524. A SPECIMEN OF "KULTUR." THE BEST YET. London, November 25. The Admiralty's report states that the deliberate torpedoing of the defenceless passenger ship, the Admiral Ganteaumo, in broad daylight, iB the best specimen of German methods yet recorded. A GALLANT GERMAN. SACRIFICES HIS LIFE. London, November 25. When the German submarine UIS surrendered lots were drawn, and a mechanic sacrificed 1113 life by opening the valves, to prevent the capture of the vesed and the revelation of its plans.

J CHILIAN NEUTRALITY- | | VIOLATED BY GERMAN FLEET. I Washington, November 25. . Tho United States Government lias received representations to-day from the British Government, asking the enforcement of Chilian neutrality against German warships now off the River Platte, hut recently using Juan Fernandez, in the Pacific, as a naval base. The department understands that the Chilian Government lias despatched two warships, to Juan Fernandez, to examine the situation there and report. (The Platte River runs through Nebraska into the Missouri, and never reaches tho sea, hence some other river must be meant. Conceivably the river might be the River Plate or La Plata, in which case the, German fleet has come round the Horn into the Atlantic.)

IMPUDENT BREACHES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. Received 20, 8.40 p.m. Santiago de Chili, November 20. Official. —The naval authorities have received proof that German warships violated Chilian neutrality, staying for several days at Juan Fernandez Island, capturing two neutral ships and seizing their coal ami provisions.-- Tho French vessel Valentine was sunk- within territorial waters. CHILI RESORTS TO ARMS. DESTROYERS SENT TO JUAN FERNANDEZ. Received 27, 12.25 a.m. Santiago de Chile, November 2(1. The Government lias despatched three destroyers to Juan Fernandez. GERMANS IN SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS'. A WARNING TO THE ALLIES. Received 27, 1.10 a.m. London, November 20. In the House of Commons, Mr. Charles Roberts stated that Great Britain and Trance had repeatedly endeavored to secure the removal of the German wireless staff at Cartagena. They were also effective in dismantling' the wireless on German ships in Colombian ports. Finally they intimated to the United States that they might be obliged to take pro-

tcctivo measures. A similar warning was issued to Ecuador respecting the Galapagos Islands..

A STORY OF SEAMAN'S GRIT. IN THE SYDNEY-EMDEN FIGHT. THE STUFF OF WHICH HEROES ARE MADE. Received 27, 12.25 a.m. Colombo, November 20. The tailors wounded in the SydneyEmdeii action are progressing favourably. A storv of real grit and pluck on the part of Seaman Home was told by one of his comrades. "Horue was a sightsetter on the 0-inch starboard gun. Ho was crouched ready for the command behind the shield of the gun. A shell burst just behind us, killed the gunlayer, and injured four out of the nine men serving the gun. Home got it badly in both legs and the shoulder, but crawled back to his scat behind the. battered shield, and stayed there until ordered below.