Maritime Activities

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 165, 18 December 1914, Page 5

Maritime Activities

BOMBARDING BELGIAN COAST. Received 17', 10.15 p.m. London, December 17. I, Monitors on the Belgian coast continue to harass the Germans. | THE END OF THE EMDEN. AN UNRECOGNISABLE -WRECK. CORPSES UTTER THE DECKS. Received 17, 10.15 p.m. Brisbane, December 17. . The steamer Montoro, en route from Singapore, visited tlie scene of the destruction of file Emden three days after the fight. It was impossible 'to get near the wreck owing to the terrible stench of the corpses littering tin; .ciujnplcd deck of the Emden, which was lKiyond recognition. BRITISH BOMBARD BELGIUM COAST, Wellington, Yesterday. I The Prime; Minister has received'the following from the High Commissioner dateel London 10, 5.20 p.m. — Paris reports that Wcxtcurie, Belgium, has been violently bombardeel by the English squadron. Tlie Belgians repulsed a counterattack at St. George, occupying the left bank of the Yser. The French progressed further at Arras, in the Aisne Valley, and in Cham- . pagne, where the artillery duels were ch'ai'ly in th.e French advantage. The Servian King ontorcd 'Belgrade at tlie head of his troops. No Austrians ', remain in Servia. ; BRITISH SQUADRON ACTIVE. Paris, Dcci'inbi'i- 18. A communique; states that a British squadron violently bombarded Wi'sionde. The Belgians repulsed a eoiinti'r-attck on St. George and occupied farms on the left bank of the Yser. LINER'S NARROW ESCAPE. New York, Deci'iivber 'lO. The Cunarder Transylvania has arrived. She reports that she narrowly es- ' capeel destruction by a mine north of Ireland. Two mines collided -a short distance befeire her bows and exploded, throwing a huge column of waler in the • air. A fragment of steel tore the -rail-; ings and the vessel's side. There we're :i«(i passengers on boarel. The force of the explosion lifted the Transylvania's : -bow.out of the water.