Maritime Activities

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 170, 24 December 1914, Page 5

Maritime Activities

"DEPENDS ON ENGLAND." GERMAN' GRAND-ADMIRAL'S OPINION. THE NAVY WILL NOT COMB OUT. Received 23. 5.30 p.m. Amsterdam, December 23. A :'v 111 i-ocial ugenvy circulates ai interview with Grand-Udmiral Von Tir pitz, in supreme command of the Germai navy, in which he stated that the dura, turn of the war depended 011 England Questioned as to whether the Germai fleet would come out to attack tlu English, he replied: "Can you expect 0111 Heel, which is only one-third of the English, to come out and allow tin English to deliver its death-blow?" Admiral Tirpitz believed that the use of .submarines against English merchantmen would be more effective than au) ; Zeppelin raid. WISII FATHER TO THE THOUGHT. Received 23. 5.40 p.m. London, December 23. The Lokal Anzeige>r says the Englisli are trembling more and more at every thought of a Gorman invasion, and that there is the utmost mistrust of the navy and its controllers. THE RAID ON YARMOUTH. BELATED DETAILS. MINE-SOWING THE OBJECT. Received 23, 11.30 p.m. London, December 23. The Viennese newspaper Die Zeit pubI lishes a German sailor's letter, describ. ing the raid on Yarmouth. This indicates that either tlie iSeydlit/, or the Moltke carried out the raid*. The vessel started at 0 o'clock in the evening. The crew were at the guns all night, and they reached the coast at S o'clock next morning without sighting the enemy's ships. The vessel was unable to get lose owing to mines, but the main object of the raid was gained by enabling the smaller cruisers to strew' English waters with mines. CATCHING THE KONIGSBERG. TWO BRITISH FLEETS CO-OPERATE. Received 23, 10.30 p.m. London, December 23. The crow of the British steamer Newbridge, which has returned to Shields, state that vessels belonging to the East Indian and 'Mediterranean Squadron 'caught the Somali, which accompanied the Konigsberg on her raiding expeditions, and sunk her at the mouth of the luifigi river. The Britishers then took the Newbr'dge and another vessel, and sunk them acjoss the channel, completely bottling up the Konigsberg. •djauat MONMOUTH'S HEROIC CAPTAIN. "I WILL ENGAGE THE ENEMY!" GLASGOW FEARFULLY PUNISHED. Received 23, 8.10 p.m. London, December 22. A member of the Glasgow's crew states that Admiral Craddoek's last message to the Glasgow was: "Gofc away at full speed." The Monmouth's captain signalled: "[ can't get away, because the ship is making water rapidly, so I will go back and engage the enemy, and try to ram or torpedo one." The Glasgow at one period received the concentrated fire of five German guns. The rolling of the, ship saved her being riddled. A VALUABLE CAPTURE. London, December 22. Tlie British warships near the Falkland Islands captured the new IlainburgAmerican liners Baden and Santa Isabel, which were acting as supply ships to the. German cruisers. STIIAMER inNED OFF ENGLISH COAST. Received 23, 8.30 p.m. London, December 23. The Norwegian steamer Boston, timber.ladcn, for London, was mined off Filey, em the Yorkshire coast. The erew landed.