MARITIME ACTIVITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 182, 11 January 1915, Page 6

MARITIME ACTIVITIES.

II ERR BALLIX AGAIN. THAT NEW NAVAL BASE, Amsterdam, .January S. Ilciv Balliii, writing in the Frankfurter Zeituii" aumits that Britain lias the German oversea trade to a htiimhstill. The North Sea was easily blockaded. England's piratical pressure upon Scandinavia and Holland would have been impossible if Germany lmd had a proper naval base. They must in future fleck a base beyond the Xortli

Sea area. [Herr Ballin in November said that England was already beaten, because she had hidden her fleet.] I ______ THE CUXHAVEX RAID. GERMANS BRAND IT A FAILURE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 8. German newspapers declare that the ■ Cusliavcn raid was a failure, and that all the bombs missed their mark. A RED CROSS SHIP. TURKISH TRANSIWr SUNK. Time* and Sydney Sun Services. I/Oiulon, January 8. A naval correspondent of the The Times, commenting on the heavy death rolls, recommends that a Red Cross ship, liberally supplied with boats, should accompany the fleets. Paris, January 8. Ollicia!. —A Turkish transport struck a mine and sunk at the entrance to the Bosphor's. A Russian cruiser and destroyer shelled the cruiser Medjidieh (•23-12 tons) near Trebizond. The Medjidieh was damaged. She escaped, but) the (van-port s h«> was convoying iras sunk.