Maritime Activities

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 185, 14 January 1915, Page 5

Maritime Activities

ANOTHER SCOURGE REMOVED. KARLSRUHE REPORTED SUNK. ENGAGEMENT IN THE WEST INDIES. Ottawa, January 12. Private advices, unconfirmed, state that the German cruiser Karlsruhe was sunk in a light with the British off the island of Grenada, in the West Indies. A lifebuoy, marked "Karlsruhe" was found on the shore with much wreckage. The residents of Grenada report witnessing the battle which was waged at a great distance. [The Karlsruhe was an armoured cruiser of 4820 tons and was designed to steam 20 knots. She was armed with 12 4.1-in. quiekfirers and two machine guns and was completed in 1913.]

GERMAN CRUISER DAMAGED. Petrograd, January 12. The German cruiser Bremen arrived at Wilhelmshaven badly damaged by a mine. [The Bremen is a protected cruiser of 3200 tons, and has a speed of 23 knots. She is armed with ten 4.1-in. quick-firers. She was completed in 1904.] ADMIRAL SIR PERCY SCOTT VINDICATED. ■'EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SUBMARINE.

Timus anil Sydney Sun Services. London, January 12. The Times' naval correspondent says that tlie expected Ims happened. The submarine lias taken the place of the destroyer as a torpedoer. The loss of the Formidable proves that in addifon to working by stealth in daylight the submarine can boldly sally forth on the sucfitßS it "iffht, protected by eomparaUro invisibility, and search for a target. It appears that they work singly, but later may hunt in packs.

OEI!MAX TRADE THROUGH .VEI'TRALS. A SERVICE FROM COPENHAGEN. Times and Sydney ,Sun Services, Received 13, 5 20 p.m. London, January 1.1. Copenhagen reports that the Ilain-liurg-Amcrika Company is organising a regular service from Hamburg to Bremen, through the Kiel Canal, to Copen-