Maritime Activities

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 222, 26 February 1915, Page 5

Maritime Activities

THE DARDANELLES FIGHT. UNBELIEVABLE TURKISH ACCOUNT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Constantinople, February 21. It is officially announced that the Allies wasted six hundred shells in the Lombardment of the Dardanelles, while Ilie Ottoman gunners, with fourteen shells, put out of action the flagship and two other warships. MINE SOWING. SUBMARINES AT WORK. VESSELS SUNK. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, February 24. The Times naval correspondent, discussing the sinking of the Evelyn, says the locality makes it certain tluit it was due to a German mine. The truth is the Germans know little and care less, as to tile whereabouts of their floating mines. Thousands are dropped indiscriminately to the winds and waves and scattered far and wide, and not the slightest precaution is taken to render them innocous.

The indications are that only three submarines arc operating in the war zone. The worst that is likely to happen, unless the submarines have better luck, is the loss of a few of the slower and older ships. Christiania, February 24. A Swedish steamer reports seeing a sinking vessel off Mandal (at the south-' irn extremity of Norway). It is believed it was a German submarine. London, February 24. The steamer Oakley has been sunk in tile Channel. The crew were saved. The collier Parana was torpedoed off Eastbourne; 31 of the crew were saved. RETALIATORY MEASURES, Paris, February 24. The Journal des Debats states that the Allies' Note declares that all German property is liable to seizure under any flag. Every cargo desincd for Germany is a good prize. The strictest measures of identification are guaranteed. Amsterdam, February 24. The Rhine steamer Hannah, the skipper, proprietor, and others have been arrested at Rotterdam for having on hoard fivt tons of copper, including three thousand bullets, which were found hidden under phosphate. AMERICAN VESSEL MINED. Amsterdam, February 24. The American steamer Carib, cottonIrulen, struck.a mine and sank off the German coast. A semi-official communication from Bi rlin states that the Orkneys and Shetlands are included in the war zon<», but the passages of the Faroe Islands arc excluded.

THE CLAN McNAUGHTON. WRECKAGE FOUND. London, February 24. The Admiralty states that the sirmed nr-rehant cruiser Clan Macnaughton, with a, crew of 280. has been missing since February 3. It is feared she has been lost in ai gale. Received 25, 7.50 p.m. London. February 25. The Clan MeNaughten's crew included twenty-four New Foundlanders and sixty-nine men of the mercantile murine. Wreckage supposed to belong to the vessel has bene picked up. The last signal received from her was on the 3rd inst.

ANOTHER STEAMER SUNK. THE CREW RESCUED. Rsceived Feb. 24, 11.5 p.m. •London, Eel). 25. The steamer Harpolian, from London to the United States, was torpedoed off Eeachy Head. Three Chinese were killed. Forty-one of the crew were landed at Xewhaven. two suffering from scald. AMERICAN XOE TO GERMAXY, Received Feb. 25, 11.5 p.m. Washington, Feb. 25. The American Note to Britain and Germany seeks to induce Germany to abandon the so-called 'blockade of Britain by m«ans of mines and submarines, and the adoption by Britain, of the 'policy whereby German civilians will get food under Regulations preventing the army from securing it. The State Department, however, is not sanguine of the adoption of the proposal by Britain, as Sir Edward Grey had pointed out that the German army and the German people were the same thing. A DEADLOCK REACHED. Received 25, 7.20 p.m. Londong. Feb. 25 Mr Gerald Page has presenter -America's reply to the German Note. Apparently a deadlock has been reached and there is much uneasiness in the American colony.