With the Fleets.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 229, 6 March 1915, Page 5

With the Fleets.

GERMAN ARMED LINER INTERNED. SWEDISH STEAMER STOPPED. • THORDIS EARNS THE BOUNTY. Bahia B/anca, March 4. The German armed cruiser Seydlitz is interned here. [The Seydlitz (4547 tons), is one of the North German Lloyds' vesfcek. She escaped from Sydney at the beginning of t!'< war without her papers and disappeared for a time. She was reported at Valparaiso on October 21 and apparently then made her way to the Atlantic. She called at an Argentine port on December 21. and has npw decided that discretion is the better part of valour, and will re wain in an Argentine port till the end of IK- war.]

Copenhagen, March 4. The Swedish steamer Blenda has been arrested. She embarked a large cargo of guns at Copenhagen, ostensibly destined for Dedcagateh (Turkey), biit intended firstly to call at Bothenhurg then at Lubeck. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, March i. Lady Jcllicoc, addressing the Women's War Club, said her husband had been ashore for twelve hr«i!rs since Ihc war began, ten hours at the Admiralty and two r>t home. Frrr.ee is greatly pleased w'tli the British reprisals. Dutch comment is varie.l and England is blamed for not abiding by the Declaration of London.

The damage to the Thordis supports th ' captain's story. |T*ie Thordis appears to he a small •Vorw.g'an steamer' of 298 tons, wheh has traded between Norway and Tvne ports.]

THE GERMAN NAVY. ONLY A STRATH* JICAL I'ORCE. TAKES NO CATTLE RISKS. Ixmilon, March 4. lecturing at Kiel University, GrandAdmiral von Koester declared that it was necessary that German should have an unconquercd army and navy, so as to secure favorable peace terms. If the navy were to fight a superior force it might be destroyed and what would it avail if each ship was accompanied to the bottom by an enemy ship with perhaps a few more. England would still have sliips left to attack t"Re German coast .it leisure. The German fleet had shown inoffensive initiative in attacking the English coast. The British Admiralty was evidently afraid of the German ships and would not attack them where thV.v lav.

A comment says that Admiral Koester's explanation indicates to the Bfitisli fl:at the German navy was built to wait for peace. The situation has only one parallel, that when the French cavalry in 1705 captured the Dutch fleet. Admiral Koester's navy will become a land force and will probably be captured by a land force.

THE "MADE-IN-GERMAN Y" BLOCKADE. COUNT REVENTLOW'S OPINIONS. Received 8, 12.15 p.m. London, Mareh 5. Berlin reports that Count Revcntlow, in an article in the Deutsche Tagezeitung, expresses strong displeasure at Germany's reply to the United States' blockade Note. He declares that according to ffiis reply," ~a submarine would let a merchantman pass under the English flag with courteous bows, or perhaps salute tins tfag. To proceed according t# international rules would mean abandoning the search and possible capture of neutral ships, or the capture of hostile ships. Such a course for German submarines is out of the question. If England promised to stop the u=p of false flags, he did not believe that England would keep the j>romise, and Germany would in any case be the loser. Die Post says the fact that (lie United Slates alleged that the proposals were based on upright friendliness, and submitted in the interests of humanity, were enough to make on suspicious from the start.

ESCAPED A SUBMARINE. Received 6, 12.15 a.m. London, March 5. Submarines chased the Red Cross steamer, St. Andrew conveying wounded to C'heesenel. The latter went at full speed, and escaped.