With the Fleets.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 241, 20 March 1915, Page 5

With the Fleets.

END OF THE KARLSRUHE. MACEDONIA RECAPTURED. London, March 18. Danish reports allege that the explosion broke the Karlsruhe in two. The survivors readied Germany, where the men were sworn to secrecy. A member of the Poturo's crew, which was supposed to have been sunk by the Karlsruhe, who was a prisoner for six weeks on board the Kronprinz Wilhelm, states that six of the Kronprinz's crew were shot for disobeying orders. The Daily Mail's Madrid correspondent reports that a British cruiser has recaptured file Macedonia, which broke away from Ens l'almas. THE KARLSRUHE. ' DISAPPEARED LAST DECEMBER. 'Received Marcli 19, 9.35 p.m. Copenhagen, March 19. Evidence is accumulating that an explosion on the Karlsruhe sank her on December 18th, off the Grenadines, a cluiin of small islands in the Windward Group, West Indies. The crew was brought to Germany aboard the steamer Rio Negro, and they kept the secret in order that British cruisers would continue chasing the Karlsruhe.

THE DRESDEN. HOW SHE WAS CORNERED. Valparaiso, March 18. Commander Fielding, of the Orama, states that the Dresden was sighted ji dozen miles from Juan Fernandez. The warships immediately set,out in hot pursuit. The Glasgow was the first to secure a hit, and got in several shots before the Dresden replied. Meanwhile the Kent swung in to intercept the Dresden's attqmnt to reach territorial waters. The Dresden's upper deck-works were already ablaze, and the Kent had put in only a few shots when the raider hoisted the white flag. The fire was then in proximity to the magazine, and an explosion occurred a few minutes after the Germans left the ship in her own boats.

THE KAISER AND HIS FLEET. ANXIOUS TO ENGAGE BRITAIN? OVERHAULED AND RE-MANNED. Received March 19, 9.35 p.m. Basle, March 19. A telegram from Kiel states that the Dreadnoughts are being overhauled and re-manncd. Owing to their long rest the boil.'rs are showing -signs of rust. 'They will undergo sea trials and gun .trials for a week. Since the outbreal; of war the crews have been distributed., and many have 'been killed and wounded in land fighting. The biggest guns were sent to Belgium. The Germans boast that they can meet the English naval attack. It is freely stated that the Kaiser intend* to send the fleet for a fair fight in the North Sea.

ANOTHER STEAMER SUNK. TORPEDOED IN THE CHANNEL. Received March 19, 9.35 p.m. London, March 19. The steamer Glenartney, from Bangkok to London, was torpedoed in the Ciannel, and sank in half an hour. A destroyer landed the crew at Newhaven. An apprentice was drowned. HONOR RICHLY DESERVED. Received March 19, 9.3 a p.m. London, March 10. Captain Bell, of the Thordis, which rammed a German submarine, has been appointed a lieutenant in the naval reserve, and has received the Distinguished fervice Cross. The Admiralty has giTen the crew £-200. THE SEA FREE. "For the first tine in history England can say, 'the sea is free,'" declared the First j-ord of the Admiralty, in an interview with M. Ilugues Leroux, editor of The Matin. "In the days when you and we fought each other/' he continued, "our most important victories never brought us security comparable with that which we enjoy to-day. Even after Trafalgar, we knew nothing like it. "Supposing Germany has friendships and relationships in Soutli America, how can help reach her from them now? "There remains the United States. ■Public opinion there hesitates, pcrhaps > in bestowing its sympathies, but at the present moment it is fully unified. We shall arrange to take precautions fully compatible with the rights of belligerents and the respect due to neutrals. "Our adversary, perhaps, can obtain a few supplies from Turkey and Asia Minor. I cherish no illusions, for as long as there are neutrals, a complete blockade must be chimera, Germany will still continue to receive a smalt quantity of that whereof she has considerable, but meanwhile you and we breathe freely, thanks to tlic sea we have kept and can keep open. "Germany is like a man throttled with a J.eavv gag. You know the effect of such a gag when action is necessary. The cfTort wears out the heart, and Germany knows it. The pressure shall not be relaxed until she gives in nnconfor even if you of France, and if our ally Russia should deckle to withdraw from the struggle, whicli is inconceivable, we English would carry on the war to the bitter end. "The action of a navy necessarily is ,slow, but the pressure it exercises on an adversary is unrelenting. Compare it to the. forces of Nature, to the inexorable grip of winter, and remember that it is a stress nothing can resist."