With tha Fleets.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 242, 22 March 1915, Page 5

With tha Fleets.

CHANNEL OUTRAGES. STEAIffiRS TORPEDOED. Received March 21, 5.5 p.m. London, March 20. The steamer Hyndford, from fflahia Blanca to London, was torpedoed in the Channel. The vessel reached Gravesend leaking. The steamer Blue Jacket, from La Plata to London, was torpedoed in the Channel without warning. She reached Southampton with hpr bows partly submerged. A LINER ATTACKED. Received March 21, 5.5 p.m. ' London, March 30. ass ® n £ Cl ' 9 le 11Icr Lapland report that a German -submarine attempted to torpedo her in tTTeTrfsh Sea. A British destroyer fired at the submarine. The result is unknown. BRITAIN'S SEABORNE TRADE. AND LOSSES OF MERCANTILE MARINE. Received March 2>l, 5.5 p.m. London, March 20. The British Admiralty announces that since the beginning of the war -fiftj>four British vessels have been sunk or captured by enemy cruisers, twelve sunk by mines, and thirty by submarines l , totalling 332,770 tons. The arrivals and sailings at United Kingdom ports of steamers of all nationalities exceeding 300 tons numbered 42,264, whereof 143 were lost. THE DRESDEN. GERMAN FAIRY STORIES. ACCUSE BRITISH SHIPS OF BREAKING THE RULES. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received March 21, 5.55 p.m. London, March 20. Wounded German officers at Valparaiso allege that the Dresden was anchored 40t0 metres from the shore when the British opened fire. The' Germans signalled a protest against t'le violation of Chilian waters. When the British persisted the crew fled inland, leaving the commander and a few men, who blew up the magazines. SWEEPING THE PACIFIC. AN OLD STORY RE-TOLD. QTremantle, March 20. A returned stoker on the Australian warships supplies interesting details of the long chase after the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst. Sometimes they would learn from Islanders that two huge ships had crept into a harbor, provisioned at night and hurriedly left in the night. Frequently ethergrams came from a distant warship, and in a few minutes there would be throbbing in the engineroom, but always nothing at the end of a long chase. They once caught a wireless from one of the pursued ships and asked, "Who are you?" The Germans arrogantly replied, "We are all right. You will have to learn German soon." Wo replied, "Perhaps you will have to learn Japanese." Men always slept at the guns. The sweeping operations on the west coast of America, in company with tV Japanese cruisers, were responsible for driving tlie German? into Admiral Sturdecs guns. Government rates considered SMALL. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, March 19. An agreement has neon reached between the Admiralty and the British companies whose vessels were requisitioned in Australia. It was decided that the freights be 3s per ton above the Blue Book rates for the period of the war. The ship-owners regard the rates as a compromise, and consider that had they chosen they could have made a strong case for better terms. ~ GERMAN TRIORS COPIED. Amsterdam, March 19. The Telcgraaf's Berlin correspondent states that when the bombardment of Smyrna began the Vali arrested two thousand French and British subjects and threatened to place them in front of the Allies' guns'if the ships did not cease firing.