With the Fleets.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 254, 6 April 1915, Page 5

With the Fleets.

TURKISH CRUISER SUNK

IX THE BLACK SEA.

Received 5, 5 p.m. Petrograd, April 4.

It is seini-oflicially reported tliat the Medjinieh, a Turkish cruiser, was mii cd and sunk on the Russian coast on Saturday.

GERMAN SUBMARINES.

TWO VESSELS TORPEDOED.

Received April 0, 1.5 a.m. London, April >. A Russian barque was torpedoed in the Channel. The crew was saved.

The collier City of Bremen \vas torpedoed and sunk off Land's End. Four were drowned.

A TALL GERMAN STORY.

THE RUNAWAY GOEBEN.

TALKS OF GALLANT FIGHTING.

Received 5, 8.20 p.m. Vienna, April 5. A newspaper publishing a Goeberi officer's letter describing the Goeben anil Breslau's escape in the Mediterranean, says: "When it was found that a British squadron was shepherding us we asked what they wanted. We received a reply that war was threatening between Britain and Germany, and as we were out-numbered we bolted. AH. from the officers downward, assisted in the stokehold, and we worked up a speed of 30 knots. The same niglit we were informed by wireless that war had been 1 declared, and half an hour later we beat oil' an attack by six torpedoers. We reached Messina utterly worn out, but a French squadron lay in wait. The Kaiser telegraphed that he was convinced that we would fight our way through, and we did. Our life or death run through thirteen ships and ten destroyers was vouched for by the heavily damaged French and British cruisers seeking refuge at Port Paid and Alexandria."