With the Fleets.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 260, 13 April 1915, Page 5

With the Fleets.

A NAVAL ENGAGEMENT. OFF NORWEGIAN COAST. VIOLENT CANNONADE. STRONG FORCE OF GERMAN CRUISERS. Christiania, April 11. The inhabitants south of Bergen Island declare that three warships pursued Germans along the coast. The violent cannonade suddenly ceased and it 13 believed the German ships foundered. A storm is raging. FURTHER REPORTS. Copenhagen, April 11. The captain of the Vestfoss statet that he passed fourteen German cruisen. in the North Sea. Reports from Bergen state that the firing on Wednesday was very heavy, and lasted a considerable time It was rumored that it was due to cruisers trying to get into the Atlantic via the Norwegian coast, in order to replace the Emden as commerce-raiders. Rumors of a North Sea battle continue to arrive from Copenhagen, but have been delayed in transmission. One states that there has been firing in the direction of the island of Utsire. A "Bergen telegram states that there was a big battle till la'e at night off Samose, four miles west of Bergen. Searchlights were active and the gunfire caused the windows in Bergen to rattle. '-. (Bergen is a fortified town on the iiyfjord, in Norway. It 19 built on a peninsula separated from the mainland by the narrow Buddefjord. Long the chief port of Norway, it has latterly given way to Christiana. In 1665 Bergen was the scene of an engagement between the English fleet and the combined Dutch fleet and Norwegian garrison.)

TORPEDOED VESSEL SINKS. Rotterdam, April 11. The Harpalyce was torpedoed without warning and sank in less than five minutes. The crew jumped Into the water, having no time to lower the -boats. Some of the survivors were badly wounded. The captain of the rescuing steamer saw the periscope of a submarine. KRONPRINZ WILHELM?S MOVEMENTS. New York, April 11 The Kronprinz Wihem has arrived in Hampton Roads. (The Kronprinz Wilhelm is a North German Lloyd steamer ol 14,908 tons, with a speed of 23 knots.)