With the Fleets.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 273, 28 April 1915, Page 5

With the Fleets.

THE ELUSIVE GERMAN FLEET. A LIKELY EXPLANATION. A TRAWLERIS EXPERIENCE. "NORTH SEA A BIT MIXED." MARVELLOUS GUNS OP THE QUEEN ELIZABETH. Received April 27, 5.40 pan. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) London, April .27. The Berlin press affirms .that .the German fleet is' cruising in the North Sea, but it has not been sighted by British warship 3. The newspaper Scotsman states that the Germans Slave not lost sight of Heligoland day or night, but have kept in the shelter of their muie.-fiejds iu a condition of activity bespeaking .their consciousness, of powcrlessness to strike. Fear of aggressive action on the,part of the British lias caused the withdrawal of practically every Ger.:.ian submarine from the blockade duty), ..j.as to i protect the fleet and harbors. The skipper of a trawler which unexpectedly returned to-Grimsby was asked by the owner why lie had come back. he replied: "The North Sea is a bit mixed up. Ou our port side was a minefield, on the starboard quarter was a German submarine, and abowe hovered a •Zeppelin, so I thought it best to.make "tracks home."

A correspondent in the Mediterranean says that every full ship, whether battleship, transport, or cargo ship, is .moving eastward, while those going westward are empty, and are returning for fresh loads of soldiers, ammunition aaid stores. Dealing with tiie vessels engaged at .the Dardanelles he declares that tlie ( : Queen Elizabeth's guns will make tevery other gun look ridiculous and contemptible. The gunners claim that they can almost land a shell upon a penny piece at fifteen thousand yards. They have already done some wondenui shooting Vight across the Gallipoli Peninsula.

GERMAN TORPEDOERS IN THE NORTH SEA. i THIRTY SIGHTED. ' Copenhagen, April 2G. A skipper who arrived at Esbjcrg (Jutland) reports seeing during the last two days thirty German torpedoers in the North Sea. THE KRONPRINZ WILHELM. Washington, April 2G. The captain of the Kronprinz Willielm, a German armored liner, has decided to inters. NAVAHA VOLUNTARILY SUNK. Amsterdam, April 26. A Berlin telegram asserts that the Orama did not sink the Navarra, but the latter was voluntarily sunk to avoid capture by: the pursuing cruisers.