With the Fleets.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 278, 3 May 1915, Page 5

With the Fleets.

ADMIRAL VON SPEE. .ANOTHER VESSEL TORPEDOED. BECGRJft OF LOSSES FOR APRIL. London, April 30. Hie-Eon. \V. L. Allardyce, ex-Governor, of the Falklands, relates that after the battle of Coronel t'le German colony at. Valparaiso gave a 'baiujuct to Admiral ¥01) Spec. The final toast was "Damnation to the British Xavy." Admiral von: Sp.ce- rose and said that neither he nor his officers would respond, and they thereupon withdrew. At the door hoobserved that flowers had been strewn: ou the steps in his honor, and remarked:: "You had better keep these for my grave. T'-tey may be wanted." Lloyds Stornoway correspondent reports that a British steamer was sunk by a submarine off the island of Lewis* The crew landed at Carloway, Lewis. The Admiralty reports that submarines sank nine vessels in April, totalling 17,124 tons, and ten trawlers of 1735 tons. A submarine sank a trawler 75 miles off the Tyne. She gave fcbe erew time to quit. A patrol boat afterwards chased the submarine and fired several shots.

Official.—A British cruiser re-captured the steamer Macedonia, a. HamburgAmerika liner, which escaped from Las Palnias on March 17. German airmen threw two bombs at the American steamer Cus'nng midway between the North Foreland and Flushing, doing no damage.

WARNING TO THE LUSITANIA. "WILL SHE BE TORPEDOED? Received May 2, 3.50 p.m. ' >*o\v York, May 1. Fifty anonymoas telegrams were received by wealthy Americans aboard the Lusitania, on the point of sailing, warning them that the liner would be tor- I pedoed. Relatives of passengers besieged them, begging them to abandon the voyage. The majority, however, departed. Foreigners round the docks passed the word that death accompanies the Lusitania this voyage, _thus creating a panifi. GERMAN VESSEL AT SUVA. Suva, May 1. The schooner Eifrid has arrived and »ill be disposed of by the Prize CoL-it at Suva. INDEMNITIES FOPv SEIZURES. Received May 2, 5.30 p.m.. Amsterdam, May 1. The Prize Court at Hamburg awarded several Dutch companies indemnities for the seizure and detention of trawlers. RUSSIAN STEAMER SUNK. Received May 8, 12.10 a.m. London, Mnv 1. Tin- U23 torpedoed the Russian coal steamer Svorno off the Kerry coast. She sink in twelve minutes. The crew was saved in the bouts.