On the Sea.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 314, 14 June 1915, Page 5

On the Sea.

I - BRESLAU ACTIVE AGAIN. KSKA«B.\USXT WTWI RUSSI AX DESTROYER. EXRUXSrOK AlV'l) A FIR 13 OS BRKSLAU. Received June 14, ]'2.10 a.m. JVtrograd, .June 13. Official: Two of our torpedoers on Friday night, near the Bosphorus, encountered the Bmdiiu, whose searchlight showed up a Russian turbine destroyer. Tile latter attacked the cruiser, and there was a violent exchange of shells. _ Several struck the Breslau. An explosion was heard, and a fire was seen in her bowls. (Darkness preventea as seeing the extent of the damage. We had an officer and six men wounded. BRITISH NAVY LOSSES. ONE WARSHIP A lIOMII. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Receiwd June 12, 6.35 p.m. London, June 11. The Times' naval correspondent, referring to the sirfking of the destroyers, says these are the first to be sunk though there have been about a hundred in use, and it is a matter for surprise there were no greater losses. Despite the energy of submarines Germany lias only destroyed eleven British warships, or an average of one a month. GERMAN" SUBMARINE WORKERS. Received June 13, 2 p.m. Paris, June 12. German workmen employed on- the construction of a submarine at Hoboken have been transferred to Pola. THE PRINZ EITEL FREDERICK. Washington, June 11. Lieutenant Brauer and a number of men interned from the Prinz Eitel Frederick broke their parole and escaped to Europe. The commander of the Prim; Eitel Frederick asserts that Brauer and his men left the ship before their internment or the arrangement of parole. Madrid, Juno 11. The German arrested on board an ltalan steamer was the doctor of the Prinz Eitel, not the captain. < MORE VESSELS TORPEDOED. ' The Liverpool steamer Otago was tor- • icdoed and the crew landed at South 1 Shields. Amsterdam, June 11. ! A Dutch flailing boat picked up eight iurvivors of the two British fishing imacks Welfare and laurestina, which 1 vere sunk by a Zeppelin. 1 The trawler Letty was mined or tor- 1 )edocd on the Dogger Bank and the

reiv pcrislied. SUBMARINES NEAR KINSALE. London, June 11. A submarine sunk the Russian barque 'homassi by shell fire forty miles south f the Old Head of Kinsale. The crow rere six hours in the boats and landed ■t Quecnstown. (It was near Kinsale that the Luslania was sunk. AN UNFOUNDED REPORT. London, June 11. A Vienna telegram states an Austrian submarine torpedoed and sank off San Giovanni Di Medua a British cruiser of tho Liverpool class, which was accompanied by six destroyers. The Press Bureau states that the ship 1 which is presumably referred to is safe in harbor and not seriously damaged. (The Liverpool, Gloucester, and others of that class are light cruisers of 4820 tons, built in 1000, and carrying two 8-inch and ten 4-inch quick-firing guns.) Received Juno 13, 2.10 p.m. Rome, June 12. Semi-official: The ship of the Liverpool class, mentioned in an Austrian official report, co-operated with Italian destroyers successfully in the operations in the Oiulf of Drino, in the Adriatic, and returned with them to the Italian base at a speed of seventeen knots.