DELUDING THE ENEMY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1915, Page 5

DELUDING THE ENEMY.

BRITISH SQUADRON SLIPS PAST. ENTERS THE BALTIC. Received Nov. 23, 5.3 p.m. London, Nov. 22. Renter's Copenhagen correspondent says that the naval activity oil the part of British and Oermai) ships in the Cattegat during the past week is skid to be due to the successful passage of large numbers of submarines into the Baltic. A British squadron, including dreadnoughts, several cruisers, and many torpedoers, escorted the submarines and entered The Scaw, where 1 the larger vessels stopped, while the torpedoers escorted the submarines as far as Elsinore, from whence the submarines proceeded to the Baltic. The Germans were too late in discovering the movement, but sent a flotilla of torpedoers at full speed up the Sound, but when they saw the British squadron in The Scaw they retreated to Thelma and arrived at Gothenburg safely,

AN AMERICAN COLLIER. SEIZED BY BRITISH CRUISER. New York, Nov. 22. A British cruiser seized the American collier Genesee off the West Indies on the ground that she was partly owned •by Germans. The consignees, Blake and Co., are demanding that, if the. vessel is truly American, the United States should send a warship forcibly to take the Genesee from British custody. BRITISH STEAMERS SUNK. London, Nov. 22. The British steamers HaUamshire and Merganser have been sunk. The crews were saved,