ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1916, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

CLAN LINER SUNK. SOME OK THE CREW SAVED. Malta. Jan. "12. The f'liin MacEailanc was sunk on 1.1,''■ember MO. The chief o!licer. engineer, four other officers and eighteen Lascars wore pivked up. Thirteen Lascars died in the boat.

LOSS OF THE NATA

A COURT-MARTIAL FOLLOW?. i Wellington, Jan. i.t. The T-lioJi Commissioner report-; under date London, January 12. 4.1.1 p.m.: -In (he House of Commons Dr. Macnamar.i announced that a court-martial was-- beins held on the loss of the cruiser N'fiial, which was blown up in harbor as the result of an internal explosion. ITALIAN SHIPS SUNK. Received Jan. 13, 7.30 p.m. Rome, Jan. 12. The Italian ships Brindisi and Citta del Palermo have been mined in the Adriatic. Nearly all persons on board were saved. JAPANESE FLEET GUARDING SUEZ. While America and other parts of the world have been speculating as to the Kaiser's threat to attack Egypt on a large scale, a startling admission has been made at Los Angeles, Southern California, by A. M. Papajiau Bey, former Minister of Interior in Egypt,' a visitor to the Pacific Coast resort. He stated that Japan had entered the European theatre of war with a powerful fleet surreptitiously sent to the Suez Canal. ''Great Britain realises that she cannot lose the. Oana l , wlreh is a vital element in her life as a uuitiiv. Enipiio," declared Papajian Bey. "for chat reason the Canal has been remarkably lortificd and a Japanese fleet is on hand ready for business. Every effort ha 3 been made to keep the news of tits presence of Japanese battleships at the Canal from spreading, and I have hear! nothing of the fact in the Urr.'cd Statot. They .-wye there, nevertheless." Papajian Bey scoffed at the idea of a German invasion of Egypt, and said Germany seemed to be at her wits' end to know how to escape the iron ring of the Allies. ''Only in January and February, the least hot months, is it possible for n prcat army to cross? the desert sands between Turkey and Egypt," be asserted. "Then, too, the Red Sea forms a neutral barrier as efficacious as an army. Many ship? and transports would he. needed, and Germany twilil noi, procure them." The £.nnouncement that Japanese are in Jiarcpc has ereaj.s'l a deep inipr;»sion, ,