ON THE SEA.
C r PMAN FLEET AT SEA. . STEAMING WESTWARD. TO BREAK THE BLOCKADE. Received March 9, 5.15 p.m. London, March 9. A Ymuiden telegram states that a trawler reports having sighted, oft" Terschelling on Monday afternoon, a fleet ot at least fifty German warships, followed by a large fleet of armed trawlers, two big Zeppelins, ami numerous submarines. They were proceeding westward. O n Monday morning five large cruisers, of unknown nationality, passed Ymuiden at full speed. It is conjectured that this activity is in connection with an attempt to break the British blockade. (Ymuiden is a fishing town in North Holland, 15 miles north-west of Amsterdam. Terschelling is one of the Dutch Friosian islands, and is about 100 miles away form the month of the Kiel Canal.) ELUDED THE PATROLS. MOEWE'S RETURN ADMITTED. London, March S. Mr. Balfour, in the House of Commons, said the Mocwe had eluded the patrols in leaving Germany and liad succeeded in returning round the north of Iceland.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1916, Page 5
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166ON THE SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1916, Page 5
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