ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1916, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

THE ATTACK ON GERMANY. GERMAN GRANARY DESTROYED. LOSS OF BIG AIRCRAFT. IiI'ITiSTI BOMBARD TOWN'S. Received March 28, fl.ii p.m. Copenhagen, March 27. Travellers from Schlcswig say that the British burned the granary at Randerup. They smashed up a large German battle seaplane, and bombed Hoyer and Tonderln. The Politiken estimates that five German cruisers, twenty destroyers, Ave battle hydroplanes, and Zeppelins partook in the engagement. The orew of tin; Saldding lightship state that shells from aeroplanes destroyed a British torpedo boat. SCENE OF THE RAID. Tondern, which has been bombed by the British, was the objective, of the raid. It is situated about nine miles from the mainland coast of SchlcswigHolstein. Hoyer is a town near »y. Sehleswig-Holstein is bounded on the north by Denmark, on the east by the Baltic Sea, Mecklenburg, and Lubeck, on the south and south-west bv the province of Hanover, from which it is separated by tlie River Elbe and Hamburg, and on the west by the North Sea. It. include s the North Frisian Islands, in ihe North Sea, and the islands of Alsen and Fehmarn, in the Baltic. Sylt, one of the North Frisian Islands. Is off tU< west coast of Schlcswig. It is twentytwo miles long anil very narrow, its area being thirty-seven square miles.

AMUSING GERMAN' VERSION. Received March 28, 5.5 p.m. Paris, March 27. A Berlin wireless states that English naval forces carried out an aeroplane attack on the north Friecian coast, but fnilcd completely. Two armed German fishing steamers on outpost service fell victims, but our naval aeroplanes attacked and scored a number of hits, j seriously damaging an English destroyer. We immediately se.nt out forces, but a few torpedoers only came into touch 'with the retreating enemy. One of these torpedoers has not yet returned. A German wireless message says that five English hydroplanes attacked the airship sheds in northern Schleswig. Three, including a battleplane, were brought down by the anti-aircraft section. and five airmen were made prisoners. Bombs dropped in the vicinity of Jloyfrischleuse did no damage to the prisons. LOSS OF THE SUSSEX. 100 LIVES LOST. A REVOLTING PANIC. London, March 27. It is believed that a hundred lives were lost on the Sussex. Probably most of the passengers in the fore cabin were killed by the explosion, and the twenty passengers in the saloon were mostly killed or wounded.

A passenger states that there was a painful rush for the boats, men pushing women out of the way. Others flung children into the boats, and a number of r.'omen threw themselves into the sea. Many heartrending scenes were witnessed. One man ran about screaming that he had just found the bodies of his wife •and son, horribly crushed. Sailorß worked for nearly two hours to extricate a man whose legs were cut off. Tile officers, finding that the bulkheads were holding, did their best to reassure ihe passengers. Mr. Rutherford. ex-M.P., narrates that then; was a revolting panic among the male passengers. Some frantically (rushed the boats, and a dozen were needlessly drowned as no attempt was. made to rescue them.

THE SUSSEX TORPEDOED. ALL AMERICANS SAVED. Received March 28, 9.35 p.m. London, March 27. The verdict at the inquest on the vlctim s of the Sussex was that the vessel was torpedoed. All of the twentyfive Americans on board were saved, "BARBAROUS BLOOD LUST." Times and Sydney oun Services. Received March 28, 5.5 p.m. London, March 27. Details of the torpedoing of the Sussex show that the passenger who had both legs cut off was Prince Gohrani of Persia. An American girl saved a man's life by pressing an ai'tory in the fingers for two houT9. The Times, in a leader, says that in torpedoing the Sussex the Kaiser's favorite service intended a wholesale murder similar to dynamiting a hotel. Obviously the motive was terrorisation or sheer blood-lust. Germany cannot hope that this fresh outburst of savagery will inspire the terror which the sinking of the Persia, Lusitania, Falaba, and Arabic failed to create. Therefore we are compelled to regard the latest crime as due to mere primitive and barbarous blood-lust.

DUTCH EQUIP RESCUE SHIPANOTHER. GERMAN DENIAL. Amsterdam, March 27. The Dutch Government has stationed the Atlas, a specially equipped rescue •ship, near the North Hinder lightship, j Germany officially denies the loss of a submarine; also the Greif engagement.