ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 April 1917, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

IN THE BALTIC. GERMAN SQUADRON. I i ■■•" ""' Copenhagen, April 23. Large squadron of German battleihips and cruisers are steering northward in the Baltic. This is causing speculation in Pctrograd as to a possible . German landing north of Riga. SUBMARINE CAPTURES. BASES QUICKLY DESTROYED. Washington, April 23. A member of the Balfour party admitted that twenty German submarines had been captured on the day previous to Mr. Balfour's departure. The U hoats f were searching for a destroyer T>ase, and "being unable to find it the starving ' l.erews gladly surrendered. Britain, he >aid, is capturing and sinking'more sub- »» 'marines than any one imagines and the (bases are sought out and destroyed II'BLOSt td soon as they are established. 'LEFT ON DECK. '•IKHUMAS ACT. H Washington, April 29. '* Consul England reports that a U boab, upon sighting a British patrol, submerged leaving 19 prisoners on the submarine's deck, -wio struggled in the sea for an hour before they were rescued by the patrol. They includea live Americans. . WOUNDED GERMAN SEAMEN. •ARRIVE AT BRUGES. Amsterdam, April 23. A number of wounded German naval .»en have arrived at Bruges.

NAVAL PRIZE COURT. ■ COMMANDERS''CLAIMS. ■ \ . Received' April 24, 5.55 p.m. London, April 23. .- At, the Prize Court Commanders Fitz- ,: maurice and Maxwell claimed £6OO as head money for captures at i-singta*), l-where, after the bombardment, they .'found seven German warships sunk. ? Fitzmaurice's and Maxwell's vessels, .the Triumph and the Usk, were the only •'British representatives with the Japanese fleet. It is impossible to say whe<ther the ships were sunk by gunfire lor scuttled. Fitzmaurice, in his evi- \ dence, was unable to give particulars, "as Ma papers were lost when the Tri'aimph foundered in 1915. Judgment was reserved.