ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

GOEBEN-BRESLAU DASH. ASSOCIATED WITH UEAECO GERMAN INTRIGUES., Received ■lan. 20, 5.5 p.m. United Service. London, Jan. 24. The Daily Mail's Athens correspondent says that the Goeben-Breßlau dash is closely connected with the GraecoGerman intrigues for Constantine's restoration, intending to raid and destroy the Levant shipping, the success whereof would have enabled the German agents ill Greece to stir up dissension and endeavor to promote civil war. C IGHT WITH SUBMARINES. TWO PROBABLY SUNK. Received Jan. 25, 5.5 p.m. Madrid, Jan. 24. The Governor of the Canary islands reports an engagement between a British war vessel and two submarines, on the 17th inst. off Ferrol. The following day Spanish gendarmes found two German sailors, who stated they belonged to U-'boats 2!)4 and 295. They refused to state what was the fate of the submarines. MINED AND SUNK TWO GERMAN DESTROYERS. Received Jan. 28, I a.m. Copenhagen, Jan. 2,">. All officer and sixteen of the crew of a German destroyer landed at Honvijj, on the west coast of Jutland. They state that five destroyers left Heligoland on Sunday. When they bad proceeded sixty miles the destroyer A 77 was mined and sank. The destroyer A 73 hastened to the rescue, and was aiso mined and sank, whereupon the remaining three steamed away southwards. The whole crew of the A/3 perished. AMERICAN STEAMER TORPEDOED Received Jan. 25; 10.25 p.m. New York, Jan. 24. Survivors arriving at an Atlantic port report that the American steamei Owasco was torpedoed early i.n December on the Mediterranean coast. ITALIAN LOSSES. Rome, Jan. '24. Weekly arrivals 423, sailings 3GC. One vessel under 1600 tons was'sunk and one unsuccessfully attacked. THE FRENCH RETURNS. Paris, Jan. 24. The French submarine losses for the past two weeks are as follow: 1 This Last week week Arrivals 80fi 70S Sailings 754 751 Losses over 1000 tons .... 2 "> Sunk under ICOO tons .... 1 1 Unsuccessfully attacked 4 2 U-BOAT OFF COAST OF BRAZIL. New York, .Tan. 24. The captain of a steamer arriving at Boston reports that a U-boat was seen off the Brazilian coast. STEAMER LOSES LIFEBOATS. New York, .Tan. 24. Incoming vessels picked up S.O.S. signals from the steamer Bay of Kerran, which reported that she had lost her lifeboats,