ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 March 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

THE CAPTURED RAIDERA DANGEROUS VESSEL. Received March 25, lu.uo p.m. Vancouver. March 2V The captured raider is reported to 1)9 able In sink any merchant ship in the Pacific. It is believed she was fitted out on (he west toast of Mexico, ami manned exclusively by Germans. A ~ United Mate:; warciiip overhauled her at ■ sea and captured he,v without dilficutiy. The United States Department of Ju». tice is investigating how the clcuranot of her papers was obtained.

RUSSIAN SHIPS a PURCHASED BY THE ALLIES. Received March 2j, ~>.ii p.m. Tokio, Murch 21 It is reported that the Allies have pm> chased all the slipping, in the eastonf Russian littoral, comprising UJIi.OOO tons, in order to prevent if falling into th» hands of the Bolsheviks.

"A SHINING EXAMPLE." Received March 25, 5.20 p.m. ' , Amsterdam, March 24.' Captain von Mueller, interned in Holland, has compiled a history of the Em- ■ den's exploits. The Kaiser acknowledge ing'a copy, and conferring the Order of the Pour Le Merite upon Muller, wrote: "Xougavo the world a i.hinlng example of the most energetic and knightly cruiser warfare." SPANISH STEAMER SUNK. Madrid, March - 24. The Taya Company's steamer Gaudil- ' quiver, cotton laden from America, hag been torpedoed. The Taya Company had already asked the Government to hand over an interned German vessel pending the settlement of compensation for the torpedoing of its steamer Arpil« las.

GERMAN VESSEL CAPTURED, : Christionia, March 24A British armed trawler captured tb\ ore-laden German steamer Valerie. A BOOMERANG TORPEDO. Stockholm, March 24. The steamer Ftixton on a voyage from Havre to New Tort encountered a submarine oil' Portland. She saw a torpedo approaching when it broke the surface, became deflected from its course, made a complete turn like a boomerang, striking the submarine, which was preparing to fire a second torpedo. A terrific ex* plosion and upheaval foiled.