ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

*■■ 111 . - THE GERMAN FLEE& fiUKHOSDH} KBBEL4ODKS ... - as-—s Captain Persia*, in the Tageblatt, makes sensational rewiationa. Only the .misty weather and Admiral Ton Senear's good lwutaimip eased the whole licet from destruction at the Skagerrack, otherwise the Britaft long-*ange gnus Would have amiahed! up the lighter Germans. As it was, the, German losses

By the beginning o$ 491? 23s battle* •hips were disarmed; o/wrg to the. • atareity of metal, and by IfeAegraning of 1918 only flka and battle-cruisers remained; the est were, destroyed and the metal W&en< Eighty-three submarine* con-* etrocted in WW, o# w*jeh 66f -were de* stroyed. In October* Germany had" 146 submarines, ami in J|nne, 191% she lad lift, tat ohly about l%per cent were, •ftrwly sttgJgpd. "OOfy- pap <jent. of? the sntjnrrraea vm hv-Wbori 38 per cant Kpamn& and 20sper cent incapacitated. The crews ites* iiisnflßoiently trained, andft was verediffia&t to get men in the last mooihia. Seamen regarded the aubmar ue- -ae, potj&aL stupidity. ■

When the navy wa» ordered out for

a second Skagerrack a mutiny broke out. If the seamen bad obeyed innumerable lives would nave, beat lost—Aus. £2. Cable Assoc. THE AUSTRAU/WRAMMED. £Y BATTLE-CRUISER NEW " / - ZEALASD. -Ray -~ i■■ ■ Sydney, Nov. 21. A recently-returned bluejacket states that be was on board the warship Australia when the was rammed by the warihip New Zealand. The vessels were en(pged in a decoy expedition in the vicinity of Heligoland The accident was caused by an error in executing an older. The Australia was badly damaged, but managed to crawl home. Be added: "Only a fog saved us, as plenty of the German submarines were about, and we should not base had a chance if one had spotted us."—Aus. N.Z. Cebia Assoc..

20 GERMAN; U-BOATS. SURRENDER TO BRITISH. New York, Nov. 20. Twenty German submarines flprrenJered to Admiral Tyrwhitt on tb* Harwich coast.—An*/ NX Cable Ass«e. Received Nov. 21, 7.50 pj&. London, Nov. 20. The crews of the surrendered submarines were transferred to a transport rod immediately sent back to Germany. —Times Service.

OCTOBER SHIPPING LOSSES.

A CONSIDERABLE FALL. London. Nov. "A '• The Admiralty- announces that BBritsh merchant tonnage losses in October stalled 84,000 tons gros*. and the Allied md neutral tonnage combined 93,000 ions. The sailings <rf steamdbrps exceeding 500 tons gross between the United Kingiom and oversea ports, including crossChannel traffic, exceeded 7i million tons in October.—Aus. NX Cable Assoc.

A MINESWEEPER TORPEDOED.

London, Nov. 20. Official: The minesweeper Ascot was torpedoed tad sunk with all hand* on November 10. off the north-east coast if England. Fifty-three are missing.-* Aafc]?.Z. CfcNe Assoc, and Reates,