GERMAN CRUISERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 15 October 1914, Page 8

GERMAN CRUISERS

AUCKLAND, Oct. 13. The names of the vbhree German; planters who arrived by the Navua are George "William Hagedorn, Bruno Borchardt (both .of whom went out to the cruisers) ;■ and Reinhold Hofmann.

The three wireless- operators are Carl Grun, Otto Braund and Otto Ruckschus. The German cruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst caused a great stir of excitement in Apia on the morning of September 15th. When, at daylight, they anchored outside the reefs, wniciv prevent the entrance of s\u*h large vessels, a British force was promptly ordered to entrench behind, the defending shore guns, and when the cruisers turned their broadsides on to Apia it was thought a bombardment was to follow. "We realised, of course," said one of the New Zealanders who returned this morning, "that cruisers were hardly likely to bombard Apia, because they would have been, destroying property of their fellow-Germans. All the same, our nerves tingled for an hour or so whfla we were awaiting attack."