INTO STURDEE'S GUNS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 6

INTO STURDEE'S GUNS.

DRIVING TEE RAIDERS. . STORY OF AN AUSTRALIAN , ; STOKER. •-'• (Received 9.10 a.m.) " - ■''■ ' FREMANTLE, this day. A stoker on one of the Australian warships, who has just returned, gives same interesting details of the long chase the fleet had after the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau. He says sometimes the chasers would learn from people on an island touched at that "two huge ships" had crept into the harbour, provisioned at night, and hurriedly left at night. '.' Frequently ethergrams came the wa.y. of the warship on which the stoker served, and in a few moments the ship would he throbbing in the engineroom, but the long chase always ended in nothing. Once the ship caught a wireless from, one of the pursued German ships. The Australian man-o'-war asked, "Who are you?* The German arrogantly replied, "We are all right. You will have to learn German soon." The Australian ship's reply was, "Perhaps you will have to learn Japanese." During the search for the enemy the always t slept at, their guns. '. The stoker says that the sweeping operations which were carried out on the west-coast of America..in company wiftrthe Japanese cruisers were responsible for driving the Germans into Admiral Sturdee's guns off the FaDdands.