GERMAN RAIDER IN INDIAN OCEAN
MENACE TO AUSTRALASIAN SHIPPING ANNOUNCEMENT IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT (Rec. March 8, 10.15 p.m.) . . ■ . m , ~ ~ Melbourne, March 8. • if 175 * 017 ! su « ound,n S . th ° v agno reports concerning a danger to shipping off the Australian coast* has now been officially verified. Tho Minister for the Navy (Mr. Joseph Cook) announced in the Federal Houso of Renrosentatives to-diay that definite information had heen received to tho effect that a raider was operating between Colombo and Aden on February 27 The raider was a large cargo steamer of 4COO tons, carrying guns, torpedo tubes and a seaplane. ' The Minister, while cautioning the public against panic, or checkiue tho sailings of merchant ships, pointed out that a raid on the Australian sbmpinoroutes was not impossible, and precautious must be taken. Not siucotha Sydney sank tho Emden had tho trade routes in theso wators been so directly threatened. "Theraidor Jhaß brought the war a, little closer to our part of the world," he said. —Press Association.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3023, 9 March 1917, Page 5
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