LOOKING AHEAD

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 75, 25 September 1914, Page 7

LOOKING AHEAD

THE DOINGS OF A GERMAN VESSEL. AWAITS THE DECLARATION OF WAR. LONDON, 23rd September. The steamer Baden was acting as tender to the German cruiser Dresden when the Holmwood war sunk. She cleared Cardiff with another HamburgAmerican liner with coal on 20th Julj, and proceeded to Las Palmas, and there awaited the German cruisers and the declaration of war. Never under normal conditions did she carry coal. The vessels were chartered a vreek before 20th July to act as tenders to German cruisers in the war, which Germany had determined on before Austria delivered her ultimatum to Servia. [The assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand took place at Sarajevo on 28th June; the Austrian ultimatum to Servia was delivered on 23rd July and expired on the 25th. The Dresden is a sister of the 'Emden, which has created so much havoc among merchantmen in the Indian Ocean. The Dresden is one of three ships which were reported in the West Atlantic the others being the Karlsruhe and the Strassburg. She is a vessel of 3600 tons, armed with ten 4.1-inch guns, and has a speed of about 25 knots. The Baden, a steamer of 7676 tons, belonging to the HamburgAmerica line, sailed, according to an English shipping journal, from Barry (close to Cardiff) for Punta Arenas on 21st July, and was reported at Teneriffe on 27th July. The Holmwood, a. vessel of 4223 tons, built in 1912, and owned by F. S. Holland, of London, left Newport on 29th July for Bahia Blanca (Argentina).]