ON THE HIGH SEAS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2453, 22 September 1914, Page 2

ON THE HIGH SEAS.

SOME EXCITING EPISODES

Wellington, September 22. The High Commissioner reports:— Official.—Since the outbreak of the . war, H.M.S. Pegasus had been working from Zanzibar, rendering useful service, including the destruction of Daressalaam, the sinking of the German gunboat Moive, and of a floating dock. The Pegasus was attacked by the Konigsberg while at anchor in Zanzibar harbour cleaning her boilers and repairing machinery. She I was completely disabled. It is re-'j ported that 25 were killed and 80 wounded out of a crew of 234. The damage done to the Konigsberg is not known. When last seen, the German boat was steaming southward. On the 10th inst., the German cruiser JWmden, after being completely lost for six weeks, appeared suddenly from the Bay of Bengal. During the period September 10 to 14, she captured six British ship's, of which five were sunk and the sixth sent into Calcutta with her crew. The Emden is now reported j to be at Rangoon. _, The British auxiliary cruiser Car- ! mania fought a German armed mer- | ! chant cruiser, mounting eight 4-iuch i j guns. The action lasted one hour ! 44 minutes, when the German ship was capsized -and sunk. The warship Cumberland reports from the Cameroon river that a Ger- | man gunboat, on the night of the ! 14th inst., attempted to sink the gun- | boat Dwarf with an infernal machine. j The attempt failed, and a steamboat, with one prisoner, was captured on the 16th. The Dwarf was purposely I rammed by the German ship Nichti--1 gall, and slightly damaged, but theNachtigall was wrecked. I A further report from the Cumber- ! land states that two German launches were destroyed. Latest. Of the crew of tlie Carmania, nine men were killed, five seriously inI jured, and 21 slightly wounded. No officers were injured. The First Lord !of -the Admiralty sent the following I telegram to Captain Noel Grant, of the Carmauia: done! You have fought a fine action to a successful finish."