THE NAVIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 239, 23 September 1914, Page 5

THE NAVIES.

CRUISER EMDEN’S WORK. BRITISH WARSHIP IN PURSUIT. Calcutta, Sep!. ’2l. The cruiser Emden, assisted b> misty weathter and intercepting wireless messages, sank between the 10th and 14th two colliers, tw< ernpt.v steamers ami the steainei Diplomat with a cargo worth .•£350,0110. including 10.000 package*of tea. All the captured crews wore transferred to the Kabanga. which wa l ' sailing for America. The Kabanga arrived in Calcutta on the 16th. A British warship is pursuing the Emden, which escaped southward. All sailings in the Bay <?•’ Bengal are temporarih cancelled. The Emden caused British owners and underwriters a loss of 1!7.50.1 mo. She treated the captured crews well. ANOTHER VICTIM. THE CLAN MATHESON. (Received 23 9 a.m.) London. Sept. 22. The Emden sank the Clad Matheson in the Bay of Bengal. The crew were landed at Rangoon. ‘ [The Clan Matheson was a twinscrew steel steamer of -1775 tons. She was built in 1906 for Cayzer, Irvine anti Co. (the Clan Line) by Messrs. Furness, Withy anti Co.. Ltd.. I Hartlepool. Her dimensions were : I Length -100 ft. breadth 51ft, and 'depth 27ft. | ADMIRALTY EXPENDITURE. FOR THE CURRENT YEAH. (Received 23, 9 a.m.) London. Sept. 22. The Admiralty return of naval expenditure for the current year shows :— > X, Britain 52,000.000 Germany 23.000,000 France 25,000,000 Russia 26,000.000 Italy 10,000.000 Japan 10.000,000 Austria 7,000,000 America 30,000,000 The return allows the personnel of the combatant navies as follow.; Britain, France and Russia combined 250.00 i) Germany and Austria .... 102.000 JAPANESE TORPEDOER SUNK. BY GERMAN CH FI SER. (Received 23. 9.55 a.m.) Peking, Sept. 22. Advices from Tsiao report that a German cruiser sank a Japanese tor pedo boat outside Kiao-Chau. LOSS OF SUBMARINE AEI,

The loss of submarine AEI, apparently by accident, reduces appreciably the strength of the Australian fleet. AEI and AE2, which formed the submarine section of the fleet unit, were launched at Barrow la'-t year. They were sea-going boats of a thoroughly modern type, capable of travelling at sixteen knots on the surface and two J2-pounder guns of a disappearing- type. Both vessels had experienced crews aboard. Ad min'd Patey lias not indicated where the disaster occurred but it is hardly probable that the submarines had left the Australian coast. They were both fully capable of patrolling the open seas, their radius being about 2000 miles, but the under-water craft are not expected to do the work of cruisers far from their bases. The Australian navy had not previously suffered the less of one ( ,f its vessels. A MENACE TO SHIPPING. The Zieten, which was reported last -week to have landed British passengers a, Lorenzo Marquez, in Portuguese East Africa, may lie tinGerman fishing cruiser of that name, an old 004 ton 13 knot craft armed

j with .fix -1-pounder guns. A cables I gram from London on August 25th ; stared that •‘the Austrian cruiser ' Zicten” lii.d been last heard of in ‘ rhe Mozambique Channel, but no > vessel of that name appears in the I Austrian navy list. The German ! warship is by no means a formidable i unit, hut apparent l,v .the has been i able to do some damage to British j shipping. The landing of passengers j suggests that some vessel flying the | British flag ha.; been captured and I ; THE ITALIAN NAVY. If Italy becomes involved in the ! war a very formidable fleet will be i loosed again*. t the Austrian warships j which -are already eomp’leteiv oiit- ! classed by the French and British I squadrons. The tt.ili'ai navy conj tains tour compieied Dreadnoughts, ; eight older battleships of useful 1 types, ten armoured cruisers, ten • light cruisers, ever lol) serviceable j torpedo craft and twenty submarines. ■This.fleet is stated lo be in a state ; <>f high < tßeiency, .‘.nd it has had 1 the advantage of recent war training , during the Tripoli campaign. The j Italian sailors have been raught to : regard Austrian wars hips as their . special quarry. am! undcubtedly i they .would rejoice in an opportunity to display their prowess.