BRITISH CRUISERS ATTACKED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 11 August 1914, Page 5

BRITISH CRUISERS ATTACKED.

GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK

MOVEMENT IN THE BALTTC

LONDON, Aug. 10. The Admiralty states that German submarines yesterday attacked one of the cruiser squadrons of the main fleet. No British ships were damaged. The German submarine Uls, was sunk. A message from Ancona (on the east coast of Italy) states that a battleship on fire was sighted drifting towards Ppla, on the Austrian Adriatic coast. lhe nationality of the ship is unknown The Norwegian-Australian liner Mask struck a mine off the Dutch coast and sank. Three passengers and three stokers were drowned, but the rest were saved. Mr Churchill, describing the loss of the Amphion, said that the indiscriminate use of mines in connection with other than military harbors or strategical positions, and the scattering of mines about the seas, may destroy not. i merely the enemy's vessels or warships, but peaceful merchantmen travelling ; under neutral flags. This use of mines is new in warfare, and deserves to be attentively considered by the nations of the world. The Admiralty is not ; alarmed, as they have expected a certain number of such incidents, and our arrangements will provide for reducirg such occurrences to a minimum. It is reported that a German cruiser is dogging the steamer Durham from Australia in the vicinity of Las Palmas COPENHAGEN, Aug. 10. This morning fourteen German warships passed through the Great Belt, sailing northwards of Sveaborg for the Gulf of Finland. German warships laid a line of mines m the Kattegat, the neck of sea between Denmark and Sweden. ROME, Aug. 10. Semaphore messages from the south coast report that" the Goeben and Breslau are steaming up the Adriatic WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. The authorities are closing the wireless stations at Sayvill and Tuckerton, which have been advising cruisers of the whereabouts of the British liners. COLOMBO, Aug. 10. A British man-o'-war captured a German merchantman. NEW YORK, Aug. 10. The Vaterland has been fitted as a cruiser to prey on British shipping. The American torpedo flotilla and the battleship Florida are watching it in order to prevent violations of neutrality. America declares that she will prohibit foreign merchant ships which have been converted for war purposes, or carrying reserves, clearing from. American ports.