THE NAVAL COUP

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 10 December 1914, Page 8

THE NAVAL COUP

H gratifying news corns* to hancl J morning—that of the sinking o£. \ larger vessels of tho German t Hdroii in the Pacific, and the pur-.) ■ o| tiie other two under cii'cumHges that give the strongest reasons that news of their Hture or destruction will immediateThese German vessels have He" serious damage, and they have Hn'a perpetual menace to our shipHow they-have managed to get and supplies and elude the vigilH?e of the British naval squadron has Hi to be told. But there is already evidence to show that they have Hsn kept informed and kept supplied ■ -breach of ° neutrality laws. HowHer, their merry game iff'now over. have disappeared, and with their the sea is mad© safer Hill for our trade and commerce and the movement of our troopships. He think we are right in saying that Hie British Navy has now cleared the Has of .all marauding German ships— any rat© the southern seas are It would seem that the enemy Hrnnd the west coast of South Amferiea Hjto warm, and having got round the H(prn, was making for the North Atas a forlorn hope, no doubt chase; but that they were ovarHaken near th^e Falklands, and there Hae^ their end* It is a splendidly Hheering piec© of news for the Allies^ especially for Britain and, her Hjavy. .The navy, we may -readily ■magine, is chafing under the irfesoHieof th© situation forced tiia it. It Ks doing magnificent work in Hhe German Sect bottled up and harmBut th© navy is always anxious Hor active work, and for the. trying ■vigil it is' maintaining hi tie North would be glad to exchange some ■fighting to show the stuff of which it is and to hasten the end of the ■Riemy's navy. That watch on the ■mouth of .the Elbe, however, must be ■stolidly maintained, but how it will ■brighten the solitary hours to get ■this news of the doings of the squad■ron which has had the luck to be on ■duty in southern seas.