ON THE HIGH SEAS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16842, 28 April 1915, Page 10

ON THE HIGH SEAS.

SUNK TO AVOID CAPTURE.

B 7 Telegraph—Prcus Association—Copyrijkv AMSTERDAM, April 26.

A Berlin telegram asserts that the armed liner Orama did not 6ink the Navarra. The latter was voluntarily sunk to avoid capture by pursuing cruisers.

ARMED LINER INTERNED. WASHINGTON, April 26. The captain of the Kronprinz Wilh'elm has decided to intern.

GERMAN TORPEDO-BOATS.

SIGHTED IN THE NORTH SEA. COPENHAGEN, April 26. A skipper who has arrived at Esbjerg reports seeing during the last_ two days thirty German torpedo boats in the North Sea.

LAST GERMAN VESSEL IN PACIFIC.

CAPTURED BY THE ENCOUNTER. (Received April 27, 9 p.m.) MELBOURNE, April 27. The Hon G. F. Pearce announces that the warship Encounter captured the island trading steamer Elfreeda, tho last German vessel in the Pacific.

THE GERMAN "CRUISE."

A PANIC-STRICKEN NAVY. “ Times ’’ and Sydney " Sun ” Semces. (Received April 27. 5.40 p.m.) LONDON, April 26. The Berlin Press affirms that the German fleet, cruising in the North Sea, did not sight British warships. Tho newspaper •“ Scotsman ” states that tho Germans did not lose sight of Heligoland day or night. They kept within the shelter of their minefields in a condition of activity bespeaking consciousness of their powerlessness. The fear of aggressive action on tho part of the British caused the withdrawal of practically every German submarine from blockade duty to protect the fleet in harbours. The skipper of a trawler, which unexpectedly returned to Grimsby, was asked by the owner why he had come back, and replied, “ The North Sea is a bit mixed up. On our port side was a minefield, on the starboard quarter a German submarine, and above hovered a Zeppelin. I thought it best to make tracks home.”

THE YON TIRPITZ JUBILEE.

CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE KAISEit, (Received April 27, 5.40 p.m.) LONDON, April 26. The Kaiser, in a message to Admiral von Tirpitz on the occasion of the jubilee, says': "My warmest gratitude for your great services to the Fatherland and the successful expansion of the navy. You can look to-day with justifiable pride on your lifework. the importance of which is strikingly shown in the present war." The Kaiser-con-ferred, on von Tirpitz the Grand Commander's Cross of the Hohenzollern Order.