AN EXCITING EPISODE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1388, 21 November 1918, Page 5

AN EXCITING EPISODE.

WARSHIPS IN COLLISION. H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA’S NARROW ESCAPE. Australian-New Zealand OaJalo Association. Received November 21, 11.15 a.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 21, A recently returned bluejacket states that ho was aboard the warship Australia when she was rammed by the warship Now Zealand. The vessels were engaged in a decoy expedition in tho vicinity of Heligoland, and the accident was caused by an error in executing an order. The Australia was badly damaged, hut managed to crawl homo. Ho added that only the fog saved us, as there was plenty of German submarines about, and we would not have had a chance if one had spotted us. GERMAN FLEET SURRENDERING. COPENHAGEN, Nov. IS.

Advices from Berlin state that the fust part of the German fleet for surrender, comprising the battleships Bayern, Gros.se Kurfurst, Kronprinz Wilhelm, Maakgraff, Koenig Albert, and Kaiserin, and flic cruisers Seydlitz and Moltke, left Kiel harbour on the 17th. 20 U-BOATS SURRENDERED. OFF TUB HARWICH COAST. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Received November 21, 9.15 a.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 20. Twenty German submarines surrendered to Admiral Tyrrwhif. on the Harwich coast. OCTOBER SHIPPING LOSSES. Australian-New Zealand Cablo Association. Received November 21, 10 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 19. The Admiralty announces that the British merchant tonnage losses in October totalled 84,000 tons gross, and the Allied and neutral combined 93,000 tons. The sailings of steamships exceeding 500 tons gross between the United Kingdom and oversea ports, including cross Channel traffic, exceeded 7,500,000 tons in October. TORPEDOED ON THE 10th. THE MINESWEEPER ASCOT. Received November 21, 10.15 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 20.

Official: The minesweeper Ascot was torpedoed and sunk with all hands on November 10th off tho north-east coast, of England. Fifty-three are missing.